Digital BW, The Print

Hi Geraldine:

I agree that grid vs. Loupe view can be confusing (and if you press T, you can lose the Toolbar, which confuses a lot of people). I've spent thousands of hours in Lightroom and I've taught a lot of people to use it, and I still get frustrated from time to time!

Here are a few quick tips to try:

1. Remember "GE," G will take you to Grid, and E to Loupe, then use the minus and plus keys to make the thumbnails larger or smaller (easier than the slider in my opinion).
2. Use a date-based system for cataloging your work. I have a pretty long article on this here to give you an idea of what I mean by that:

http://prophotoresource.com/home/item/528-tracking-gigabytes-how-to-organize-your-image-collection.html?tmpl=component&print=1

Hope that helps!

Andrew

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On Jan 11, 2012, at 9:44 AM, Geraldine Powell wrote:

> I really agree with Paul. I have been using Lightroom for four years 
> and I am still befuddled by it. I much prefer the camera raw interface 
> in Photoshop to the Lightroom one. I know they do the same things, but 
> I can see what I am doing much better in camera raw.
> I still have situations where I cannot for the life of me change from a 
> grid view to a whole page view. Normally, there is no problem, but now 
> and then I just have to put up with what Lightroom has decided to do.
> I also hate the Lightroom cataloging system. I try to make one that 
> works for me but it is not great. I am actually thinking of dumping 
> Lightroom. I see the main problem as an unfriendly user interface and 
> real lack of integration with Photoshop.
> If they expanded Adobe Bridge capability it could be great.
> Lightroom may be great for the technically very savvy superuser but it 
> is not good for someone like me. I am not going to spend any more money 
> on it.
> Geraldine
> 
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