Just listened to episode #1. You sounded pretty sick but as usual, it turned out to be a another excellent interview. Congrats to Scott S & Michael on the new show. It’s great to see you back!

I was just thinking though …

Scott, I wonder if Cameron from TPN appreciates the title of your blog entry. The “Digital Photography Show” isn’t actually back; it’s in Hiatus while they find new hosts.

Not that I really care; from what I have heard, Scott & Michael were treated pretty bad so it’s best that they moved to another host.

cheers,
Stewart

John V

I recently bought LR2 and your book on LR2 and I’m determined to take a step by step approach to learning how LR2 works. Your book is great and easy to follow.

I had previously given up on LR1 as it was way too limiting (for the reasons that you mentioned in the interview). LR2 is certainly a vast improvement.
However, I am struggling with the (surprising) slowness of LR2.

I am running Windows XP on a pretty fast machine with 2GB of RAM. As a photo enthusiast, I have tended to use Photoshop Elements for some time and I now have PE7. I have no trouble working with some very large files in PE7 (multiple layers etc) and I don’t experience any of the lagginess or slowness with PE7 that I have found so far with LR2. Am I doing something wrong with LR2 or this just how LR2 is?

BTW, I was interested in your comment about the option of using an LR2 & PE7 combo rather than going to the full version of Photoshop for pixel editing. I find PE7 a very powerful program especially when used with plugins such as those made by Nik and onOne, so I often wonder just how much extra benefit I’d get if I had CS4 instead (and I have certainly thought about giving a CS4 a go).

Most people seem to be aiming to spend more of their post-processing time in applications like LR2 and Aperture and less time in pixel editors and that is certainly where I’d like to be heading while also reducing the overall time spent on post-processing. So what extra benefit would a photo enthusiast like me really get out of having CS4 as opposed to PE7 as the pixel editing tool to work with LR2?

Is there a table of CS4 v PE7 feature comparisions somewhere that I could look at as I do have an open mind about stepping up to CS4 although at the moment, for me, I can’t see that I’d get much benefit.

Sorry about the length of this “comment”. Keep up the great work.

Kurt Kemling

http://www.kemlingimages.com

Kurt Kemling

Kerry
http://cameradojo.com

First to the other Scott, Mr. Sherman you were asking Scott K. if people should only use Lightroom instead of Photoshop? I say no no no to that! If you can afford it get both. I love Lightroom it is amazing!! But like Scott K. said when you find those 6 images you might want to jump to Photoshop and finish it making it amazing for you clients mouth to drop and your to feel good as an artist. So like I said if you can afford it get both if you are serious and if you can’t my advice is to save until you could it will be worth it! I am sure you have both but by you I mean people who are starting out like me who is between starting out and being as famous as Scott K. I should be around age 400 when that happens

Dwayne.D.C.Tucker II
Nassau, Bahamas
http://DwayneTucker.com

Thanks so much,

Jason Miller

Thanks