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Lightroom????
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This may be an well asked question, but if you had to choose between Photoshop Elements (version 5.0) or Lightroom; which would be the better choice for editing.???
Thanks.That depends on what you need and how willing you are to take full advantage of Elements.
Lightroom is a much easier to use piece of software, and will do a lot more than Elements will in terms of organizing your images and helping you with output (slideshow, printing and web publication). Its image editing is very powerful, but it will not let you make local changes to an image – that is, make alterations to specific areas of the photograph leaving the rest unaffected. For most people, this is probably enough.
Elements is a bit more powerful in terms of image editing in that you _can_ make those local changes, but at the expense of being more difficult to use. It also isn’t a complete management package in the same way Lightroom is, in terms of organizing and output. If you’re prepared to learn how to use Elements effectively, and if you feel that you’re going to be doing a lot of tweaking of your images at the local level – buy the full version of Photoshop =)
My advice then would be – get Lightroom and if you feel it’s not doing enough for you at a later date, buy Photoshop as well. The two work well together.
Peter
I would say lightroom basicly as its so easy to use and it does a lot, download a free trial first and see what you think !
I think the idea of photographers pirating software has got to be the ultimate in hypocrisy, RGH. Apologies if that’s not what you meant, but it sure looked like it.
Peter
Thanks for the input, I have Elements 5 and have not had the chance to tinker with Lightroom as yet. I am working on learning as much as possible about Photoshop but would like the ability to “tweak” a few things that I cant do with Elements.
(I’m MUCH more at home behind a lens than behind a keyboard)Does Lightroom allow adjustments of colour curves?
petercox wrote:
I think the idea of photographers pirating software has got to be the ultimate in hypocrisy, RGH. Apologies if that’s not what you meant, but it sure looked like it.
Peter
I think he was refering to the 30 day trials offerened by lightroom and also by adobe.
When the trail period is up you can either buy the full product or uninstallJoker… think you missed the boat on this. Certain comments have been edited before you read the post.
TheIrishLens wrote:
Does Lightroom allow adjustments of colour curves?
You can tweak HSL (Hue, Saturation, Luminance) for Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Aqua, Blue, Purple, Magenta. You can also tweak the primary RGB channles, as well as Cyan/Magenta tint of shadows. This is separate from White Balance/Temperature and Tint.
Article on the Develop Module of Lightroom here.
The essay is for version 1.0, Lightroom is currently at v1.3, it still looks similar, one major change is the Detail section, updated in v1.1 and looks like this. There is more to the Develop module too, like presets.
nfl-fan wrote:
Joker… think you missed the boat on this. Certain comments have been edited before you read the post.
Damn it, he must have edited after I came into thread but before I pressed quote…either that or I just can’t read.
Joker:
It’s not my post that got edited, it was RGH’s =)
Your post: Thu Feb 14, 2008 11:32 am
RGH’s edited: Last edited by RGH_Photography on Wed Feb 13, 2008 5:49 pm; edited 1 time in totalCheers,
PeterOkay, …..I just downloaded the free trial from Adobe and tried it out. The program provides much more tweaking power than my version of Elements in quite a few areas; BUT I guess my inept computer skills are showing again. I worked a shot or two over a bit, liked the result, and tried to save the shot to my pictures on my system………………………(I will not repeat the words I used while attempting this feat).
I will freely admit I am an idiot with a computer. What little I do know, I have had to teach myself and can say I have a lousy teacher. Is there a tutorial for morons that will explain HOW to save a shot? (I tried the “help” section and…..It didn’t)My Thanks.
Err… Lightroom I presume?
In the same way that you have to import to get images into Lightroom, so you have to export to get them out. Changes/edits you make are real time so there’s no other ‘saving’ to be done.
To export from any module, go to File > Export then choose your options in the next window (the export dialog) that comes up. Or click on Library to return to the Library module and click Export, bottom left hand corner, next to the Import button.
Keep at it, it’ll get easier once you get the hang of it.
Hi I have a question about lightroom, admittedly I haven’t done any research to find the answer myself yet but will, gulp, and moving swiftly along to my question, In lightroom when you adjust a photo and export it or choose the option to continue editing in Photoshop does the original image downloaded from the camera remain in lightroom as downloaded or as the adjusted image?
All help gratefully received,
thanks,
Marie.What you see in Lightroom is a virtual copy of your file. When you alter the image in Lightroom and export it to a folder or to PS it takes the information of the original and gives you an option for “stack with original” which allows you to save the second copy, or “Save as” in effect. The original image, whether raw, jpeg or tiff is unaltered.
Alan.
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