![]() ![]() Įverything I'm suggesting so far is FREE (until of course, the beta runs out on LR3). I just love B&W so I got stuck on those these last few days. ![]() There are SO many of these freebies out there that I haven't begun to discover them all. Also, after you've applied the preset you can also make a few of your own adjustments for example, if you like a little more contrast than what the preset gave you, tweak it. These are fun as well and all of the sudden you sort of have the William Eggleston look on whatever you choose. Another of my favorites are the ones that will turn color shots into that old look of color film from back in the 60's-70's. There are ones for Fuji, Ilford and a ton of custom ones that people have gone through the painstaking time to create themselves and then everyone just shares them for free. That is just one set of many but it will give you the look of all types of old Kodak film types, Tmax, Tri-X, Plus-X, you name it. Try this website for yourself:ġ2 Black & White film emulation presets for Kodak B&W films! | PresetsHeaven You wouldn't believe the number of presets available for free. I too LOVE black and white so I have been turning my average color shots into amazing B&W's. I have been going through some RAW files (even the ones that I thought were so so) and applying these presets and I'm blown away. I have spent so much time in the last 2 days sitting and my computer and playing that my back is killing me but I can't pull myself away. Then I was looking at someone's blog who turned me on to LR "presets". Got the beta version of LR 3 (years ago I bought LR 1.4 but never did anything with it). I may not be as tech savy as the above responders but I too have been asking myself your question these last couple of weeks and here is what I have done. Since I am not selling images commercially, I don't need complex management tools. Many of us find even the simple tools for management in Adobe Bridge to be adequate for our elementary management tasks and this is so for me, although I have over 50 years of images to keep track of. If you name your files with meaningful names, use folders (sub-directories) sensibly, and so on, image management is not so important unless you are shooting commercially. Learning it is a never ending-process, and not the least advantage of Photoshop Elements is that it starts you on that learning experience. Photoshop is the most powerful image-editing program. However, the heaviest users of something like Lightroom or Aperture, are also going to be working in Photoshop as well. Many people find its tools adequate for the relatively slight editing they do. Lightroom is a image management program, with a few image-editing things built in to make it possible to do simple things without leaving one program and going to another. Incidentally I like Lightrooms b&w conversion better than Photoshops though there are lots of other programmes to plug into either that make things pretty easy too. So I think your question should be "Do I need LR and Elements, or do i really need LR and PS proper?" Unless your needs are specifically for features found only on full Photoshop, then I'd suggest Elements rather than PS. My strategy is to take things as far as I can in LR then export to a pixel editor. Some of the editing tools in the PS versions just seem easier to use and work a little differently to the tools in LR. On the other hand, even after editing in Lightroom I invariable find theres something I need or want to change in Photoshop before I'm ready to get a print made, put it on a website or whatever. The other thing Elements won't do is to allow you to edit non destructively. ![]() Elements isn't going to help you organise and catalogue your stuff, and there's no time to decide how you want to organise and identify your photographs than when you don't have many and can change your mind relatively easily. I'd imagine there's a lot of people for whom they wouldn't be alternatives. ![]()
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