Selecting Photos in LR

[MWK]

Hello,

I am a wedding photographer looking at using LR. I currently use Photoshop 7 and the most useful feature is the ability to look at several photos at one time. The photos are stacked on top of each other and I can easily look at largish sized images by sliding them around to pick the best one. I can easily compare the faces to see who is blinking, not looking at the camera, etc. I have the demo for LR and have looked for a similar ability in LR. I can only look at two photos in LR, side by side, and the photos are not all that large. Can any one show me what I want to accomplish or does anyone know of a program, other than Photoshop CS, that will alloy me the editing ease that I have in Photoshop 7?

Mark

 

[Denis Pagé]

Welcome to Lightroom Forums Mark!

May I suggest you give a look at The Starter Kit first?
I think that there you will also find some good links to training videos.
You will soon discover that Photoshop is akward to develop images
in comparison to Lightroom...

 

[Bruce J]

Mark,

To add to Denis' reply, no, I don't think there's any way to do what you've described in LR. There are lots of other useful features in LR that make it a great photo processing tool, but I know of no way to make several nearly full-screen images that overlap and then slide them around the screen. When I'm making that kind of comparison, I display a single image full-screen (Loupe view in LR) and then use the left-right arrows to rapidly flip through the similar images. Not the same, but it works for me. Cheers,

 

[Denis Pagé]

Or in Lightroom, in Grid View (G), you can hide the panels (Tab or Shift-Tab), show the tool bar (T) slide the Vignettes slider to enlarge them to 2 or 3 side by side and select only the ones you want to compare. They will never overlap tough...

 

[MWK]

Denis & Bruce

Thanks for your comments. I see quite a few people have read this thread with no response so I guess there is nothing to make LR seem like Photoshop 7. I took the plunge and I am editing last weekend's wedding in LR. Easier to correct tilt in vertical shots. Interesting exposure controls. Its just a mater of learning yet another piece of software.

Mark

 

[Victoria Bampton]

It's worth the effort Mark. Hang in there!

 

[MWK]

Denis, Bruce & Victoria

Well, I have finished processing the 1,1'7 pics from the wedding. They are here if you are interested: http://mwk.smugmug.com/Weddings/BeckyandRandy/1'2636'7_Y5Ub7#7'8285244_8dXvy. I suspect you will be able to see my learning curve.

My walk around camera is a Canon 4'D and the wedding ceremony camera is a 2'D, both with a Canon 28-2'' lens. I would love to upgrade to a 5D, not for the extra pixels, but because I could use the Canon 28-3'' L lens. The 28-2'' lenses have really miserable aberrations that are not corrected sufficiently in Canon's DPP software. I shot RAW, of course

As for LR ... Ease of exposure adjustments makes it an easy pick over Photoshop 7, which I had been using. I adjusted to scrolling from one pic to the next instead of having them all open at once as I can in Photoshop 7. Straightening is much easier although I really should buy the grid focusing screen for my 4'D. The computer beeped at me occasionally when I was using red eye fix. I did the standard Windows fix of restarting LR. Help is not that great. It shows you how to do things, but I found no entry for beeps.

I did some smudge removal which is also much easier than the procedure in Photoshop 7. Happily I don't have dust problems because I never take my lenses off my cameras. The exposure adjustment sliders are way too twitchy. I did not use any of the other development tools, such as curves except for one pic where I adjusted the red saturation.

All in all, I would recommend LR to anyone who is looking for a full featured photo editor.

Mark, weary after learning how to use yet another computer program.

 

[Denis Pagé]

[quote author=MWK link=topic=8299.msg56717#msg56717 date=1258'578'']
...I adjusted to scrolling from one pic to the next instead of having them all open at once as I can in Photoshop 7.[/quote]

Nice start!

Maybe in Lightroom you can't "open" all at once but do you know that if you select more than one and Ctrl-Click on "Sync" bottom right of Develop module, it will turn into "Auto Sync". Then, if you make an adjustment to the image, it is automatically done to the others selected too! Fine to tune similar problems found in a series...