Photography28 May 2010 12:39 am
I recently purchased Adobe Lightroom for overall management of my images. Having tried iphoto and some other systems, I did a 30 day trial of Lightroom and Aperture and found that Lightroom better met my needs. Now I’m trying to learn to use it better.
I also purchased the book ‘Adobe Photoshop Lightroom & Photoshop Workflow’ by Mark Fitzgerald to help me learn to work with the programs better. So far, I haven’t been impressed with Adobe’s documentation. It’s nice for some specifics, but for general learning, what I’ve seen so far just doesn’t cut it. This book works for me as a newbie to Lightroom, though I’m sure I’ll outgrow it with a bit of work.
What I REALLY like about Lightroom is:
- I can manage ALL of my images across multiple hard disks, CDs, DVDs, or whatever else I wind up using so I can search for ANY image I’ve got and find out where it is.
- Integration with Photoshop is seamless. I can easily go back and forth between them.
- The most common things I do are all within Lightroom. All of my base level processing can be done in Lightroom so I only pull out Photoshop for extraordinary work on special images.
- Image management is well thought out with lots of options for doing it ‘My Way’.