Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Another point which has been addressed only slightly is that LR does
its processing non-destructively. As you work on a file, you're
really only developing a set of instructions. You can have 200
instructions, but they get applied once, optimally, only when you
export the file or print it. The original stays and never gets
touched.
Photoshop does work destructively for many of its operations. You
usually of course work on a copy, but once you start that many of the
operations only take data away from the file. You have to plan your
approach properly so that you lose as little as possible. Since the
advent of adjustment layers, this has become less of a problem, but
you have to be aware of it.
This non-destructive nature of LR is what makes it a useful tool for
jpegs as well. In LR, you can reasonable do contrast and level
adjustments and white balance adjustments on a file, whereas in PS
before adjustment layers and a light and knowing hand you'd be left
with discontinuous mud.
Of course, many of the options in PS are unavailable in LR, so
depending on what you're doing and what you want your file to look
like you might well have to bring it into PS for 'finishing'. But you
should do all your biggest adjustments and most drastic changes in LR
first.
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* Henning J. Wulff
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