Lightroom 1.0 trial is out

Anyway, I think we should leave it there. This is a lightroom thread, not another excuse for this vs that. Lightroom vs Aperture vs RSE vs Photomashop sure. Lets just try and keep it friendly.
 
Lightroom vs Aperture vs RSE vs Photomashop sure. Lets just try and keep it friendly.
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In fairness, it's pretty much always friendly here regardless of the thread topic. :clap:


Personally, I'm all for hearing how the alternatives stack up to Lightroom, Aperture or whatever. There are going to be more of these programs turning up over time I suspect and it's great to hear peoples opinions on where they excell and where they don't.
 
dazzajl said:
In fairness, it's pretty much always friendly here regardless of the thread topic. :clap:


Personally, I'm all for hearing how the alternatives stack up to Lightroom, Aperture or whatever. There are going to be more of these programs turning up over time I suspect and it's great to hear peoples opinions on where they excell and where they don't.
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I just don't want to see the topic degenerate into Windows vs OSX. I think we've all had a little dig, as we do but I just want to make sure we get back onto Lightroom.
 
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I just tried lightroom properly for the first time and, with only an hour's playing (imported last couple of months' photos, tagged, copyrighted, and organised) I believe that I will be making a purchase at the end of the trial period! :thumbs:

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Ars Technica Review, with a comparison of Aperture. Nice 8 page review.

Pros

* Exhaustive adjustments and interface options
* Incredible spot remover with Photoshop-level heal
* Edit history for images which is retained indefinitely
* Interactive selective color adjustment by clicking inside image
* Broad hardware support
* Good cross-compatibility with Photoshop's Camera RAW
* Plug-in architecture means third-party plug-ins are inevitable
* Top-quality RAW conversion quality for low-ISO images

Cons

* Sharpen is far too basic making it hard to sharpen without picking up noise
* No area average for adjustment eyedropper
* Metadata presets can't be edited once created
* Mediocre quality with noisy RAW images
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The price being quoted by Adobe of $199 dollars would translate (at today's exchange rate) to about £102... however, looking closer it would appear that the UK price from Adobe is actually £146!. Not impressed... I wonder if it's possible to buy from the US store? :thumbsdown:

AND... they want to charge £5 more to download it, as opposed to having the box shipped!

Edit:

Just read the terms & conditions on the US site....
Special Introductory Offer valid in US, Canada and Mexico only.
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Paul
:)
 
Thank God I have an American Credit Card! Don't forget that the prices on the American sites are sans taxes. So Like my home address is in NY so I have to pay 8% on top of the listed price while the listed price for the UK already includes VAT.
 
Anyone having problems installing?


When the basic file is downloaded and I select open the following appears in a 16bit MS-DOS Subsystem dilogue box
G:\DOWNLO~1\Photo\LIGHT_W~1.EXE
G:\Docume~1\Chris\Locals~\Temp\. A Temperory file needed for the initilization could not be created or could not be written to. Make sure that the directory path exisits, and disk space is available.

When I close the box nothing happens.

Any ideas Chris
 
Sounds like your hard drive is full or the download is corrupt, try clearing your cache and downloading again
 
I got my email from Adobe with a link to get my serial early this morning :)
 
I haven't :(

RIGHT :bat:
 
I got my serial number last night, and im current playing with LR. My first impression is how much better than the beta it is... but aside from that I must be missing something regarding the speed, folk seem to be raving about its performance compared to Aperture, but to me both are equally quick at both previewing images and processing them.
 
Can one of you let me know the e-mail address your notification came from - may come in handy if / when i have to chase them up

Cheers
 
DreederUK said:
I got my serial number last night, and im current playing with LR. My first impression is how much better than the beta it is... but aside from that I must be missing something regarding the speed, folk seem to be raving about its performance compared to Aperture, but to me both are equally quick at both previewing images and processing them.
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Well you are running it on one of the best Mac's you can get, so of course its fast. However, for everyone else they've noticed that Aperture is actually horribly slow while Lightroom is nice and smooth.
 
chris02 said:
Anyone having problems installing?


When the basic file is downloaded and I select open the following appears in a 16bit MS-DOS Subsystem dilogue box
G:\DOWNLO~1\Photo\LIGHT_W~1.EXE
G:\Docume~1\Chris\Locals~\Temp\. A Temperory file needed for the initilization could not be created or could not be written to. Make sure that the directory path exisits, and disk space is available.

When I close the box nothing happens.

Any ideas Chris
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Hi I have sorted the problem, I was using a third party downloader (Star) that failed to download the file correctly once unistalled not a prob.
Chris
 
Has anyone tried printing from Lightroom yet? I am having trouble! the prints are all coming out blue! its very odd! pic looks perfect on the screen, hit print and out comes this mess!! Do I have to do something before I can print? I make all the changes in develop etc and then click the print tab at the top which takes me to the print screen...do I have to somehow save the settings I have applied in develop before I print?
 
What settings are you using in the Print Job panel? Try switching Colour Management to Other and the selecting a profile for your printer/paper combo. Then select that in the panel and make sure your printer is set to not use ICM when printing.
 
seem to have cracked it...got some propper printer profiles and also changed all my cheapo ink as I think that was causing me problems :(
 
I cant quite get to grips with the difference between Shoots and collections.

I can see that a shoot is if you went out for a day to the zoo.
What is a collection?

And if i took a couple of pics in the garden one afternoon, then one of the kids........... that would hardly be a "shoot" would it?
 
Janice, Crunchy Nut of course :D

By Shoot you mean folder right?

Collections can be contain photos from various folders so they are referenced from one place. Basically you can group together different photos into one place to work on them with some of the LR tools such as web output, slideshow, etc.

Folders are just that - all the photos in a folder on your hard drive.
 
It seems really quick on my laptop which isn't exactly high spec. Lot nicer than RSE and works with jpegs as well which was one of the main reasons why I never used RSE. This might be worth buying
 
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