d_lague Posted February 24, 2008 Share #1 Posted February 24, 2008 Advertisement (gone after registration) I am thinking of buying and installing Lightroom. What is the take on it here? I downloaded an evaluation version and did not buy it at the end of 30 days. I use Photoshop and XP windows explorer, I am not sure if I want to go through the learning curve of Lightroom. I will if it is going to be worth it. Is the file/image storage workflow totally different and hard to learn? Is it worth it? Dick Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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jrc Posted February 24, 2008 Share #2 Posted February 24, 2008 It's the best photo software I have ever used, and the most intuitive -- but it more a photographer's software than a graphic artist's. You can generally do the same things you could do in a darkroom, but with a great deal more flexibility, but you can't do a lot of the things you can do in Photoshop. As far as learning curve, I'd say it's got about the lowest learning curve I've experienced. JC Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave_d Posted February 25, 2008 Share #3 Posted February 25, 2008 I found Lightroom to be very intuitive and easy to learn. The manual that came with the program was enough for me to learn from. It is a great program for managing large quantities of digital images and compliments Photoshop nicely. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lesh Posted February 25, 2008 Share #4 Posted February 25, 2008 FWIW, I second what's been said about Lightroom, it's great, but your experience may differ. There are other alternatives out there, and these days it's easy to try them all to see what you're most comfortable with, before you buy. But if you don't want to go through all of that LR won't disappoint. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
IMast Posted February 25, 2008 Share #5 Posted February 25, 2008 Yes it is quite quick to learn the basics and I think it is a great program. However I also bought Scott Kelby's Lightroom book which I found to be excellent when you get used to his sense of humour. He takes you through the various stages from downloading your images, editing and printing and Web. Well written and personally I find it invaluable. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveB Posted February 25, 2008 Share #6 Posted February 25, 2008 I spent the $17, or whatever it was, to download and watch Michael Reichman's and Jeff Schewe's tutorial on Lightroom. I think it helped me get up to speed much faster. I don't use it for everthing, but Lightroom does simplify some tasks tremendously. It may not be my favorite RAW converter, but it certainly is the easiest one to use. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
archi4 Posted February 25, 2008 Share #7 Posted February 25, 2008 Advertisement (gone after registration) After using LR since it came out, I found everything except the RAW conversion wonderful. Skin tones are too magenta among other problems in color, so I went back to Capture One for conversion and LR for everything else. I very recently purchased Aperture 2 and my first experiences with its RAW conversion looks very good. So I may go through the hassle of changing over to that. If you are on a Mac it may be worth downloading the free trial. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnwolf Posted February 25, 2008 Share #8 Posted February 25, 2008 ...I am not sure if I want to go through the learning curve of Lightroom. If you know PS, you won't experience much of a learning curve with LR. As everyone said, it's pretty intuitive and it is structured around an obvious workflow sequence. The one thing LR lacks is a decent browser preview function. I edit heavily before importing, and LR doesn't allow that -- at least not with a large preview image. So I end up reviewing a shoot with Bridge and them importing into LR. I really don't understand why that function is not included. Of course, you can import everything and quickly tag for delete what you don't want to keep. John Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrc Posted February 25, 2008 Share #9 Posted February 25, 2008 Yes it is quite quick to learn the basics and I think it is a great program. However I also bought Scott Kelby's Lightroom book which I found to be excellent when you get used to his sense of humour. He takes you through the various stages from downloading your images, editing and printing and Web. Well written and personally I find it invaluable. There are several books out on Lightroom, most of them reasonably short and pretty good, including one by Martin Evening. Kelby's book (which I also have) is so crapped up with that "humor" that after a while, I could barely stand to read it. I'm not at home, where I have the book, but I believe it was the Lightroom book that had two or three pages of complete BS before he even started talking seriously about Lightroom. The guy has got to take a couple aspirins and lie down for a while, then start over. His information is fine; he's capable of writing clearly; his humor sucks. JC Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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