Giving up on Adobe Lightroom
Creates great images and is better for managing sets of Raw digital images than Photoshop™, but totally lacks a useable user interface. I don’t think I’ve found a more unintuitive piece of software on OS X before, and yes that even include the rather dire Microsoft Office suite of applications.
I really like that Adobe have tried to address the issue of working on sets of Raw camera files — which is something that is quite painful and time consuming in Photoshop™, but even though the software is currently in beta 3 (I presume this means it won’t differ much to the finally release) and currently free to use, I just can’t put up with how annoying it is. Having to constantly click between it’s three modes to do simple operations repeatedly, it’s lack of photoshop-style levels control - in favour of something it refers to as ‘Black’, makes it frustrating to use even after plenty of practice. Adobe® Lightroom™ also seems to use up more screen real estate with it’s pointless banner and annoying side-panel menus which even when hidden have a habit of springing back to life as you work through careless mouse gestures.
Until I can justify buying Apple’s Aperture, I’m going to have to stick to using iPhoto and shooting Raw more conservatively.
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