jamm Loc: northumberland uk

is lightroom 4 any good is it user friendly noticed it in the local store £80 i use elements is it any better than that, thanks jimmy

pappy0352 Loc: Oregon

I use lightroom 4 daily and love it. There is a bit of a learning curve but this is the case with any editing program.

Pappy

Ambrose Loc: North America

I use Lightroom 4 together with Elements 11 . Between the two I've got all the editing I (an enthusiast) needs.

Db7423 Loc: Pittsburgh, PA

Ditto Pappy and Ambrose. Lightroom offers a lot. Not too difficult to learn and a lot of great resources on the web to help pave the way. Go for it- you won't be sorry.

Erik_H Loc: Denham Springs, Louisiana

I started out using Elements 10, then got Lightroom 4. I found that LR4 does nearly everything that I need for day to day pp, and that coupled with PSE 10 makes a great pp suite. I found that LR4 was not too hard to learn at all, and if you are just looking for something to do overall adjustments, ie: exposure, contrast, cropping, etc, it's all you really need. There are also a slew of presets that can be added for easy one-click adjustments.

RVDigitalBoy Loc: Clermont, Florida

I use Lightroom 4 in conjunction with PS Elements 11 with Topaz plugin filters and Photomatix Pro 4.

Specifically, I use Lightroom to:

1. copy contents of camera disk to hardrive and automatically correct for chromatic aberations as it does so;

2. Apply lens corrections to all my RAW images.

I then process through Photomatix, Elements 11 or both. I have not as yet tried any additional post processing with LR4.

jamm Loc: northumberland uk

thanks all lightroom 4 it is then ,jimmy

Frapha Loc: Tulsa, Oklahoma

I also use LR4 and PSE-11 (recently upgraded from PSE-10). Great combo that will do anything I have needed so far.

CJsFotos Loc: Cambridge Ontario Canada

I have the same combo , do they work well together? I have been using lightroom for a while and have now added elements 11

Festina Lente Loc: Florida & Missouri

Make sure you go on Adobe's website and download/install version 4.3 of Lightroom. Many improvements, features, fixes, and it runs faster than the boxed version.

Frapha Loc: Tulsa, Oklahoma

Yes, they work well together, but quite a learning curve (at least for me). But, there are LOTS of good free tutorials on You Tube and other locations, and several good books available.

CJsFotos Loc: Cambridge Ontario Canada

Thanks I will look them up! :-)

elandel Loc: Milan, Italy

Had the same doubt: got LR4.

OnDSnap Loc: NE New Jersey

I read your post a few days ago about it (LR4.3) running faster, when I updated back some when released I hadn't really noticed, but after you saying it did, I did a comparison with my second computer which I hadn't updated yet... and sure as s^%&t is is faster... :)

RG4073 Loc: Kettering, OH

I've been using LR since it first became available and I stay up-to-date with all its updates. Although the "dashboard" looks intimidating, it is actually well laid-out and mostly easy to use. Nonetheless there are a few quirks that exist that require some experimenting, but as others have mentioned in their replies to you there is plenty of education and training info available.

It is important to keep in mind that LR is a photographer's tool and was built from scratch by Adobe as such. It is waaay easier and much, much faster to use that PS and PSE, which are designed to serve the graphic arts community (which uses photos as a starting point for their creations). Honestly, LR covers 99% of the editing capability I need; my feeling on that was confirmed publicly by an instructor at a LR seminar I attended a couple of years ago, one presented by a major Adobe products education firm. While I have and use PS CS5 and love it for its "content aware" capabilities that I sometimes need to use, LR is easily the best tool around for photogs .

Note that LR is non-destructive editor and original images remain intact. But LR saves a photo's editing instructions (the changes you make to an original image) in a database, not a finished photo, meaning your available disk space is not eaten up. "Fixed" photos do not exist until they are exported; LR uses originals in conjunction with saved editing instructions applied to them to show altered photos, a pretty slick feature.

Also LR interacts on my Mac with Finder, making Library management delightfully robust. I could go on and on about LR, but suffice it to say that it is a fine tool and seems to be getting better as more PS-type capabilities appear in it with each new release.