Exactly. LR4 is something approaching mystical to me. I suppose CS6's Camera
Raw will be rather much like it. For me, most of the heavy lifting can be done
in LR4, then it's over to photoshop for things such as sharpening. I use Pixel
Genius for that because it gives me many options and a lot of control and the
masks are ready to go. I can sharpen the rocks in a seascape to suit, and then
just paint over the sky to remove any sharpening there.
LR4, and presumably CR7, have pretty good sharpening capability themselves, and
in some cases it's enough. But sometimes you need to get really creative. In
the latest issue of Digital Photo Pro, John Paul Caponigro talks about
combining various types of Unsharp Mask and High Pass Sharpening to good
effect. You've got to have Photoshop and Layers for that. And as you point out,
you need them for portrait retouching as well. But that said, the healing tool
in LR4 is pretty spiffy. I suspect a lot of portrait shooters have some of
those costly plug-ins as well that obviate the need to go to Photoshop. But for
the rest of us, Photoshop does the trick.
But I suspect LR5 will have even more to offer, and make Photoshop less
necessary. Unless you're Moose. <g>
--Bob
On May 5, 2012, at 7:56 AM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> Nicely explained except (as you hint), other than a touch-up, there's no
> reason to do any of this in PhotoShop if you're processing your raw
> images in Camera Raw. As a landscape shooter, once you've been through
> Camera Raw you're probably done or very close to it (unless you're
> Moose, of course). But if you're a Moose or a portrait shooter your
> work may be just beginning and that has to be done in PhotoShop using
> masks. Moose would likely be masking clouds, etc. A portrait shooter
> will be smoothing complexions, touching up bright or dark spots (like
> Chris's tutorial on his son's photo), removing reflections from glasses,
> swapping heads back and forth from multiple shots of groups, etc., etc.
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