Lightroom is now part of my workflow and I must admit its part is big now. let's say 80%.
With more than 120,000 pictures a year, I was searching a tool that was able to reduce my wokflow  process time. Lightroom is that (magic) tool. Its interface is nicely oriented for the photographers and its learning curve is rather fast. And for me, time is money.

First of all you have to understand that Lighroom doesn't replace Photoshop in any way.
It's a powerful tool to manipulate images files (mainly raw files). You can import, order, tag, select and modify your files on-the-fly without loosing too much time. Of course, you must have a "decent" computer with decent "perfomances" .

However, it's quite a "new" tool in digital workflow and it has some lacks (a gentle word to say "bugs"). For example the new adjustment brush tool is quite a nice "add-on" but the way it works is really frustrating. Good for little enhancements, but again Lightroom isn't Photoshop, Photopaint or Gimp. But it seems that adobe tries to improve it in each release.

And the most important thing you must understand for a better use of Lightroom is: it's a "database"  software  (not a retouching software).

To be short:

Pros:

• really improves your workflow process time.
• very intuitive with a fast learning curve, photographer-oriented tool

Cons:

• some  bugs
• requires a "good" computer with high perfomances.
• not  a retouching software but a post processing one.

hope it will help you.

Peace,
Aegy

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David "AEGIPAN" H. aka Aegy

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