wilfredo Posted March 10, 2007 Share #1 Posted March 10, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) After reading some of the praises for Adobe Light Room I downloaded the free trial version. I then imported from my SD card 69 images and the process was slow. My computer is only 1 gbt RAM, is that the reason? Second question: Once I import, how do I save everything on my external hard drive as a folder? I've been viewing the free tutorial which covers a a lot of valuable information but right now my main concern is exporting the files to the external hard drive so I can work with them later. When I hit the Export button there is no option for saving beyond the computers hard drive. Any wisdom is appreciated. Thanks, Wilfredo Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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wlaidlaw Posted March 10, 2007 Share #2 Posted March 10, 2007 After reading some of the praises for Adobe Light Room I downloaded the free trial version. I then imported from my SD card 69 images and the process was slow. My computer is only 1 gbt RAM, is that the reason? Second question: Once I import, how do I save everything on my external hard drive as a folder? I've been viewing the free tutorial which covers a a lot of valuable information but right now my main concern is exporting the files to the external hard drive so I can work with them later. When I hit the Export button there is no option for saving beyond the computers hard drive. Any wisdom is appreciated. Thanks, Wilfredo On most Adobe image handling programs you can opt to allocate more memory. On Mac computers it is in Preferences - Memory and Image cache. Not sure where it is in Windows. Increasing the allocated memory certainly made ACR run better on my little G4 iBook, where it really struggled before. Wilson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tashley Posted March 10, 2007 Share #3 Posted March 10, 2007 After reading some of the praises for Adobe Light Room I downloaded the free trial version. I then imported from my SD card 69 images and the process was slow. My computer is only 1 gbt RAM, is that the reason? Second question: Once I import, how do I save everything on my external hard drive as a folder? I've been viewing the free tutorial which covers a a lot of valuable information but right now my main concern is exporting the files to the external hard drive so I can work with them later. When I hit the Export button there is no option for saving beyond the computers hard drive. Any wisdom is appreciated. Thanks, Wilfredo Hi Wilfredo, Pay careful attention during import: you get to choose where you want to both store and to backup images. Store them on your HD and back them up once a week to your external is a good way. If you just move them manually now to where you want them, next time you open LR it will say it can't find them and ask you to show it. Show it where one of them is and it'll work the rest out. William is right about apportioning memory but realistically you need a system with at least 2 gig of RAM and preferably 4, especially if you're going to use Photoshop at the same time... Tim Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hammam Posted March 10, 2007 Share #4 Posted March 10, 2007 BTW, is LR really a good program? I am on an early model of a Power Mac G5 (1,6 mghz) with Mac OS 10.3.9, two gig Ram, and two external HDs. Is it worth it to upgrape to Mac Os 10.4, and then buy LR? Besides importing, sorting and archiving, could I avoid PS altogether for basic retouching like levels, curves, color, sharpness... in short, all but the most advanced adjustments? Thanks. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
carstenw Posted March 10, 2007 Share #5 Posted March 10, 2007 Wilfredo, one way to speed up the import is to disable the autogeneration of preview images. Lightroom can also just make them in the background as you are working, which I prefer. Olivier, I avoid PS for almost everything, but I am not a pro, so YMMV. All images I have posted here were developed with just Lightroom. I would give it a try before deciding, but unless you make a lot of images or have extremely specific expectations, I would imagine that you will get along well with it. Lightroom's one apparent weakness is printing, which just isn't there yet. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jfgilbert Posted March 10, 2007 Share #6 Posted March 10, 2007 BTW, is LR really a good program? I think LR is a great program, but, of course, it is a matter of personal taste, habits, and exepectations. Less subjectively, the standard corrections for color, tone, levels, etc. are at least as good as in PS and they are designed with a much more photographic intent. The shipping version of LR also includes the tools for basic retouching, like spot removal and clone, so only major alterations would require a trip to PS. It should run fine on your configuration. The question is whether you want to wait for 10.5 before you try LR because 10.4 has a very limited life expectancy now. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tashley Posted March 10, 2007 Share #7 Posted March 10, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) BTW, is LR really a good program? I am on an early model of a Power Mac G5 (1,6 mghz) with Mac OS 10.3.9, two gig Ram, and two external HDs. Is it worth it to upgrape to Mac Os 10.4, and then buy LR? Besides importing, sorting and archiving, could I avoid PS altogether for basic retouching like levels, curves, color, sharpness... in short, all but the most advanced adjustments? Thanks. You sure could! I think LR absolutely rocks. It has the best implementation of curves I have ever seen and has replaced all other RAW converters AND even PS itself for 80% of my work... T Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hammam Posted March 10, 2007 Share #8 Posted March 10, 2007 It should run fine on your configuration. The question is whether you want to wait for 10.5 before you try LR because 10.4 has a very limited life expectancy now. And you think LR will run fine on OS 10.5? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
volkerhopf Posted March 10, 2007 Share #9 Posted March 10, 2007 Wilfredo, one way to speed up the import is to disable the autogeneration of preview images. Lightroom can also just make them in the background as you are working, which I prefer. Olivier, I avoid PS for almost everything, but I am not a pro, so YMMV. All images I have posted here were developed with just Lightroom. I would give it a try before deciding, but unless you make a lot of images or have extremely specific expectations, I would imagine that you will get along well with it. Lightroom's one apparent weakness is printing, which just isn't there yet. Hi, you must have a different version to the latest one. The printing module in version 1 is one of the strongest modules of Lightroom. I use it 100% for our canvas printing business. Regards Volker Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Concorde-SST Posted March 10, 2007 Share #10 Posted March 10, 2007 And you think LR will run fine on OS 10.5? I guess that wouldn´t be a problem. I upgraded several times during CS2´s lifetime (two years or so), from 10.1 to the current one. Never had any compatibilty problems (but work only on G5, no intels yet). best, Andreas. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted March 10, 2007 Share #11 Posted March 10, 2007 I am hearing from a friend of mine who is a beta tester for 10.5 that all is not quite sweetness and light at present. Lots of bugs still to be sorted and the marketing depratment - sorry department, is insisting on sticking to the quoted "Spring 2007 Release" target. 10.5 looks great, particularly Time Machine. My guess is that it may well be May before it is out, unless there is massive progress in the next couple of weeks. If it is as smooth a transition as Tiger was, I would see no reason not to upgrade straight from Panther to Leopard. The cost of Tiger is the about the same as Leopard, so why buy an out of date program. Wilson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wilfredo Posted March 10, 2007 Author Share #12 Posted March 10, 2007 Tim or others, Is there a way to store the images on my External Hard Drive without first storing them on my Hard Drive? What I would really like to do is store the whole batch in a folder so I can delete everything from my SD card and keep shooting. Later I can go back to the folder and edit, or delete what I don't want to keep. Carsten, Thank you for that tip. Wilfredo Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnwolf Posted March 10, 2007 Share #13 Posted March 10, 2007 Maybe I'm missing something obvious in LR, but is there no Bridge-like function for viewing an image in large size before importing? The import function thumbnails don't do it for me, so I find myself reverting to Bridge to preview images. Thanks. John Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tashley Posted March 10, 2007 Share #14 Posted March 10, 2007 Maybe I'm missing something obvious in LR, but is there no Bridge-like function for viewing an image in large size before importing? The import function thumbnails don't do it for me, so I find myself reverting to Bridge to preview images. Thanks. John `John, you're right: there's no file browser. Either you import your images or you don't see 'em! Tim Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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