Lightroom anyone?

[phillipb]

I've just discovered lightroom, well I knew about it of course but I'm only just trying it for myself now. I must say I'm impressed.
I realize that I should have been able to do all the things it can do with software already available, but somehow lightroom makes it easy for me. I've gone back and edited some old photos and I seem to be able to get more pop out of them.
I like the Idea of using just one program for converting from Raw basic editing and cataloging.
Anyone else have anything to add? e.g have you found any shortcomings?

[Yi-P]

I've posted in the review section a little about its RAW processor vs NC4 and NC-NX.

http://www.dslrusers.com/viewtopic.php?t=25970

I'm currently working on a short review and some tips/tricks around it.... Hope I can get it done this time...

[phillipb]

Thanks for your work YiP, actually it was your post that led me to download the trial version.

[Marvin]

BigV and I were looking at it when he visited and we both quite liked it. Particularly the way it can clean up the dust bunnies on a whole bunch of images with one or two clicks.

[Kyle]

It's made my processing time a lot quicker for me.

I do a lot of similar shots in a row, so copying corrected settings between a number if images is very useful.

Though i still use cs2 for sharpening, the lightroom sharpening is useless.

[devilla101]

I think its a brilliant program. My friend recommended it to me whilst it was in beta but refuse cause I thought Bridge and RAW Converter where brill. Only when Lightroom came out of beta I tried it and love it!

[phillipb]

One option is to export the converted photos in prophoto RGB, Does anyone know much about this colour space?

[Yi-P]

One option is to export the converted photos in prophoto RGB, Does anyone know much about this colour space?

Prophoto is a MUCH larger gamut range than any other common colour profiles around. It is much used as a 16-bit colour profile, for those really high demanding stuffs. It is much a closer representation of visible colour spectrum. From my POV, using this colour gamut helps for those punching colours and tight manipulations between colour differences on screen, but when you put it back on paper (print) it will clip itself back to a much smaller colour gamut anyway.

It is even much larger than the Adobe RGB (1998) profile.



I did a quick colour gamut plot of the two colour spaces here:

First is Prophoto RGB by itself, it is quite a large colour space here:



Next two are comparison with the Adobe RGB (1998), see that Prophoto has a larger cover area in comparison:





Last is with sRGB which is considerably smaller than Prophoto:




If you want to read more about it, here is a good page explaining about Prophoto RGB
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutor ... -rgb.shtml

[the foto fanatic]

Image Science in Melbourne, who produce printer profiles among other things, outlined their thoughts on Lightroom in their recent newsletter:

http://www.imagescience.com.au/News/07_ ... edded.html