[pov] Re: Photo Elements/Lightroom ?
- From: John Sage <jsage@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 09:33:00 -0800
On 11/23/2014 08:39 AM, Karlista Rickerson wrote:
I have had to up grade my MAC to Yosemite and that meant up grading my Photo
Elements. Now I find that I need Elements 13 (which I am on a trial use now)
but I can not create a slide show unless I get the Premier edition.
If I try to download that part I get a message that I have to download 13
first, which I already have.
OK, I know nothing about any of the Mac-related or download-related
issues. I'm Win 7.
I used Photo[shop] Elements (which I assume is what you're talking about
here) a bazillion years ago.
Switched to Lightroom a long time ago, and use nothing else now. I do
have Photoshop CS5.x but I use it for almost nothing.
Where does Lightroom fit in? Is it a different program all together?
IM[not so humble]O every photographer should be using Lightroom. It was
written from the ground up to work on digital photographs.
Let's face it: Photoshop is a very old, very highly-evolved raster-based
draw program. But it's still really just a raster-based draw program.
There will be quite a learning curve for Lightroom.
Examples: there's no File Open/File Save/File Save As -- you Import
photos into a Catalog and Export as a specific type of output file at a
specific resolution.
Or send it to a printer, with a powerful set of controls there.
Image processing revolves around the image's histogram and gives you
breath-taking control over whites, highlights, shadows and blacks as
just a starting point.
The entire process is non-destructive: the original image file is left
completely unaltered by anything you've done without any thought or
action on your part.
There appears to be an almost-infinite history you can step back through.
You will find no tools to draw with. You will find an extremely powerful
set of adjustment brushes. And a broad set of one-click presets, all of
which are adjustable. I could go on...
Which is easier to use?
As far as I know any of Adobe's "Elements" software is the
less-featured, less-powerful version of the flagship software of the
same name.
So Elements would be "easier" but maybe not necessarily the best choice
going forward.
Why does it cost $20 per month?
Lightroom is probably offered only as a $20 per month single-app
Creative Cloud subscription, unless you go the full-tilt Creative Cloud
membership.
It is (apparently) still possible to buy single-app single-installation
licenses but you almost have to go to a live customer service rep to
have them talk you through how to find them online.
Adobe is trying to push everyone into The Cloud.
Any suggestions?
Karlista
PS Life was so much easier with Photo Elements 6 - it had all that I needed and
then some.pov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Personally I'd go with Lightroom, but I tend to work on very, very large
numbers of images from one shoot, most of which require very detailed
adjustments, having been shot under rather -- spontaneous, shall we say?
-- circumstances to begin with.
HTH...
- John
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John Sage
FinchHaven Digital Photography
Box 2541, Vashon, WA 98070
Email: jsage@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Web: http://www.finchhaven.com/
Cell: 206.595.3604
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