Lightroom Review
I have had my grubby little hands (well, quite big and meticulously clean) on Adobes new workflow management application called Lightroom and its time for you to hear my thoughts.
This review will just skim the surface of what Lightroom can do, it will also include screenshots and screen video so you can see what Im describing.
From the very outset you can see that this application is aimed at professional photographers that need to get a large amount of images from a shoot processed and exported, fast!
This review will be in four parts Each part dedicated to one of the four sections of lightroom Library, Develop, Slideshow and Print.
PART 1 Library
There are three viewing options in the library section of lightroom, but before displaying your images you have to import them, lightroom handles this task much more efficiently than Photoshop does It gives you lots of options like:
1) Batch Renaming
2) File referencing (where you can refernce files that are already on your HD instead of copying them into a separate file, although it has that option also)
3)Ability to add keywords, copyright and more, including a shoot name
These import features are brilliantly functional for pro photographers who shoot hundreds (or sometimes thousands) of images per shoot. It enables them to take all the data from various memory cards and place them in one folder, open lightroom, rename, add copyright info and shoot details, and then place them in its on separate shoot section all in one quick step its seamless and easy and most importantly part of a structured workflow.
After you import your images and sort them you have a choice of viewing them in three different ways.
1) GRID
This displays all of the files you have just imported in numbered thumbnails from here you can rate your images, do simple corrections and even batch correct and rotate. Basically you choose your best images from here.
2) LOUPE
What does a film photographer get when he wants to zoom in? a loupe, so thats what Adobe have give us. This gives you the ability to check the sharpness and quality of your photos and to drop out any that dont really make the grade.
3) COMPARE
Compare is the most exciting part of import, This is where you can make the final decisions on which particular image you want just select the images from the bottom slide by command clicking on the image you want and it instantly zooms into view to compare with the rest of the images on your light table. From here you can go on to the next step and develop your final images.
This is a short screen video of import
I have had my grubby little hands (well, quite big and meticulously clean) on Adobes new workflow management application called Lightroom and its time for you to hear my thoughts.
This review will just skim the surface of what Lightroom can do, it will also include screenshots and screen video so you can see what Im describing.
From the very outset you can see that this application is aimed at professional photographers that need to get a large amount of images from a shoot processed and exported, fast!
This review will be in four parts Each part dedicated to one of the four sections of lightroom Library, Develop, Slideshow and Print.
PART 1 Library
There are three viewing options in the library section of lightroom, but before displaying your images you have to import them, lightroom handles this task much more efficiently than Photoshop does It gives you lots of options like:
1) Batch Renaming
2) File referencing (where you can refernce files that are already on your HD instead of copying them into a separate file, although it has that option also)
3)Ability to add keywords, copyright and more, including a shoot name
These import features are brilliantly functional for pro photographers who shoot hundreds (or sometimes thousands) of images per shoot. It enables them to take all the data from various memory cards and place them in one folder, open lightroom, rename, add copyright info and shoot details, and then place them in its on separate shoot section all in one quick step its seamless and easy and most importantly part of a structured workflow.
After you import your images and sort them you have a choice of viewing them in three different ways.
1) GRID
This displays all of the files you have just imported in numbered thumbnails from here you can rate your images, do simple corrections and even batch correct and rotate. Basically you choose your best images from here.
2) LOUPE
What does a film photographer get when he wants to zoom in? a loupe, so thats what Adobe have give us. This gives you the ability to check the sharpness and quality of your photos and to drop out any that dont really make the grade.
3) COMPARE
Compare is the most exciting part of import, This is where you can make the final decisions on which particular image you want just select the images from the bottom slide by command clicking on the image you want and it instantly zooms into view to compare with the rest of the images on your light table. From here you can go on to the next step and develop your final images.
This is a short screen video of import
