NewbieNeil
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Newbie alert...
Happy with the camera side of things, but fairly new to Raw and all the PP that comes with it. Shot a friend's wedding recently and would love to put together a slideshow to music on a DVD. Shot in Raw and jpeg and have been playing around with trial versions of Lightroom Elements, Photoshop Elements and Premier Elements. I am a teacher, so I can purchase these cheaply with an educational licence, as long as I like the packages and can make sense of how to use them...
LRE - organise, batch process, sharpen, reduce noise, convert Raw to jpeg or tiff.
PSE - fine detail touch ups, tricky things that I might not be able to do in LE.
Premier Elements - make a slideshow with top quality images (jpeg or tiff) and professional looking title, transitions and credits, burn to DVD which can be played on a TV as well as a computer.
Have I got that right so far? It's taken me a while over the past few days to get used to LR but so far I have been impressed with the noise reduction and sharpening. I am sure I will speed up with time. I was impressed with LR's slideshow but the inability to put more than one track to the show was limiting for me. I am very familiar with Windows Moviemaker but want something that is less amateurish and produces a higher quality product (I hate the pixelation you get with WMM during the transitions between images).
Am I looking at the right tools for the job? And if you have time, perhaps you could summarise an efficient workflow for someone like me (a novice) doing what I am trying to achieve (especially with LR and Premier elements)?
Thanks in advance for any helpful advice you can give.
Neil
Happy with the camera side of things, but fairly new to Raw and all the PP that comes with it. Shot a friend's wedding recently and would love to put together a slideshow to music on a DVD. Shot in Raw and jpeg and have been playing around with trial versions of Lightroom Elements, Photoshop Elements and Premier Elements. I am a teacher, so I can purchase these cheaply with an educational licence, as long as I like the packages and can make sense of how to use them...
LRE - organise, batch process, sharpen, reduce noise, convert Raw to jpeg or tiff.
PSE - fine detail touch ups, tricky things that I might not be able to do in LE.
Premier Elements - make a slideshow with top quality images (jpeg or tiff) and professional looking title, transitions and credits, burn to DVD which can be played on a TV as well as a computer.
Have I got that right so far? It's taken me a while over the past few days to get used to LR but so far I have been impressed with the noise reduction and sharpening. I am sure I will speed up with time. I was impressed with LR's slideshow but the inability to put more than one track to the show was limiting for me. I am very familiar with Windows Moviemaker but want something that is less amateurish and produces a higher quality product (I hate the pixelation you get with WMM during the transitions between images).
Am I looking at the right tools for the job? And if you have time, perhaps you could summarise an efficient workflow for someone like me (a novice) doing what I am trying to achieve (especially with LR and Premier elements)?
Thanks in advance for any helpful advice you can give.
Neil