Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ask any 5 luggers on LR vs. Photoshop and you will get 8 opinions! What LR does not do vis-a-vis Photoshop: - no layer - ... - um, no layer - ... - ... - not destructive pixel editing!!!! - ... - no layer There, there's 8 reasons. LR does just about everything Photoshop can do, but do it a) differently, and b) usually only one way to do something, and usually in a way more useful to a photographer. Photoshop is a Hummer that get 40 MPG and race at 190 mph and can haul and tow a boat at the same time, whereas LR is a Ferrari. On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 10:10 PM, Chris Crawford < chris at chriscrawfordphoto.com> wrote: > I'll agree with most of what Henning said and add that LR is great for > commercial work like weddings and portraits and such, but it sucks for fine > art photography where you want to do a lot of dodging and burning and other > work on each pic. I have LR and mostly use it for processing family > snapshots, while I use Photoshop for my 'real work' > > > -- > Chris Crawford > Fine Art Photography > Fort Wayne, Indiana > 260-424-0897 > > http://www.chriscrawfordphoto.com My portfolio > > http://blog.chriscrawfordphoto.com My latest work! > > > > On 3/21/10 12:59 AM, "Henning Wulff" <henningw at archiphoto.com> wrote: > > > At 12:38 AM -0400 3/21/10, Vince Passaro wrote: > >> Hi all: > >> > >> Since I have no clue what you all are talking about when you start > advising > >> each other on processing your raw files and levels and profiles etc etc, > and > >> I am struggling to learn how to do even basic things in PS (which I own > in > >> the latest incarnation because I was able to get it and many other Adobe > >> programs (Illustrator, a bunch of other stuff) in a package for under > $200 > >> as a part-time faculty member at NYU, I'm reaching out to get advice on > what > >> I'm doing. > >> > >> I notice most you a. work in raw files and import them into whatever > program > >> you use to process them; and b. use Light Room rather than Photoshop. > >> > >> So my question is, what does Light Room do that Photoshop doesn't? When > I > >> say Photoshop I mean to include Adobe Bridge, which seems like a > slightly > >> creaky (in the Tin Man sense) but adequate format in which one can > organize > >> one's library of images, rename them, etc. > >> > >> Lastly, if anyone cares to share his/her experience, I would love to > hear > >> how some of you folks went about learning LR or PS. (I have *Photoshop > for > >> Dummies* but it's incoherent, badly organized and kind of > incomprehensible. > >> And when it is comprehensible it's kind of lame.) > >> > >> Thanks for any advise and info. > >> > >> Vince P > >> > > > > Boy, have you opened a can of worms! :-) > > > > LR and PS use the same basic engine, ie, Adobe Camera Raw to process > > raw files, but they have a completely different interface and > > audience. > > > > PS is for people (and their images) who want to work on one image at > > a time, and do lots of things to it. > > > > LR is for people who shoot a lot of photos, want to organize them > > into topics, groups, etc and want to quickly sort through them, pick > > the good ones and batcvh process them in a more 'photographer' > > intuitive way. Almost always LR is better for photographers and PS is > > more for graphic designers, or for final finishes on a special > > photograph that LR doesn't have all the tools for. In that sense PS > > augments LR, but in LR you can process 50 photos for most parameters > > in the time that you can do 1 photo in PS, and you have a good > > database as well. > > > > A very good tutorial for LR is Michael Reichmann's video tutorials > > from luminous-landscape.com, but you have to put up with MR's sense > > of humour. Might take some getting used to. There are a lot of decent > > books, but they are a bit slower going and more for intensive > > studying. > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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.imagecraft.com/pub/PICS/AnotherCalifornia2> // mailing lists: <http://www.imagecraft.com/contact.html> [ For technical support on ImageCraft products, please include all previous replies in your msgs. ]