6/12/2023 0 Comments Pure raw dxoPicasa is much quicker and more efficient for sorting through photos, finding misplaced photos, and deleting unwanted photos. Overall it's a very good value.īut for organizing I'm still ambivalent about it even after a year.įor organizing chores, Lightroom feels painfully slow and cumbersome compared with Picasa. And it interfaces well enough with the external editors I occasionally use. The white balance, noise reduction, basic color/tone adjustments, etc., all suit my needs. It helps give my photos a consistent appearance even when I switch between five different digicams among three different brands. Overall I'm satisfied enough to keep using it for my photo editing needs, which are pretty minimal. I do find a few of Lightroom's characteristics a bit annoying. ![]() Please tell me why I'm wrong / how to make it behave. But so far, I've found it an officious nuisance. With so many of you seemingly so happy with Lightroom, I figure it must be me. But when, for example, I tried to apply the Sony DT 16-50mm f/2.8 SSM lens profile (which applies just fine to the raw files) to a TIFF I created in Sony's Image Data Converter, the profile is not available. I ought to be able to apply any lens profile on my system to any file I want. Second, Lightroom appears to refuse to apply a lens profile to a TIFF. However, Lightroom seems to insist that I add images to its catalog before I can work on them, and the export process is painfully cumbersome if I want to, e.g., create two or three different versions with differing names that mean something to me. I want to (1) open a (typically raw, but sometimes TIFF or JPEG) file for working on, by using a fairly normal Open-type dialog box (2) when I'm done, I want to use a fairly normal Save As dialog box to choose a name, location, and file type for my edited work and (3) close the file and have Lightroom forget it exists. Unfortunately, it seems difficult to work with, although that may be due to my ignorance, which I hope you can cure.įirst, I absolutely do not want Lightroom interjecting itself as an organizer of my images. ![]() I have almost always used the raw conversion software that came with the cameras, but recently, wanting more advanced lens corrections and other enhanced tools and flexibilities, I decided to try Lightroom.
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