I Love Lightroom.
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- genfour
I don't use it as much but it's one of my favorites.
Love the fullscreen mode. + dimming the lights
Love how all the shortcuts are simple and easy to remember.
Love how intuitive all the tools are. (spot removal tool is awesome!)
Love presets (not the ones packaged with LR, but the ones you setup yourself for batches of photos)
Love Love Love the overall workflow.I've been editing a ton of photos– nothing special, just a bunch of clothing pictures for a friends online store. The program is so smooth and effortless, it makes you feel like you're good at something. All of the shortcuts are usually only one key and complement the workflow. You're not constantly digging in drop down menus. This is a program that can really pull off the fullscreen mode– you don't really even need the menu bar). your not sitting there trying to remember if it was cmd + option + shift + w +f16 or if it was ctrl + option + tab + w + f16.
Damn I wish my full time job was editing photos. that is all. back to work.
- __TM0
I love mushrooms.
- djhiro0
I love lamp.
- inteliboy0
I dunno... can't get used to and stubbornly keep going back to PS. This is me just being a noob though i think.
- slappy0
I love it too.
When you have 500 shots to organise, process and export in multiple formats it saves soooooo much time.
I used to spend hours and hours doing what I can do in half an hour now. Sync that shit!
- slappy0
You edit one shot, then select the others you want to apply the settings to then click sync and it batches them all. Its non destructive so you can make infinite tweaks to the batched files.
The photos sit their in albums ready to be re-processed for another look or job.
The processing controls are simple and ordered in a logical way too. I kind of surprised Adobe had it in them, they must read the forums.
- genfour0
inteliboy^it's much simpler than pshop. Don't get me wrong I will still use PS for anything technical. LR is great for all the minor tweaks/edit's needed. learning curve is really quick
Look at the shortcuts (cmd + / to view them for every mode- "library", "develop" are the two main modes). Real quick my workflow is like:
plug in card, upload box comes up.
use an import preset to add photos to my catalog
once imported go to previous import and keyword all of the shots
I have smart filters setup so they automatically go into different folders depending on keywordpress F a few times to go into fullscreen. tab to get rid of extraneous menus.
G to enter grid view. Select a photo and E to go into Loupe view (basically single photo view). If I like it I flag it ( ' key). From there it'll automatically go to a smart collection. If I'm not sure I go back to grid view (G) and select a few similar and press C to compare. tab to bring in menus if I need them.
editing I'll surf around in Grid or Loupe view and select multiples and apply a user preset to batches that need the same preset. then D to get into develop mode, or Q to go specifically to spot removal. R to go straight to crop/rotate. K to go straight to adjustment brush. As soon as I'm done fucking with it it's back to grid or loupe. arrow to the next one. repeat.
then lastly go to the smart collection for "flag as picked" + whatever keywords and export. I have preset export settings for small, large, thumbnail, etc. and even auto watermarks.
dealing with the client usually enter fullscreen mode (F), Shift + tab to hide all menus, C to compare, L a couple of times to dim the lights and set the mood, in develop mode (D) press Y to show before and after BAM fingers in client's pussy and purse.
- slappy0
Haha, that bit made me laugh.
- CyBrainX0
Does it have the ability to clip out sections where you want a different setting but still be editing in camera raw format? That's my only real complaint about Camera Raw and Photoshop. That and the horrible curves interface.
- slappy0
I put off using it until recently, all I would say is download a trial version and give it a go.
- twooh0
^Sandder, it does the same thing, but better, and more tailored for photographers. It's like comparing Cinema 4D to Maya end-users, they're two separate markets.
If all you want to do is processing and tweaking a RAW file, and that's it, then photoshop will suffice. You could even use the Canon or Nikon software that comes bundled and processes RAW.
But I have hundreds of RAW images per project, and it is a far better tool for management, processing, and it will save you hundreds in working hours if you work enough in it like I do.
- Thanks for the feedback. I will give it a spin. I still think it does exactly the same, but i can imagine using 1 program instead of RAW and Bridge can be an improvement. (allthough i have bridge open on a second screen, which makes it pretty manageble, even if i have to work through a big shoot)Sandder
- mg330
Love? Really?
I LOVE when a speed metal band plays the kind of solo riffs that would give my mom a heart attack if she were able to see it from 5 feet away.
I LOVE when that scene comes on in Raiders of the Lost Ark, where the one guy screams and his head melts.
I LOVE when you watch a porn, and it's like any old porn, but there's still that moment of suspense when you're not quite sure if the guy is gonna go in her mouth or on her face. Not even that scene at the beginning of Cliffhanger where the girl dies does that kind of suspense exist.
But LOVE using software? Good grief.
- you love watching other men sweat on stage? i stopped reading...********
- someone must not 'love' photographytwooh
- you love watching other men sweat on stage? i stopped reading...
- ********0
this is the main reason lightroom is better. non destructive edits with edit states saving to each individual image. the possibility to go back in time on your edits once you've close the application and reopened it is so far beyond photoshop's RAW processing, the two shouldn't even be compared
- utopian0
I ❤ crushed blacks!
- genfour0
mg33 yes really.
after years of using illy, pshop, indesign, which are all ok programs; and before that years of general use on a computer I've realized I've never come across a program so intuitive and such a joy to use.
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- mg330
Howdy.
So I bought Lightroom this week and have started learning about it and planning some time to get it situated. Here's an important question some of you may relate to:
I have an MBP with 128 GB SSD. On average I try to keep about 35GB free. I also have a 1TB external firewire drive that contains all my photos and other things. Easily has 80GB of photos.
I set up Lightroom to use the external drive for the catalog to prevent any issues down the road with space on my SSD. Can someone explain to me: If I instead use the SSD for my catalogs, and import, for example, a 5GB set of photos, does that actually duplicate the set of photos and place them on the SSD? Or, does the catalog just contain data?
I discovered that Lightroom doesn't work with catalogs on a Networked drive. Sometimes I put my 1TB external on our network router so I don't have to keep it plugged in if I'm not working in my office at home. So, I'm trying to decide: keep catalogs on the external drive and just always plug it in, or, does it make more sense performance wise to store on the SSD and somehow figure out how to manage any future size issues, move catalogs, etc.
The thing is, I want to tag all my photos with keywords and do that across the full amount of photos I've imported.Any thoughts?
- ********0
lightroom rocks!
