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All the talk about capture one, which uses either catalogs or a "sessions" file handling methodology, I've come full circle and I'm now taking a second look at light room.
I purchased capture one, and I don't regret it. It does about 80% of what Photoshop does; the other 20% it does differently sometimes better sometimes not, and it does a few things that Photoshop does not do.
According to many of the users of capture one, the catalog system is new and not yet completely stable, particularly for large catalogs. The sessions method seems really silly to me, and creates all sorts of folders and records that I just don't need. My answer was going to be try both methods and just delete the catalogs or sessions, flatten the files of images I'm printing, save them the way I always do, and I've got a new raw converter that (particularly for the Fuji files) is a little bit better than ACR.
As I played with capture one using small catalogs I got comfortable with that idea. I then thought back to some of the things that Rich said about using light room and it working so closely with Photoshop. That has me taking a whole new look at light room.
I really love the way it does some things – they still fill a little uncomfortable compared to I customize Photoshop shortcuts and actions and plug-ins.
I'm at the point now where I have a couple of semi-intelligent questions for Rich and you other light room users:
1- since I want to have the same information on both my laptop and iMac (at least for my current months shooting, the solution I've come up with is to save the catalog in my dropbox folder. My thought is that at the end of the month when I move the month folder to my external hard drive for archiving, I move the catalog along with it. Does this sound reasonable? Are there any pitfalls to starring in dropbox, or moving later to the hard drive?
2- I still don' t have a good enough feel for LR vs PS to frame this question correctly, but here goes...what does PS do that LR does not? When do you HAVE to hand off the image file to PS? Is there a list somewhere of what PS does that LR doesn't and vice versa? and which one does which better? At the end of the day, after watching a couple of hours of Adobe TV on LR, I feel like...hey, doesn't this replace PS? Does it?
It seems a little less straight forward but it actually has some features (like simple way to make printer templates) that are complicated to set up but will be long run timesavers. If I can get confident that I can live with catalogs, I will spend the time to learn all this... so what do you think?
thanks,
tom ... an old dog but not totally unwilling to learn new tricks
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