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 12/27/2008 12:20:34 AM · #1
I'm planning on buying Lightroom 2, but I just want to know if any of you guys use it, and how you like it.

Thanks.
 12/27/2008 12:26:54 AM · #2
love it! Very user friendly imo.
12/27/2008 01:07:03 AM · #3
i like it a lot. I think the adjustment brushes thing could be better implemented but it kind of works well enough, it's just not the easiest thing to control. I use it for raw conversion but you can do the same things with jpegs that you can with raws which is a very useful feature, like adj. white balance and vignetting etc.

You don't need to actually BUY it though.
 12/27/2008 01:12:14 AM · #4
I use it and love it. It is particularly good at going through the photos from a shoot and comparing them to select the best to edit. It has a super camera raw embeded inside it. And it exports well to your favorite photo editing software for fine tuning. The more i use it the more i wonder how I got along without it. I use a PC to edit, so can't comment on any Mac analog, but for my workflow on my equipment ... highly recomended.
 12/27/2008 01:28:23 AM · #5
I love lightroom. It's like iTunes, for me I wonder how the hell I'd live without it!
 12/27/2008 04:16:51 AM · #6
this is the only piece of software i could not do with out.

very easy to use, get great results lets me work as i want to work while keeping me tidy :)
 12/27/2008 05:41:20 AM · #7
I just got it a couple weeks ago from an Amazon.com Gold Box deal for $124 and loved it until I upgraded to version 2.2. There's a lot of people having issues with that patch especially Windows XP users. They fixed a lot of the laggy brush issues that were in the previous 2.x versions, but in the process somehow created a huge memory leak. The Lightroom forums are full of people struggling with the new patch.

I have 4gigs of RAM in my case (I know XP only utilizes 3.5ish), and have crashed constantly since the new version was released. I can't export my website through their Web module via ftp to my website or even to my local machine. It crashes/locks up after about 20 photos exported.

I trust that they'll throw out a hot fix after the holidays and I can go back to loving it.

12/27/2008 07:42:21 AM · #8
I have a question for you LR users:

What would LR do for me that CS4 cannot?

I am honestly confused as to why one would need Photoshop AND Lightroom. I do everything in PS and Bridge, and that seems to work great for me, so why would I add LR?

12/27/2008 08:45:51 AM · #9
I stopped using bridge when I got lightroom, so this is just from memory. In Bridge, you can't do any editing, you have to take the image into camera raw. Lightroom allows edits and the edits are much more extensive. On my system, once the images are loaded into LR, the edits are much faster and I can jump around within the images much faster. RSE, for me, was a much better editor than camera raw, so Bridge didn't perform much except allow me to view RAW files. When Windows added a RAW viewer, I didn't even need it for that.

In essence, Bridge and camera Raw for me were outdated, klunky, slow, and inept. I had the opportunity to try LR for 30 days (free download at adobe) and once I used it for a week, I never went back. Hope that helps...
 12/27/2008 10:45:16 AM · #10
Originally posted by LindaLee:
I am honestly confused as to why one would need Photoshop AND Lightroom. I do everything in PS and Bridge, and that seems to work great for me, so why would I add LR?


If you are shooting a couple of pictures a week .... probably nothing. Stick with Bridge+ACR.

If you are shooting a thousand pictures a week, or more, then you definitely need Lightroom. It's the workflow. It is so much quicker to work with dozens, hundreds, even thousands of images in Lightroom than to try to do the same thing in Bridge+ACR. With Bridge+ACR you are constantly moving back and forth between the two programs. With Lightroom, you stay right in one view and do all your work. Quickly. Efficiently. And then export all of your images at once.

So why do you still need PS? In my view, Lightroom quickly gets me to "proof quality" images ... images that I want to show the customer. PS is what I use to put the finishing touches on an image before it goes to print. PS can do anything LR can do (it just takes longer to do it), plus it can do so much more. In my view, you need both.

12/27/2008 11:30:01 AM · #11

Thanks so much for the replies. I guess that I didn't realize you could do so much editing within LR. The 30 day trial sounds like a good idea though, so when I start shooting regularly again, I think I'll give that a try.

Right now, I'm lucky to shoot 25 images a week. The weather is so crummy that I hardly leave the apartment.

Thanks so much for your help!
 12/27/2008 05:20:05 PM · #12
ok... how do i delete the pictures out of my library/catalog thing in LR? Every new shoot i get I 'add pictures from disc' and put them in LR then do my thing, export them, and then the next shoot i do the same things again.

I don't really want to go through every picture and push delete so is there an easier way that i'm totally missing?
 12/27/2008 06:13:42 PM · #13
IMO, the best way to determine whether or not it's going to be useful for you is to watch some of the tutorials and see if the software makes your life easier.
All the official tutorials are available here at Adobe. (Select Lightroom from products in the top left).

12/27/2008 06:21:53 PM · #14
If your looking to delete a bunch of photos, you need to be in Library mode (not Develop I have been in the wrong one a few times). Have the thumbnail view, which you can get by hitting G (for Grid), highlight all you want to delete and right click and select delete. Hopefully this is what you were looking for.

One other trick I use a lot is when I am going through photos if I want to select ones to delete on each one I don't like I just hit X and the at the bottom of the Lightroom window you will see flags, small colored blocks. Just hightlight the black flag with an X on it and this will only display rejected photos and then you can selceted and delete all like above.
 12/28/2008 12:19:01 PM · #15
Originally posted by loseme:
One other trick I use a lot is when I am going through photos if I want to select ones to delete on each one I don't like I just hit X and the at the bottom of the Lightroom window you will see flags, small colored blocks. Just hightlight the black flag with an X on it and this will only display rejected photos and then you can selceted and delete all like above.

To build on this, I go through all the photos I want to delete in Library mode, click X on each I want to delete. Then under "Photo -> Delete rejected photos", this will delete all the ones you just marked with an X (or Ctrl Backspace). Amounts to the same thing as loseme said above but is faster when deleting many than applying the filter, selecting all etc. And you're less likely to mess it up this way too.
 12/28/2008 01:51:43 PM · #16
could i just use ctrl+a on the library instead?
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