At some point, "full featured" and "subset" are fundamentally
irreconcilable, so I'm not sure this can be argued; the one means
"having all the features" and the other means "not having all the
features". But if you want to make that "full-featured for
photographers" it isn't much of a stretch now, as long as you define a
photographer as one who creates with a camera plus intended processing.
LR doesn't address a lot of things that retouchers used to do, it
doesn't deal with masking, it doesn't create prints from multiple
negatives, and it doesn't do color seps, but these weren't things that
were part of argentic photography either, they were significant
additional skill sets, different crafts.
LR does do a whole lot of things that were pretty advanced darkroom
work, even if it can't do everything that might have been done in a
darkroom. Do you recall how complex an unsharp mask was to do with film?
I know I tried, I'm not sure I ever actually got it to work well enough
to use, and I rarely had jobs that were worth it back then.
LightRoom isn't an environment for original art creation, by which I
mean making new artwork using other images, and it doesn't do color
separations. Adobe has been very consistent about the latter, no
reduced-price variation on the Photoshop theme has ever dealt with CMYK.
All those PS LE versions bundled with scanners, the old PhotoDeluxe, PS
Elements, and now Lightroom, none have done seps.
Essentially, Adobe has always treated the prepress realm as being
absolutely "full price" territory, but while that arena always involved
photographic processes, it wasn't one that involved photographers. So
from a photographer's perspective, I don't see any problem with
considering Lightroom a full-featured program. And I'm still using LR 2.
Van
On 06/02/2011 8:34 AM, J Bryan Kramer wrote:
>
> Maybe but it's not even close to being full featured.
>
> BK
>
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