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paul goode

Well-known member

• Jul 29, 2009

• #1

I attended a talk yesterday on Lightroom hosted by someone who obviously knew it inside out and backwards. I must say I'm impressed and it makes my bridge>acr>cs3 workflow seem very clunky.
How many people using Lightroom have pretty well abandoned photoshop?

 

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hampers

Hampers

• Jul 29, 2009

• #2

Paul
I use Lightroom and have CS3, the only thing I've used CS3 for recently has been to covert RAW to small JPEG. Otherwise it is largely redundant. Must add that my knowledge of CS3 is not good, I'm sure that as I learn more about it there are things I would use it for in preference to LR.
Even using LR as a library manager I would find I couldn't do without it now. Basically I love it.

Phil

 

Mono

Hi!

Staff member

Supporter

• Jul 29, 2009

• #3

Lightroom uses ACR to do it's RAW conversions the same as Photoshop and ACR can do pretty much all the global adjustments that you can do in Photoshop. Lightroom has many more indexing and cataloguing tools than Bridge so if all you do is take RAWs, "develop" the whole image and catalogue them, then Lightroom is preferable to Bridge and Photoshop.

You still need Photoshop if you use masking to apply changes to selected areas, if you use drawing tools to modify photographs, adding text labels, montaging, use of creative filters etc etc.

 

hollis_f

Well-known member

• Jul 29, 2009

• #4

Since LR added the gradient and adjustment brush tools I've used CS3 for a grand total of two images!

 

Atricapilla

Still Wandering

• Jul 29, 2009

• #5

Still using CS4 like Mono says for a considerable amount of work as well as Camera Raw and Lightroom 2.3.

 

Vernon Barker

Well-known member

• Jul 30, 2009

• #6

Use Lightroom for everything except image manipulation ie cloning (CS3)