[Leica] Lightroom & Bridge

[heninger at adobe.com (Wade Heninger)]

On 2/3/07 10:31 AM, "Eric" <ericm@pobox.com> wrote:

>> That said, Bridge
>> 2.0/ACR 4.0 is a nice upgrade if you want to stick with a file browser 
>> and a
>> modal raw experience.
> 
> Is that part of CS3?

Yes.

>> The targeted adjustment feature is more than worth the upgrade
> 
> That's being able to tweak the images in terms of color balance and 
> density?

In short, you enable TAT (Targeted Adjustment Tool) by clicking on the
target icon in Tone Curve & HSL/Color/Grayscale panes.  Then you click on
the tone you want to adjust and mouse up/down (or arrow key up down) to
adjust it.  LR knows which slider of the many apply and will adjust it - its
a nice way of local control of tonality.

TAT is covered here:

http://www.outbackphoto.com/artofraw/raw_31/essay_develop.html


> With the Bridge/ACR from CS2, I've found myself able to get pleasing proofs
> without any manual work in PS itself.  I have a set of actions I run that 
> do
> basic tweaks for myself and result in a set of jpegs that I upload to my
> favorite printing house, and I'm set in terms of 4x6 proofs.

LR is just as fast at this as well.  No PS.

> I don't need a database for my photos.  I question how useful it would be,
> since the source photos are not in a static location.  Eventually, they get
> moved around to different hard drives.

LR can work from files in a folder too, not just importing it to a database.
If you do move it, it will ask where it moved to and then update the rest.

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