[Leica] If not Lightroom, ...

[Piers Hemy]

I don't have as much PS experience as you, Frank - only since V4 for me (to
which I graduated from PSP) - but I am wholly in agreement with you. Neatly
summed up in your last line "Photoshop is a waste of money for a
photographer whose intention is to produce excellent quality prints from
their exposures, and catalogue them rather than take the exposure as a basis
for a bit of artwork". Except, of course, that since I am not using a 24x36
sensor the term "excellent" is open to interpretation.

Piers

-----Original Message-----
From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+piers.hemy=gmail.com at leica-users.org] On
Behalf Of Frank Dernie
Sent: 14 October 2015 08:56
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] If not Lightroom, ...

I have had Photoshop since V3 Mark, so not as long as you.
OTOH about 75% of what it is designed for I have never used, since it is not
really only appropriate for conventional photography but mainly creating
artwork sometimes using the last vestiges of a photograph as a root. I am
neither artistic enough, nor talented enough at those Photoshop specifics,
to do any of this.

What I like about Lightroom is that it stripped out of Photoshop those
features it had which were very specific to presenting photographs in a
normal way.

When I bought Photoshop originally I had to buy it with a whole suite of
other programmes which I did not use at all.

Now I can buy a photographer-centric version of Photoshop - Lightroom,
without paying for all the useless, to me, functionality of the full
programme. I was a bit like not having to buy a whole suite of programmes
just to get Photoshop.
I do not consider it to be inexpensive in comparison to Photoshop since it
is effectively just buying the part of Photoshop which I need and paying
nowt for the part that I don’t ever use.

On top of that its file organisation is better than Bridge for photographs
in my opinion.

So IME the full version of Photoshop is a waste of money for a photographer
whose intention is to produce excellent quality prints from their exposures,
and catalogue them rather than take the exposure as a basis for a bit of
artwork.

cheers,

Frank

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