The biggest challenge which I see in my conversion to digital world is how
to process color raw images into black and white. I am currently reading a
lot of materials from the web and doing some my own test. I also played a
lot with lightroom, but I feel not right in the development module. I would
love to use it for managing images (library module), but to buy it only for
that is just too expensive. I really like its capability in image
management, it is just best from what I have see so far.
The develop module has a lot of great ideas, but the way it is applying
everything on image in real time is just too game like for me. Just doesn't
feel right. I try to convert my old raw NEF Nikon files to color tif using
vuescan. Some may smile but it is working perfectly and one can have a
certain level of control already there. Than I load result as a TIFF file
into Picture Window Pro and experimenting. My experiments are inspired very
much by lightroom way of working. Hopefully soon I can post some of my
results.
