Posted by Elliott Neep on September 1, 2006 at 10:37 AM
Not sure whether this is the correct forum or not for this... but I wondered if anyone else out there was trialling the new conversion workflow tool from Adobe?
I have been using it solidly since the windows Beta version was released. Apart from a few sharp learning curves, overall I am impressed with the quality of the software and especially the converted files. It is a bit slow and clunky at the mo and further features are being added based on requests posted on Adobe’s Lightroom forum.
Worth mentioning is the split channel toning capability that allows you to alter hue, saturation, and luminescence of all colour channels as well as ‘curves’. This is great for creating more punch in specific areas without drowning out the whole picture with over-saturated colours. Also, with delicate use of the blues, you can bring back deeper blues in pale skies, so effectively you have a polarising effect.
The workflow is not instantly obvious, but with a small amount of patience it becomes apparent that this is a well thought out tool. For instance, rather than creating endless copies of an image (TIFs for archiving, jpegs of varying sizes for the website, etc) you just archive the raw file and work from it when the need arises. This is great for saving on disk space and has beneficial image management implications.
Currently it is rather slow at importing images. If you are importing lots of files (more than 30 say) it is best to switch off the background caching. Otherwise it grinds to a halt making small, medium, large, and full-size previews of every image! Also, forget having CS2 running at the same time as Lightroom is extremely resource hungry and uses around 0.5 GB when running.
I have been informed that speed will improve with subsequent beta releases and the final product. In the meantime it seems like nothing beats BreezeBrowser for browsing image files!
Does anyone have any reviews of Rawshooter (now part of Lightroom it seems), NX, or anything else?
Posted by John MacTavish on September 1, 2006 at 2:09 PM
Hi Elliot,
I tried Lightroom on a Mac platform before opting to go full tilt into Aperture.
At the moment I am delighted with Aperture as it does everything I want it to and everything I hoped it would be able to do.
I will try to find a bit of time later this year to give a fair and indepth review of it from a high volume shooter's view. By high volume I am talking about 4000+ shots to be cut down to around about 500, catalogued, then resized, dust spotted and loaded to the web. This process takes around 3 hours using Aperture, compared to the 8-10 hours it took using C1, and PS.
I am still learning a lot about the Aperture, but it seems capable of doing all I ask of it including some odd things that other ppl have asked me to find out about it for them
Anyway, must go
Cheers,
John
Posted by Javier Martin on September 1, 2006 at 2:53 PM
Elliott,
I have been trying the beta version for PC for a short while and so far I am quite impressed with the quality of the images it produces. In some examples it is quite amazing how much more detail I get in some areas of an image (like in the red crest of a black grouse) as compared with RawShooter Premium. It is very slow though.
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2 repliesI have been using it solidly since the windows Beta version was released. Apart from a few sharp learning curves, overall I am impressed with the quality of the software and especially the converted files. It is a bit slow and clunky at the mo and further features are being added based on requests posted on Adobe’s Lightroom forum.
Worth mentioning is the split channel toning capability that allows you to alter hue, saturation, and luminescence of all colour channels as well as ‘curves’. This is great for creating more punch in specific areas without drowning out the whole picture with over-saturated colours. Also, with delicate use of the blues, you can bring back deeper blues in pale skies, so effectively you have a polarising effect.
The workflow is not instantly obvious, but with a small amount of patience it becomes apparent that this is a well thought out tool. For instance, rather than creating endless copies of an image (TIFs for archiving, jpegs of varying sizes for the website, etc) you just archive the raw file and work from it when the need arises. This is great for saving on disk space and has beneficial image management implications.
Currently it is rather slow at importing images. If you are importing lots of files (more than 30 say) it is best to switch off the background caching. Otherwise it grinds to a halt making small, medium, large, and full-size previews of every image! Also, forget having CS2 running at the same time as Lightroom is extremely resource hungry and uses around 0.5 GB when running.
I have been informed that speed will improve with subsequent beta releases and the final product. In the meantime it seems like nothing beats BreezeBrowser for browsing image files!
Does anyone have any reviews of Rawshooter (now part of Lightroom it seems), NX, or anything else?
I tried Lightroom on a Mac platform before opting to go full tilt into Aperture.
At the moment I am delighted with Aperture as it does everything I want it to and everything I hoped it would be able to do.
I will try to find a bit of time later this year to give a fair and indepth review of it from a high volume shooter's view. By high volume I am talking about 4000+ shots to be cut down to around about 500, catalogued, then resized, dust spotted and loaded to the web. This process takes around 3 hours using Aperture, compared to the 8-10 hours it took using C1, and PS.
I am still learning a lot about the Aperture, but it seems capable of doing all I ask of it including some odd things that other ppl have asked me to find out about it for them
Anyway, must go
Cheers,
John
I have been trying the beta version for PC for a short while and so far I am quite impressed with the quality of the images it produces. In some examples it is quite amazing how much more detail I get in some areas of an image (like in the red crest of a black grouse) as compared with RawShooter Premium. It is very slow though.
Regards,