Thursday, February 11, 2010

Yes, Lightroom is great

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is a really great program for photographers. In essence, it is a streamlined image editing and data asset management (DAM) application. If you shoot RAW and work with lots of photos; i.e. weddings, special event photography, or just a passionate hobbyist, you should definitely check out Lightroom. There is a bit of a learning curve, but if you take the time to get through it, you will find editing multiple images to be a much more enjoyable process. Here are some good resources for working with Lightroom (I will update as I find more):

Official Adobe site for Lightroom. You can download the 30 day demo from here.
http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshoplightroom/

Nice writeup on working with multiple Lightroom catalogs; one on a laptop and one master catalog at home
http://www.photoshopsupport.com/lightroom/lightroom-2/lightroom-workflow/lightroom-workflow.pdf

Tips and advice from the developers of Lightroom. 
http://blogs.adobe.com/lightroomjournal/

Suggested Lightroom catalog settings
http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/02/lightroom-catalog-settings.html

Lightroom 3 is currently in beta. There are already a number of resources available for it.

Download the Beta version
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/lightroom3/

Info about Lightroom 3

http://www.photoshopuser.com/lightroom3

Photoshop Tutorials by Mark Galer
http://www.photoshopsupport.com/tutorials/mark-galer.html

Julieanne Kost is an Adobe Image Evangelist. She has nice videos and write-ups here.

Blog about LR and related matters
http://insidelightroom.com

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