[Leica] Lightroom & Bridge

[pdzwig at summaventures.com (Peter Dzwig)]

Gordon,

I haven't tried Picassa, since I heard horror stories about it on the LUG 
and as 
for ACDSee I tried it briefly when I got it with my Digilux (oh yes, I do 
have 
one ;-) ) but loaded PSE instead.

My ideal would be a simplified PS capable of taking anything from a standard 
input list file type, perform straightforward manipulation of levels in RGB 
or 
B&W, contrast, histogramming etc, curves, retouching and a few other things 
and 
spits out good clean maintainable results at the end. I don't want - or need 
a 
DBMS, I've got several thanks. Maybe because of my age and background, like 
Brian and Frank, I don't like things that mess with my files, especially 
putting 
them where I didn't leave them, although a bit more tidines on my part 
wouldn't 
go amiss.

So, what i want is a cut down PSE2/4/5 with curves in and little else from 
PS.

On the free front I have thought of building it for myself out of GIMP and 
its 
add-ons and running on my UNIX system.

Peter Dzwig

lindnich@tesco.net wrote:
> Hello Peter,
> 
> How does it compare with Picasa for free or ACDSee Pro for the full spec?
> 
> BWs Gordon
> 
> Monday, February 5, 2007, 2:26:54 PM, you wrote:
> 
> PD> Wade,
> 
> PD> when I started reading this string of mails I thought that I knew what
> PD> Lightroom did - or perhaps was supposed to do. Now I think that I have 
> less and
> PD> less understanding. At the risk of sounding stupid, can you advise 
> what it is
> PD> supposed to do?
> 
> PD> I originally thought that it was my dream of what a non-PS image 
> manipulation
> PD> tool should do, including the ability to apply filters of various 
> forms, modify
> PD> contrast etc etc; reading some of the articles you have kindly pointed 
> us to I
> PD> now think that it does none of these.
> 
> PD> Yours,
> 
> PD> Peter Dzwig
> 
> PD> Wade Heninger wrote:
>>> On 2/3/07 1:49 PM, "Jim Nichols" <jhnichols@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> 
> 
>>>> I realize that "real photographers" work with RAW.
> 
>>> Real photographers take pictures. If you love jpeg, more power to you.  
>>> LR
>>> works with jpegs just like it does most other imaging formats.
> 
>>>> For me, PS Elements 5.0 just works better.YMMV.
> 
>>> Hey, I'm not trying to prove you wrong. Just pointing out where I see
>>> benefits to LR.  You can ignore me.
> 
>>> If you are happy, then I'm happy.  If your images are great, I'm even
>>> happier.
> 
> 
>>> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
>>> w a d e  h e n i n g e r
>>> u s e r  e x p e r i e n c e
>>> a d o b e  s y s t e m s ,  i n c
> 
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