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I have heard people talking about Adobe Light room for editing their photo's is there a benefit to using this over photoshop, is it worth getting?
 
thanks for the quick reply
 
I love it, I still use photoshop as it's invaluable, but for work flow and image management and developing I would not be without Lightroom.
 
I know Janice has had issues over duplication of images unnecessarily that use up space. Do you find this an issue Brains, as I have been toying with the idea of LR over Adobe ACR. I did have a free trail and thought that was good.
 
Gilly B said:
I know Janice has had issues over duplication of images unnecessarily that use up space. Do you find this an issue Brains, as I have been toying with the idea of LR over Adobe ACR. I did have a free trail and thought that was good.
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I love the fact that you can create a 'virtual' copy of an image meaning that no more disk space is used. It does take a while to work out all of the features of Lightroom but I do think it is worth sticking to. The 400+ wedding images from Saturday have just taken me a couple of hours to process....no way could I do it this fast in PS. Plus it is non-destructive. The ability to tweak individual colours, hue, saturation etc is also a feature I use a lot.

I use PS for special effects, cloning out bits etc but then import back in to Lightroom.

The Slideshow module is great for showing images to clients. The Print module is such a great timesaver for prints....and the Web module gets the gallery online quickly (I use the default flash gallery mostly).
 
is it a storage program as well, as in holds your albums? I'm currently using picasa for that and love it but if I could have one package for everything that would be great
 
Creed said:
is it a storage program as well, as in holds your albums? I'm currently using picasa for that and love it but if I could have one package for everything that would be great
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Lightroom will index your images from any folder/drive and then you can create keywords to search for images. Selected images can be copied in to a 'collection'. TBH there are so many variations and ways of doing most things that I am sure you will find a method that you like.

I copy my images from the CF card to my photo drive and place them in folders based on Year/Month/Day. I then get Lightroom to index these at the drive location and create keywords etc. The various methods of flagging/rating images is also a great way to filter through the images quickly.
 
Brians has sumed Lightroom up wonderfully. I use Lightroom for most of my processing now and only use PS for special effects. I feel it is a well designed peice of software and invaluable to photographers.
 
Brains said:
The ability to tweak individual colours, hue, saturation etc is also a feature I use a lot.
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That option is also in CS3 Brains, (if you use that version) I have only just found it and its a great tool :thumbs:
 
How can I get a copy of Lightroom cheap then? :), seeing as I have just spent a fortune on Noise Ninja.
 
Splutter! ....I had better go and save some more pennies.:sulk:
 
Just downloaded the Trial and have to say my first impressions are that its a cross between google picasa and photoshop... my favorite feature by far (only used it for an hour or so) is they option to split your photo in 2 and have 1 half showing the original and the other half showing the edits... might not suit everyone but I find it far easier to adjust levels etc by comparing to the original otherwise I tend to take it too far...

Only problem now is I'm not rich enough or class myself as a good enough photographer to warrant spending that much at the moment :(
 
Is anyone running Lightroom on a PC if so is it slow?

I heard that this is an issue and I do a lot of PS work on my laptop as I travel a lot.

(Laptop is Intel Pentium M1.86GHz 335MHz 1.49GB RAM)

Will it run OK?
 
running on an Athlon 3000+ laptop full to the brim with useless rubish and only about 1gig of free HDD space on c:\ only got 512 ram and have around 2500 photo's in my library..

Only slow down I have had is when I edited an image in photoshop CS2 and saved as a Tiff and the whole machine went mental when trying to go back to light room, only tried this once and was probably my machine as it has been a little tempromental TBH... so overall no I think it will run ok
 
As a side note... is there a way in Lightroom to limit a folder.

Basically at the moment anyone loging on to my machine can open lightroom and see all my photo's, not generally a problem but I would like to have a way to have 1 folder that I can store photo's in and work on them in LightRoom but not allow everyone access.
Can anyone think of any work arounds?
 
I would think you need to set up a login for each user on your PC and store the images you wish to keep private in your "My Documents" folder which you can limit the access to.

Or use and external drive and take it away with you?
 
I did think about that but although I haven't tried this I understood that lightroom still kept the previews of your images in the library so although people couldn't open them they could still see the thumbnail?

If anyone knows for certain please let me know... really liking lightroom but have some confidential photo's I want to use it with as well... unless its possible to have 2 light room databases?
 
nigelcampbell said:
Is anyone running Lightroom on a PC if so is it slow?

I heard that this is an issue and I do a lot of PS work on my laptop as I travel a lot.

(Laptop is Intel Pentium M1.86GHz 335MHz 1.49GB RAM)

Will it run OK?
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My notenbook is almost the same as this (except that I have a 1.75 instead of the 1.86ghz), and I think Lightroom V1.1 is actually a little slow (not unusably slow) when working with files from the 5D. My main work machine is Dual core A64 3800+ (running at 2.5ghz) and 2gb of ram 2* 160gig HDD in raid 0, which I still think is sometimes a little slow.
 
Brains said:
yes, you can specify as many databases as you wish.
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here comes the lazyness as I'm at work so can't try it... How do you do this? as could just turn one database off etc when I don't want people accessing that set of images.
 
Brains said:
Go to Edit > Preferences and you will find all the catalogue stuff there.
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much appreciated will give that a try tonight... if it works and I can successfully limit access then i'll post incase anyone else finds it usefull
 
Creed said:
I did think about that but although I haven't tried this I understood that lightroom still kept the previews of your images in the library so although people couldn't open them they could still see the thumbnail?
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I moved my library/catalogue (see this thread http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=29024) to the same main folder as my images are stored in so if you were to do the same they would be as invisible to other users as your real images. I only did this to simplify my manual backup routine. So my images folder looks like -

Images->Year->Date
Images->Lightroom

HTH :)
 
Cobra said:
That option is also in CS3 Brains, (if you use that version) I have only just found it and its a great tool :thumbs:
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Goes as far back as PS v7 I think. :) Version 7 being the one before CS IIRC.
 
ok tried it tonight each user of the pc gets their own catalog by default so as long as you keep the catalogue somewhere different this is easily done by keeping your photos in a catalogue held under a passworded user account
 
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