[rachel.j]

Derrick Story, author of The Photoshop CS4 Companion for Photographers, will be available in this forum from December 16-19 to answer your questions about Photoshop CS4 from the photographer point of view. This is a great opportunity to exchange tips and learn about the excellent CS4 workflow that uses Bridge, Adobe Camera Raw, and Photoshop to help shooters manage and improve their images.

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[Derrick Story]

This forum discussion is actually part of a bigger shindig focused on Photoshop CS4. You might want to take a look at my blog post, The O'Reilly 5-Step Plan for Evaluating Photoshop CS4... For Free, for the big picture. It's going to be a lot of fun.

[Derrick Story]

The Photoshop CS4 webcast went well with a big attendance. I wasn't able to get to all of the questions during the event, so I'll start posting them here, with replies, as soon as the transcript comes over my way. In the meantime, we can post additional questions and comments right now.

[Tatiana S.]

Thank you for the presentation, it had a lot of useful infromation, but I still have a question.
How does the technology of Camera Raw 5.2 differs from Photoshop Lightroom 2.2?

[Derrick Story]

The underlying technology for Adobe Camera Raw 5.2 and Lightroom 2.2's Develop module is essentially the same. What's different is how each of the teams design the features that rely on that technology.

At the moment, there are many similarities between the two applications. In theory, they could go their different ways in the future, but we haven't really seen that yet. Every time Lightroom pushes ahead, the ACR team seems to answer, at least in part.

But there are still UI differences and I think the Develop Module is slightly ahead of ACR in terms of capability. But you should really look at both and see what fits best for you.