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There is no lack of information out there - even if you are only interested in LR5!
I see now what you have been enjoying for some time. I could never see why you wouldn't just do things in PS but as file sizes get enormously larger - say D800 - you really can't afford the storage space to be non-destructive in PS...leads to just too many 500mb files if you use multiple layers and don't flatten...Many of the same things can be done in LR in a virtual mode and you don't run out of space and processor power.
Right now the big advantage of LR over CO7 is that it is so similar to PS and works much much better with plugins and other apps.
I've spent some time today with the LR 5 book module and they have made some seemingly small but very important updates in it...even is LR doesn't take over as my main editor, it will definitely become my sole book making app. The big deal for me is the ease of making user templates. I make all my own custom layouts in PS for Blurb and it takes some time, but I have a lot of control via layers..the negative was that I had to pretty much create each page from scratch (following my notes of other pages to keep uniformity where I wanted it...I think that problem is solved with LR and the new User Template functionality...it will be a little more work initially and then a snap going forward.
Well, Marianne is coming home tomorrow morning, so I have to get off the Internet now and put all the stuff away that I have just left sitting on counters and take out the garbage and generally get the house livable again
Tom
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Tom O'Connell
-Lots of people talk to animals.... Not very many listen, though.... That's the problem.
Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh