On Jun 18, 2007, at 12:19 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Lightroom, now that I have used it, seems especially good for > doing B&W > conversions and organizing one's photos. It can also reset tonal > values for B&W > and color. But serious editing, involving cloning and other > things, needs to > be done elsewhere. I thought it would only "plug-in" CS2 and CS3, > so I was > very happy to find it would hook up to plain old vanilla, CS. One > can also hook > it up to any external editing program, so I now have it hooked up > to Elements > 5, as well.
I call that "finish editing" or "selective editing" rather than serious editing. A semantic nit only, I understand what you mean. ;-) Lightroom's tools are primarily designed to do global adjustments ... exposure, tonal scale, contrast, color, cropping, orientation ... with only a couple of things for spotting and cleaning. Any more selective editing work requires a different editor. I use Lightroom to do most of the heavy lifting, then bring a rendered file into Photoshop or LightZone Basic to do finish editing on it. I spend probably around 5% of my editing time in PS or LZ now, vs in the past when I used to spend 80% of my time per photo in Photoshop. A lot of photos I've been preparing don't need any work beyond what I can accomplish with Lightroom to achieve the image that I'm after. Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
