Enhancements that can be found in the Lightroom 2.0 beta include the following: Localized corrections — Enhance specific areas of an image for unsurpassed nondestructive flexibility and control reminiscent of the traditional darkroom dodge and burn experience. Improved organizational tools — Find the images you need quickly and easily. Multiple monitor support — Add an additional monitor to efficiently manage photographic workflow and presentation. Flexible print package functionality — Create custom layouts containing multiple sizes of a photograph on a single page. 64-bit support — Lightroom 2.0 now takes advantage of the latest hardware architectures with improved memory handling and performance. http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/lightroom/
I picked the piece below by David Schloss from AUPN: Adobe Announces Lightroom 2.0 Beta Adobe announced a public beta of Adobe Lightroom 2.0. No shipping date for the final version has been announced, but the beta expires at the end of August so likely September at the earliest. From what the release states, the new features are: Localized correction (in the form of a new dodge and burn tool). Improved organization tools (not sure what that means yet). Multiple monitor support (well, we've had that for three years now). Flexible Print Package Functionality (which Aperture got with 2.0's custom book sizes and creative tools). 64-bit support (which, you know we have already) and..... well that's it really. A later note in the release notes indicates that 2.0 beta has some functionality with Photoshop that's only available in CS3, seems that it can pass a raw to ACR in Photoshop without writing a TIFF first. Competition in the market's great. And Apple's now got an early view of where Lightroom will be in five months. It's been a month since 2.0 shipped and we got 2.1 with plug-ins, I wonder what'll be cooked up between now and September?
Here's another AUPN post by David Schloss that's interesting to read: Adobe — Now with its own reality distortion field. We're really disappointed today to have read Adobe's comments regarding Lightroom that distort the facts in order to promote their beta release. Since the computer media is picking up on this, I thought we'd comment. Ars Technca reported Adobe reps as saying that Apple "...took over two years between the release of Aperture 1.0 and 2.0" As the Director of the Aperture Users Professional Network, I clearly use Aperture a lot, but as the former Technology Editor for Photo District News and a lifelong photographer, I pay very close attention to the cycles of products. In fact, I was an alpha tester on Lightroom when it was called Shadowlands. I also hold the Adobe folks in great regard, having spent many years of my career working with them, and their excellent products. However, saying that Aperture took two years to go from 1.0 to 2.0 completely discounts the actual history of the application and the significant major and minor updates that came between it. It would be akin to saying that Lightroom has never had an update. (Because it would skip over the 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 and recalled 1.4 updates.) Aperture 1.0 was released in October 2005, and it took only 10 months to go from 1.0 to 1.5. Even if one were to only look at major revisions like a .5 release or a full "dot oh" release, there was only 11 months between the 1.5 and the 2.0. That's nine months short of two years. That also discounts the *15* total updates to the program that occurred between launch of 1.0 and launch of 2.0. Adobe announced Lighroom in January 2006 and shipped a beta then. They shipped the 1.0 of the program in January 2007. That's a year to go from beta to real. During that same time Aperture went from a 1.0 to a 1.5, and then had several updates. From January 2007 until April 2nd, (That's 15 months, btw, the same time period between Aperture 1.5 and 2.0) the product has only had three updates, if you don't include the abortive 1.4 that was released and withdrawn when found to cripple use of the program. So, let's keep this in perspective. Both companies seem to be spending the time developing their offerings. And in the long run that's really good for photographers. I'm completely in favor of users adopting the workflow of their choice, and I'm unbelievably in favor of competition—each of these companies is clearly driving the other to greater achievements, but it's disingenuous and insulting to have a company like Adobe pretend that there have been no updates to a program that's actually had more updates than their own offering. It's also amazing to me that none of the news outlets that ran this actually checked these facts, as it seems it would not have been difficult to look in one's own article archives to check the dates of coverage of these pieces. It's great that these programs keep evolving, it's not great that rhetoric and hyperbole are getting in the way of accuracy.
Really? Wow.. it's a good thing I never pay attention to the marketing fuzz that surrounds either program, I just gave lightroom a try not because I was taken by their "savvy"*with sarcasm* marketing, but rather I just took an interest to it as a photographer, It's sad that Adobe has to resort to this slinging of improper facts, but I can't blame them either. Both Aperture and Lightroom occupy a niche in their own rights, they are only really competing with themselves.
Re: Adobe Lightroom 2.0 OFFICIAL RELEASE Today, I received an email from Adobe that they have officially released the Official Version of Adobe Lightroom 2.0. Please check out this link https://store1.adobe.com/cfusion/st...cations/PhotoshopLightroom&nr=0&view=ols_prod I have now upgraded to the 2.0 official version. In addition to the cool features of the Beta version, there are new tools, like the graduated filter and the soften skin brush. And these are not plug-ins and are applied non-destructively to the RAW files. No need for that extra step of exporting before applying the localized corrections/brushes.
Lightroom 2.3 Adobe Lightroom 2.3 now available. Here is the link: http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/thankyou.jsp?ftpID=4359&fileID=4058
