某人提出的問題：
I've been wondering what I would get out of lightroom.
I am not a professional who takes huge amounts of photos at each event. I take my family photos, photos of my husband's artwork, and I'm in the process of scanning old family photos for posterity. I have thousands of images, but it has taken me decades to gather them. I never suddenly have 100 photos that need editing and I don't have deadlines.
If I already have photoshop cs2 to meet my image processing needs, what additional benefit would lightroom provide?
There is so much buzz about it, that I wonder if I'm missing something.
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Kate
某人的回答：
From what I've gathered from what I've read, heard at a class on it and what I get from viewing the format, it is esp. for professional photographers who process 100's of shots at a time. Much of the program is about organizing images and having various ways of sorting and tagging them, saving info on the shoot and on individual pictures, so they can easily be brought up in whatever order is needed - print, proof, enhance, etc. All things necessary in that respect to 'run a business'. The RAW processing is all right there as well and in most cases with true pros - that may be all that is needed. Certainly other tools/features wll be added to complete the process but I doubt that it will be as in depth as Photoshop, but that's just a guess.
For me as a 'hobbiest' and 'retoucher' I don't even use the sorting capabilities of Bridge and need the full use of layers, masks, selections, healing, cloning etc. in Photoshop. I d/led it for my own 'education' :-) so I know what people may be asking about, although my suggestions to people that are having trouble/questions (or complaints) would be to go directly to the adobe labs forums where they have people there to answer in depth.
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Kent
另一人參加的意見：
Well Lightroom may be good for you. You can leave your images where they are "organized your own weird way" and still take advantage of Lightroom's database. You would import your directories into Lightroom's database as shoots it may be a good idea if your weird organization is date related to include the date in the Shoot name. Once in the data base you can move images around logically the will stay where the are on disk. You can even move images drag and drop from one shoot to an other an image can only be in one shoot. However you can also create collection an image may be in many collection.
Right now there are two big problem for me.
1.)RAW xmp files for Lightroom and ACR are not compatible.
2.)RAW files can not be open into Photoshop CS2 from Lightroom. Lightroom has to convert the raw data into an image file place it and its thumbnail into the shoot and invoke Photoshop. I like the way the bridge can use ACR to create the RAW XMP files a invoke Photoshop with the RAW file and if done through menu Tools>Photoshop Image Processor the RAW files are processed using the xmp raw settings without opening the ACR window. I hope when they get the XMP files compatible that Lightroom will be able to work like the Bridge including the Image Processor. For I think Adobe might replace the bridge with Lightroom
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JJMack
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