I understand very well the issue with processing Olympus files. OY!
Finding the same to be true over here.
I can't find out if crops in LR are saved at 300dpi or not.
And then head swapping, definitely requires PS. At least so far, for me,
it does. ;-)
On 1/18/12 12:35 PM, Ken Norton wrote:
>> Ken, if you Google for "free presets for LR", you will be surprised at
>> what you find. As well, the presets that are not free are available, and
>> many are singing their praises online. But it might be worth toying with
>> a few freebies to see if you can tweak them even further and get that
>> "something different" you're looking for.
> This is true. I've downloaded a few, but the problem that I'm running into
> is that in almost all cases they work better with Canon or Nikon files than
> with the Olympus files. And note that I said "or" not "and". The presets
> seem to be pretty specific to whatever brand/model of camera the
> photographer who created the preset happens to be using. As I shoot other
> brands, those presets can result in some petty nasty stuff. The bulk of the
> Lightroom standard presets seem to be generic enough that they look equally
> as bad on every camera.
>
>
>> I am seeing colleagues using LR only, with no need for PS at all. I
>> don't know if I'll ever get *there*. But it would be nice to come close.
> It's actually very very close. You can do spot editing and even localized
> adjustments. But whenever you need to do pixel moving, I'd say you still
> need to throw it into an editor. The nice thing about Lightroom, though, is
> that it does almost everything else well enough that you only need a podunk
> run-of-the-mill editor, not the multi-thousand dollar Photoshop.
>
> AG
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