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Adobe
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List Price: $299.00
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- Enhance specific areas of a photo, or precisely adjust overall color, exposure, and tonal range nondestructively
- Automatically import, rename, and sort your entire shoot; find your photos quickly with powerful yet flexible sorting, selecting, and organizational tools
- Present your work in dynamic slide shows, interactive web galleries, and a variety of flexible print templates; easily upload your photos to popular online photo-sharing sites
- Configure your workspace to manage image workflow and presentation more efficiently thanks to support for multiple monitors
- Every change you make to an image is automatically tracked, so you can return to any state with a single click
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Product Description
Adobe Lightroom V2 for Windows and Mac. Lightroom provides an efficient way to import, select, develop, and showcase large volumes of digital images.
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Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 software is essential for today's digital photography workflow. Now you can quickly import, process, manage, and showcase your images--from one shot to an entire shoot. Quickly batch process, convert, and apply metadata to your photos on import. Easily make selections with multiple viewing and comparison options. Adjust and enhance color, exposure, and tonal curves nondestructively on more than 190 camera raw file formats, as well as JPEG, TIFF, and PSD files. Every change you make to an image is automatically tracked, so you can return to any state with a single click. With Lightroom 2, you spend less time in front of the computer and more time behind the lens.  Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2, designed for photographers, features an elegant, uncluttered interface that puts just the tools you need at your fingertips. |  Enjoy more flexible, accurate enhancements by targeting a specific area for dodging and burning. |  Sort and filter large volumes of photos using powerful metadata filters to quickly find just the photo you want. |  Enjoy robust support for more than 190 camera raw file formats, and experiment with confidence. Adjustments you make to images in Lightroom won't alter the original data, whether you're working on a JPEG, TIFF, DNG, or camera raw file. |  Enjoy tight integration with Adobe Photoshop software for streamlined use of Smart Objects, panorama stitching, high dynamic range (HDR) functionality, multiple layer workflow, and more. | Work with a tool focused on photographers' needs
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 is designed expressly for both amateur and professional photographers. From its elegant, uncluttered interface to its carefully tailored tools and features, Lightroom helps you process photographs faster, giving you more time to shoot. With the new and enhanced features in Lightroom 2, you canfind the photos you want faster, make more accurate adjustments, and easily present your work in more ways than ever before. Accelerate your workflow
Lightroom is a nimble tool that moves you efficiently through every step of your workflow, from image capture to client presentation. Use flexible tools and features to manage the processing of large volumes of photographs. Customize a wide range of importing, renaming, and metadata stamping functions to suit your needs. Keep track of the changes you've made to images, including alternate versions, easily and automatically with the History panel. And when you're ready to present your work to clients, easily assemble and output high-quality printed contact sheets, online web galleries, and slide shows, or upload your photos to popular online photo-sharing sites. Use it your way
Lightroom is adaptable and compatible with the way you work, most of the hardware you use, and open standards, so you're less likely to be limited by proprietary systems and formats. Lightroom runs on both Microsoft Windows and Mac OS. Work with more than 190 camera raw file formats, as well as JPEG, TIFF, and PSD files. Convert your images to the universal DNG format without loss of image quality. Store your photographs in the Lightroom Library--even if they're located on offline media. Using Lightroom for developing images, together with Adobe Photoshop for retouching, digital photographers now have the essential photography software toolkit. Take advantage of robust metadata support and advanced keywording capabilities help you tag and find the photographs you need quickly and easily. From developing images to presenting them, Lightroom together with Photoshop provides digital photographers with the essential photography software toolkit. Who's It For? Professional photographers
Photographers who shoot large volumes of images in every specialty, from fashion and fine art to portraiture and photojournalism. Advanced amateur photographers
Photographers who don't earn a living from their images but have a deep passion for photography; take large numbers of photos, typically with a digital SLR camera; and value professional tools and results. Educators
University and community college instructors who are shooters themselves and who teach the best tools and practices to the next generation of photographers. The top reasons to buy Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Enhance specific areas of a photo
Enjoy more flexible, accurate enhancements by targeting a specific area for dodging and burning. Quickly find any photo
Sort and filter large volumes of photos using powerful metadata filters to quickly find just the photo you want. Automatically import and process your way
Import and process large volumes of photos according to your customized settings. Rename files, organize them into folders, add metadata, and convert file formats for an entire shoot simultaneously. Native 64-bit architecture
Utilize the advanced memory-handling capabilities on the latest Mac OS and Windows systems. Work smoothly with Adobe Photoshop software (sold separately)
Enjoy tight integration with Adobe Photoshop software for streamlined use of Smart Objects, panorama stitching, high dynamic range (HDR) functionality, multiple layer workflow, and more. See your edits automatically updated in Lightroom. Multiple monitor support
Add a second monitor and enjoy more room to work. Support for multiple monitors allows you to configure your workspace to manage image workflow and presentation more efficiently. Be productive quickly
Ease your learning curve with task-oriented modules that speed you through typical workflow tasks by placing just the tools you need at your fingertips. Edit nondestructively
Enjoy robust support for more than 190 camera raw file formats, and experiment with confidence. Adjustments you make to images in Lightroom won't alter the original data, whether you're working on a JPEG, TIFF, DNG, or camera raw file. Easily show off your photos online
Create dynamic web galleries based on Adobe Flash technology without programming. In a few clicks, you can assemble and upload an interactive gallery to your website. Or easily upload your images to popular photo-sharing sites directly from Lightroom.
