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Category: Software
List Price: $299.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  74 reviews
Sales Rank: 2027
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Mac Os X, Windows Xp, Mac Os X Intel
Media: CD-ROM
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Operating System: Mac OS X Intel
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0.1 x 0.1
MPN: 19250101
Model: 19250126
UPC: 883919058306
EAN: 0883919058313
ASIN: B000MG2KPU
Release Date: May 1, 2007
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Condition: ** Student/Educational Version for Windows/Mac. Sealed in original shrinkwrap. Item #540224700 **
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| Customer Reviews:
 If you need a nice efficient workflow this is it. August 1, 2007
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Adobe Lightroom does exactly what I was looking for. Photo editing and organizing (keywords, ratings, renaming) this is a robust package.
I currently use Photoshop CS2 and iPhoto. I never really like iPhotos method of organizing or trust it's editing capabilities. So I relied on Photoshop and then reimporting a copy of the image back into iPhoto. which all seemed like to many steps. Lightroom has changed my workflow and the way I work, eliminating 3 or 4 steps in the process.
Pros:
-Interface is beautiful to work in.
-Simple switching view modes. (switch from G: Grid (thumbnails), E: Loupe (single image))
-Menus Toggle (Tab)
-Develop Mode D: Editing, Presets, Exposure, Curves, HSL, Crop, etc... This is the editing mode of Lightroom. Color edits only of the image. You need Photoshop to actually edit pixels, I.E. delete people from image and fill with background...etc.
-Presets, think Actions in Photoshop, presaved and default image editing. Do a google search for free presets. there seem to be quite a few out there.
-Copy Settings, once you edit an image, you can cut and paste those settings and apply them to another image or group of images. Very helpful.
-Edit multiple images at once. grab like 50 images, brighten, white balance, etc. (simple things you can go into Develop mode with more than one image at a time, but again you can cut and paste edits.)
-At any point you can "reset" edits to an image as the original is not actually edited until you export a file out. I have reset images from a month ago to their original.
-Organizing there are two ways I have tried so far, 1) import directly from camera, create folders (in the finder) name folders, 2) import into finder, syncronize folders from Lightroom, new images will be updated in your Lightroom library as they exist in your finder folders. (this is awesome for me because I need to know exactly where they are and named)
-Naming, while importing you can import as they are named by the camera, add dates to images, custom name (xxxxx-1234.jpg), add date, add sequence number... etc. again, I am an organization nut so this was a big plus for me.
-Identity Plate, top left corner of the interface by default says, "Adobe Lightroom...." you can change this to a custom name, like John Smith Phothography, this is nice for presenting to clients.
-Collections, quick folders created by drag and dropping images.
Cons:
-Could be faster, but I have about 30K images of all different sizes. Going from Grid to Loupe takes a few seconds for the image to redraw. I might need more ram.
-No two monitor set up possible. The toggled menus slide out from left right and bottom and dissapear leaving a tiny arrow to indicate hiding. There is no way to drag and drop the menus to another location. This is find for one monitors as the menus hide rather quickly and i have gotten used to the quick keys, but I have two monitors and could use the extra space.
besides all this, well I am sure there is more for me to learn but after the one month free trial I am happy I got this program, saved me many steps and feels like a smooth interface to show off images to clients and friends. Cheers.
 Beautiful but unreliable July 14, 2007
11 out of 20 found this review helpful
Lightroom is a beautiful well designed product, crafted for the way photographers work. Unfortunately, Adobe just released the 1.1 version w/o the same attention to quality that the original design implied. In upgrading to the new version, the program corrupted all the lightroom files on my main and backup hard drives rendering them useless. It then refused to be re-directed from the corrupted library and wouldn't even open. No matter how elegant the design, a program for managing photography files that instead destroys them is worse than useless. This is a wonderful product, that has been destroyed by a lack of attention to quality. Don't buy it, because you can't trust it.
What we have been waiting for. June 26, 2007
0 out of 5 found this review helpful
Who would expect anything less from the producers of Photoshop? It has as much or as little as you need.
Adobe Lightroom 1.0 June 26, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I purchased Adobe Lightroom 1.0 about a month ago. It has helped so much with my digital photography workflow. I shoot approx 600+ images at a typical wedding. With Adobe Lightroom 1.0 I have saved so much time behind the computer in pre-production. If you shoot lots of images, Lightroom is for you !
 Great early version. June 20, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
After using it for a few months now there are a few quirks that I wish were not there or done differently. I'm sure this program is only going to get better. Mesh's real well with Photoshop7.1, hence, same vendor. That's what sold me over Aperature.
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