Below you will find pages that utilize the taxonomy term “Lightroom-5”
Thinking About Moving Away from Adobe Lightroom
Last Fall I started considering moving away from Lightroom after having used it for nearly a decade. Back then I was making use of the student price to actually be able to afford it. Competition from Apple Aperture and other programs caused it to eventually drop to $150 per version. But Adobe seemed to be moving more and more towards a subscription-only model. Lightroom is still available standalone, but it appears the rest of the CS suite (including, for example, Photoshop) are on the treadmill now. While there are surely some benefits to being able to rent Photoshop and Adobe’s awesome video editing software when you need to do a project rather than for a thousand-plus fee, one way I’ve afforded Lightroom is not upgrading every year. So while it’s cheaper to pay monthly than buying outright (at the prices they had when they went subscription), I rarely found the upgrades worth is and so was able to save some money. I started considering alternatives. But I’d had Lightroom 5 on my wishlist and someone bought it for me for Christmas. So I figured I’d be a Lightroom user for a few more years.
My RAW Workflow in Adobe Lightroom 5
I wanted to record this as it may make future discussions on forums, mailing lists, and even on this blog make more sense.
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For those who are sight impaired or have low bandwidth limitations, essentially:
- Import RAW files (And I forgot one important step - rename them!)
- Rate them
- Edit in Develop Module
- Create Virtual Copies if want to do things drastically different - like make the image black and white
- Export JPEGs
- Maybe upload to blog or flickr using flickr uploadr