Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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. >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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. ] > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Sent from my mobile device