Adobe Lightroom

SDK^ · 29 Jan 2007 at 19:33

News that Lightroom 1 will be available to buy from mid February
http://www.dpreview.com/news/0701/07012901adobelightroom.asp

Note : The Beta trial will expire February 28th 2007 - you have been warned !!

Blackvault · 29 Jan 2007 at 22:08

Thanks for the heads up. I have used it since your thread about Lightroom. I absolutely love it, it makes working with RAW a breeze. Any idea of UK prices?

Blackvault

FatPete · 29 Jan 2007 at 22:52

Just checked the Adobe UK page. Looks like it's £149 before end of April, rising to £199 afterwards.

Balb0wa · 30 Jan 2007 at 00:53

pretty sure i should be due a free copy , becuase of my rawshooter purchase

morgan · 30 Jan 2007 at 08:46

bobbyboy uk said:
pretty sure i should be due a free copy , becuase of my rawshooter purchase

I'd be very suprised if that was the case. RS and Lightroom are two seperate products. Someone has to pay for the extra development - the peopl ethat buy the software.

SDK^ · 30 Jan 2007 at 08:58

morgan said:
I'd be very suprised if that was the case. RS and Lightroom are two seperate products. Someone has to pay for the extra development - the peopl ethat buy the software.

Adobe has confirmed Lightroom will be given to owners of Raw Shooter Premium.

Free to RawShooter Premium owners
In a recent Lightroom forum post, Tom Hogarty, Adobe product manager for the application, notes that registered users of the now-defunct Pixmantec RawShooter Premium application will receive a full license of Photoshop Lightroom 1.0 at no charge:
The offer to provide Lightroom 1.0 free of charge to Pixmantec RawShooter Premium customers was disclosed via the FAQ on Pixmantec.com. (http://www.pixmantec.com/pdf/FAQ_Pixmantec.pdf) The offer still stands and Adobe will contact customers via the email address they used in the purchase process for RawShooter Premium. The program will begin the same day that Lightroom 1.0 ships but not before.
The tool to convert RSP settings to visually similar Adobe Camera Raw and Lightroom settings is also in development and I hope to provide it at the same time. (Caveat: Visually similar does not mean identical given the difference in processing algorithms)

themask70 · 30 Jan 2007 at 10:43

Hmmm.... very tempted to buy it when it come out. The £149 will be making the hole in my pocket worse but well..... only time will tell.

FranchiseJuan · 30 Jan 2007 at 11:18

Actually the news on the new features in v1.0 look very good, and the beta was nice. If you have a widescreen monitor, this is a very good way to work. Just kind of hard for me to totally give up Photoshop after so long....

Johnny|lucidcomposure · 30 Jan 2007 at 11:20

FranchiseJuan said:
Actually the news on the new features in v1.0 look very good, and the beta was nice. If you have a widescreen monitor, this is a very good way to work. Just kind of hard for me to totally give up Photoshop after so long....

Its not a program to compete with Photoshop. They are both very different programs or are you purely refering to ACR

FranchiseJuan · 30 Jan 2007 at 11:29

Fstop11 said:
Its not a program to compete with Photoshop. They are both very different programs or are you purely refering to ACR

If you look at the feature list, and all the latest colour adjustment stuff they added to the latest version (final), it has almost everything that I do in Photosphop. For non studio stuff I can do everything I need in lightroom, and I don't need to use bridge or breezebrowser.

Quite honestly, what is there in photoshop that you do on the normal photo (taken with care), that can't be done in some what in lightroom? This is my point.

SDK^ · 30 Jan 2007 at 11:37

The final version includes a heal tool so the need to open images in Photoshop is reduced

Johnny|lucidcomposure · 30 Jan 2007 at 11:40

FranchiseJuan said:
If you look at the feature list, and all the latest colour adjustment stuff they added to the latest version (final), it has almost everything that I do in Photosphop. For non studio stuff I can do everything I need in lightroom, and I don't need to use bridge or breezebrowser.

Quite honestly, what is there in photoshop that you do on the normal photo (taken with care), that can't be done in some what in lightroom? This is my point.

Well that sounds very good esp combined with SDK's heal tool.. But I still have m any uses for photoshop.

I might think about getting this when its £149

FranchiseJuan · 30 Jan 2007 at 11:45

I guess if you relyed on plugins in photoshop to get work done, then the migration to lightroom will be very difficult, but if you could do everything that you did in Photoshop manually (that is had an understanding of what was involved in the adjustments), it would not be too difficult to migrate to lightroom.

The new curves and colour adjustment tools in lightroom look fantastic, and I can't wait to try them out.

SDK^ · 30 Jan 2007 at 12:06

For sure the Sharpening and Noise removal tools have some way to go in Lightroom, but that's the only reason I would need to use Photoshop before printing an image.

rpstewart · 30 Jan 2007 at 12:08

Sounds good, might need to have a quick bash of the beta to try the workflow before it expires.

How's Lightroom for adding borders or text?

SDK^ · 30 Jan 2007 at 12:36

rpstewart said:
How's Lightroom for adding borders or text?

You can't add text or borders onto the image for file save in Lightroom; only for the on screen slideshow and print modules

eveyuk · 30 Jan 2007 at 13:58

It's tempting but I know I have a photoshop CS3 upgrade on the Horizon and I can't have both.

SDK^ · 30 Jan 2007 at 22:16

I've just bought Lightroom for £146, can't wait !!

morgan · 31 Jan 2007 at 13:16

SDK^ said:
Adobe has confirmed Lightroom will be given to owners of Raw Shooter Premium.

Hats off to them. I think thats a great thing they have done there for RS owners...they didnt have to do that...

Johnny|lucidcomposure · 31 Jan 2007 at 13:52

morgan said:
Hats off to them. I think thats a great thing they have done there for RS owners...they didnt have to do that...

Agreed! Very good