Digital BW, The Print

I went to a Scott Kelby Lightroom Seminar in DC and he says, what  
ever you CAN do in Lightroom, you SHOULD do in Lightroom because it  
does it so much better than PS. He also states that the printing  
module is very powerful in Lightroom and to do similar layouts in PS  
would take forever. I concur.

Mark




On Jan 7, 2008, at 11:12 AM, Mike wrote:

> I used to deal with these issues but now Lightroom addresses many of
> them with speed and efficiency. It takes lots of time to process RAW
> files. My PC hates Bridge. But Lightroom is both Bridge and RAW
> converter and is very fast and never alters the original file
> treating it as if it were a film negative.
> If you want to work in depth on a file, you click and you are in PS.
> When you are done you click and you are back in Lightroom with a
> edited copy in PSD or other format. You can do many photographic
> corrections to files in Lightroom and process a zillion files at
> once. If a file shows good exposure etc you can print right from
> Lightroom and never even open PS. The printing concepts are
> identical to what we have been using in PS and the RAW converter is
> identical. So now we have the best of both worlds: shoot RAW,
> customize exposures, make prints, slideshows, web galleries, etc, but
> when you want to do the PS stuff like layers, filters, etc, use links
> to go into and out of PS. The printing "layout" functions even have
> a few features similar to RIPs for mass printing. I used it to print
> 60 greeting cards and I saved lots of time. It will only get better.
> It uses presets so as you work and save settings, you can reuse
> them. Plus it provides some fun presets and users are sharing and
> selling presets. The work flow is 1-lightroom to import organize and
> archive, 2-minor adjustments in Lightroom and major ones in PS if
> needed 3-lightroom for printing, slideshows and web galleries
> INSTANTLY. It automates many things that used to take hours. Lastly,
> I saw it on sale (50%)at B&H (I think)as a rebate if you buy certain
> hardware.
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