Is Lightroom worth using over Photoshop & Bridge

TheBigCheese

TheBigCheese

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Hi everyone

The thread title sums it up really.

Is Lightroom 3 worth using instead of the combination of Photoshop and Bridge?

Currently I do all my RAW conversion and processing in Photoshop and I keep meaning to organise all my pictures etc., using Bridge but I haven't got round to it as yet.

As I'm a blank canvas organisation wise at the moment is Lightroom worth it? I understand the way you can rank photos in order of preference and add keywords is very good but I wonder about the processing. Is that as good as using Photoshop...is it better?

If so how much of Photoshop work would be done in Lightroom instead?

Thanks very much for any thoughts. :)
 
Thanks for the extra input guys. :)

I will be needing to rate and organise lots of commercial type shots but not so much now as I haven't really started so it will be a drip drip rather than a flood approach.

I probably will do editing in Photoshop but I do try and catch as much in camera as possible so aside from the odd bit of cloning or airbrushing for portraits I doubt I'll need to do much in Photoshop, it'll generally be developing the RAWs and converting to B&W.

As you say bigredshark there's no definitive answer, I suppose it's more getting used to what you use and developing (boom boom :rolleyes:) your own workflow.
 
Wow this thread has provoked some really interesting debate, thanks to all of you involved, it's fascinating reading!

I think my wants/needs of Lightroom are probably quite basic compared to what it's probably capable of...

First and foremost I want an organisational tool and an easy way of converting RAWs to TIFFs, I think anything other than that I would use Photoshop for...having said that I'm not versed with all of the functions of Lightroom as yet so I have a book winging it's way to me tonight and a trial of Lightroom should give me a good idea what I'm looking at and whether it's right for me.


The other thing I have found interesting in this thread is talk of workflow, I don't shoot anywhere near enough high quality work (yet! :D) to have a tried and tested workflow for my photography, but some of you clearly do.

Do you consider your workflow (including processing) of images, such as how to get great black and whites common knowledge that you would share or do you consider it business 'tricks of the trade'?


This isn't the thread for that but it might be interesting to have a thread dedicated to processing techniques for those that are interested.
 
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