Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/10/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I do have Lightroom 1 since 2006 its still loaded on this computer and it was the second version which really made it viable for image processing as well as browsing and organizing. The image manipulation stuff in this first version is very minimal a few tweaks and they told you up front you'd be for sure opening it in Photoshop with a touch of a button. I think it sold like hotcakes and plenty of people have no intention of opening their images up in anything if they really didn't have to and doing anything to them. So Lightroom became the digital program for digital photography and they added the world "Photoshop" to it. I asked a gal in a caf? sitting next to me if she used Photoshop. She said yes. She used LightRoom. History of LightRoom: http://www.mosaicarchive.com/2012/10/24/the-history-of-lightroom/ On 10/14/15 11:25 AM, "Frank Dernie" <Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com> wrote: > Not so Mark. > > Even the first version of Lightroom had most of the photo-relevant > manipulation capabilities of the then current version of Photoshop. > > It did have these functions organised differently, and added a cataloging > system suitable for photographers, but it was by no means just a browser. > > Who told you that it was a browser with add-ons as an afterthought? > Somebody > has been really pulling the wool! > > cheers, > Frank > > >> On 14 Oct 2015, at 15:37, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: >> >> As LightRoom was designed to be a browser which as an afterthought had >> some >> picture "editing" as in processing: cropping etc capabilities put in as an >> afterthought and then developed with later versions. >> >> Photoshop itself was first designed as a program to make it so you could >> change a Tiff file to a Jpeg or other file formats back and forth. >> When you do that the image would sometimes darken or lighten. >> So they had to put controls in there to tweak that. >> Hence Photoshop. It had another name at first. > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Mark William Rabiner Photographer http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/