Adobe Lightroom

Wow! A new must-have piece of software for me.

[bakedjake]

Has anyone played with Lightroom yet?

I bought Aperture when I bought my Mac, but I never really liked it. It gets sluggish, and I like arranging my pictures on the filesystem instead of in virtual libraries, so its more portable.

I tried Lightroom out this week and couldn't pull out my credit card fast enough. It's ridiculously fast, and a pleasure to use - in fact, I haven't started photoshop since I installed it.

[Visit Thailand]

Following your post I have just read the Adobe site about Lightroom and it does sound interesting.

As you use it now. What do you find most appealing about it?

[jcmoon]

Jeffrey Friedl, a great photographer and a smart guy when it comes to regular expressions, has written quite a bit about Lightroom, on his blog. He's had a great experience with it.

[mzanzig]

I have been using Lightroom for two weeks now, and I can only recommend to use the software. Awesome.

It fully addresses the workflow issues of digital photography.

- Supports camera RAW format
- Damage-free editing of photos
- Batch editing
- Full Metadata support (IPTC)
- Convenient before/after comparison for each image
- Rating and labeling of pictures (with filter)

I'd never go back to "just Photoshop" after having used Lightroom.

(There are some bugs, though, which is to be expected in a 1.0 version. Nothing serious - I did not have crashes, but little annoying bugs. But heck, the software is still great.)

[dragsterboy]

Lightroom is not created to do detailed editing or advanced compositing. That is why you have products like Adobe Photoshop. But one thing that's deserves mentioning is the integration that Lightroom makes with Photoshop. It is pretty easily done.These two programs are compatible.

This program works efficiently with lots of files and you can do all the adjustments at once because they are in one module.