Adobe Lightroom

Hello all photography enthusiasts,

I saw no mention of Adobe Lightroom, which a $199 photography software program developed by Adobe Systems, designed to assist professional photographers in managing thousands of digital images and doing post production work. It is an image management application database which helps in viewing, editing and managing digital photos.

I find it very useful, since it is fast, produces good results, and allows me to look through my raw files. I love the simplicity of this program, yet how much can be achieved with so little. I especially love the presets I can apply to my photos, which can eliminate much wasted time.

Has anyone had experience with Lightroom? How do you like it? What are your thoughts?

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Permalink Reply by Hi-DOF Photography on February 26, 2008 at 6:07pm: I most definitely think Adobe is the way to go. It is the industry standard and I know it's good quality. Besides, if most professionals use it, then that says something.

I can understand that you think Photoshop and Bridge are the same thing, cause they are, in my opinion. The major difference is that Lightroom can make the changes easier and quicker. Also, Lightroom has presets which can be very valuable when dealing with many pictures shot at the same location.

One downside to Lightroom is that you can't mask and selectively edit certain specific areas. You can only edit colors and tones, but most of the time that is all I need. If I need to clean up a pic even further, I take it into Photoshop.

The CS3 Workshop does sound very cool too. I personally would prefer the Workshop, cause I could use some more training in Photoshop. If you are very knowledgable with Photoshop, you don't even really need Lightroom, although Lightroom can still save a lot of time.

I hope I haven't confused you all too much!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Earl E. Gibson on February 29, 2008 at 7:49pm: I played with the 15 Day non-crippled demo. I liked it, just not sure if I liked it enough to buy it.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Dave Del on March 25, 2008 at 5:56pm: The thing to be aware, regarding both of these tools is that Lightroom is a *Work flow-based* application, designed to assist the photographer from Image acquisition, all the way to output of either web or print media in structured way.

PhotoShop, on the other hand is your swiss-army knife, allowing you to perform major edits on your photos that may not fall under the umbrella of Lightroom's fixed set up tweaks (fortunately, you can round-trip your photo's into Photoshop in the same session!).; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by joz on March 26, 2008 at 6:29am: yeah i tried Light room but its kinda not so satisfying yet especially when it comes to HDR photography...have u tried photomatix?
man its jus cool...i personally use aperture ,photoshop and photomatix...man u could have a blast...check out my teams latest pix..
they are a composition of various shots i did and was coming up with different states and compositions...; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Spincus on March 26, 2008 at 4:08pm: lightroom is killer! still need photoshop and on occasion camera raw; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Liu on April 3, 2008 at 9:31pm: I have no experience in "light room", but I wish to know "Does the RAW converting software bundle with this..??"
Thanks in advance
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Permalink Reply by Terry on May 5, 2008 at 5:14pm: I was one of the closed beta testers of Lightroom before Adobe purchased Macromedia. I still use it today but I also use Apple Aperture which is now becoming my main library.

I don't use it to make any major edits of my images as I trust PS for that, but both Lightroom and Aperture are useful tools as part of my workflow.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Nemanja on May 28, 2008 at 1:59pm: If somebody need help for Photo Shop go to www.good-tutorials.com; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Rizal on May 28, 2008 at 7:15pm: i'm using adobe lightroom 1.3 since i know why should we shot with RAW.
difference is... we can manage for dynamic range and tonal.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by nikonaggie on July 30, 2008 at 4:31pm: Quick suggestion: Lightroom just upped to version 2. IMHO, it's MUCH better than 1.X, and has features you may be looking for. Check out Adobe's site for further info.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Earl E. Gibson on July 30, 2008 at 4:34pm: Hey,

I have been using 1.4 and just sent off for the upgrade to 2.0. Can not wait for it to get here to play with it.; ▶ Reply to This