Re: Adobe Lightroom
Re: Adobe Lightroom
- Subject: Re: Adobe Lightroom
- From: Andrew Rodney <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2006 08:26:36 -0700
- Thread-topic: Adobe Lightroom
On 1/9/06 6:16 AM, "email@hidden" wrote:
> Does anyone on the list have any early beta experience with this? (Andrew?)
Generally I like it a lot. It IS beta and a special beta at that (it is
feature incomplete). It¹s very fast on nominal hardware like a Powerbook
(something that Aperture brings to its knees). The RAW rendering engine is
similar but not identical to Adobe Camera Raw. So expect very good RAW
conversions, significantly better than Aperture 1.0.1/OS 10.4.3 RAW
processing. The HSL Color Tuning is awesome and will make both Photoshop and
ACR a bit jealous. The gray conversions are also very, very nice. The way in
which you can handle files (in or outside a main library) will make a lot of
Aperture users happy. The ³Enable Drat Mode Printing" feature is great for
cranking out proof sheets directly from RAW data. Best of all, it's a free
beta whereby the direction can be influenced by end users, something I've
never seen out of Adobe (and something Apple could learn from). I still find
Aperture a strong possibility as a useful product once the myriad of bugs is
taken care of and the RAW processing is up to snuff.
>From a color management perspective, I feel both Aperture and Lightroom need
histograms and info palettes based on the final color space we will encode
the RAW data into. That allows me to select a space based on where it will
go. Aperture's Histogram is based on its internal color space. I'm told
Lightroom is based on Adobe RGB (1998) which is OK in a beta that apparently
encodes only into that space (but will hopefully allow others). There are
three RGB working spaces available for export (sRGB, Adobe RGB (1998) and
ProPhoto) which is fine however I think (and I'm hoping for clarification)
that should you ask to render a file and open it in Photoshop, it's Adobe
RGB (1998) pipe line.
I would like an RGB info readout in both products!
Unlike Aperture, which only allows the RelCol intent for printing, Lightroom
allows Perceptual. That's good.
Andrew Rodney
http://www.digitaldog.net/
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