05-12-2011, 10:01 PM
I came new to Digital Photography a short time ago...
Agree with others, try them (all)... I would definitely urge you to try Lightroom... I've found Photoshop (CS5) way too complicated for me, but Lightroom is wonderful... I abandoned shooting JPEGs in-camera (in addition to RAW versions) very quickly, because Lightroom makes it all so easy... and LOOKS better than my in-camera processing
Just one small thing Lightroom does which I don't know whether the others do, but is so helpful:
You have a pic which is one you like and want to try different effects with (B&W, Diff. Exposure, etc.)
In Lightroom (Windows), just hit: Ctrl + ' and you get a 'virtual copy'
It doesn't make an actual copy taking up more disk space, just another record of the image and the adjustments you make to it... LR saves a record of the adjustments history and you can always step back
All the editing is non-destructive - the RAW files remain as they were when you took the image - and you can make as many copies and perform as many / differnt processing steps on each copy as you want... and the Library / Organisation functions are great
That's a biased, personal view..! <img src='http://forum.photozone.de/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
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Agree with others, try them (all)... I would definitely urge you to try Lightroom... I've found Photoshop (CS5) way too complicated for me, but Lightroom is wonderful... I abandoned shooting JPEGs in-camera (in addition to RAW versions) very quickly, because Lightroom makes it all so easy... and LOOKS better than my in-camera processing
Just one small thing Lightroom does which I don't know whether the others do, but is so helpful:
You have a pic which is one you like and want to try different effects with (B&W, Diff. Exposure, etc.)
In Lightroom (Windows), just hit: Ctrl + ' and you get a 'virtual copy'
It doesn't make an actual copy taking up more disk space, just another record of the image and the adjustments you make to it... LR saves a record of the adjustments history and you can always step back
All the editing is non-destructive - the RAW files remain as they were when you took the image - and you can make as many copies and perform as many / differnt processing steps on each copy as you want... and the Library / Organisation functions are great
That's a biased, personal view..! <img src='http://forum.photozone.de/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
' /> <img src='http://forum.photozone.de/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />