| Adobe Lightroom 3.0 (Mac/PC) | 
| From: Adobe Systems Inc.
Category: Software
Buy New: £224.52
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Rating:  9 reviews
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Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows 7, Mac OS X
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Operating System: Mac OS X/Windows Vista/7
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Product Description
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom software is a digital darkroom and efficient assistant designed for serious amateur and professional photographers. With Lightroom, you can organize, enhance, and showcase your images all from one fast and nimble application that's available on Macintosh and Windows® platforms. - Manage your growing photo collection in a visual library that makes it quick and easy to organize, find, and select your images. - Get the absolute best from every shot-whether raw, JPEG, or TIFF-using state-of-the-art nondestructive editing tools. - And when you're ready, showcase your...
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Lightroom 3 Tramples Capture One! June 10, 2010
C. Jeavons
31 out of 31 found this review helpful
I'm a pro photographer, and shoot fashion product for a living, and image clarity and accuracy is key. I've been using the beta 2 trial of Lightroom 3 for a while now, and it's amazing! Lightroom 2.whatever was ok, but not a patch on Capture One Pro. but Lightroom 3 does it all just as well, and does the important things SO much better! Image Quaity! As for RAW image handling, it is THE BEST! ACR in CS5 still makes for noisy, unsharp images that need a lot of extra work done to them - as did the old Lightroom. Capture One Pro did a much better job, but shadow details were still a little 'grainy'. Lightroom 3 delivers wonderful shadows, lovely accurate colours, and little need for additional sharpening - and it's fast! ACR is slow, Capture One is faster, but Lightroom 3 is quicker still! I use Canon gear, and this software has been the answer to my prayers!
I'd long given up on Adobe's RAW converters, but this has drawn me back (and away from my beloved Capture One). Not only are the converted jpegs great quality, Lightroom 3 is the fastest converter I've used! A good 40% faster than Capture One, and if you're a Canon user and use Canon's DPP, then it's a million times faster! Forget DPP, get this!
Quality, speed, ease of use and decent asset management June 12, 2010
Bahi at Shoot Raw (London, UK)
19 out of 19 found this review helpful
Lightroom 3 is a leap. Its raw conversion--Lightroom's core feature--produces clarity, sharpness and detail that shame all previous Adobe raw converters, particularly for higher-ISO images. Noise reduction is outstanding--in previous releases, a base level of luminance noise reduction blunted the finer detail of your low-light work, robbing it of some of its bite, even with the luminance slider set to zero. Now, you get zesty details and exceptionally effective control of noise. Colour noise reduction is simply in another league now, and luminance NR can restore the gloss to smooth surfaces (like car bodywork shot in low light) in a way that was previously the preserve of dedicated, third-party noise-reduction applications and plugins. Learn the combined effects of sharpening, masking, the detail sliders and noise reduction in Lightroom 3; when you do, you'll find it hard to produce better basic conversions from other raw converters. With the creative sharpening tools, the graduated filters and the other brushes for local adjustments, the quality of Lightroom 3's output quickly reaches giddy heights.
This release includes all the image management and workflow capabilities of Lightroom 2 with some useful workflow tweaks and an improved import interface. There are new and very useful development tools to reduce optical distortion and to quickly correct for the effects you get when subjects have parallel lines that appear to converge when photographed from less-than-perfect positions. (This easy, after-the-fact correction is a poor photographer's shift lens and you pay in pixels, not pounds. We'd all love a decent set of tilt-shift lenses but sometimes, you have to take what you can afford and pixels are getting more affordable, unlike, say, a Nikkor 24mm PC-E. Ah, the Nikkor 24mm PC-E... [Pauses for a moment and wipes a tear from his eye.])
For many photographers, Lightroom 3 is all the post-processing and image management they'll ever need. For those who require Photoshop for advanced pixel-level work, photomontage or the addition & removal of elements from pictures, Lightroom 3 works exceptionally well with Photoshop CS 4 (you need to upgrade your ACR plugin to v5.7 for free) and of course, with CS 5. If you round-trip between Lightroom and Photoshop, you'll be glad to know that you can send a Photoshopped image back to Lightroom and later, back to Photoshop with all your previous layers preserved--no need to flatten.
Print and web output, with the output sharpening licensed from the PixelGenius folks, is unmatched. Upsizing and downsizing are both handled beautifully--your low-res web images will look sharp but not crunchy. Printing is one of Lightroom's strong points but I'll leave that for another time. If you made it this far, you'll have realised that I consider Lightroom 3 to be a terrific package. I'm withholding a quarter of a star because there's no soft proofing and a quarter because there's no book-printing package included. (Unfortunately, I had to round up to the nearest number of whole stars.) The Lightroom team has done an exceptionally good job--this is a landmark release.
