Graphics Programs Reference
In-Depth Information
Jumping to
Photoshop
Even though this topic was written so you can
jump in anywhere, I can tell you right now that
if this is the first chapter intro you're reading,
you probably should turn back to the Chapter
1 intro and start by reading that first, then
work your way back to here, just reading chap-
ter intros (not the whole chapters). Actually, go
back a page or two further (to the part where
I tell you not to read these chapter intros if
you're a Mr. Fussypants), and then you can
determine if you should take the mental break
imposed by these chapter intros or not. Now,
the chapter you're about to embark upon is
about using Adobe Photoshop with Lightroom,
and there are still a bunch of reasons why we
still need to use Photoshop (or Photoshop
Elements) to get the job done. For example,
Lightroom doesn't have things like layers, or
filters, or blend modes, or pro-level type control,
or the Quick Selection tool, or HDR, or serious
portrait retouching, or the ability to stitch pan-
oramas (I could go on and on), so we still need
it. We don't need Photoshop for every image,
but you'll know when you need it, because you'll
hit that moment when you realize what you
want to do can't be done in Lightroom. Let's
take creating counterfeit currency, for example.
Lightroom kind of stinks for that, but if you're
going to buy the full version of Photoshop
(which runs around $700 U.S.), you're just
about going to need to be printing your own
money. The Catch-22 is that you need coun-
terfeit money to buy Photoshop, but you need
Photoshop first to create realistic counterfeit
money. It's this conundrum that has kept so
many of us out of the Federal prison system.
