http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/lightroom/
Is anybody using the beta of this? what is it like compared to CS2?
cheers
Topher
Is anybody using the beta of this? what is it like compared to CS2?
cheers
Topher
Adobe Lightroom
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I've been using it since Beta 3 and it's superb.
Lightroom is a workflow tool. It's designed to take you through the process of importing your photos, sorting them, processing them, viewing them in their final version, and then printing them.
It is not meant to replace Photoshop
Some more info in these threads
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17685565&highlight=lightroom
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17631051&highlight=lightroom
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17680291&highlight=lightroom
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17650623&highlight=lightroom
Lightroom is a workflow tool. It's designed to take you through the process of importing your photos, sorting them, processing them, viewing them in their final version, and then printing them.
It is not meant to replace Photoshop
Some more info in these threads
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17685565&highlight=lightroom
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17631051&highlight=lightroom
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17680291&highlight=lightroom
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17650623&highlight=lightroom
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Lightroom was developed to address the needs of a particular set of photographers: professionals whom shoot many dozens if not hundreds of images each day.
As good as Photoshop & Bridge are when used in a decent, organised workflow, they were never meant to process large amounts of images and deal with huge image libraries.
For a peak working day such as a concert, red carpet or other celeb event, I'll shoot around 8GB+ of photos in RAW format. When shooting a wedding, this will go to anywhere between 16 and 24GB of RAW data... each file being 20MB in size (Nikon D2X)
I've tried the Lightroom beta and it seems to really address the need to quickly import, review, cull and sort photographs from such large shoots. Adding keywords and metadata is a breeze, and the interface makes it easy for you to concentrate on exactly what you need to do.
Reports on the web point to the v1 release of Lightroom being even faster and more efficient than the beta versions and, if so, it will most likely become my primary in-the-field editing tool on my laptop, particularly for when I need to get shots to the picture desk ASAP.
As the previous poster mentioned, it is NOT intended to replace Photoshop - rather, it forms the first part of the photographers workflow in helping to select which images are destined for refinement in PS, which ones need only basic corrections in Lightroom itself, and which should be ignored or dumped (as per your own preferences)
At just under £150 during the month after it's release - on or around 19th February I believe - Lightroom will be an absolute steal
As good as Photoshop & Bridge are when used in a decent, organised workflow, they were never meant to process large amounts of images and deal with huge image libraries.
For a peak working day such as a concert, red carpet or other celeb event, I'll shoot around 8GB+ of photos in RAW format. When shooting a wedding, this will go to anywhere between 16 and 24GB of RAW data... each file being 20MB in size (Nikon D2X)
I've tried the Lightroom beta and it seems to really address the need to quickly import, review, cull and sort photographs from such large shoots. Adding keywords and metadata is a breeze, and the interface makes it easy for you to concentrate on exactly what you need to do.
Reports on the web point to the v1 release of Lightroom being even faster and more efficient than the beta versions and, if so, it will most likely become my primary in-the-field editing tool on my laptop, particularly for when I need to get shots to the picture desk ASAP.
As the previous poster mentioned, it is NOT intended to replace Photoshop - rather, it forms the first part of the photographers workflow in helping to select which images are destined for refinement in PS, which ones need only basic corrections in Lightroom itself, and which should be ignored or dumped (as per your own preferences)
At just under £150 during the month after it's release - on or around 19th February I believe - Lightroom will be an absolute steal