Adobe LightRoom

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Have just downloaded Trail Of Light Room to see if I like that... Cant find a way to make canvas bigger to able to do boarders or is that not possible on light room
 
Just notice that cant even put borders on pictures in Aperture either can I? As I am trailing both of these first to see what they like as that the max i coudl spend if not then it be photo elements
 
Lightroom and Aperture are not image editors.

Lightroom is not meant to be a replacement for Photoshop. The editing tools in Lightroom (heal, sharpening etc) are much less powerful than those in Photoshop.
Where Lightroom excels is in managing hundreds or thousands of RAW or JPEG files and being able to develop them quickly.

Lightroom and Aperture are aimed at Pro Photographers, all you need at the moment Rookie is Adobe Elements.
 
SDK^ said:
Lightroom and Aperture are not image editors.

Lightroom is not meant to be a replacement for Photoshop. The editing tools in Lightroom (heal, sharpening etc) are much less powerful than those in Photoshop.
Where Lightroom excels is in managing hundreds or thousands of RAW or JPEG files and being able to develop them quickly.

Lightroom and Aperture are aimed at Pro Photographers, all you need at the moment Rookie is Adobe Elements.

Ok so adobe Elements is the one then I have always thoug that as i be able to do what i want in it anyway was just looking at other options
 
Adobe Elements (when I used it on Windows before migrating to Mac) is pretty good. It's Organiser is pretty useful, can handle RAW (but not batch processing), you get a baby-version of Photoshop for further editing.


However, if start building up big collections of RAW files, Lightroom (or Aperture) is going to be a better tool for that.

As you have discussed, it sounds like you need some extra pixel editing as well. For now, I use GIMP on my Mac. Basically, use Lightroom to get balance, colour corrections etc etc done. Then any extra effects if required in GIMP.
However, having got used to Photoshop Elements on my old PC, I would like to use that again. So what I suspect I would do is get Elements 5 when it comes out for Mac (this should be a Universal Binary for Intel Macs).



Thinking about it though, you are wanting to add borders to your images, right? Why? Are you adding borders to make the images look better when you include them in a online gallery? Don't forget, you can build a online gallery using Lightroom (HTML or Flash). Also, other online Gallery software can also automatically add borders to images (I'm thinking of Menalto Gallery 2 for example).
Also, did you want to add borders to images for when you print them out? Again, from Lightroom, the Print module allows you to define that.
So, it may be that you don't actually need to alter the image and add a border at all in the first place. Depends really on why you wanted the borders.
 
Sharknose said:
Adobe Elements (when I used it on Windows before migrating to Mac) is pretty good. It's Organiser is pretty useful, can handle RAW (but not batch processing), you get a baby-version of Photoshop for further editing.


However, if start building up big collections of RAW files, Lightroom (or Aperture) is going to be a better tool for that.

As you have discussed, it sounds like you need some extra pixel editing as well. For now, I use GIMP on my Mac. Basically, use Lightroom to get balance, colour corrections etc etc done. Then any extra effects if required in GIMP.
However, having got used to Photoshop Elements on my old PC, I would like to use that again. So what I suspect I would do is get Elements 5 when it comes out for Mac (this should be a Universal Binary for Intel Macs).



Thinking about it though, you are wanting to add borders to your images, right? Why? Are you adding borders to make the images look better when you include them in a online gallery? Don't forget, you can build a online gallery using Lightroom (HTML or Flash). Also, other online Gallery software can also automatically add borders to images (I'm thinking of Menalto Gallery 2 for example).
Also, did you want to add borders to images for when you print them out? Again, from Lightroom, the Print module allows you to define that.
So, it may be that you don't actually need to alter the image and add a border at all in the first place. Depends really on why you wanted the borders.

Thank you for such good information.

Now I am going to wait for the Version 5 since it be better for my MacBook Pro. I will get GIMP for time being and possibly buy Lightroom as I got the trial version of it at the moment and quite like it. But then again I seem to like Apple Aperture too and I find that a bit easier to use like altering colours. Have you tried aperture if so which did you prefer between that and lightroom and reason why.

Border I just like photos with Borders they look better. And I would add borders to print them out with and also to post on this very forum

Any suggestions now I have cleared this up :)

Cheers
 
Rookies said:
Have you tried aperture if so which did you prefer between that and lightroom and reason why.
Not used Aperture, though from what I've heard it's pretty much as good as Lightroom (each have their own advantages and disadvantages).
I happen to like Adobe's photosoftware compared to Apples (though, I prefer Apples video editing software), which is why I chose Lightroom in the end.

Rookies said:
Border I just like photos with Borders they look better. And I would add borders to print them out with and also to post on this very forum
As I said before in my previous post, adding borders is easy when Printing from Lightroom. Mind you, I'm assuming you are printing yourself using your own printer?
Otherwise, to add borders, then GIMP would certainly do the trick for now, until Elements 5 for Mac comes along (if you decide that's better).

I find GIMP annoying. Just doesn't fit in with the rest of the Mac interface. Does what I need it to do though.

Don't forget though, use Lightroom to organise you files, and generate seperate working files you manipulate in GIMP afterwards. DO NOT work on the originals.
 
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