Playing with Adobe lightroom

[firsty]

As I will be getting a copy of lightroom at no cost because they brought out the makers of rawshooter pro that I purchased last year, I thought I better start getting to know it.
So I have been playing with the beta, I have imported all my photos since last July and spent time key wording them and having a look at the editing tools.
To say I'm happy with program is an understatement.
I have had a look at all the improvements they have made for the first release and I think anyone would be happy (a quick search will bring up lots of video tutorial of both the betas and the final release)

here are a few photos that I have had a play with while I was key wording
they were exported at this size from Lightroom as jpegs and then lightly sharpened and border add in photoshop, so the quality would be higher exported as a full size tiff then edited in photoshop but these are great as is for the web

[daniel_r]

Keith, #2 and #4 are quite fine images.

Looks like #4 has been hit by a bit of tonal clipping in converting it for the web, but I reckon the original 16bit pre-web version would be superb.

[Yi-P]

#2 is great shot

[colin_12]

These are all good in my book Keith. I like the style of shot in #2.
Might have to have a look at this program.
Regards Colin

[DaveB]

They're all great Keith.

If you like Beta 4.1, I think you're going to love 1.0! It still has lots of things to be improved in the future but as it is, it's already taken over as the core of my image processing.

[Pehpsi]

love #2, great tones in #4, and you've nearly convinced me to try Lightroom..

[devilla101]

Number 2 and 4

What can I say but WOW

These are some top pics. Can I ask what equipment you were using?

[firsty]

These are some top pics. Can I ask what equipment you were using?

thanks for that devilla, I'm learning to use a Nikon D200 and the first 2 were with a Tamron 28-75 f2.8 and the last 2 with Tokina 12-24 f4

DaveB
I have had a look at ALL the videos on the net and the things they have improved over the beta look real good
my main gripe was there was no snapshot so you had to export then start again if you wanted different versions and I realy like how I can find any photo real fast now

[DaveB]

I realy like how I can find any photo real fast now

It's pretty good like that, although not quite in the real of iView MediaPro. For instance there are a few extra fields it would occasionally be useful to search on, but I expect many of those loose ends will be tidied up for 1.1 and it's pretty good at 1.0.

Keep in mind when you start using it that it is a 1.0 product (even with the public betas behind it) and you'll probably find a few things you'd like to work differently. It may be something no-one else has noticed before but even if it is, it's worth mentioning to Adobe so they can schedule the work to change things. The public and private betas have helped guide the development of the product, but if you know anything about software development you'll know that there's always more to do.
While I'm sure we didn't catch everything, there's a long list of changes and fixes that Adobe has been working on. Some of them didn't make the cut for 1.0 and I'm told are scheduled for "1.1" (whenever that will be) and there others I haven't heard the status on of course.

Meanwhile, enjoy! Only about a week to go until 1.0 is available to the public...

[Lukaszek]

2 and 4 are excellent. I will wait for release full trial version to check it out.

[Wocka]

Keith,

All images are nice.

I'm in the same boat, waiting for the release of LR and I should also get a free copy as part of the RawShooter purchase. Although I haven't played with any of the LR Beta releases.

[lukeo]

In my opinion 2 and 4 are simply stunning! Number 3 looks underexposed to me? My monitor is calibrated, could just be my eyes I guess. Thanks for sharing!

Just a quick thing, I know this thread is supposed to be about Lightroom but I'm not seeing it? These seem to me to be your standard 4 image maximum post showing off some great shots? Any before and after links you could post up? Or even a walk thru of some features you find better/faster etc than Photoshop perhaps?