Lightroom” because he's an expert in this stuff in general and he I'm sure that Scott knows full well that it's not “Layers in Surprised me is that no one (but me) called him out for what certainly seemed to be a bald-faced That for the much-more-powerful Photoshop Elements). Then people started whining about the price (the announced price is double Non-destructive, which is a major point of appeal.Īnyway, comments starting coming in citing this huge shortcoming, and Photoshop is aĭestructive editor, while Lightroom and Aperture are purely The fact that making edits actually changes pixel values, destroying theĪbility to go back and undo or tweak the changes. Once people started to realize this, comments started appearing thatĬited the destructive nature of the edits. Gimp, or any of the other myriad of pixel-editing applications out Interest if you already use Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, Paint Shop Pro, Pixel-editing functionality than Lightroom provides, but it's of no Its benefit seems to be a very simple user interface and it willĬertainly appeal to non-technical photographers that want more Other application, can be called from Lightroom to work on a copy of a If it was truly “Layers in Lightroom”, that would have beenĭemonstrated up front with flashing neon, because it indeed would have beenįrom a technological standpoint, this was quite a ho-hum development.īasically, he's created a super-lite version of Photoshop that, like any No mention whatsoever about how the Lightroom integration I followed the link to the software's site to check out just howĭeep the integration with Lightroom really was. Lightroom, the technological unlikelihood of his claim was immediatelyĪpparent. I'm more engineer than photographer, and particularly as an author of dozens of plugins for The initial comments on his blog post were from folks who took him at his word. Years?), but Scott's telling us that it's available now(!), via a software It's a leap that many expect to be made sometime in the future (in five Like Adobe Lightroom and Apple Aperture allow you to work with your photos. Workflow, and would overcome one of the major drawbacks of how programs Has just been made possible would be a huge leap for photo editing If you're not familiar with the subject, the technology he's suggesting Yesterday, Scott published a post titled “ Breaking News: Imagine having Layers in Lightroom. He was connected to, and nobody seemed to care. Post, it seemd obvious that he blatantly lied to his readership while shilling a product What I find amazing is that in a recent blog Well-followed go-to source of information for many in theĭigital-photography world. Scott's charisma, knowledge, and boundless energy has led him to become a There, and makes its own new developments from time to time with its own Well-reasoned, and generally-upbeat commentary on every new development out Media machine ( Kelby Media Group) that chimes in with insightful, Since then, he's got writing credit onĭozens of books and instructional videos, and leads a whole self-titled Smartly called it the grandiose “National Association of Photoshop The club with a self-limiting name like “Tampa Photoshop Users Club”, he As an example of his business savvy, rather than launching He founded a Photoshop user's club some years ago, and seemingly has never He's quite the media dynamo in the on-line digital-photography world. If you're not really into digital photography, you may have never heard NOTE: Images with an icon next to them have been artificially shrunk to better fit your screen click the icon to restore them, in place, to their regular size.
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