Comments on: Day 13 of “Lightroom Only” Month (A Cloudy Day)

By: labro

labro — Sun, 09 Mar 2014 19:28:47 +0000

hallo,
you say so frequently that dynamic contrast is so fantastic that it would be nice you can suggest to adobe to implement it so we can remain in non destructive editing.nik has also this tool but again needs to create a tiff just for a sharpening and i don’t do that even if i have these two suites.
same stands for heal mode : can you suggest they make a content aware spot removal one day like onone did ?

Not sure adobe has developed camera raw and all good tools are in plugin so we can wonder what adobe really does. They must notice their tools are not very powerful in LR compared to what they can do in photoshop.

best regards
marc

By: Matt K

Matt K — Tue, 28 Jan 2014 18:47:47 +0000

In reply to Justin.

Thanks 🙂
I’ll be posting a recap after it’s all done and most likely show some different photos and how they look the way that I’d do them if I had Photoshop and all my plug-ins.

By: Justin

Justin — Tue, 28 Jan 2014 16:41:21 +0000

Hey Matt, thanks for this series. It has really been enlightening on how powerful Lightroom really is and I’ve learned some cool tips from watching how you edit. I see above that you are thinking of posting a photo of how you edited it using Photoshop, which would be really cool to see how close Lightroom gets. But I’d love to see how a photo will look when you use onOne’s Dynamic Contrast. You talk about that plugin alot, so it’d be interesting to see how close Lightroom gets in comparison. Thanks again for putting your knowledge out there for us all.

By: Dennis Zito

Dennis Zito — Tue, 28 Jan 2014 13:15:39 +0000

In reply to Matt K.

Hey Matt, I do have your email. I’ll get the picture to you. Pixel peeping? Does that mean, I’m looking to close at the photo? 🙂 Thanks, I’ll get the photo to you.

Dennis

By: Matt K

Matt K — Mon, 27 Jan 2014 17:25:33 +0000

In reply to Scott Weintraub.

Hey Scott – I’m going to do a post where I show a photo that I used in Photoshop. Don’t know that I’ll be able to go back and do ALL of the photos, but I’ll try to take one using just LR and one using everything that I normally would. My guess is that the results aren’t going to be hugely different. A lot of it is subjective so I think they’ll look close to what the LR version does. But I know that I’m kinda picky so even if I’m the only one that sees it, it makes a difference to me.
Thanks!

By: Jeff Hartley

Jeff Hartley — Mon, 27 Jan 2014 17:20:45 +0000

Mat, the buildings look like they could use some lens correction or is it only noticeable when zoomed in. I have been enjoying the series thank you.

By: Scott Weintraub

Scott Weintraub — Mon, 27 Jan 2014 16:22:03 +0000

In reply to Matt K. Not sure if this has been said before, but it would be cool, possibly at month's end, to see these photos 'perfected' in photoshop/plugins. I'm interested to see how much closer to your vision you can get them.

By: Matt K

Matt K — Mon, 27 Jan 2014 14:20:41 +0000

In reply to Dennis Zito. You have my email don't you Dennis. Send me a copy. Maybe you're just pixel peeping too much? I'd like to see it though. Have you tried printing one of those photos you think is too sharp? Maybe it prints fine?

By: Dennis Zito

Dennis Zito — Mon, 27 Jan 2014 14:13:46 +0000

Wow, what a difference, Matt. Like Marty, I have quite a few photos I took in Canada, Banff, Jasper, and Whistler that I can try this on.

I still have a problem with sharpening … I just can’t seem to push it as far as you do. The photo starts to get gritty and dirty looking and the halos pop. I guess I’ll just keep messing around until I get the right combination. 🙂

Dennis

By: Marty

Marty — Mon, 27 Jan 2014 13:50:52 +0000

Thanks Matt, I have a whole series of photos taken in Alaska i weather just like this….. now I can go back and “fix” them!