brian_walsh7 Posted March 30, 2007 Share Posted March 30, 2007 does adobe lightroom take the place of a program like photomechanic and offer an ease of quick browsing and deleting of images? also can it be used to open raw files, edit them, convert to jpg and print.?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simon27 Posted March 30, 2007 Share Posted March 30, 2007 Yes to all of the above. There is a free 30 day trial and if you order by April 30th, it's $199. After that it goes up to $299. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamor Photography Posted March 30, 2007 Share Posted March 30, 2007 I switched from Photo Mechanic to Lightroom and it's drastically improved my workflow. As Simon said above, the answer is yes to all of your questions. Definitely download and try the trial first; it'll take a few tries at importing and organizing your Library before you decide to settle in on a workflow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wedding-photography-denver Posted March 31, 2007 Share Posted March 31, 2007 The library is slow and clunky, the access to files (once you have more than say 50k cataloged) is way slow. I do understand the reasoning Adobe used, but if it operates this slowly, its pretty much useless for me. The work around for this is to import only the folders you will be working on. Then once you are done editing, dump the folder from your list. You can also keep multiple separate folders and access them individually (mini libraries) for better working speed. I am still working on the speed/processing aspect. For workflow in general, this replaces all but PS CS, IMO. Best, D. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ben_rubinstein___mancheste1664880652 Posted March 31, 2007 Share Posted March 31, 2007 I've been investigating LR for the past week in depth and agree with David, I'll use bridge for moving/organising my files and LR for culling/editing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merlin Posted March 31, 2007 Share Posted March 31, 2007 before you guys go around saying it's too slow, check the system requirements, lightroom has pretty high standards to make it work speedy. That being said, I'm running an intel mac with 1gb ram, and a core2duo with 2gb ran and it's very fast on both Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ben_rubinstein___mancheste1664880652 Posted April 1, 2007 Share Posted April 1, 2007 Just adding one of my hard disks to the library would result in some 15000 files half of which are 5D RAW files. I'm running on a dual 2 gig with 2 gig RAM and what I've seen of how fast it works with just 400 RAW files makes me very anti the idea of letting it do anything with the rest of my drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david_banks2 Posted April 1, 2007 Share Posted April 1, 2007 Lightroom is not a substitute for a good browser in my opinion. LR does not open or work directly on your files but works on a copy of the data which it then exports, therefore it's not quick to delete or move the originals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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