The following is an extract from an article by Ian Stafford of interest to all digital photographers. The whole, illuminating story can be found in Articles from the Homepage of the DPS website: http://www.d-p-s.org.uk/articles.htm
“Many members ask about ‘Lightroom’, what it is, how complicated it is and how powerful is its processing capabilities. In this short article I will try and explain how it works (extremely briefly and in ‘lay-mans’ terms!) and hopefully gain more interest in what for me is a fantastic and time saving programme.
For all the power that Lightroom has it does not replace Photoshop. Although it has retouching tools it does not compare by any stretch to the retouching tools that Photoshop has (although with each update version it keeps getting more powerful). So if you are looking to remove or add things to photos for instance, you will have to take the file (very easily) from Lightroom and continue to edit it in Photoshop. The good news is, after you are done editing the file in Photoshop when you save it, it goes right back into Lightroom.
The one overriding point to remember is that when editing any photo Lightroom is not actually ‘changing’ anything, your native file is untouched. Basically Lightroom gives that image a set of instructions on what you have done and will display it accordingly. Many people have issues about saving the file or image, you do not need to save the image whilst working in Lightroom, it remembers all and every instruction you give it. This is what you’ve got to get your head around and why you can leave all images as RAW then it saves that edited image right next to your native one, clever eh!”
Ian Stafford
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