Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2
| Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 |
Work with a tool focused on photographers' needs Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 is designed expressly for both amateur and professional photographers. From its elegant, uncluttered interface to its carefully tailored tools and features, Lightroom helps you process photographs faster, giving you more time to shoot. With the new and enhanced features in Lightroom 2, you canfind the photos you want faster, make more accurate adjustments, and easily present your work in more ways than ever before. Accelerate your workflow Lightroom is a nimble tool that moves you efficiently through every step of your workflow, from image capture to client presentation. Use flexible tools and features to manage the processing of large volumes of photographs. Customize a wide range of importing, renaming, and metadata stamping functions to suit your needs. Keep track of the changes you've made to images, including alternate versions, easily and automatically with the History panel. And when you're ready to present your work to clients, easily assemble and output high-quality printed contact sheets, online web galleries, and slide shows, or upload your photos to popular online photo-sharing sites. Use it your way Lightroom is adaptable and compatible with the way you work, most of the hardware you use, and open standards, so you're less likely to be limited by proprietary systems and formats. Lightroom runs on both Microsoft Windows and Mac OS. Work with more than 190 camera raw file formats, as well as JPEG, TIFF, and PSD files. Convert your images to the universal DNG format without loss of image quality. Store your photographs in the Lightroom Library--even if they're located on offline media. Using Lightroom for developing images, together with Adobe Photoshop for retouching, digital photographers now have the essential photography software toolkit. Take advantage of robust metadata support and advanced keywording capabilities help you tag and find the photographs you need quickly and easily. From developing images to presenting them, Lightroom together with Photoshop provides digital photographers with the essential photography software toolkit. Who's It For?Professional photographers Photographers who shoot large volumes of images in every specialty, from fashion and fine art to portraiture and photojournalism. Advanced amateur photographers Photographers who don't earn a living from their images but have a deep passion for photography; take large numbers of photos, typically with a digital SLR camera; and value professional tools and results. Educators University and community college instructors who are shooters themselves and who teach the best tools and practices to the next generation of photographers. The top reasons to buy Adobe Photoshop LightroomEnhance specific areas of a photo Enjoy more flexible, accurate enhancements by targeting a specific area for dodging and burning. Quickly find any photo Sort and filter large volumes of photos using powerful metadata filters to quickly find just the photo you want. Automatically import and process your way Import and process large volumes of photos according to your customized settings. Rename files, organize them into folders, add metadata, and convert file formats for an entire shoot simultaneously. Native 64-bit architecture Utilize the advanced memory-handling capabilities on the latest Mac OS and Windows systems. Work smoothly with Adobe Photoshop software (sold separately) Enjoy tight integration with Adobe Photoshop software for streamlined use of Smart Objects, panorama stitching, high dynamic range (HDR) functionality, multiple layer workflow, and more. See your edits automatically updated in Lightroom. Multiple monitor support Add a second monitor and enjoy more room to work. Support for multiple monitors allows you to configure your workspace to manage image workflow and presentation more efficiently. Be productive quickly Ease your learning curve with task-oriented modules that speed you through typical workflow tasks by placing just the tools you need at your fingertips. Edit nondestructively Enjoy robust support for more than 190 camera raw file formats, and experiment with confidence. Adjustments you make to images in Lightroom won't alter the original data, whether you're working on a JPEG, TIFF, DNG, or camera raw file. Easily show off your photos online Create dynamic web galleries based on Adobe Flash technology without programming. In a few clicks, you can assemble and upload an interactive gallery to your website. Or easily upload your images to popular photo-sharing sites directly from Lightroom. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - 2 in 1Had seen Light Room in action, but didn't realize it had both Win and Mac on the same disk. Since I have both machines it was a real pleasant surprise. A great program, better suited to many photo tasks than Photoshop. Rating: - Almost As Good As PhotoshopI have Photoshop CS3, but find myself using Lightroom for all but the most intensive photo processing tasks. This is a terrific product and very fast. You can browse, organize, edit/adjust, slideshow, print, and send to web all from within one interface. The application is very well laid out. I recommend trying it before you would invest significantly more money in Photoshop. Rating: - Great SoftwareI've used ACDsee for ages and finaly moved to a more robust, professional solution. Lightroom is the way to go for organizing and sorting images. Best of all, it's develop module allows you to do most of the editing right on the spot with undestructive editing. For me this is the best feature, I keep only one copy of the original unchanged file and as many edited virtual copies as I need. I've changed to only shooting RAW after lighroom. It will change your perspective on digital photography. Integrates seemlesly with smugmug and many other online photo sites with the excelent plugins form jfiendl. His GPS integrating plugin is also great. Recommed this to any pro or serious amateur photographer. Rating: - love ittwo professional photograpers suggested this program to me and I love it. Was able to take out shadows I didn't like. Was able to take some old photo's a make the colors more bold. It is amazing and simple to use. Rating: - THE tool for photography workflowI travel quite extensively, and as a result, I take a lot of photos of places I've been and things I've done. After a while, you need a system in order to manage photos. I've been using Lightroom since day 1, and it's taken over as the only tool I use when it comes to photography. Lightroom has 5 modules: Library, Develop, Slideshow, Web and Print. It's designed to take your photos from the moment you plug your memory card into your computer to output. From the management standpoint, I've gotten a little obsessive-compulsive about labeling/keywording/catalogng my photos - Through 30,000 photos, I'm able to search for photos with criteria from keywords to camera info so I know where a particular friend is (e.g: Tim at the Taj Mahal.) Even with 30,000 photos, the Lightroom catalog handles it without a problem. Non-destructive editing is the strength of Lightroom. Without touching the original file, I'm able to edit and revert back to any point - from a few different RAW file formats, TIFFs, DNGs and JPGs. Things to consider: 1) Lightroom isn't that expensive when you compare it to Photoshop CS4 and Adobe Bridge. It's also the same price as Apple Aperture. 2) Lightroom is resource intensive. You'll need a beefy computer to make sure this works as fast as you do. 3) In Lightroom 1, the Develop tool did about 40-50% of what I needed it to do. I was able to edit photos in Photoshop and able to go back and forth. Lightroom 2.x does 90%+ of the editing I need to do with my photos. 4) Dual monitor support means laptop + my 24" LCD is making for one mean processing machine. 5) The web galleries are fully customizable, just like everything in this program. I suck at web design, so I'm not able to take full advantage of this feature yet. The only problem with a program of this magnitude is that you need to really invest in training videos (Kelby, Luminous Landscape) and books in order to take advantage of everything. $300 is a small price to pay for a tool that's powerful as this. Even if you bought a starter SLR and need a great tool that will allow you to make the best of your photos, you can't go wrong with Lightroom. It's the best photographic investment I've made. I can't wait to see what a future version will bring. 
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