Comments on: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Introduction

By: David Marx

David Marx — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 13:47:55 +0000

Dear Jim Mossman, Apologies for the delayed response. Somehow I missed your question this week. If you do things right then spreading your images out over multiple hard drives will not upset Adobe Photoshop Lightroom at all. Photoshop Lightroom has the capability of tracking basically an unlimited number of images on an unlimited number of drives. Where you store your images--internal drive vs. external drive(s)--has no effect on Adobe Photoshop Lightroom's powerful metadata search capabilities. For more info on this topic see Getting Started with Photoshop Lightroom: Where Should I Store My Photos? and Getting Started with Photoshop Lightroom: Where Should I Keep My Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Catalog?. -- David Marx

By: David Marx

David Marx — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 18:33:58 +0000

Dear Kerin Benz,

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is not the ideal tool for heavy portrait retouching. A program like Portrait Professional 10 Studio Edition or Adobe Photoshop CS5 would be a better choice for this type of work.

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David Marx

By: Kerin Benz

Kerin Benz — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 16:11:00 +0000

I am looking for some help. I have a niece that loves to have her pictures taken. She has skin problems and often has breakouts on her face. I am trying to find editing program so the breakouts don’t show. Would Lightroom work for this?

By: Jim Mossman

Jim Mossman — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 16:51:09 +0000

Re: The Lightroom Catalog – What if you have to change your hard drives and that also forces you to separate your digital images onto more than one disk? (I.E. the there will be more than one new path – some images will go to one disk and others to a different one or more.) Does this mean you will loose the metadata search capability and have to rebuild this for Lightroom?

Thanks,
Jim

By: David Marx

David Marx — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 05:34:03 +0000

Dear Jay,

Two easy ways to solve this problem. 1. In the Develop Module go Window > Panels > and turn the Basic Panel back on. 2. Right click on the word Tone Curve in the Develop Module and turn the Basic Panel back on!
It’s a mystery at first but if you think about it then it makes sense that all you have done is to hide a panel away…. Hence the Window menu > Panel > etc solution.

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David Marx

By: Jay

Jay — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 21:28:23 +0000

Hi! Not sure what I did but for some reason the “Basic” option in the ‘Develop-Mode’ right below the Histogram disappeared. How do I get it back. Thank you

By: T

Mon, 13 Jun 2011 13:43:31 +0000

Hi David, thanks for the info! Appreciate your input.

By: davem

davem — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 14:38:13 +0000

Dear T,

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom’s Develop Module is the Adobe Camera Raw Processing engine. It is the exact same engine–same buttons, same underlying computer code–as the ACR utility in Adobe Photoshop CS5.

I have no experience with buga-soft.com. Personally, I would stick to Amazon or another reputable vendor.

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David Marx

By: T

Wed, 08 Jun 2011 14:43:58 +0000

Hi David, thanks for the video. It was really helpful. I’m looking at getting Lightroom 3. You mentioned some of the editing that can go on inside Lightroom. Can you do most or all of the stuff that you can do in the RAW photo processor? Also, I found this website that is selling the digital copy (hence, the cheaper price than Adobe), but am unsure if it is reliable. Have you heard of it?: http://www.buga-soft.com/products/Adobe-Photoshop-Lightroom-3.html

Thanks again!

By: davem

davem — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 02:43:57 +0000

Dear Tasha,

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 can index most video formats. You can use it to organize and play movies but it has no video editing capabilities. In the Adobe software family video editing is restricted to programs like Adobe Premiere, Adobe After Effects, and Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended Edition.

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David Marx