[Leica] (SPAM: ?) Re: If not Lightroom, ...
RicCarter
ric at cartersxrd.net
Wed Oct 14 10:32:36 PDT 2015
genuine answers:
panoramas
I like the crop tool that let’s me square up photos
ric
> On Oct 14, 2015, at 1:10 PM, John McMaster <john at mcmaster.fr> wrote:
>
> What do you do with your pictures in Photoshop that cannot be done in
> Lightroom? Genuine question.
>
> I have used PS since early versions, looking at 2015 CC there is little
> comparison to earlier versions so why hark back to LR v1?
>
> john
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> I do have Lightroom 1 since 2006 its still loaded on this computer and it
> was the second version which really made it viable for image processing as
> well as browsing and organizing. The image manipulation stuff in this first
> version is very minimal a few tweaks and they told you up front you'd be for
> sure opening it in Photoshop with a touch of a button. I think it sold like
> hotcakes and plenty of people have no intention of opening their images up
> in anything if they really didn't have to and doing anything to them. So
> Lightroom became the digital program for digital photography and they added
> the world "Photoshop" to it.
>
> I asked a gal in a café sitting next to me if she used Photoshop. She said
> yes. She used LightRoom.
>
> History of LightRoom:
>
> http://www.mosaicarchive.com/2012/10/24/the-history-of-lightroom/
>
>
>
> On 10/14/15 11:25 AM, "Frank Dernie" <Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com> wrote:
>
>> Not so Mark.
>>
>> Even the first version of Lightroom had most of the photo-relevant
>> manipulation capabilities of the then current version of Photoshop.
>>
>> It did have these functions organised differently, and added a
>> cataloging system suitable for photographers, but it was by no means just
> a browser.
>>
>> Who told you that it was a browser with add-ons as an afterthought?
>> Somebody has been really pulling the wool!
>>
>> cheers,
>> Frank
>>
>>
>>> On 14 Oct 2015, at 15:37, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> As LightRoom was designed to be a browser which as an afterthought
>>> had some picture "editing" as in processing: cropping etc
>>> capabilities put in as an afterthought and then developed with later
> versions.
>>>
>>> Photoshop itself was first designed as a program to make it so you
>>> could change a Tiff file to a Jpeg or other file formats back and forth.
>>> When you do that the image would sometimes darken or lighten.
>>> So they had to put controls in there to tweak that.
>>> Hence Photoshop. It had another name at first.
>>
>>
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