QTR-Quadtone RIP

--- In QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com, Howard Shaw <glassman@...> wrote:

> As a matter of interest, why is the need to save a .tif and load it 
into 
> qtrgui any more of a problem with Lightroom than with Photoshop?

Howard,

Of course one can still do that. But Lightroom provides the tools for 
a really nice, smooth workflow, all the way from capturing to 
printing. The "old" way of saving a separate tif file and printing it 
seperately is so much more "chunky" than if one just could print from 
Lightroom. I do quite a bit of portrait sessions these days and they 
come with a LOAD of rough images that need to be selected, edited, 
archived and finally printed. Smoothing the workflow really saves 
time for the "nice part" of photography.

More fundamentally, Lightroom offers some features that the 
combination of Photoshop and QTR do not (or much more cumbersome) 
provide: non-destructive cropping and much more sophisticated layout 
options (adding a border, combining prints on one sheet, adding some 
text, etc.)
 
Stephen,

I checked, but can't find an option to print to file in Lightroom.

Joost