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Adobe Lightroom 2.0, Full Version (PC/Mac) | 
 enlarge | From: Adobe Systems Inc.
Category: Software
List Price: £232.20
Buy New: £209.02
You Save: £23.18 (10%)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 84
Platforms: Windows Xp, Windows Vista, Mac Os X
Media: CD-ROM
Operating System: Windows Vista
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 19.7 x 19.7 x 19.7
MPN: 65007296
EAN: 5051254255185
ASIN: B001B2PWN6
Release Date: August 28, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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Product Description
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 software is essential for today'sdigital photography workflow. Now you can quickly import processmanage and showcase your images — from one shot to an entireshoot. With Lightroom 2 you spend less time in front of th
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 An significant upgrade to a great application October 28, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Ideal for anyone with an expensive camera, image management software Photoshop darkroom 1.0 was a great image editing and processing application. Now Lightroom 2.0 has arrived. Lightroom is kind of a batch processing application where it uploads photos from your camera card, tags and sorts them, and then allows image editing [cropping, enhancement, optimisation] before exporting them to disk, printer or web/email. It has a powerful set of editing tools built in and almost removes the need for a separate image editor like Photoshop CS4. You can download a 30 day trial from Adobe to see if it meets your requirements or whether budget consumer Adobe Photoshop Elements 7.0 or the fantastically expensive Adobe PhotoShop CS4 is more suitable for your needs. Lightroom 2.0 does even integrate into PhotoShop CS4 if you are lucky enough to own it. Lightroom 2.0 is an ideal application if you have to shoot loads of photos one minute and pass them on to visitors the next, or you simply want to minimise image editing time on the PC and get out there again with your camera.
The only downside is that the full version price of Lightroom 2.0 has jumped up to 230, although this makes the far cheaper upgrade price seem better value if you already own Lightroom 1.0, particularly as this is a worthwhile upgrade. The most obvious change in Lightroom 2.0 are dual monitor support, more options for localized image processing/editing, an ability to take 3rd-party plug-ins, better 'removable drive' handling and the 'smart collections' image database tool. Be warned though the application layout has changed and you need Adobe's latest update patches and a fast multi-core Intel graphics workstation PC to get Darkroom running smoothly [which I have]. Plus I don't care for the trendy charcoal gray interface, text has been black on white since the written word was invented millennia ago for a good reason, and classic XP/Vista window colour schemes and layout are simply more practical during use. It does help you concentrate on the image though I suppose, and it recreates that vintage darkroom feel [where you can't see squat else]. Still that's a minor quibble given the merits of the application. School kids, college students and departments will qualify for significant educational discounts on all Adobe's software, so check these out if that includes you. Visit Adobe for further details of the software & educational discounts.
PC system requirements are a Pentium 4, XP or Vista Premium, 1Gb system RAM, 1GB hard-disk space and a 1,024x768 display. The fact that AMD processors aren't mentioned might well be significant. Adobe installers often reject any PC that falls below the minimum spec, plus 4Gb system memory and a fast graphics card will certainly speed things up. To quote Adobe: "The new Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 is the serious photographer's essential toolbox, providing one easy application for managing, adjusting, and presenting large volumes of digital photographs so you can spend less time in front of the computer and more time behind the lens."
Perfect work-flow tool October 23, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Running on WinXP (2gb mem, 3.2GHz CPU), yes it can be slow at times, this has been acknowledged by Adobe, performance should be addressed in the next patch 2.1. So suggest if you're thinking about buying this, see what patches have happened since these reviews.
I haven't used LR 1.4 unlike other reviewers, so can only comment based on LR2; for those users who prefer to spend time behind the camera and not a PC, this is the app. Easy to use workflow tool with many features, good selection of image enhancement tools, the Grad Filters are superb, allows open-source plugins (for example plugin tools available to auto upload images to your favourite online sites etc).
For the money I would liked to have seen some paper documentation with this, as a minimum a quick start guide offering hints & tips on how to best organise you images should be included. I've already setup catalogues and stored images that I know I could have distributed better now I've been using LR for a few weeks now.
As a neutral who was looking for an application that would allow me to swiftly process 400+ RAW shots with minor tweaking (batch adjust white balance, cropping, saturation, sharpening etc) I have found this fits the bill. Other than Aperture (only for the Apple), there is no alternative work-flow tool as good at the moment.
 I think Lightroom 2 is wonderful September 15, 2008
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
I'm sure I agree with some of the comments already posted on this product, such as relocation of some of the tools (which is annoying for the first 30 mins unti you get used to it), but the improvements are well worth the upgrade. I didn't notice some of the missing features of earlier versions so I'm not sure I'd used them that much - you may or may not yourself.
It can be a little clunky if your PC spec is a tad on the low side, and getting used to the new features such as graduated filter can take just a little getting used to.
After v2 I'm not going back to v1.x, its great :)
 Not fit for purpose September 5, 2008
13 out of 14 found this review helpful
As a professional photographer I have been using Ligtroom 1.4 since it became available and it was great. At last a professional tool to catalogue and tag pictures and make quick pre production adjustments as well as tools to produce presentaions of work for clients.
So the upgrade to Lightroom 2 seemed a logical step but was huge dissapointment. It is slow and clunky (on a fast dual core computer with loads of memory), freezes the computer regularly and refuses to open pictures into CS3 for editing.
The new dodge and burn tool is completley unusable and the exisiting tools do not seem to function as well as in 1.4.
Frankly I would expect a pre production beta version to work better than this. I have taken it off my computer and have gone back to version 1.4.
When Adobe finally get it right it will be fantastic, but for now, don't waste you money on Lightroom 2 until Adobe have got it sorted out. If you need this software see if you can get hold of a copy of version 1.
Disappointing September 4, 2008
16 out of 18 found this review helpful
I agree entirely with Mr Clarke. I was working smoothly with LR 1.41 and foolishly bought and loaded LR 2. It's junk, and full of bugs. Take an image to Photoshop for editing and it won't return to stack in the catalogue you're working in. Now it can't find my images, and doesn't even give you the red 'tell me where they are' option of LR 1. Controls you use for almost every image, that were therefore positioned at the bottom of the screen in LR 1, have moved to the top right - a small thing, but irritating as you slide your arm up the desk hundreds of times - WHY? WHY put them up there? You still can't import text descriptions from old catalogues in different programs - and most keen digital photographers will have information they'd like to import in text delim. as you would be able to with any self-respecting database. I could carry on, but I can only say if you are happy with LR1 stick with it and even if you fancy giving the free trial a go don't without making a backup of your precious catalogues as you have to convert them to LR2. Why does a company like Adobe release such a piece of rubbish? I suppose they couldn't wait to rake the money in, I'm sorry they got some of mine. Not sure if you can give no stars in Amazon so I've given it 1 which it doesn't deserve.
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