Sometime change is incredibly frustrating! I am still learning how to use Lightroom properly - so far I can put images IN (but can't name them the way I want, or put them exactly where I want), and have been struggling to get them back OUT again....
Hi lyn.... You've got some gorgeous work here and a new follower. Love that I've discovered you through the push challenge. Your challenge for the week is to shoot a reflection. Enjoy! :)
Nice selective focus and pretty pale colors. You've watched the valid videos by Adobe for Lightroom haven't you Lyn? If you have the time watch them. All is explained...
oh god... you and me both when it comes to lightroom... i've actually figured out how to get them out, sort of... but i still can't figure out how to PLAY... i like to try different things and save them with different names and compare and right now the only way i can figure out how to do that is play, export with new name, go back to lightroom, go back in history on the shot, play some more, export, etc... crazy!!! oh, and altho' i can fine tune nicely in PSE, i always seem to end up overprocessing in lightroom... so now i end up going back and forth between the two in ways that i think should be totally unnecessary... (waves white flag in surrender)
@northy LOL - so....if we combined our heads, we could make one useful edit!! I am (now) comfortable with the 'play' stuff like develop & print, loading in my plugins & presets, saving & organising them....but it seems like I started in the middle & forgot to pay attention to the beginning & the ends... so it's "back to page 1 of the manual" for me.... DOH!
LR is a bit finicky (or should I say precise). It took me awhile to get a handle on how it imports and exports, and how you have to reference the locations for each along with the exporting (with assigned names, sequencing, adding to sub-folders, etc.). It is a powerful tool, and like most programs of this caliber you get more comfortable using them over time.
Splendid photo, sorry to hear about the Lightroom frustrations. Sadly that programme isn't available to me (!), but if it's anything like as cryptic as the Linux equivalent, DarkTable, I sympathise.
Interesting to watch you proceed through the use of Lightroom; I find it to be the most wonderful tool for the way I work. . .but I know exactly what kind of frustrations you are talking about. It's SO hard to "start from the beginning" with any new software tool, and LR just sort of makes it seem that you could just jump in. . .until you hit a brick wall headlong. I still struggle when I'm trying to print something from LR and I know there are thousands of things I have yet to even begin to use correctly. Good luck!!
October 16th, 2012
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LR is a bit finicky (or should I say precise). It took me awhile to get a handle on how it imports and exports, and how you have to reference the locations for each along with the exporting (with assigned names, sequencing, adding to sub-folders, etc.). It is a powerful tool, and like most programs of this caliber you get more comfortable using them over time.