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Everyone is different in their needs and expectations so I'd have to see your existing workflow to work out where and how Lightroom would benefit you, but I'm sure it can (I have one client who imports jobs into Lightroom, works on them and pushes through to Photoshop for further editing, then removes from Lightroom before the cycle starts again)
Do you adjust White Balance?
Do you Crop?
Do you rename?
Do you convert to different formats?
While Bridge can do all of these things, Lightroom is faster and less clunky with better shortcuts BECAUSE the photos are in it's catalog Of course all that assumes that you can and want to use ACR for raw processing, but from your post above it does seem that way
TomOC wrote: Doug- Yes, Doug, I do all of the above - most of it in ACR, then Photoshop where I have a great collection of plugins (many would work in LR, I think) where I make most of my edits; I then save and sharpen either with NIK sharpener or PhotoTools edge sharpener and print (I like to sharpen for each print size and not save the sharpened file). If I were just opening a saved file to change the format (PSD being my main format), I can see where an app like LR would be great - one step to find file and open and save rather than find in bridge, open in PS and save. Rich, my total catalog has about 130,000 images and when I tested LR, it seemed that would create a catalog of almost 100gb (not a strain for my desktop, but kills my macbook pro). I have those files in a Media Pro catalog of about 1.6gb and save it to DropBox so it is always up to date on both machines and doesn't kill the MBP by filling the SDD (only 256 gb). That problem might be solved if I snag a new MBP before they quit making the 17" ones (as rumored), but till then, I simply cannot put a file that large on my MBP. That all said, it looks like I can buy a copy of LR 4 for $99 if I buy CS6 at the same time and I think I'll give it a go just because you guys feel so strongly that it is worthwhile - god knows I often miss thing
Cheers, Tom
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