DynaSport
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I am embarrassed to admit this on this forum because I know most of you are RAW shooters and really look down on JPEG, but from my Canon days, I have been a primarily JPEG shooter. About the only time I shot much RAW was shooting indoor HS sports with the terrible cycling lights that made white balance awful. Anyway, the truth is my PP skills are pretty poor and I have never learned to use Photoshop. I have had Photoshop Elements and that is what I used to process the RAW files on my Canon, but somewhere along the line I stopped upgrading it and didn't move it to a new computer so I don't even have it.
I have been using iPhoto for the pretty light post processing I do and to keep a catalog of my photos. While it is not very powerful, I have gotten really used to it and like how I organize my photos with it. I have been considering LR for quite a while now, but one of the things that has made me hesitate is the number of photos I have in my iPhoto catalog and the confusion of trying to either move them to LR or just maintain the old photos in iPhoto and start putting the new ones in LR.
And then there is Elements. My little bit of experience with the newer version of Elements showed me that it too wants to organize and catalog my photos, so I feel that if I went to that software I'd have the same concerns as I do with LR.
To complicate matters I have decided to shoot more RAW to see if I can get substantially better quality than I do with my JPEG shooting to see if it is really worth it to me.
So, all that said, have any of you guys used iPhoto and is LR or PSE substantially better at converting RAW files. And how confusing is the organization to learn and implement with both packages?
Thanks
Dan
I have been using iPhoto for the pretty light post processing I do and to keep a catalog of my photos. While it is not very powerful, I have gotten really used to it and like how I organize my photos with it. I have been considering LR for quite a while now, but one of the things that has made me hesitate is the number of photos I have in my iPhoto catalog and the confusion of trying to either move them to LR or just maintain the old photos in iPhoto and start putting the new ones in LR.
And then there is Elements. My little bit of experience with the newer version of Elements showed me that it too wants to organize and catalog my photos, so I feel that if I went to that software I'd have the same concerns as I do with LR.
To complicate matters I have decided to shoot more RAW to see if I can get substantially better quality than I do with my JPEG shooting to see if it is really worth it to me.
So, all that said, have any of you guys used iPhoto and is LR or PSE substantially better at converting RAW files. And how confusing is the organization to learn and implement with both packages?
Thanks
Dan