[Leica] photoshop CS3 stuff

[firkin at ncable.net.au (Alastair Firkin)]

> 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.

Bob,
I would think the idea is you import all images to the lightroom, sort
rate edit and delete, keeping a reference folder or "shoot" for that
"film".

cheers