On Jul 12, 2012, at 8:49 AM, Matthew Hunt wrote: > On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 8:43 AM, John Sessoms <jsessoms...@nc.rr.com> wrote: > >> Apples & oranges it seems to me. >> >> Paul has a system for filing his photos & you have a tool for searching for >> your photos without necessarily caring where they're filed. > > The point is that he could continue to file his photos exactly as he > does now, and use Lightroom, and get the best of both worlds.
Ah, but in my opinion, that's not the best of both worlds. I' ve tried lightroom and just don't like the conversion workflow or the structured routines. I don't like the cutesy names, like "brilliance" for conversion factors. I'm very comfortable with ACR and the way it allows me to adjust every point on the histo curve in conversion. It saves my RAW result, but I can return to the default at any time. And because I'm almost always do some work in PS. I like that it opens the converted pic in PS. I usually sharpen in PS and frequently do a bit of cloning as well and sometimes adjust the vertical alignment. Using keystrokes, it can be done in a matter of seconds. I can then save a tiff as either 16 bit or 8 bit and a web-sized jpeg. Using "save for web," PS automatically changes the color space to SRGB and saves as a highest quality jpeg. All in the same folder as the RAW -- a folder that is arranged chronologically in bridge and on a drive dedicated to a specific range of dates. BTW, while previewing shots in Bridge, I don't have to wait for them to load or run a slide show. I can display them as large as a I want and just scroll through the folder. A click opens any pic in ACR, almost instantaneously. I don't think I'm missing a thing. Paul > > People who don't use Lightroom often seem labor under the > misapprehension that Lightroom imposes a particular file layout for > image files, or prevents you from organizing them however you want on > the file system. This is not the case at all. > > -- > 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.
