jonoslack
Active member
Thanks from here as wellHi Dave, Useful tip on the sharpening!
I really dislike Lightroom - I've been using it for 5 months now, and I thought that familiarity would breed a little more satisfaction, but it just breeds contempt. The processing seems to me to be brutal unless you spend hours setting up presets - the brushes without edge detection are worthless, the clone tool is still useless. Personally, I suspect that these are intentional limitations to force you to get PS as well.I can concur, the clarity slider is definitely more complex than I described and many people hate the new Algo. LR for me just seems to do everything wrong. Clearly this is a familiarity issue on my part as are problems with the new algo for many people (I can't get to grips with the old or new one). At least the manual approach in PS is what it is, a bit crummy, but reliable (I used to be able to do a USM using layers but forget how now, it took me a long time to trust the USM wouldn't be changed suddenly) Old habits do die hard but hopefully a little nuts'n'bolts understanding is helpful.
There are some cool edge detection and filtering algo's out there, I'm sure things will improve immensely for large format printers, over the coming years. Sandy McGuffog always has useful knowledge on his blog about how digital works.
The one advantage it had over Aperture was that it was quite a bit faster . . . that advantage has been taken away with LR4.
I just can't wait for Apple to get support for the MM in Aperture, then I'll be back to my normal workflow with a sensible editor.
BAH!