Why do you Post Process in Adobe Lightroom?
Jan 30, 2021 14:55:51 #
burkphoto wrote:
A droplet is an applet is a small application tied to a bigger one. It is basically a script that activates the mothership to deploy its power on a bit of data such as a folder or selection of files.
Sounds good, so you activate via photoshop?
Jan 30, 2021 16:22:10 #
amfoto1
Loc: San Jose, Calif. USA
Curmudgeon wrote:
If you post process in Lightroom, why? Adobe Camera Raw in Photoshop duplicates almost all the adjustments you can do in Lightroom and has much more powerful tools than ACR can fix. There must be a reason but I don't know what it is.
I use both Lightroom and Photoshop in my post-processing workflow.
Lightroom is only used for "quick" edits. The post-processing tools in LR are mostly "global"... adjusting the entire image. What selective tools it has are far too "crude" and inexact for much retouching work.
After a typical shoot I may have 1500 or more RAW files to go through in a couple days, select the best, tweak them a little and make batches of "proof" quality thumbnails of around 1/3 of them, which get posted online for customers to review. All that is done with Lightroom. Trying to do it in PS would be way, way too slow! I probably spend 30 seconds or less per image when I have hundreds or thousands of images to work through as quickly as possible. LR also serves to sort and organize my images. It's where I have twenty catalogues with thumbnails of a couple million images made the last 40 years organized so I can search and find them.
When I go to fully finish an image for it's intended purpose... whether it's my own selection or that of a customer... I use LR to find it, might do a little more tweaking there (such as changing a crop)... Then pass it off to Photoshop for finishing. That can take anywhere from a few minutes to several hours, depending upon what's needed.
There are lots of things that LR can do that Adobe Bridge/PS ACR can't. But, at the same time, there are many things Photoshop can do that LR simply can't, or things that PS does much better than LR.
For me, neither LR nor PS is "compete" without the other.
Jan 30, 2021 16:32:30 #
bleirer wrote:
Sounds good, so you activate via photoshop?
You create droplets in Ps. You run them by dragging files onto them on the finder/desktop.
Jan 30, 2021 17:00:07 #
burkphoto wrote:
You create droplets in Ps. You run them by dragging files onto them on the finder/desktop.
Thanks!
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