Lightroom is all about workflow: Data Assets Management integrated
with RAW conversion. It's not an RGB editing tool, although if all
your editing happens in the RAW conversion stage it could be.
You can do B&W conversion in Camera Raw too. Bruce Fraser talks about
it in "Real World Camera Raw...". I've played with it a little, but I
prefer my technique which works in RGB space post RAW conversion.
Lightroom packages/automates some of the possible manipulations,
however, and could prove advantageous.
Godfrey
On Mar 14, 2006, at 6:38 AM, Shel Belinkoff wrote:
Hmmm ... that sounds very nice - at least the possibility sounds nice.
Marco mentioned that he liked the B&W conversion, but I don't
recall him
mentioning that the conversion could be done at the RAW stage.
Converting
during import is a nice option. I assume that feature can be
turned off,
or that the DNG files can be put in a user selected directory?
Shel
[Original Message]
From: Sylwester Pietrzyk
While not a replacement for final retouching in Photoshop, it is a
great
replacement for raw converting and photos managmenet applications.
It has
most of functions found in Adobe RAW Converter + some ready to go
sets of
effects like converting to B&W at RAW stage.
[...]
And it has an option to do RAW -> DNG converting during photos
import too.
