Adobe has spent so long avoiding using the term (dancing around the reality of what the product is by using photo-friendly terms such as library and catalog) that they have created considerable confusion as to the product’s true identity and function amongst a broad section of the photographic community. I believe Adobe are afraid of scaring off photographers by telling them what Lightroom actually is a database with extras (hopefully I haven’t offended your creative sensibilities by using the ‘d’ word and you will prove Adobe wrong by carrying on reading).
Lightroom not a browser but a databaseĪ rose by any other name would smell as sweet
Why buy two products when the one I have does the job nicely?įig 01. they all allow you to adjust the brightness and contrast of your image. Much of the confusion for many photographers exists because the feature set of each of the Photoshop products overlap, e.g. The Adobe engineers built it to fill a gap in the Photoshop family of products ( Photoshop CS3 and Photoshop Elements being the other two family members) but many amongst the photographic community have not been able to identify its primary task to make it the ‘must have’ product that Adobe hoped it would become for all digital photographers.Īdobe would like to think that no photographer could imagine living without this product, but in reality, most digital photographers have survived without it for years and question why thy need it now. Photoshop Lightroom has had somewhat of an identity crisis amongst the general population of photographers since its release in early 2007. If you have managed to live without it up until now, what makes it so fantabulous/damned hot that you need to place it at the top of your software wish list?
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