Review: Photoshop Lightroom 2.0 Review | Photography | Macworld - 0 views
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Many of the improvements are small ones that focus on usability and productivity, but they add up to real improvements that make it easier to manage photos
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Adobe has also expanded Lightroom’s editing functionality significantly, making it less likely that you’ll need an external photo-editing program (such as Adobe Photoshop () or Photoshop Elements () to work on your photos.
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edit your photos nondestructively (this simply means that any adjustments you make to an image do not physically alter the original; you can always return to your original photo
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The same five modules—Library, Develop, Slideshow, Print, and Web—still anchor the program, but Adobe has reordered and refined things considerably, so you can easily get to your images, edit them, and present them for viewing on screen, in print, or on the Web.
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f the LED is green, the drive (and its folders) is online and has sufficient disk space available. If it is yellow, the drive is available but is getting full, and if it is red, the drive is full. If the LED is not lit, the drive is offline. (You can still see offline images and their previews; you just can’t edit them.)
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create albums (or collections, as Adobe terms them) based on any combination of the same set of criteria found in the Filter feature. If you’ve used the Smart Album feature in Apple’s iPhoto or iTunes, you’ll be right at home here.
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Adobe has also included an associated tool called the Graduated Filter, which uses an approach borrowed from the photographic world. Adding a Graduated Filter to a photo creates a rectangular region where the effect is gradually reduced from the top of the region (where it would be strongest) to the bottom (where it would be weakest). This is similar to a graduated filter that you might place on a camera lens, to gradually darken skies, for example, and Lightroom’s Graduated Filter can do the same thing. But, like the Adjustment Brush, you can use the same seven effects (or combinations thereof) to create your own adjustments far beyond darkening skies.
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If you’ve used any of the brush tools in Photoshop, you’ll feel right at home with the Adjustment Brush.
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The feature with the biggest wow factor in Lightroom 2.0 is the Adjustment Brush. This tool, found in the Develop module, lets you “paint” tonal and color adjustments directly onto your images with your mouse or tablet pen
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Recognizing that many Lightroom owners also use Photoshop, Adobe has made it easier to move files back and forth between the two programs.
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The Print module has a number of useful enhancements, but the biggest is the Picture Package layout feature, which lets you create multipage photo layouts for an image.
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Professional studio photographers will miss the fact that the program doesn’t include support for tethered shooting
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no provision for soft proofing, which lets you view your images on screen via ICC profiles for your chosen printer, but people I’ve spoken to about this at Adobe feel that soft proofing is unnecessary for Lightroom
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odd to me that version 1.0’s Clone and Heal tools were not revamped as brushes. My least favorite job inside Lightroom is using the Heal tool, one spot at a time, trying to repair a scanned image or other photo that has defects. It works fine for the small stuff, but I want the Healing Brush tools found in Photoshop and Elements