Charlie Owen - Adobe Lightroom 2.0 Now Available

Wow.

Based on Thomas' recommendation I downloaded the trial of Adobe Lightroom 2.0 and I think this is going to become my favorite new editing tool replacing Photoshop. It's pretty easy to get some nice results very quickly -- see above before and after. While the toolset is more accessible to mere mortals compared to Photoshop the user interface still needs some work, though (starting with the Import dialog -- Windows Live Photo Gallery still has the best, IMO). I've got 29 more days to make a decision but based on some quick run throughs this is a keeper.

Categories: Photography | Comments [3] |

| Posted on Tuesday, July 29, 2008 9:06:23 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)

Tuesday, July 29, 2008 9:54:19 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)

Charlie,
I've been using Lightroom for a year or so now. It's really nice. 2.0 looks like a winner. I think it's funny you made the Windows Live Photo Gallery comment, because that's how I import my photos. Once they are imported I bring them into Lightroom for cleanup and cropping. Looking forward to you sharing some more photos.

P.S. Now if I could only get the eHome team to allow tagging while importing photos into Media Center.

Shahn Hogan

Wednesday, July 30, 2008 12:27:14 AM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)

Honestly, I wish we had never done an import for media -- management tasks are much more suited to mouse and keyboard vs. remote control. We should have concentrated more on the consumption of photos.

Charlie Owen

Wednesday, July 30, 2008 3:40:21 AM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)

I agree that Windows Live Photo Gallery has a great import dialog box. However, Adobe Elements Photo Organizer is a better photo organizer than Windows Live Photo Gallery IMHO. If it weren't for the fact that Adobe doesn't directly store its tags in the file rather than a single DB file, I would have made the switch to Elements a long time ago.

Jaxim

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