Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I actually prefer the LR cropping tool. The use method is reversed, but think moving the picture underneath rather than moving the frame... But of course if you are happy with photoshop, there's nothing wrong with that. On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 8:08 AM, Brian Reid <reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>wrote: > OK, maybe I'm the last guy on the planet to figure this out, but in case > I'm not I thought I'd mention it. > > Because of its keywording and searching and database capabilities and > general metadata excellence, I've been using Lightroom for a couple of > years > now, to hold and print all of my images. I have version 2.6. > > But Lightroom's editing capabilities totally suck compared to Photoshop, > and the person who designed Lightroom's cropping mechanism should be > waterboarded. So I use Photoshop for most serious image editing. > > But, alas, the interface between Lightroom and Photoshop is very cumbersome > and slow. > > This weekend I figured out that if you're dealing with psd or jpeg or tiff > files (not dng), and if you don't use the "virtual copy" feature of > Lightroom, you can overlay Bridge on top of the Lightroom folder, Photoshop > to your heart's content, and then use Lightroom's Library->Synchronize > Folder feature to reabsorb all of the changes you made in Photoshop and > Bridge. > > If you do this, you of course lose the edits you made in Lightroom, but I > for one find most of Lightroom's image editing capabilities to be so > pathetic that I mostly don't use them. And if I do use them, I can just ask > it to commit those changes to the image by exporting it on top of itself, > so > that Bridge will see them. This loses the history and the undo capability, > but it's worth it. > > For a single image, you can flit happily between Lightroom and Bridge. Any > metadata change that you make in Lightroom will show up instantly in > Bridge, > and vice versa. For me, this is huge. I can use Lightroom to manage the > metadata and Bridge to manage the data itself and get the best of both > worlds. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- // richard <http://www.imagecraft.com/> blog: < http://imagecraft.wordpress.com> // portfolio: <http://www.dragonsgate.net/pub/richard/PICS/AnotherCalifornia > // mailing lists: <http://www.imagecraft.com/contact.html> [ For technical support on ImageCraft products, please include all previous replies in your msgs. ]