On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Eric Weir <eew...@bellsouth.net> wrote: > > On Jul 12, 2010, at 4:02 PM, Doug Franklin wrote: > >> Lightroom is about portfolios and has photo editing/manipulation >> capabilities. Elements is about photo editing/manipulation and has (a very >> few) portfolio capabilities. At least that's /my/ take on it. :-) > > Thanks, Doug. That's helpful. And more like what I'm looking for.
I'm not entirely sure what Doug refers to as "portfolios capabilities". Lightroom has image management capabilities, that is: - it knows where the image files you've told it about are, both on live and off-line volumes - it allows you to add keywords and other metadata to annotate the photos it is managing - it has a great deal of search and browse capabilities (and again that refers to photos on live and off-line volumes) as well as facilities for sorting, grading, renaming, and organizing images to speed workflow. - it allows you to do the bulk of standard photographic editing required to raw, JPEG, TIFF and PSD image files (crop, spot, tonal and color adjustments, etc), all with the same UI on the same tool set, non-destructively. It's editing capabilities stop short of anything having to do with multiple image compositing (anything associated with HDR or panorama compositing, for instance) or pixel-level editing (actually changing specific individual pixel values of the original files). - it has well-integrated facilities to open images for editing in Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, and other pixel-level image processing applications when that level of functionality is required, all the while keeping them organized within the Lightroom scope of operations. - it provides four convenient and template-able output facilities ... export, slide show, print and web ... to generate rendered versions of your original files for use outside the Lightroom environment. - it can be used to edit one photo at a time or an arbitrary number of photos simultaneously, for both metadata or image rendering. The presets and templates allow you to design development instructions, export, slide show, printing and web gallery layouts once and then apply them at any time to whatever photo or group of photos you choose. In sum, Lightroom is an image-management application with a great depth of image processing services. Photoshop and similar applications are image processing applications. Lightroom is designed to work stand-alone and with other image processing applications to allow construction of appropriate policies and operations suitable for a complete photographic workflow. -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
