[Leica] photoshop CS3 stuff

[robertbaron1 at gmail.com (Robert D. Baron)]

Wade Heninger has been very kind to help us all begin to understand 
Adobe Lightroom and its relation to Adobe Bridge and Photoshop CS3, and 
he says in pertinent part:

> Why the overlap? Bridge is a file browser. LR is a file organizer.
> Different beasts.  That is the official line.
> 
> My personal opinion (because I don't care about party line, I care about
> elegant solutions) being involved in all of these products mirror Scott
> Kelby's:
> 
> http://www.photoshopuser.com/?page=lightroom/faq

Although I am admittedly just beginning to scratch the surface of 
Lightroom, here is where I get confused:  say I shoot and fill up a 
compact flash card.  I use a usb card reader to copy the images to a 
folder on my computer.  I then use Photo Mechanic (my browser of choice) 
to quickly open up that folder to evaluate and select the images I want 
to manipulate further in Photoshop. I can go back and open and view 
other folders as many times as I want. (I could have done that in 
Bridge, but up to this point it has been too slow.)

Now, if I am using Lightroom, I have to *import* selected images into a 
Library module, where they are put into a....what, a volume?....created 
by Lightroom and they are now [in Lightroom] categorized (filed) by 
Lightroom and not the way I originally filed them and the way I have 
traditionally accessed them.

If this makes sense, it shows why I am confused.  If it doesn't, I am 
more confused than I thought.

Thanks again, Wade.

:-)

--Bob