What's in a photo anyway?

Bridge has the ability to preview .ai, EPS, and PDF files. LR insists tha it can't preview these items as they are not photos.



I recall Thomas Knoll stating in the ACR forum some time ago that the goal of the LR team was to bring ACR -- or was that Bridge? -- and LR compatability onto the same playing field.



Does anyone know if LR is still moving toward previewing placed photos and artwork in Indesign, Illustrator, and Acrobat files? T'would sure be handy for cataloging purposes ... whether photos, dustjackets, illustrations, or posterwork ...
What's in a photo anyway?
''Does anyone know if LR is still moving toward previewing placed photos and artwork in Indesign, Illustrator, and Acrobat files?''



No, Lightroom is being designed for photos...only.
What's in a photo anyway?
And Thomas' prognostication (?- can the designer prognositcate, or is it something else?) came true- ACR and LR are virtually on par in handling of RAW files.

%26gt;Lightroom is being designed for photos...only



Shame, cuz I thought all pixelations had become ubiquitous ... :-(

Yet for some funny reason LR seems to handle PSD's just fine.



I wonder if John Paul would consider his revisionist photography as photography ... or not?

Oh, you can have other than photos in LR, if they are TIFFs, PSDs or JPEGs, but photographs is what LR is all about. Bridge has the links to non Photo apps, not LR.



Don



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Layered TIFFs and PSDs are not functionally that much different than layered PDFs, EPS or Ai files. It just suprised me Jeff is so absolutely confident LR is being limited to ''camera photos''. I guess I'm losing the strategy here. %26lt;sigh%26gt;%26lt;br /%26gt;%26lt;br /%26gt;Cataloging all kinds of derivative photo works seems to me like a no brainer and a natural extension for LR. It's a win-win (i.e. suite) for both Adobe and it's customers.
The rationale behind Adobe decision seems to me quite obvious. The core of the application is developing module and all the formats supported can be modified using exactly the same functions.

I cannot imagine how could you change white balance or curves for pdf files.

%26gt; I cannot imagine how could you change white balance or curves for pdf files.



The same way as a PSD.