What Mark said. The Auto White Balance is remarkable, often very close to as good as I could do by hand; and sometimes, I suspect, better.
But I'm surprised at you getting good results with "Auto tone". I rarely like what it does. -Tim On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Tim Bray <tb...@textuality.com> wrote: > Well, and if you need to clone out a large object, I've never figured > out how to make Lr do that. -T > > On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Mark Roberts <m...@robertstech.com> wrote: >> Tim Bray wrote: >> >>>These days, I totally don't recommend Photoshop for photographers. >>>Yes, there are certain kinds of defects that can only be fixed, and >>>wholesale bit surgery that can only be performed, in Photoshop. But >>>for 80% of photogs iPhoto or equivalent will do what they need, and >>>for 90% of the remaining 20%, including most PDML types, I suspect >>>Aperture or Lightroom will float their boat just fine. >> >> This is exactly what I tell people: For most photographers Photoshop >> is a waste of money and time and Lightroom is all they need. I shot a >> big batch of photos at the Boston Marathon a couple of days ago and >> found that selecting "all" and applying Lightroom's auto white balance >> and "auto tone control" (overall adjustments) gave me results at lease >> as good as and probably better than I'd have had shooting JPEG with no >> extra time spent. And when I want to really fine tune shots it's much >> faster to do the work in Lightroom. I only need Photoshop if I've >> really screwed up something in the shot (extreme blown highlights, >> etc.) or if I'm making a critical fine art print. >> >> Photoshop has really become a graphic designer's tool. >> >> -- >> Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia >> www.robertstech.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. >> > -- 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.
