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Lightroom 2.0 – it just keeps getting better and better
The more I’ve been learning about Lightroom 2 (technically now at 2.3), the more I’ve been liking it! First of all, I learned that – thanks to new camera profiles (also available in the latest camera raw software) – I can get my photos to start from where Canon’s own RAW software would have started. I never realized it was a better choice than photoshop because I liked the photoshop workflow so much. But now that I’ve played with the camera profiles in Lightroom, I realize that I’ve been selling my images short.
Second, I’ve been reading The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 book and I’ve been learning quite a bit there. Most recently I learned something that will save me A LOT of time in my photography workflow. Lightroom has the DNG converter built in AND the ability to convert your RAW files and delete them. But, not only that – it will also delete the sidecar XMP files. So I can work on my files as soon as I transfter them from my memory card. Then I can let the DNG conversion go on overnight. Before I would first convert all of my photos, which might take an hour if it’d been a long shoot and THEN working on them. So sometimes I was converting as many as 60 photos which were destined to be automatically deleted once I saw they were crap. So once again, Lightroom changes my workflow for the better!
Related posts:
- One more look at Adobe Lightroom (this time 2.3)
- Adobe Lightroom Initial Reaction Review
- Adobe Lightroom 2: Further Use
- Tutorial: Geo-Tagging Your Photos
- RAW Flow….it’s a learning process
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