Why Lightroom?

[GrafxEditor]

For those of you who are curious about Adobe's newest program, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, here's a great article that explains why photography enthusiasts would want to include Lightroom in their workflow.

Check out Matt Kloskowski's article, "Why Lightroom" for a great overview of what this powerful program can do? To explore Lightroom in depth, check out the Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Killer Tips website.

As always, feel free to banter among yourselves about anything that swings Lightroom in this subforum!

Annie

[DMurray407]

This subforum is a great idea. I have LR (it was kind of a bonus when I purchased PSCS3)-don't have a clue what to do with it. Between it, Organizer and Bridge I'm more than a little confused about what I should use for what.
Thanks!

[MikeH]

What a surprise to see Lightroom included here . My workflow is 100% based Lightroom at present.

Lightroom is a fantastic program - a real photographers tool.

I can thoroughly recommend Matt's site, it's excellent and full of the great content you'd expect.

Anyone else use Lightroom here?

[JulieM]

Hi Mike: Yes, I'm a devoted Lightroom user. I think I'm probably under-utilizing it at this point but maybe this thread will spur me to use it more fully. I love the ease of RAW processing with it; exposure, toning, color correction, cropping etc... And I totally love the Develop Presets I've downloaded from here. I feel happy whenever I open one of my images in LR!

[jazzfisher]

I had the Lightroom beta/or preview-but I couldn't grasp why/how I would use it instead of Editor. So I guess will check out Matt's link.

Mike is that really you from days gone by?????

[rhynetc]

I agree that this is a great tool for handling photos. I use it for organizing my shots, for processing my .NEF and JPG shots, and for exporting (resizing) images to post on net galleries.

Lightroom makes all these tasks so much quicker and easier, and I'm also sure I under-utilize it simply because I don't know enough about the full capabilities of the program. For example, I haven't begun to do slide shows, and I understand that this feature is one of the really strong points of the software.

And if I want to edit an image, Elements is only a click away since at installation Lightroom checks to see if Photoshop or Elements is present and includes a convenient clickable link to the editing program.

Sorry if I sound like a commercial for the software, but I really do like it and I have begun to depend on it for organizing and developing my images.

[jazzfisher]

Hi Tom,
How do you use it to organize your photos? I'm a total Organizer user so I want to know how it's different.

[MikeH]

Originally Posted by jazzfisher

Mike is that really you from days gone by?????

The one and only

[MikeH]

Lightroom can standalone or integrate with PS / PSE. Right now I only use Lightroom - for developing Raw files and creating web galleries like this.


But you can do cool stuff too... like this effect courtesy of a Matt K tutorial .

Mike

[Chuck S.]

Mike, is that the technique where Matt pushes a bunch of sliders all the way to the right? Pretty neat effect!