Introduction to

Déclics et des Claps

Marc Pélissier - Friday October 29th 2010

Exploration map

What is Lightroom (made for) ?Pre-digital Era

Advanced viewer ?

Indexing & Collections

Image enhancer or editing tool ?

Why not using Picasa or other tools ?

Diving deeper … Workflow notion

Thought for photographers

Preset concept

And a real life example (demo)…

What is Lightroom

(made for) ?

Before Digital Era

An advanced viewer ?

Core function : indexing and collections

Before

After

What you need to recallMetadata are Lightroom key : Exif, IPTC, KeywordsCollections are grouping view (no physical storage change)

Image editing : PS competitor ?

What you need to recallIntuitive yet very powerful digital lab toolsNo calc, no image assembly but compete with PS on adjustement

Why not using other tools ?

Aperture

Similar for editing

Preset ?

Mac target

Cost

Xn View

View & Sort

Limited editing

Simple interface

Freeware & OS

Google Picasa

Easy usageAlbums (~Collections)

Simple editing

Do not alter originalBut copy

Face detection

Integrated Geoloc

Freeware & OS

Why not using other tools ?

Diving Deeper …

Workflow notion

What you need to recallLightroom is designed for batch type workSorting is a phase among Import, Export, Print, Slideshow, Web

Thought for (by?) photographer

What you need to recallCan adapt to photographers workflowNon destructive Raw work (Digital Negative)

Preset concept

What you need to recallAlmost all is preset. From Name to Metadata and through development

Enough smoke !

Time for the demo