Work Flow?

[Bill W]

Download from camera to LR, cull, make improvements (?) and then transfer to CS3 at 16 bits. If necessary a few more tweaks, crop and then save as jpeg.


I rarely to never use DPP.


I backup RAWs on my 2nd internal HD and then to 2 external HDs w/some of the WOW jpegs.


Firestarter; why do you "never directly download from the camera"? Maybe it is my imagination, but the pix seem to download faster camera to LR w/my setup.


Regards


Bill

[Firestarter]

Firestarter; why do you "never directly download from the camera"? Maybe it is my imagination, but the pix seem to download faster camera to LR w/my setup.

Well, the reason I always use a card-reader is an old habit from the time I was shooting many more photos than I do now. I just didn't want to tie up my camera doing unproductive transfer and draining the battery at the same time. Back then, reading and writing speeds of memory cards were much slower than they are now. Besides, I believe that the transfer between camera and computer is done via a USB2 cable (am I wrong?). I use FireWire readers, so my way of transferring gigabytes of photos is actually faster.



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I don't understand what you mean that Bridge always got in your way. For me it works seamlessly together with Camera RAW and Photoshop.

<div>I guess it is just a matter of personal preference. Bridge is a separate application that has to be learned and used in addition to Photoshop. I much preferred to use the file browser integrated in earlier versions of Photoshop CS. I hear that in CS5 Adobe revived that idea (mini-Bridge). When Lightroom came along, Bridge became obsolete for me. I like Lightroom's all-inclusive workflow much better.</div>
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[tkerr]

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I don't understand what you mean that Bridge always got in your way. For me it works seamlessly together with Camera RAW and Photoshop.

<div>I guess it is just a matter of personal preference. Bridge is a separate application that has to be learned and used in addition to Photoshop. I much preferred to use the file browser integrated in earlier versions of Photoshop CS. I hear that in CS5 Adobe revived that idea (mini-Bridge). When Lightroom came along, Bridge became obsolete for me. I like Lightroom's all-inclusive workflow much better.</div>
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Well, Lightroom is also a separate application that has a steeper learning curve than Bridge, which also needs to be learned in Addition to Photoshop. Especially if you want to work with your files properly and easier between the two applications. Also, Lightroom cost an additional $299.00 where-as Bridge and Camera RAW are included as part of the Photoshop CS* Package that is currently $699.00.


Having said that. I like the work flow that Bridge, Camera Raw and Photoshop offer in an easy to use package deal. But, I too use Lightroom when it comes to downloading, organizing and cataloging my pictures, as well as basic adjustments plus a little more. But, like I mentioned previously there are times when I just open Photoshop, and that is where I get the most use form Bridge, more specifically the Mini-Bridge. For me that makes navigating and loading images into Photoshop a lot easier than using windows explorer.


A Mini Lightroom within Photoshop that works like mini bridge would be nice.


Anyways, I was just wondering what you meant by, Bridge Always got in your way. If you already have Lightroom I can understand that, But for those who don't I doubt it would get in their way.


I'm not sure, but I heard somewhere that Photoshop Elements also works with Both Bridge and Camera RAW now also. Can anyone confirm this? For people who don't want to, or cannot, drop $699.00 for CS5 that might be a good package to work with.