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 Very expensive buggy software with mediocre tech support, 2010-04-03
I have always been a fan of Adobe products, but I have to say the CS4 line is buggy, very buggy. As to tech support, Adobe has gone the route of every other large corporation in the United States. Namely, they are not in the United States. Gone are the days of communicating with someone whose name you can pronounce or that you can actually understand when you talk to them.
It seems whenever you do attempt to get help, their people go down the prescribed checklist. It doesn't matter how stupid the suggestions are, you have to follow them. This would be okay if you actually ended up with a solution. In my case, Adobe says Microsoft is at fault, and Microsoft says Adobe is at fault - sound familiar?
Adobe products certainly don't sell at shareware prices, but based on how buggy they are, they should.
Running Adobe products on a Microsoft operating system is my idea of Hell.
Lightroom 2.7, 2010-05-21
I've been using LR3 since December 2009 and decided that I should bite the bullet and purchase the non beta product (especially when I learned that my work wouldn't be moved from the beta to the final version). LR2.7 is a very polished program and I highly recommend it to any serious photographer. LR3 isn't much different (except, I guess, "under the hood"), and so I've been able to jump right in. You'll need cs4 or cs5 for any major editing, but most of your work flow can be accomplished right in Light Room. All in all, an excellent product, although it would probably be too much for the casual photographer (get Picassa for free from Google instead).
Complicated, 2010-05-15
I am a "pro" photog with a studio and 5 employees. We tried to incorporate Lightroom into our work flow and found it was too complicated for us to keep using. It is not very intuitive and when you need classes to figure out how to run the program, it 's telling me there is a large learning curve involved.
I recently downloaded Google's FREE program, Picasa, for my home use and with in 10 minutes I was having fun editing and sorting my personal pics. Contrast this to Lightroom where 3 of us, who are extremely Photoshop literate, all ended up frustrated with the complexity of doing even minor things. I do not understand all the high marks on Amazon for Lightroom. It might be a great program if you like to research, read blogs and trouble shoot your software but if you want a program that is easy to use, stay away from LR.
PS Just in case people are wondering, of my 5 employees, 2 are not CS5 savvy.
best editing tools ever but a pain to use, 2010-03-31
I LOVE the interface and editing features but my problem with this software is it's file handling. Why do I need it to do what I have done with my operating system since DOS? I understand the concept of non-destructive editing but I think this is for people who do not back up their data and are there any professionals by now who do not? I bet most lightroom users do anyway. So why the bloatware? Maybe Adobe wants to get photographers hooked so they will never again be able to handle their files on their own!
Good, but a bit slow (and the latest release is even slower), 2010-07-12
I received this software to review quite some time ago. To my frustration, just before I could install it, the computer I planned to use died, and the new one wasn't really suitable for the job. (Graphics performance.) As a result, the software package languished on my shelf until recently, when I reorganized my photography workflow and storage, and started looking around for the right software. One of my colleagues has been a long-time Lightroom user, and I asked his advice. "Lightroom 3?" he said, "Don't bother! They've added so many features that it's as slow as a dog." I hastened to point out that I was actually talking about Lightroom 2, and he brightened up. "That's much better," he said. "It was slower than the first release, but it's not too bad, and the workflow is very nice. I'm still using it for my main work."
And so I installed it, and brought over all of my photo libraries from several different computers (using different tools). Lightroom definitely like plenty of RAM and a fast (Firewire) disk array, but the results are really good. For the first time I know where everything is, and what per-shoot batch processing I've applied. The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 Book for Digital Photographers was an essential purchase - you'll never unlock the power of a system like this without good documentation - endive been very happy with the result.
Based on my friend's advice, i'm going to skip Lightroom 3, and hope that the next release combines the features of the new with the performance of the old. That will be awesome.
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Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: Adobe
EAN: 0883919154398
Format: CD-ROM
Label: Adobe
Manufacturer: Adobe
Model: 65007312
Platform: Windows Vista, Mac OS X Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Windows XP
Publisher: Adobe
Release Date: 2008-08-15
Studio: Adobe |
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