Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2
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Software Reviews of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2
Customer Review: U rah, rah! ADOBE!
Summary: 5 Stars
What an awesome product! Easy and intuitive to use despite the number of options. Super tool for downloading, organizing, processing, and exporting raw (as well as other file type) images.
Together with CS4 (Bridge integrated) even badly screwed up shots can be transformed into masterworks.
Keep the creative streak going, Adobe.
Customer Review: Love it!
Summary: 4 Stars
I find Lightroom to be better than Aperture in several ways. Light, color adjustments are more natural looking. I wish it was as compatable with iphoto the way aperture is, but other than that I find it far superior.Customer Review: Revolutionized my workflow
Summary: 4 Stars
Though the learning curve felt a little steep at first, it turned out that it wasn't so bad, and now Lightroom 2 has totally changed our workflow for the better. Previously, my wife and I would keep all our photos in dated folders, and simply keep groups of edits in "finished" folders, but this always felt kind of clunky, and keeping up with and finding particular SOOC or finished images could be confusing, especially when creating multiple versions of photos. It didn't take long to learn how to take advantage of Lightroom's organizational tools to better keep track of everything, and I particularly love the virtual copy feature that allows you to create and easily manage multiple versions, all while taking significantly less space than creating real copies of the files.
We're still learning all the editing capabilities. We haven't taken the plunge into Photoshop CS yet, but we're Photoshop Elements users. Most of what we used to do in Elements is now easier in Lightroom. It used to take so long to open every photo in Elements and make necessary improvements, but now we can easily apply certain changes to large groups quickly, or even go through one at a time far more quickly than before. And for any of the few changes that must be done in Elements, which so far has just been healing-brush-type work, it's just a couple of clicks away to create a virtual copy and open it in Elements.
I think what is both the most daunting and impressive about Lightroom is the flexibility. There's a huge number of organizational tools provided, and there's no one way to organize your photos and your workflow with them, especially when you integrate it with other tools. This felt a bit overwhelming at first, but as you learn about what's available, you can really start to develop and tailor your own workflow to fit your preferences and needs.
There are a few small drawbacks. I've had the application crash a few times, and some operations are pretty slow, particularly exporting a large number of edited photos, which is the main downside to the nondestructive editing scheme. However, it's getting about time for a new computer, so hopefully a newer, faster machine will improve the stability and speed.
Customer Review: Easy to learn and use.
Summary: 5 Stars
I have been using Adobe Photoshop Elements from version 4 then upgraded to 6. Then had a friend tell me about Lightroom and how much easier and better it was. I was hesitant due to the large increase in price, but downloaded the 30 day trial from Adobe and was hooked.
It is much better, easier, simpler, and just over all much better than Adobe Photoshop Elements 6. It's interface is much better, the catalog, the auto correction functions...and the ability to download presets to apply to your photos in one click is just amazing. It allows you to very quickly and non-destructively play with your photos.
Download the demo from Adobe and check it out for a week or two, and you will find yourself ordering it from Amazon like I did.
Customer Review: check and lear tutorial first
Summary: 5 Stars
You need to read and learn tutorial before you start developing pictures using Adobe Photoshop ligthtroom 2,from nikon (NEf) and converting it to JPEG or other formats.It can create so many things so your pictures will look professionaly done.Very recommendable to all aspiring to learn how to develope pictures.Straight to the point instead of using photoshop.