Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/10/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Panoramas. layers, smart objects, greater selection of plug ins, ABW, context aware fill,....and so on and so forth! No contest on versatility, Photoshop is a very long way ahead. Each has its place. I use both - Lightroom for indexing and raw processing, Photoshop for everything else. I actually totally agree with Mark on one count - it is vert difficult to take members' observations on anything photographic seriously if we have never ever seen the final results. Cheers Jayanand On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 10:40 PM, John McMaster <john at mcmaster.fr> wrote: > What do you do with your pictures in Photoshop that cannot be done in > Lightroom? Genuine question. > > I have used PS since early versions, looking at 2015 CC there is little > comparison to earlier versions so why hark back to LR v1? > > john > > -----Original Message----- > > 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 >