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Adobe Lightroom Beta 3
How
has my workflow changed since I started using Adobe Lightroom
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First of all I have to be honest, I am not completely comfortable
with the word 'workflow'. Over the course of my career I have
had a great number of photography jobs but I never really
considered them work. I have always loved the fact that I
could make my living doing something that I would do anyway.
I am in that sense both a professional and an avid amateur
photographer.
Although
I have for extended periods of time shot in the neighborhood
of a thousand frames per day while on assignment (and probably
will again), I tend to usually shoot from around one hundred
to two hundred images in a day. So keeping track of my images
is not as much of a problem for me as it may be for some people.
I
spent a large part of my career working in the advertising
industry in Asia, using the 6x7 film format almost exclusively.
This probably has a lot to do with my aversion to the present
trend of shooting thousands of frames per day (finger glued
to the trigger) and then looking for a 'workflow' that will
process them quickly and automatically pick out the winners
for you.
I
still have a pretty good memory so I store my images (organized
by camera and date) on external hard disk drives and archive
them on DVDs. When I need some of these images for a client
or just feel like working (there is that nasty word again)
with some images, I find the folder or folders that they are
in and copy them to my local hard disk drive.
Once
I have the images I am interested in on my local hard disk
drive, I browsed through them using Adobe Bridge and decide
which images I want to work with. Next I open the images I
am interested in Adobe Photoshop and edit them to suit the
job or project I am working on.
I
have also used Apple iPhoto quite a lot for browsing and selecting
JPEG images (especially for web projects) but I have always
gone back to Adobe Photoshop for editing and saving the images
in their final file format.
In
the future, and to some degree in the present I will probably
do most of my selecting and editing in Adobe Lightroom but
to what degree Lightroom will replace Adobe Photoshop for
me, is largely dependent upon what other Photoshop features
Adobe will bring over to Adobe Lightroom.
The
biggest change will come for me once Version 1 of Adobe Lightroom
becomes available, I will then Import my entire Image Library
into Adobe Lightroom, since I can now leave the images on
external hard disk drives and Reference them without moving
them or saving them into the Lightroom Library.
The
Develop Module in Adobe Lightroom is still missing a few pieces
for me but the interface is so intuitive and fun to use that
I know I will spend a lot more time experimenting with images
than I ever did with Adobe Photoshop, where the complexity
of the application itself keeps getting in your way (of having
fun).
I
had a lot of fun spending hours a day (and often all night)
in the darkroom when I was younger, Adobe Lightroom has this
same potential to be a fun application that you can work with
for hours on end, making hopefully better pictures.
P.S.
Please do not get upset if your personal experience and views
are different from my own. These opinions are mine exclusively
and do not reflect the views or policies of any of the manufacturers
mentioned in these articles ...... George
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