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Subject: [Leica] major Lightroom/Bridge discovery
From: jsjgroups at gmail.com (Jerry Justianto)
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 01:39:33 +0700
References: <AE63266DC0C1EE0054697419@hindolveston.reid.org> <eb6799211003011013s7205f9b7l168c49f5f96856ef@mail.gmail.com>

Cropping using ACR from Bridge is also reversable. Not only DNG even
to JPG as well. As long as u open it with ACR (adobe camera raw).

Jsj


On 3/2/10, Richard Man <richard at imagecraft.com> wrote:
> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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