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

[Adam Bridge]

Well stitched panoramas for one thing.

Masking - Lightroom’s tools can do some auto masking that is pretty neat, but the Photoshop offers significant, indeed a vast set of tools for selection and masking that Lightroom simply doesn’t offer.

Layers - combined with masking, as above, Photoshop allows adjustments to portions of an image based upon, for example: color or tonality allowing for adjustment to narrow ranges that LR cannot match.

Change of color space - being able to shift into Lab color space allows for an exploration of image color that staying inside a traditional RGB image does not. (I’m somewhat convinced that some of the tricks that LR plays involves a shift into Lab color space on the fly)

A variety of tools for sharpening. LR does a good job but for large prints Photoshop’s sharpening options do a better job than LR.

It’s a matter of approach. I find for making a final print I can get part of the way there in LR but for the final print it’s Photoshop the rest of the way. For the screen LR works almost all the time.

That’s my experience and my approach. LR takes the nearly bewildering array of tools and methods and narrows them down into, essentially, Camera Raw. If you need anything beyond CR then Photoshop is where you go.

Adam Bridge

> On Oct 14, 2015, at 10:10 AM, John McMaster <john at mcmaster.fr <mailto: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