Is anyone using Adobe Lightroom? I've been playing with it a bit, and was just interested in your thoughts on the program. It seems geared for the digital photographer, but I was thinking about using it to manage my 35mm and 4x5 slides.
Is anyone using Adobe Lightroom? I've been playing with it a bit, and was just interested in your thoughts on the program. It seems geared for the digital photographer, but I was thinking about using it to manage my 35mm and 4x5 slides.
I love Lightroom. And yes I use it with my dSLR. I've used Aperture, Capture One, Bibble & the Adobe Bridge/Photoshop combo. Personally I find that Lighroom is the most intuitive RAW converter that I've tried. I'm not sure how valuable it is as a DAM tool though. I think Aperture migth be better, but I have a suspicion that dedicated databse solutions would be even better.
I have used Lightroom since its first beta and have found it very useful for my digital work. It is particularly valuable for assignments with large volumes of images. My son uses it for his LF film work. Once an image is digitized whether it is from film or a digital camera it needs to be organized and Lightroom does it well.
The development history is rather unique. Adobe used photographers to make this one of the most valuable pieces of software available for photographers. They really listened to what we said and added features that would not have been there had we not asked for them. We spent a full year together tweaking this thing. It's pretty slick and we've asked for more in v 2.0!
Bill Koechling
www.koechlingphoto.com
To specifically answer your question, Robert... I think Lightroom is perfect for scanned film. Most of my stock library is in the form of scanned film or B&W prints. These all need keywording and organization. Lightroom is a great tool for doing this. It is also great for exporting images to the web, for slide shows, or for print.
Bill
The largest file that Lightroom can currently handle is 10,000 x 10,000 pixels.
Clearly this will handle most digital cameras and moderate to largish scans. It cannot handle larger scans or stitched images larger than this. Future versions may be able to handle these large files.
Bill
Last edited by Bill Koechling; 9-Mar-2007 at 13:52. Reason: additional info
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