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Subject: [Leica] Is Lightroom 2.0 Really Shipping?
From: daniel.ridings at yahoo.se (Daniel Ridings)
Date: Sat Aug 16 14:54:54 2008

I'm sure it's cool.

Daniel


--- On Thu, 8/14/08, Tina Manley <images@comporium.net> wrote:

> From: Tina Manley <images@comporium.net>
> Subject: RE: [Leica] Is Lightroom 2.0 Really Shipping?
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
> Date: Thursday, August 14, 2008, 4:30 PM
> At 02:20 AM 8/14/2008, you wrote:
> >On my desktop it seems to work fine, but my impression
> is that it is 
> >some pretty flaky hyped up stuff and I don't really
> dare commit 
> >anything important to it.
> >
> >Photoshop still works like a champ. I only use
> Lightroom for my 
> >digital SLRs. It is definitely not to be recommended if
> you scan 
> >your images. Most of my work is scanned b/w.
> >
> >Lightroom would probably be good for K-Mart or Walmart
> when you want 
> >to spit out scads of images without paying too much
> attention to any 
> >particular one of them.
> >
> >Daniel
> 
> I totally disagree.  The upgrade to Lightroom 2.0 is the
> best $99 I 
> ever spent.  I'm able to get better results with LR
> than I could with 
> hours of work in PSCS3.  Just follow any of the tutorials
> online or 
> get Martin Evenings Lightroom 2.0 book.  The greatest thing
> is that 
> you can make as many non-destructive adjustments to the RAW
> file as 
> you want, save them as virtual copies, and never touch the
> original 
> files.  The cataloging has improved so much with this
> upgrade that 
> I'm switching over to LR instead of iView for
> cataloging my 
> photos.  I'm using it for my scanned images, too.  You
> can save them 
> as DNG files and work on them non-destructively.
> 
> Tina
> 
> Tina Manley
> www.tinamanley.com 
> 
> 
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