As I described yesterday, Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom™ software is the professional photographer's essential toolbox but what does a professional Photographer think about it?
Professional photographer and appleJAC member, Henry Domke describes Lightroom as:
I think Lightroom looks to be great, but have no intention of using it now.
The ideal user seems to be commercial/wedding photographers who cranks out lots of images and who have never mastered Photoshop. Someone who knows photography well, but is not a computer geek.
It has a beautiful and logical interface. However, it only does global corrections to images.
I like to also do "local" corrections such as: removing spots, altering color of one area only, changing contrast in one are only.
But time will tell.
If I were starting new today (and hadn't been using Photoshop for 17-years) then undoubtedly I would primarily use Lightroom and finish up my images in Photoshop. The learning curve would be less steep. The thing is, I already know Photoshop well.
I think this summarizes my ideas:
- High Volume Shooter and Low Photoshop Skills = Ideal Lightroom User
- High Volume Shooter and High Photoshop Skills = Might find Lightroom Useful. They might see speeder production and could enjoy the DAM (Digital Asset Management) features.
- Low Volume Shooter and High Photoshop Skills = No need for Lightroom
- Low Volume Shooter and Low Photoshop Skills = Should try Lightroom (easier to learn than Photoshop).
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