[Leica] Is Lightroom 2.0 Really Shipping?

[leowesson at gmail.com (leo wesson)]

Tina's right.  I found switching to LR to be quite a steep learning curve,
sort of like switching from slr to rf.  But once you learn to think
differently in a lightroom kinda way, it's pretty good, and when working
with lots of raw files, it's way better and faster than photoshop.  Daniel,
if you are using the 1.0 or 2.0 beta, try the latest version, it's much
improved.

Leo



On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 9:30 AM, Tina Manley <images@comporium.net> wrote:

> At 02:20 AM 8/14/2008, you wrote:
>
>> On my desktop it seems to work fine, but my impression is that it is some
>> pretty flaky hyped up stuff and I don't really dare commit anything
>> important to it.
>>
>> Photoshop still works like a champ. I only use Lightroom for my digital
>> SLRs. It is definitely not to be recommended if you scan your images. Most
>> of my work is scanned b/w.
>>
>> Lightroom would probably be good for K-Mart or Walmart when you want to
>> spit out scads of images without paying too much attention to any 
>> particular
>> one of them.
>>
>> Daniel
>>
>
> I totally disagree.  The upgrade to Lightroom 2.0 is the best $99 I ever
> spent.  I'm able to get better results with LR than I could with hours of
> work in PSCS3.  Just follow any of the tutorials online or get Martin
> Evenings Lightroom 2.0 book.  The greatest thing is that you can make as
> many non-destructive adjustments to the RAW file as you want, save them as
> virtual copies, and never touch the original files.  The cataloging has
> improved so much with this upgrade that I'm switching over to LR instead of
> iView for cataloging my photos.  I'm using it for my scanned images, too.
>  You can save them as DNG files and work on them non-destructively.
>
> Tina
>
> Tina Manley
> www.tinamanley.com
>
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