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DESCRIPTION
Adobe Lightroom is the efficient new way for professional photographers to import, select, develop, and showcase large volumes of digital images. So you can spend less time sorting and refining photographs, and more time actually shooting them. Its clean, elegant interface literally steps out of the way and lets you quickly view and work with the images you shot today, as well as the thousands of images that you will shoot over the course of your career. Because no two photographers work alike, Adobe Lightroom adapts to your workflow, not the other way around.
Lightroom lets you view, zoom in, and compare photographs quickly and easily. Precise, photography-specific adjustments allow you to fine tune your images while maintaining the highest level of image quality from capture through output. And best of all, it runs on most commonly used computers, even notebook computers used on location.
WHAT'S NEW
Version 2.6.1:
- Includes one important correction that is only relevant for Leica M9 users. This release of Lightroom fixes a bug that caused Lightroom 2.6 to crash when processing certain M9 images. The bug was introduced in the final version of Lightroom 2.6 in the course of making image quality improvements to Leica M9 processing based on customer feedback. There is no need to update to 2.6.1 if you aren't a Leica M9 user.
REQUIREMENTS
- Mac OS X 10.5 or later.
- 2GB of RAM
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| Adobe Lightroom User Reviews (35 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Dec 22 2009 |
ARCHAEOGEEK So, I'm looking around for a RAW as I'm slowly but surely outgrowing iPhoto, and have been trialing the 5 big ones, and I admit initially I didn't even consider Lightroom. Adobe is, to me, a horrible company and dealing with their online store's website just pushed it deeper. But Lightroom is something else altogether, it's closer to the reputation Adobe has, or had, it's relatively light, it can work on my setup which the regular CS applications just can't. It's not the Adobe I know and loathe passionately. And it's a pretty good application, the fact that it allows non-destructive editing without needing a plugin for it makes me hope it will get even better in v3, and that Aperture "X" will also keep the hopping competition running. Its support for Nikon RAW is tolerable, it's equivalent to what Aperture does, and there lies the conundrum: both applications, for all their workflow differences, get pretty close to what I need in equal amounts, with Lightroom having maybe slightly better capabilities as an editor OOB. So for now I just wait and hope the new versions will come out of both so I can decide which will fit my needs more, because as it is I'm still torn, but will probably go for heads or tails if neither is out by spring, both programs are seriously equally close, only with different better and worse points, and it depends a lot on how your workflow goes; this is, I guess, one advantage of just starting out.
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 | Dec 18 2009 |
DOKTER_MAC SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS • PowerPC® G4 or G5 or Intel® processor • 1GB of available hard-disk space • 1,024x768 monitor resolution Intel only? Common MacUpdate... I can't keep up with the incomplete or incorrect application requirements anymore... There are still 'some' PPC users among us. Thanks in advance from a loyal fan!
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| Dec 17 2009 |
BUMBLEB Almost two months without another beta revision?? Strange. Because this beta is not at all stable. Seems like Adobe pushed it out to appear ahead of the pack (ie. Aperture and Capture One)...
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| Oct 31 2009 |
DR. GIRLFRIEND Did anyone else notice that they've changed the name from Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom® to Adobe Lightroom? Funny. I guess they've milked that cross-branding for all it was worth and are now giving it the name it should have had in the first place.
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| Nov 4 2009 |
BUMBLEB First it was called "Adobe Lightroom". Then around release they branded it "Adobe Photoshop Lightroom" and now they're back to just "Adobe Lightroom"... Funny fellas...
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| Oct 29 2009 |
HAL0THANE Lightroom or Aperture: There's really very little difference technically. What it comes down to is your own preferences. Download both trials, give 'em a spin, and see which you prefer. That's the only way to decide which to use. As for me, I'm a Lightroom guy -- but I do wish that I had access to all of Aperture's plugins. :)
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| Dec 22 2009 |
ARCHAEOGEEK That, basically, seconded. This year should see Lightroom 3 reach completion, and rumors of Aperture 3 have been going on for a while, but it fits Apple's release cycle if it goes out of the door this winter or spring. I used to have a mild annoyance for Adobe products, but Lightroom is something else altogether; for one, it will run on a HFSX partition, it's not a one-ton-and-a-half piece of software, and is smooth in Snow Leopard.
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| Oct 22 2009 |
MACZENTRUM I like LR. But it's head-to-head with Apple's Aperture in my opinion. I will wait until LR3 goes final and decide whether to stay with Aperture or switch to LR.
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| Jun 25 2009 |
D9 While it appears Apple has abandoned or at least slowed development of Aperture, it at least lit a fire under Adobe. That and Final Cut are the 2 products that seem to have made Adobe return to developing for the Mac with equivalent products, Lightroom and Premiere. But don't think for one minute I'm holding my breath on seeing a 64-bit Photoshop from these bums until at least mid-2011! Besides that, I've got nothing good to say about Adobe these days. | |
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| Dec 19 2008 |
MANNYAM playing around with the new 2.2 update, i enabled 64-bit mode and found that it does load and import quicker.
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| Dec 16 2008 |
DAWGDRUMMER Hooray!! The brushes finally work on my G5 Dual 2 tower. Thanks Adobe.
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| Nov 10 2008 |
DGOMBAU Have been comparing Lightroom 2 with Aperture 2. I do a lot of panos, and Lightroom has a simple integration with that Photo Merge feature in Photoshop. Aperture is a cumbersome, multi-step export operation. Aperture has a much more usable touchup and healing capability, whereas Lightoom is pretty basic. And Aperture has integration with Apple Photo Books. Still have not decided whether I like the gray palette of Aperture, or the black one of Lightroom. Currently I shoot with a Nikon D200. But I used to own a Nikon CoolPix 5700, and Aperture will not recognize the 5700 file format, for the thousands of images I took with the 5700. Lightroom will. Anyone have any comments to add to the above?
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| Dec 17 2008 |
VGOKLANI For what's worth, I love Aperture with my D200. It is the most amazing piece of software, I love doing frame by frame comparisons, and I love the stacking feature. However, I just got a Panasonic LX3, and it doesn't work with Aperture. This makes a huge mess of everything, and I email steve jobs on a daily basis complaining. Yes I knew the LX3 RAW format wasn't supported, I just *assumed* that they would eventually adapt the format. Stupid me! The real problem is that the RAW format isn't standardized, which it should be.
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