Jason Dunn
07-29-2008, 10:05 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshoplightroom/' target='_blank'>http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshoplightroom/</a><br /><br /></div><p><em>"Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the immediate availability of Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom® 2 software, the photographer's essential toolbox for managing, adjusting and presenting large volumes of digital photographs. With new enhancements such as dual-monitor support, radical advances in non-destructive localized image correction, and streamlined search capabilities, Lightroom 2 is a compelling upgrade that simplifies photography from shoot to finish. As Adobe's first application to support 64-bit for Mac OS X 10.5 Macintosh computers with Intel® processors and Microsoft® Windows® Vista® 64-bit operating systems, Lightroom 2 also provides improved memory performance for dealing with large scale images."</em></p><p><img src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com/resizer/thumbs/size/600/dht/auto/1217362150.usr1.jpg" border="1" /></p><p>Lightroom 1.x is what I use to process my raw files and for the most part, it's a great program. The <a href="http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshoplightroom/features/" target="_blank">list of features in 2.0</a> looks pretty good, although nothing earth-shattering. The funny thing is that I got a copy of Lightroom 1.0 for review, but kept having little issues with it and in discussing the problems with my Adobe PR person, I wanted to wait until I stopped seeing memory issues with it before writing my review. They released the 1.4.1 update a month or so ago (perhaps a bit longer) and the software was finally stable and more or less glitch free, so I was planning on reviewing it last week but didn't get around to it. Lo and behold, Adobe releases Lightroom 2.0! I knew Lightroom 2.0 was in public beta, but I didn't think they'd take it to production so quickly. It's either remarkably error-free, or it will be like Lightroom 1.0 and have some initial issues. I hope Adobe has learned their lesson with version 1.0...</p>