Digital BW, The Print

The whole point of using a Lightroom workflow it to be able to accomplish a wide range of activities within one program. Yes there are better cataloging programs (and some people may need that) there are certainly better printing output platforms, Adobe Camera Raw, which is essentially free, can do all the parametric, non-destructive editing of Raw files, and other programs can produce more sophisticated slide shows and web display options. But the idea of Lightroom is to do it all in one place. And for a working photographer who shoots lots of DSLR files and needs to access and finesse them quickly, without doing major retouching on them, and doesn't want to go out and buy and continually upgrade all these other programs, I think it does it's job quite well.

But it certainly needs soft proofing capability if its going to be seen as a serious printing platform.

john



But the idea of Lightroom is to do all of this in one place with one 

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Michael-K <michael3442@...> wrote:
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> Another option (although it will be dissed before most consider it) is to use the Organizer in Photoshop Elements (PSE). It has a fairly robust multiple cataloging function with backup, keywording, searching, metadata, collections, etc., and has many PS similarities. While in the Organizer just highlight an image and hit Ctrl/H and the image is sent to PS or to ACR is it's a RAW file. Of course it has it's own Editor with about 80% of the capabilities of PS and has built-in bookmaking and other projects, like calendars, etc. It's a lot cheaper than LR so you might want to check out the demo. PSE with CS5 works pretty well for me.
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