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Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2015 4:09 pm Post subject: Photoshop Lightroom
Hi all,
I was wondering how many users of the forum work with Photoshop Lightroom? I've grown to love photography and use it almost exclusively these days to develop raw DNG files straight out of my Canon camera.
I continue to use Photoshop now and again but find I rarely need it anymore. Anyone else switched from using Photoshop to Photoshop Lightroom for their photography? _________________ Matt
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Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2015 1:20 am Post subject:
Sometimes I use Lightroom, but I have quite extensive knowledge of Photoshop, and with all it's extra tools and funtions, I tend to spend more time using PS, I guess it depends on the type of photography, if I'm just taking good pictures and need to just brighten them up a bit, or add a preset, then I guess Lightroom would be a quicker easier option for some (although I still choose PS to do this), and as a photographer that mainly does newborn photography, I do a lot of editing, skin smoothing, fabric colour changes etc, so Photoshop is the better software for me
Joined: 24 Sep 2007
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Location: Haverhill, UK PS Version: Lightroom 5, CS4 & Elements 11 OS: Windows 8.1
Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2015 3:52 am Post subject:
I think I'd be in the same boat as you, if I intended to manipulate a photograph then I'd reach for Photoshop every time. That would especially be the case if I needed selections, masks, effects, filters, fine control over colour adjustments etc.
However , for straight up photography work I don't tend to use those tools unless they are specifically for processing a raw image. In that case, I need control over exposure, contrast, saturation, levels, independent colour adjustments, sharpening, noise reduction, profile corrections and cropping - all of which I can do perfectly inside Lightroom.
If I needed to go further than that I'd switch to Photoshop.
I guess another reason I love Lightroom is that you never actually change the pixels of the image file, the adjustments are recorded using metadata and applied by the software when viewing/editing. _________________ Matt
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