Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/03/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]As I stated in my previous message, I really like Lightroom. I have been using it this week on my laptop, and I am very pleased with the workflow and the results. I do have a few questions, which are not completely clearly answered in the manual (and yes, I have actually read most of the manual!). The workflow I used is as follows: - copy the RAW files from the flash card to a folder on the computer - import the images into Lightroom while converting them to DNG - make the adjustments in Lightroom as needed - export the files as TIFF files to a separate folder - export the files a second time as JPG files for uploading to my web site Now for the questions: 1) The DNG files I created--do they include the adjustments I made, so that when I open in Photoshop later, I will be opening the adjusted files? Or are they simply the RAW files in DNG format? 2) I assume that the TIFF files I exported include all the adjustments. Is that correct? 3) What is the relationship between the sharpening in Lightroom, with its 0-100 scale and the Unsharp Mask in Photoshop with its 0-300 (or whatever it is) scale and separate controls for Radius and Threshold? 4) Is there a way to rotate an image in Lightroom by an arbitrary amount? From what I can see there isn't, which is why I opened Photoshop to edit 3-4 of the Switzerland images that needed to be rotated by 1 or 0.5 degree. 5) Is it better to use the sidecar files or to have everything written inside the DNG files, given that the only non-Lightroom application in which I would currently open the DNG files is Photoshop? Having everything in the DNG files seems intuitively simpler, but surely there much some advantage to using the sidecar files? TIA, Nathan Nathan Wajsman nathan@nathanfoto.com General photography: http://www.nathanfoto.com http://www.greatpix.eu Picture-A-Week: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog