[Leica] Lightroom or CS4 Bridge?

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

> G'day all, I would agree: LR is really a very nice addition to the digital
> workflow. I think if you don't use it you are mad. That said, there are
> alternatives for lower end users. PS gets about 5% of my work flow as
> well. There are few things it does better. Bridge is "ok", but its not
> designed to do photographic catelogs.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Alastair


If PS is only getting 5%  of your pix then that's exactly my point!
It would be great for a somewhat serious photographer perhaps someone with
lenses which cost thousands or tens of thousands of dollars to not be
working on a beginners level with Photoshop  but an intermediate level.
That's not going to happen if your not using it every week.

What new thing did you learn on Photoshop this week?
That's a question I've asked myself every week for the past two decades.
When its "nothing" then I'm not happy.
When your not learning you're getting dumber.

I've gotten side tracked with other workflows other programs and that would
be the case. Then have to go back to Photoshop and regroup; make up for lost
time.
LR lets you take the easy way out.
I'm going to pass on it for the interim.

There's all kinds of very exciting things which has happened in Photoshop
which I've not absorbed yet.
And those things are NOT in Lightroom.

Photoshop is a galaxy of a program with thousands of cult websites devoted
to it over the past two decades.
Lightroom is a minor planet.
For suckers.
Big baby's.


Mark William Rabiner