04-09-2007, 05:20 PM
[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.
I haven't used iView (now a Microsoft product
), but I used Bridge/Photoshop CS2extensively. 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.