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John Hendry

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Hi

I was wondering what people are using to convert from Raw. I have not looked at this for some time. At the moment I am opening a fairly flat image in photoshop Raw and processing it using Guy Gowan's actions it produces a nice result but is very time consuming as I am working on the image twice.

So I am intersested to hear what other people use ?

all the best:)
 
No expert by any means, but I always use Lightroom (loads of presets available) and occasionally Silver efex pro
 
Thanks a lot of people seem to be using Lightroom. Will have a look at it and give it a go have to see if I can find atry beforw you buy :)

all the best
 
John Hendry said:
Thanks a lot of people seem to be using Lightroom. Will have a look at it and give it a go have to see if I can find atry beforw you buy :)
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Adobe have it as a 30 day trial download on their site. Pay for a license, enter it and it becomes yours for keeps without a need for reinstalling.
 
I was reading this thread earlier and had a go at downloading Lightroom. It doesnt seem to have all the editing tools that Photoshop Elements 9 has. is it just for converting files etc? Seems a bit pricey for what it can do. ??
 
Lightroom is an image processing program rather than an image editing one such as Photoshop. Retouching isn't really Lightroom's forte. However if you lots of images that need processing cataloging and storing then Lightroom is ideal for this. If you need to pixel edit then Photoshop, either CS or Elements is ideal.

As the OP stated working on individual RAW images in Photoshop ( either version) can be very time consuming, Lightroom makes it easier, but the result is no pixel editing of any significance. (95%+ of my images go straight through Lightroom with the other 5% (Maybe smaller) go into Photoshop after being processed by Lightroom
 
Chappers said:
Lightroom is an image processing program rather than an image editing one such as Photoshop. Retouching isn't really Lightroom's forte. However if you lots of images that need processing cataloging and storing then Lightroom is ideal for this. If you need to pixel edit then Photoshop, either CS or Elements is ideal.

As the OP stated working on individual RAW images in Photoshop ( either version) can be very time consuming, Lightroom makes it easier, but the result is no pixel editing of any significance. (95%+ of my images go straight through Lightroom with the other 5% (Maybe smaller) go into Photoshop after being processed by Lightroom
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Thanks John. That's saved me some time figuring it all out:thumbs:
 
Hi John,

If you're using a version of photoshop that has Adobe Bridge then you can use that to do basic editing on several images at the same time, if they all need the same thing doing to them, if that makes sense. Say you have 10 images that all need say a slight saturation boost and then a convert and save to jpeg, just select all 10 images in Adobe Bridge then right click one of the selected images and click Open in Camera Raw. That will open all 10 images in Adobe Camera Raw, then just again select all 10 images and make the necessary changes and it will edit all 10 images at the same time. Or change one image and then click the Synchronise button will do the same. Even if a couple of the images needs something like some fill light or recovery doing you can then do that seperately and then select all images, click save images and this opens up the batch saving dialogue which can save you a lot of time and trouble saving/naming and numbering images too.
 
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