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Last post 28 May 2008 by

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james

What do you use to process your photos? Albeit adjusting all the colors, or just resizing a whole batch of photos; what program/method do you use?

I've been suggested by a coworker to use LightRoom and started using it the past couple of batches of photos and I'm really loving it. I don't have to touch Photoshop, and it doesn't lag my computer as much!

Reply 27 Dec 2007

wickedmartin

Lightroom here as well. Damn, I can't help to love it, despite being cpu/ram intensive as fuck. (Running an ancient P4 3.0ghz + 1gb ram only, so no wonder.)

Used to go for PS CameraRaw before, but is worlds apart from lightroom in my oppinion.
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Quote 30 Dec 2007

james

Yeah, I agree. I'm running on 512MB RAM pretty okay, though... doesn't seem to be too "intense".

Quote 31 Dec 2007

wickedmartin

Really? Could be 'cause I'm having ps, illu & lightroom open simultaneously... oh and lets not forget like 10 msn windows and a few firefox instances with multiple tabs each. heh.
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Quote 31 Dec 2007

james

Hahaha there you go. Lightroom is really all you need... it renders Photoshop defunct!

Quote 02 Jan 2008

james

(I should note, for photography.)

Quote 02 Jan 2008

meredith

Unless someone wants to donate Adobe Lightroom *.* *blinks* I will keep using Adobe Photoshop. But from reading i know it wouldn't be enough for me.. I love though that Photoshop is more than just batch photo editing/resizing. It's my digital play ground. :]

Quote 02 Jan 2008

james

For me, Photoshop was way too bulky to use every day as a program to resize and play with my photos. LightRoom is so much easier and faster. But yeah, if you're doing photo manipulations, then Photoshop is probably better. I wouldn't know how to do that in LightRoom (yet).

Quote 02 Jan 2008

fantasio

hmmm, so much lightrom users here,i may have a question; is the programm still buggy when searching harddisks with more than 40000 pictures and a lot psd�s with more than 500 mb?
i used it in a betaversion and it was slow and has took me ages to load images/ directories.

now i manage my artworks with a freeware tool from faststone, every aspect from lightroom to picasa is fullfilled, plus its freeware, and its hell of quick once it has opened and tracked a folder in its database.
and best of all its portable, no big data to be installed, good for old PC�s too-
http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm

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Quote 03 Jan 2008

james

lol thanks fantasio. Well, what I do when I have large batches of photos to dump (RAW) is I just dump them in about 50 at a time so nothing crashes and dies. I'm trying to figure out how to put them in an entire catalogue or something so I can go back sometime and see the photos from a specific event on a specific day or whatever.

But LightRoom seems pretty stable to me. Yours looks pretty cool as well, I must say!

Quote 07 Jan 2008

aliencraft

i use good ol photoshop's curves, color range and gaussien blur tools. oh and of course, masks with the gradient tool! :)

lightroom is for wimps. :P - just kidding, but its for people who want dont have a whole lot of time to work on an image. i have it on my laptop and photoshop on my desktop.

Quote 10 May 2008

ottok

I use Photoshop CS3 for some stuff, but still try to use a good old wet darkroom when I can.
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Quote 25 May 2008

mengyimei

I use Photoshop CS2 usually, but just got invited to use Lightroom for 6 months so I'm loving that @ the moment.

Quote 28 May 2008

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