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caseyjones · Photographer Joined: 22 Feb 2009 Posts: 5

I was wondering how many of you use Lightroom? I picked it up in version 1.0 and still love using it in its second incarnation. It is like photoshop for photographers.

Eric Sorensen · Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2009 2:52 pm Post subject:

Hi, Casey

There are several of the club members that use it. In fact, I believe Jim has or is teaching a class on it at BPCC. I tried it and didn't like it. My biggest gripe was I had 10's of thousands of pictures in my computer organized using Windows folders, and what pain to import all those files. And then where are they exactly? I sometimes got confused. But the main thing that was cool when it came out were adjustment sliders like the black slider and the recovery slider. All of these neat adjustments were incorporated in CS3 camera RAW (which can be used on JPEG's as well as RAW - with the same "side-car" XMP file keeping the adjustments while saving the original file from being adjusted). So now I use CS3 Camera RAW to batch adjust files and crop, then photoshop to run actions or make individual adjustements.

I gave Lightroom a good try for a month , but to process photography jobs with hundreds of photos - I liked the work flow better with CS3 and Camera raw.
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