Lightroom

I’m playing with the Adobe Lightroom trial again. I’ve used it in the past and wasn’t happy with the JPGs I got out of it: there was a weird plastic texture that I think had to do with noise reduction, and the contrast just didn’t seem quite there. Canon’s DPP gave me much better results in that regard, even though the organization, tagging, and interface are so poor, so I never made the jump to Adobe.

But lately, the workflow issues around DPP have just gotten to me. I’ve caught myself letting photos sit on the camera because I don’t want to deal with the ordeal of processing them in DPP. Don’t get me wrong: individual photos are fine to work with, but sorting through 200 shots, deleting the rejects, and then getting to the individual picks is a pain. And that’s not even looking at DPP’s total inability to handle data like tags and captions, which means my DPP workflow often has to involve two, three, or sometimes four separate programs to get my work online. And Lightroom can do all that stuff easily.

So, I’m reading up on Lightroom again, and already found some good advice for dealing with sharpening and tone curves in it. I’m looking through old favorites to see what I can do with them, and we’ll see how it goes.