Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/07/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Jul 29, 2008, at 9:23 AM, Frank Filippone wrote: > Why does Lightroom exist? What does it do that PS will not do? Much has been already written to answer this question: http://www.lightroomkillertips.com/2007/why-lightroom/ http://www.peachpit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=445734 http://www.scottkelby.com/blog/2008/archives/1308 My 2 cents having worked on all the tools we're talking about: simplicity LR was designed ground up for photography. It *is* about the photographic process once the image is snapped. Photoshop is a tool for lots of different people - graphic designers, scientists etc. ACR was invented to give PS Raw editing, but its slow and cumbersome. Bridge lets you browse, and hooks up with ACR and PS but they are all different apps and bouncing around a lot is annoying. Its a dated workflow that may work, but you're not as efficient as you can be. LR does more, does it more efficiently and more simply. Photoshop is still a tool I use when I need to do serious compositing, but I find that this is just a fraction of my day to day work. Of course, I'm biased.