Lightroom benefits

On an individual image....not a lot.

On a batch of images, lightroom rules. Imagine taking a whole batch of images and being able to adjust exposure and WB and perhaps apply a preset or action to the whole batch at the same time.

That's where lightroom comes into it's own. For the individual touches CS rules.
 
If you shoot a large number of images. Need to file them and more important find them again Lightroom is the answer. I much prefer it's modular approach, and the develop module is much quicker to work with than the ACR module within Photoshop, although it's the same engine.

Photoshop scores if you have to do any pixel editing. You can't really clone , produce panoramas, or HDR in Lightroom. Also there is no soft proofing option within Lightroom. ( Although there are rumours that the shipping version of Lightroom 3 may have something along these lines, but it may just be wishful thinking.

Don't forget Adobe offers 30 day trials from their web site. Download and find out for yourself. There are plenty of tutorials on the web relating to Lightroom so check them out before your trial starts to get the most out of the trial.

Lightroom Ver 2.7 is the current working release, however Lightroom 3 is available in beta form to evaluate. If you opt for the LR3 option be careful not to commit to much to it as Adobe state that it may not be possible to transfer data from the Beta version to the fully featured one. The Beta is for evaluation and feedback.
 
I lorve LR.
The time spent processing images has been cut to at least a quarter, though as everyone agrees, photoshop is still King when it comes to individual image caressing. :)
 
AliB said:
On an individual image....not a lot.

On a batch of images, lightroom rules. Imagine taking a whole batch of images and being able to adjust exposure and WB and perhaps apply a preset or action to the whole batch at the same time.

That's where lightroom comes into it's own. For the individual touches CS rules.
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amen to that. if youre shooting an event for example lightroom is a godsend.
 
Love light room it's great for orgaising and batch processing. It's much more than an image editting tool.
 
Love LR - have been using PS for years, but when I got my hands on LR it bl;ew me away. I use it for 1) storing and organising 2) pumping the most out of the image quickly and easily - it just wipes the floor with PS on that front. PS is great for editing, touch up, collage etc etc where you really are getting into the nitty gritty, and can do all that LR can, but just takes a lot longer.

Maybe a good analogy is Micro and Macro - LR fastest/top for overall optimising of image, PS top for detail.

Hope that helps

Pete
 
Just to be devils advocate I much prefer PS. I tried LR and wasn't overly impressed, all felt fairly amateur with the pre sets and simple adjustments, but maybe i'm being a PS snob.
I'll probably just stick with what I know, and that's PS. Ill be interested to have a look at LR3 though.
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Most of the raw processing in LR can be done with ACR (part of PS). Where LR wins is in its organisational abilities.
 
i find that i can do things quicker and easier in lightroom,less of a learning curve than cs4 more intuative, but still use cs4 if i have any serious cloning or panos to do
 
Chappers said:
If you shoot a large number of images. Need to file them and more important find them again Lightroom is the answer. I much prefer it's modular approach, and the develop module is much quicker to work with than the ACR module within Photoshop, although it's the same engine.

Photoshop scores if you have to do any pixel editing. You can't really clone , produce panoramas, or HDR in Lightroom. Also there is no soft proofing option within Lightroom. ( Although there are rumours that the shipping version of Lightroom 3 may have something along these lines, but it may just be wishful thinking.

Don't forget Adobe offers 30 day trials from their web site. Download and find out for yourself. There are plenty of tutorials on the web relating to Lightroom so check them out before your trial starts to get the most out of the trial.

Lightroom Ver 2.7 is the current working release, however Lightroom 3 is available in beta form to evaluate. If you opt for the LR3 option be careful not to commit to much to it as Adobe state that it may not be possible to transfer data from the Beta version to the fully featured one. The Beta is for evaluation and feedback.
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what's softproofing?


I (L) the way LR sorts, lets me edit and backs up all my images, I then make backups of what it backs up :D
 
You can't really compare lightroom with photoshop, true they are both applications that you can use to work on your images but they both have totally different areas that they help with. There are a few areas where they cross over, like sharpening or noise reduction, etc. but their main functions are in different areas.

Lightroom is an image catalog and organiser, who's main pupose is to make handling your images as easy and intuitive as possible. It does this extremely well. From enabling you to find images rapidly, to producing the output images you need or even creating web galleries of your images.

Photoshop is an image editor, meant to enable you to do whatever you want to your images themselves, which again, it does very well. As I said they do sort of cross over slightly, for example - lightroom has sharpening but photoshop has much more sharpening options, photoshop has bridge for organising images but lightroom is just so much better at doing it. You could get by with one or the other but they really are made to work side by side.
 
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