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On Feb 6, 2009, at 1:02 PM, Dee Murphy wrote:

> Thanks for the suggestion, I guess I'll be learning LIGHTROOM very  
> soon and I'm told I won't need another thing! LOL!  They're kidding  
> me, right? (smile)
>
Definitely kidding. But Full Photoshop, plus Lightroom, plus Keynote  
for presentations, plus possibly something else for putting your stuff  
on a website, covers most of it, though a new camera may require a new  
version of the Adobe apps, to support it, a new computer may require  
new versions of most any software, and new features may tempt you to  
upgrade anyways, so there is no guarantee of an end in sight.

The way I see it, there is an inverse relationship: as Lightroom usage  
increases, Photoshop usage decreases. I don't expect Photoshop usage  
to ever go away entirely, but I expect to have an increasing smaller  
percentage of my images go through Photoshop, while an increasingly  
large amount of my editing will be done directly in Lightroom. As  
printing functions improve in Lightroom, I will have more and more  
images that never get rendered out to TIFF at all, and get printed  
directly from Raw files in Lightroom; as long as I'm not sending them  
to a fine art printer, book printer, etc, in which case eight bit per  
channel TIFFs is the most I'm willing to let go out-of-house.

C. David Tobie
Global Product Technology Manager
Digital Imaging & Home Theater
CDTobie@...



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