Adobe Lightroom 2 Reviews You’ll Want to Read

If you’re on the fence about upgrading to Lightroom 2, get off the fence and make the $99 purchase. The improvements to library module, tighter integration with Photoshop CS3, and the addition of local adjustments, and one of my favorites, the grad filter, all make it more than worth the cost. It isn’t quite perfect, but it is getting pretty close:

Lightroom 2.0 is the first program that I simply love using from a workflow, tagging, and “they thought of everything” standpoint; and its speed is unmatched. Adobe has added a plug-in color profile system that addresses one of my main gripes with Lightroom 1.0 and Adobe Camera RAW, but we’re still just a little short of reaching the grail.

-Ars Technica

To help walk you through the numerous improvements, additions, the good, and the bad, you’ll want to check out the following:

-Review at Ars Technica

-Review at Photography Blog

-Feature walkthrough with Ian Lyons of Lightroom-News

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   John Esberg says:

   August 22, 2008 at 12:57 pm

   I have to agree, its not perfect. But it does a great job. I would like to see more capabilities in deleting adjustments in the development history.

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   Patrick says:

   August 22, 2008 at 5:52 pm

   John,
   perfection will be hard to achieve because photographers will always be moving their expectations forward. Give them everything they want, they’ll want something they never thought of…that’s how it goes.
   Still for anybody with at least a mild interest in photography, Lightroom is as close to must have as you can get, although most won’t know it till they get it.

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