In the dark about Lightroom
April 5, 2007 10:03 AM Subscribe
Can anyone who is higher on the learning curve recommend any good resources/offer any tips/etc. for getting the most out of Adobe Lightroom? Bonus points for advice on tranisitioning from iPhoto.
I installed Lightroom a few days ago, and I am having fun playing with it--but I think the manual leaves much to be desired. I am not a pro photgrapher, but I am not new to the worlds of Photoshop or digital photography in general. A few questions:
1) Can anyone recommend a good third-party resource for learning all of Lightroom's features? I would prefer a real heavy-duty text, not just the breezy overview of, say, Adobe's basic "Classroom in a Book" series.
2) Does anyone who has been working with the program have any good tips, strongly held opinions, or other resources for a new user?
3) Has anyone made the transition from iPhoto and lived to tell the tale? I only recently started shooting in RAW, and so I have a few thousand photos (20 gig, give or take) that I may want to migrate to Lightroom. (I will import all new images directly into Lightroom.) With iPhoto's indecipherable filing system, how do you make sure you have imported all of your iPhoto images? Also, iPhoto seems to keep a separate folder for edited images too, which is confounding. Lastly, any tips on keeping libraries in both programs? The lovely Mrs. Haddock will not want to use Lightroom for her viewing of our shared photos.
I installed Lightroom a few days ago, and I am having fun playing with it--but I think the manual leaves much to be desired. I am not a pro photgrapher, but I am not new to the worlds of Photoshop or digital photography in general. A few questions:
1) Can anyone recommend a good third-party resource for learning all of Lightroom's features? I would prefer a real heavy-duty text, not just the breezy overview of, say, Adobe's basic "Classroom in a Book" series.
2) Does anyone who has been working with the program have any good tips, strongly held opinions, or other resources for a new user?
3) Has anyone made the transition from iPhoto and lived to tell the tale? I only recently started shooting in RAW, and so I have a few thousand photos (20 gig, give or take) that I may want to migrate to Lightroom. (I will import all new images directly into Lightroom.) With iPhoto's indecipherable filing system, how do you make sure you have imported all of your iPhoto images? Also, iPhoto seems to keep a separate folder for edited images too, which is confounding. Lastly, any tips on keeping libraries in both programs? The lovely Mrs. Haddock will not want to use Lightroom for her viewing of our shared photos.
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posted by matildaben at 10:54 AM on April 5, 2007