[Leica] IMG: More Experiments with ETTR

[kanner at acm.org (Herbert Kanner)]

I fell in love with Lightroom from the day I got it. However, I must 
say that Adobe manages to obscure many aspects of its interface. I 
don't object to the fact that there are so many ways of doing the 
same thing; one just learns a favorite way and can ignore the rest. 
What I object to are things which are totally obscure--ridiculously 
easy when learned, but hard to discover, even in some cases with the 
aid of available books.

For example, it took me a long time to discover how to set print size 
in the print module. For a few months, the only way I could print was 
to export a jpg and then print it using a display program, Preview in 
the case of Macintosh. And only yesterday, using a reference book, 
was I able to understand "history". It wasn't obvious that clicking 
on an earlier history did not negate later ones until quitting LR, 
and that the later ones could be saved by using a snapshot.

Finally, and maybe I'm wrong about this, but some actions seem to be 
in the main drop-down menus as well as elsewhere, some actions seem 
to be in contextual menus, and some only appear which you click on 
some mysterious hidden spot in the window.

Sometimes I think the Adobe people should take a course in human 
interface from the Apple people :-)

Herb


>I -hate- software which does that, and I nearly did not buy
>Lightroom because of it, after trying the demo. However I have now a
>workflow which forces Lightroom to file the imports more along the
>line of what I was used to. Mind you, sometimes it doesn't do what I
>expect for a reason I can't fathom.
>Anyway, I'm glad I bought Lightroom now.
>FD
>
>
>________________________________
>From: Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net>
>To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>Sent: Thursday, 8 September 2011, 19:47
>Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: More Experiments with ETTR
>
>Hi Bob,
>
>I sent the file to Philippe, who made the request.  I have my own filing
>system for image files, and don't like the LR habit of doing its own thing.
>Maybe I'm just too old to learn new tricks.
>
>Jim Nichols
>Tullahoma, TN USA
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Robert Adler" <rgacpa at gmail.com>
>To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
>Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2011 1:43 PM
>Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: More Experiments with ETTR
>
>
>  > Oh jeez. Jim, once Tina works her magic, you are doomed to buy LR!!
>  > ;-)
>  >
>  > On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 11:30 AM, philippe.amard
>  > <philippe.amard at sfr.fr>wrote:
>  >
>  >> Send me the raw of the 1st one off list I'll see if I can do soemthing 
> in
>  >> LR ;-)
>  >>
>  >>
>  >
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Herbert Kanner
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