john carter Posted January 8, 2007 Share Posted January 8, 2007 Dose anyone on photo.net use Lightroom? I've tried it for six weeks and am finally getting comfortable with it. It really has a few features that seem great to me. One is the 'tone curve tool' it is really convient (better than PS), and you can easily save a 'preset'. I also like the 'channel mixer' it gives me more control. One of the 'presets' is 'direct positive' which turns you color images into a retro kodachrome. And you can control the color changes. Abode likes it for the library feature, if you want your life fine turned (which I don't). All this and it will convert and RAW file. Give it a try it is free for now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoneguy Posted January 8, 2007 Share Posted January 8, 2007 I think quite a few people do. It's had it's problems, but they seem to have it dialed in pretty well now. I love it. It is my primary raw converter. I can't wait for the full release. As you said, the curves, and channel mixer are very good tools. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
don_e Posted January 8, 2007 Share Posted January 8, 2007 John, I've been using it from Beta 3. For my work the interface is nearly perfect. Decided months ago to buy it when available. -- Don E Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john carter Posted January 8, 2007 Author Share Posted January 8, 2007 I'm sure I'll buy it, too. But I wasn't so sure when I first started using it. I was a little baffled, so different from PS. Adobe's tutorials and other tutorials were worth the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ellis_vener_photography Posted January 8, 2007 Share Posted January 8, 2007 Check out George Jardine (of Adobe) Lightroom podcasts at iTunes. They are free and can be very useful as well as sometimes interesting but irrelevant. Poscast 25 is really good about how they went about designing Lightroom's user interface (UI) in a more real world user friendly form than Photoshop's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccrevasse Posted January 8, 2007 Share Posted January 8, 2007 I understand the RAW converter, and possibly the user interface with respect to RAW conversions, in ACR4/CS3 is the same as Lightroom. Is this true? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john carter Posted January 8, 2007 Author Share Posted January 8, 2007 What does UI (user interface) mean? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ellis_vener_photography Posted January 8, 2007 Share Posted January 8, 2007 The UI is how you interact and communicate with software and how it communicates back with you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john carter Posted January 8, 2007 Author Share Posted January 8, 2007 Do they have AUTOLEVELS in/on Lightroom? I wish they did if they don't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
james_bass1 Posted January 9, 2007 Share Posted January 9, 2007 It appears that Lightroom will become Bridge in CS3. Adobe is offering a free beta of CS3, so you can see for yourself whether that's correct. For me, the Bridge beta is pretty ragged, consuming RAM as I use it until it crashes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ellis_vener_photography Posted January 9, 2007 Share Posted January 9, 2007 <I>It appears that Lightroom will become Bridge in CS3.</I><P> Nope. Among other things: the raw processors are different, and Bridge remains only a browser while Lightroom incorporates as a daatabase function. Lightroom is and will be a stand alone program unless something big has changed in the last 24 hours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stwrtertbsratbs5 Posted January 9, 2007 Share Posted January 9, 2007 I prefer the RAW converter in Nikon capture NX. Now if they would just sell it as a plugin . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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