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Adobe Photoshop Lightroom (PC/Mac) | 
 enlarge | From: Adobe Systems Inc.
Category: Software
List Price: £211.99
Buy New: £206.48
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Avg. Customer Rating:  29 reviews
Sales Rank: 326
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Mac Os X, Windows Xp
Media: CD-ROM
Operating System: Windows XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 7.8 x 2.1
MPN: 19250102
EAN: 5051254088349
ASIN: B000MQCFJQ
Release Date: March 14, 2007
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 Version 1.4.1 April 22, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
With software at this price, I always think it's a good idea to try before buying and the Adobe 30 day free trial offer is great for this. I would suggest however getting one of the great books on the subject as although many tools are intuitive, there are many more powerful tools that only a book can really help with. I was able to put it through its paces before investing and do shop around for the best deal.
Be wary though this is not a replacement for photoshop, elements or paintshop pro. It is a sophisticated set of tools for organising, developing (digital equivalent of a darkroom), slide show, printing and web facilitator. In those areas it is simply the best.
This is the most used software on my system now and is a real must for the serious photographer. Do try before buy though and ideally make sure you have more than the minimum RAM. It will work at 1 GByte but 2 plus will make it zip.
Handles RAW like a dream!
Superb library and RAW editor March 15, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Quite simply this is the best raw image processing software on the Mac (possibly the PC as well). The cataloguing system works well, although I have to say it does slow down when you have many thousands of images. The develop modules works very well, with the history, snapshot and virtual copy features really helping you to get the best from your images. You do however need to understand how to process RAW, the only slightly week area is the sharpening controls.
Add to this slide show, web gallery and print modules. The only missing feature being the lack of soft proofing.
Excellent value and works well on a medium spec Macbook Pro (2GHz and 2Gb RAM).
Highly recommended.
Good beyond what I thought it would be February 19, 2008
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
OK, a few months ago I tested this program and only because of the rigidity of the UI I thought it was a not to my liking. At the same time I tested Apple's Aperture that has a much more flexible UI and worked better for me, so I bought that one and was happy with it. Recently I even bought the upgrade to Aperture 2.
For some reason that I can't remember I decided to try out Lightroom again just to remember me why I didn't like it. I was in a bit of disbelief on this product and not really thinking of changing from Aperture. I just wanted to satisfy my curiosity. I downloaded the trial version, installed on my machine, exported some masters from Aperture and imported in it. That's when I was blown away.
Among the files that I exported there were some RAW pictures of my black car shot at ISO800 with a Canon EOS 40D. In Aperture the black car has quite a lot of noise and I was upset with it, but I thought it was a deficiency of the camera and would never suspect of Aperture's RAW processing capabilities. When I imported the same pictures in Lightroom the quality of the output image was FAR (REALLY FAR) superior. I so much couldn't believe myself that I exported one of the images in full-res JPEG in both Aperture and Lightroom and compared them in Photoshop just to make sure that I wasn't being tricked and there it was, the resulting picture exported from Lightroom had better colour saturation, less noise and still had the same great sharpness of the picture exported by Aperture.
I can't explain that, but it alone was more than enough to prompt me to buy a Lightroom book and try it out for real. Then I found other niceties like the adjustment of exposure levels by full and 1/3 stops, the better histogram that Adobe knows how to do so well, the performance that is blazing fast after Aperture (even version 2), the advanced tools and much more.
I still don't like to be switching between Library and Develop modes to make my image adjustments and still prefer the flexibility of Aperture on that area, but if having more flexibility means I get lower image quality and less sophisticated tools I can live with the more rigid workflow in Lightroom.
Whoever reads my review on Aperture written not long after I first bought it will see that I gave it 5 stars, so if I could I would give Lightroom 6 or more. It is just that much better. I just feel sorry that I can't get a refund for my Aperture 1 and 2 licenses... :)
Lightroom - with some room for improvement still December 6, 2007
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
Firstly I have used most workflow software in my photography business includis media, acdc, Adobe Bridge, Aperture and most creative imaging software including PaintShop Pro, Corel, Photoshop and Capture NX so I think I have the feel for this type of programme. Further I had the beta version from Adobe when it was in trial mode.
Likes, well its a lot like Aperture in layout and I like the look. You can customise the look also to what you want and thats a cool feature. The grid and loupe features allow you to have the screen as you want it and its so easy to load in a few images to compare. Lightroom also gives you the opportunity to do some immediate modifications for example you are easily able to change white balance, sharpness, contrast and crop. A great feature which make it stand out against the rest.
Dislikes, well loading images from a camera/disk can be a pain if you do not follow procedures. A few times I have loaded up, forgotten to make a file on my computer and the images are imported into Lightroom without a folder being made. The images are still there but you have to go to "last import" to retreive them and its a bit of a game then to make a file and transfer them.
To get the best from this software you really do need to read a good book - such as Scott Kelby's Lightroom for Photographers or join an online class like www.lynda.com. However, both cover version 1.1 and latest version is 1.3 and the interface has changed substantially in my view so beware that not all chapters in the book or lessons on the web are up-to-date.
How do I rate Lightroom. In my view, even with the parts I do not like, its probably the best bit of software for workflow on the market. I have ditched Aperture, since it is RAM hungary and still slow and use Lightroom instead. But since I am a Nikon user I transfer my images to Capture NX first, do any modifications I need there first, then transfer to Lightroom. Part of the reason for this is that Capture NX will transfer black and white images I take on my camera whilst if I use Lightroom first, Lightroom converts then back to colour. I am sure Adobe can fix this but no doubt another update is needed.
So there you have it. Great software but you do need to put in some time to learn even the basics to get the best from it.
 Untrustworthy product December 3, 2007
3 out of 11 found this review helpful
I bought this product when it was first released. A steep learning curve was involved, but I persisted and I thought at that time it had a lot of good points. There are drawbacks, such as inability to make selections and work on those. So you find yourself chopping back and forth between it and CS3. I also had quite a good filing system of my own, which worked well.
The crunch for me came with version 1.1 and the promise of sorting the merging of different databases. All 1.1 did however was to corrupt my existing database. Adobe admitted this after the release and put info on their website. That was of little use to my corrupted files. Adobes workaround did not work either, and who is to say that some future "improvement" will not result in the same calamity on an even bigger database. Fortunately I still had my old system and backups of all my files, but I am not in any hurry to rush back to this product again.
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