I will agree that for your use, my characterization is inadequate - for the parts that I could find useful to me, I stand by my characterization. With my current toolset, my use of a photo editor is similar to yours.
I think more, I am trying to say that Lightroom and photoshop suit certain types of photographers very well, for others only part of the tools are useful. Each person will have to determine if the toolset fits well or not. Certainly Boris will have to make that decision. The fact that he is not happy about the price would seem to indicate that he is not fully exploiting the capabilities within Lightroom. Maybe he should work with more to see if it is the right tool - if so, then the price may become a non-issue. -- Bruce Wednesday, February 7, 2007, 9:38:40 AM, you wrote: GD> Bruce, GD> Your characterization of Lightroom is inadequate ... it is a GD> photographic management application with RAW conversion, image GD> adjustment, and presentation tools embedded. GD> I find that with Lightroom my need for Photoshop's higher level GD> editing has diminished quite a lot compared to how much I need it GD> when using Bridge and Camera Raw to do the RAW conversion processing. GD> Of the past several weeks work, less than 10 of the 150 exposures GD> I've printed have required any editing work outside of Lightroom's GD> facilities. Printing and export to web-sized JPEGs are all handled GD> within the environment too, rather than in Photoshop. GD> And with it's modular architecture, I'm betting that in the future GD> there will be an ecology of third party tools delivered for it to GD> address more specific needs. GD> Godfrey GD> On Feb 7, 2007, at 8:31 AM, Bruce Dayton wrote: >> Yes, but you still need an editor even if you get LightRoom, so you >> are really looking at more of around $100-$130 for a raw converter. >> If you already have an editor that you use, continue to use it. >> Lightroom is not a photo editor, it is a converter. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
