socdad
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Has anyone used Photoshop Lightroom? Sounds like it is a versatile tool that will help manage and edit large numbers of photographs. The 'raw' edit tool should help manage color corrections...
Any thoughts?
Any thoughts?
I use it extensively and love it. It is great for managing your photos. It is also great for "tweaking" your photos...such as color correction, sharpness, exposure adjustment, lighting adjustments and such. Everything you do is non=destructive. In other words it puts all the adjustments in a separate file so that your original image file is never changed. You can print from it or save your 'adjusted photo' off into a separate and new file. It does a lot more and is very versatile.
It's my understanding that both Photoshop and Lightroom provide good photo editing support (including Raw photos). Photoshop provides more image manipulation controls but Lightroom has better organization tools, and is perhaps a bit more intuitive.I'm not seeing any reason to swap from photoshop. What am I missing?
I'm not seeing any reason to swap from photoshop. What am I missing?
Raw has nothing to do with pixels. I get an image of the same resolution whether I shoot Large Jpeg or Raw. The difference is that a Raw image represents the data straight off the sensor. To produce a Jpeg image, the camera does some processing internally (white balance, contrast, sharpen, etc.) and compresses the image before saving.Eric...
Raw is so much more than just more pixels....it is a control issue.
I just hooked up a Canon 30D and and took two photos. One was in "Large Fine" (jpg) format and the other "Raw" (cr2). The jpeg photo was 3504x2336 pixels and the raw photo was 3504x2336 pixels. I call that the same. If you think the Raw image has greater resolution, then yes - we'll have to just disagree.Eric---A raw image is larger...the jpeg is controllable depending on what DPI you choose to convert it to. ... I guess we will agree to disagree.
See Photoshop Tip #3 - Correcting White Balance for instructions on how to correct improper white balance in a photo, regardless of whether it was initially shot jpeg or raw....Raw is more about the freedom to manipulate the photo as you want and JPEG limits your options. That is clear with just a white balance adjustment.