Lightroom 2.0 is now out of beta with a massive list of new features. It costs $299 in the US, and $99 for 1.0 users to upgrade.
The highlights for me is the new Profile Editor which allows you to create your own custom profiles for the rendering of RAW files, letting you choose how you want them to look. Hopefully this means I can create a profile that renders my Fuji S5 Pro’s raw files like the straigh out of camera JPEGs.
Another long standing bug is that the vignette effect filter only applied to the corners of the whole image, irregardless of whether you cropped the photograph or not. Now you can choose whether to apply it to the whole photograph or just the cropped area.
January 4, 2008 – 10:22 pm
November 16, 2007 – 8:25 am
Lightroom 1.3 update includes support for new cameras including the as yet unreleased D3 and D300, and also fixes printing issues in Leopard. The biggest news is the release of a preview SDK for exporting images, so hopefully plugins that will let you upload to sites like Flickr within Lightroom will start to appear.
February 20, 2007 – 9:22 am
Adobe is now shipping Photoshop Lightroom 1.0. Those living in the U.S. pay $199 until April 7 when the price goes up to $299, however us lucky Brits get to pay £146.88, over £40 more than the equivalent dollar price in pounds, and up to £205 after the promotion is over.
I’ve switched to Aperture now (which also has the same disparity between U.S and U.K. prices) as I find it works faster and better.
December 21, 2006 – 9:43 am
It seems the blue square icon for the new Photoshop CS3 beta is actually the final production icon, and every other Creative Suite application has a similar mystery meat style icon. Great. Analysis available from Mezzoblue.
December 15, 2006 – 11:40 pm
Adobe Photoshop CS3 beta is out! You’ll need a valid CS2 to participate, but it does last two days without a serial. All I can say is it runs like a dog on my 2GHz Core Duo Macbook with 512MB of RAM.
