I'm enjoying Lightroom

[laarree]

I tinkered with Adobe Lightroom during its beta period, bought it as soon
as it released, and have been getting used to importing photos thru
Lightroom and doing edits, organizing, tinkering with generating web
galleries and slide shows, bouncing back and forth between Lightroom and
Photoshop CS3 beta, watching some tutorials online. It's some good stuff!
Lr is indisputably sluggish on my dual 1GHz MDD Mac, but usable. Anyone
else here using Lightroom? It's also definitely 1.0 version software, but very
usable out of the gate.

I think when CS3 finally ships, I'm going to have to get me one of those
MacPro thingies. I need some speed.

BTW, I took a very excellent Lightroom class in NYC recently, taught by
photographer Carol Dragon at ICP in midtown Manhattan. ICP has some
very nice digital labs and workshops, just in case anyone in the New York
area was looking for a class like that. http://shopping.icp.org/school/continuin...ategory_id=&product_id=26441

[DP]

If you were an Adobe salesperson, how would you sell LR? I haven't dug too deep into it so what is the advantage of LR over, say, iView Media Pro or just using Bridge?

[laarree]

[quote DP]If you were an Adobe salesperson, how would you sell LR? I haven't dug too deep into it so what is the advantage of LR over, say, iView Media Pro or just using Bridge?
I haven't used iView (now a Microsoft product ), but I used Bridge/Photoshop CS2
extensively. I can now pop in a CF card into a card reader, and Lightroom will
automatically import all my images, rename them, add basic keywords and metadata,
and copy them into the appropriate folders on my Mac without my needing to do the
manual steps I was used to with Bridge. I can then adjust the photos with the excellent
image adjustment features it has (the same as with the Adobe Camera Raw that's built-in
to Photoshop CS3), generate web galleries, (html or Flash-based), etc. I haven't this it,
but it can hook into camera manufacturers' software so you can do tethered captures
with Lightroom. It's more a competitor to Aperture or Capture One than to a digital asset
management application like iView.

[john-o]

It's more a competitor to Aperture or Capture One than to a digital asset
management application like iView.

I'm actually a little sorry to hear you say that. I was hoping to replace iView with LIghtroom. Can't it be used as a DAM app? I sure hope so.

BTW, anyone want to by an iView 3.x license???

;-}
John

[laarree]

[quote john-o]I'm actually a little sorry to hear you say that. I was hoping to replace iView with LIghtroom. Can't it be used as a DAM app?
It can, but it depends on exactly what you want to do with it. It's not a cataloging application. You can manage multiple libraries of images, do your keywording,
add metadata, make multiple versions of images, sort, stack, compare, rate, etc. etc.
For what it's worth, Peter Krogh, the author of "The DAM Book" is a Lightroom
enthusiast, and has a web forum devoted to using Lightroom's DAM features:
http://thedambook.com/smf/index.php?board=15.0

[john-o]

Thanks laarree,

I'll check out that site.

I don't know that I ever got that much out of iView anyway, I mostly wished it did more of what Lightroom and Aperture do, so I should be okay. It's not like I have tens of thousands of images to manage...

[Kramerica]

I didn't know M$ had bought iView. That bites.

[laarree]

[quote Kramerica]I didn't know M$ had bought iView. That bites. Check it out: http://www.iview-multimedia.com/

[Sam3]

Microsoft is keeping iView Media Pro alive on the Mac, there will be an Expressions Media for the Mac according to the FAQ on the web site.

The Expressions series is Microsoft's attempt to battle the Adobe juggernaut.

[laarree]

[quote Sam3]Microsoft is keeping iView Media Pro alive on the Mac, there will be an Expressions Media for the Mac according to the FAQ on the web site.

The Expressions series is Microsoft's attempt to battle the Adobe juggernaut. Big Microsoft juggernaut versus little Adobe juggernaut!