[Leica] (SPAM: ?) Re: If not Lightroom, ...

[John McMaster]

Oh yes, I use it for panoramas and layers, but for everyday photography?

john

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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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