A Thoroughly Excellent Product June 23, 2010
Robert Groom (UK)
16 out of 16 found this review helpful
Once you've used Lightroom for a while and gotten your workflow in good shape, you'll wonder how you managed to live without it. I always convert my NEF and CR2 RAW files to DNG before importing them into Lightroom, mostly for future proofing purposes, but it's really not necessary. Lightroom makes use of Adobe Bridge to manage and edit RAW files from a huge variety of third party RAW formats.
Once your images are in the database, you can sort, categorise, compare, apply search terms, filter and organise by metadata attributes, perform multi-edits like white balance, lens distortion and vignette correction across a series of shots in one go, which is a real timesaver. The editing tools (spot removal, adjustment brush, crop, rotate etc.) are lossless and any change can be undone or modified at any time. The only disadvantage of this method is that, after applying a large number of edits, further editing can become somewhat sluggish. This is not usually a problem in reality, as most edits in Lightroom tend to be minimal tweaks.
Of course, you still need to implement a reliable image backup strategy, preferably involving some form of off-site storage, but at least now you will be able to find your 'best-of-the-best' shots with a couple of clicks. Using Lightroom has revolutionised the way I work, and use it constantly. It interfaces beautifully with Photoshop, and export plugins are readily available to facilitate uploads to the more popular online image sites.
New to LR3 is improved noise reduction. Some sample images I've processed in parallel with Noise Ninja and LR3 show a comparable benefit at default settings. For the vast majority of images, I'll likely never use Noise Ninja now. You get fewer knobs and buttons than in specialist NR tools, but who really uses them all the time? Of course, you can also add film grain noise if you want to, which looks very convincing, and is a nice feature if you want to go for a reportage/retro look.
The new lens correction (distortion and vignetting) feature is fantastic, and I will be using this as a matter of course on the majority of my shots. Just check the list of supported lenses to be sure you're covered. There are 14 Nikon lenses (including popular Pro zooms like the holy trinity and the seemingly ubiquitous 18-200) and 27 Canon lenses listed along with a surprisingly long list from Sigma, but only 2 for Sony lenses and a miserly 1 for Tamron. No doubt this will be expanded as updates to LR3.1 and above are released. If your lens isn't specifically listed, then you can make manual adjustments, which should save an unnecessary trip into Photoshop.
The import dialogue is improved and clarified, and has extended options for applying standardised filenaming and metadata on import.
There is a tight integration with Flickr, and I have found a plugin allowing direct export to Photobox too, which is very useful (note that this is a 3rd party plugin and may not be free).
The image watermarking is improved, and lets you embed your professional logo in exports, which I will certainly be using.
The Tethered Capture feature is a great new addition, especially for Nikon shooters who don't get free remote capture software supplied. I plug my D700 into any USB port on my PC, fire up the Tethered Capture facility and the camera is immediately recognised. I can then fire away, and the shots will all be stored in a folder of my choice, with whatever naming convention I choose and with standard metadata applied as required. A preview of the last shot taken is displayed as I shoot. You can also add standard keywords at capture time, which is useful.
All of the above were the icing on the cake for me. The real reason why I upgraded to LR3 was the improved speed. When scanning through 30,000 photos, LR2.6 could be rather sluggish, especially displaying the thumbnail images in a non-pixellated format. LR3 is not instant, but it's certainly a lot faster, and that makes my job easier. It's a real time saver.
Lightroom 3 is an incredibly comprehensive photo management and processing tool. Many photographers will find that it's all they need for 90% of images, with fewer and fewer reasons to make the jump to Photoshop for those more intense edits.
If you're buying Lightroom for the first time, it represents great value for money and I can thoroughly recommended it to any pro or advanced amateur photographer.
Not just for professionals July 8, 2010
Michael Shea (Essex, UK)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Lightroom 3 is a significant improvement on the previous edition, which in my opinion was already a brilliant and invaluable program for anyone saving RAW image files. Both versions enable you to save presets with ease and this facility is ideal for recreating the look of a picture you're particularly happy with. All adjustments are fully reversible. The interface of Lightroom allows you to view your changes in excellent detail.
Noise reduction is improved out of all recognition in Lightroom 3 and probably the second most important feature is the new lens distortion filter. Both function very effectively and mean you spend less time in Photoshop (if you've got it) afterwards.
So do you really need Photoshop as well? Well in my opinion it depends largely on how much you rely on third party plug-in filters. I've got many installed, but not all of them work directly with Lightroom. However, Nik Software and Photomatix Pro both do and I could probably get by with just them and still achieve very satisfying results.
There are many amateur photographers who simply do not appreciate the scope offered by RAW image files and therefore can't understand what a high-end RAW processor is capable of. I would urge them to at least take out a trial version of this software. It is by far the best of its kind available and I can thoroughly recommend it.
Highly recommended July 15, 2010
ollimar71
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I am new to Lightroom and extremely pleased that I bought the software. So far I have dabbled in the different modules and I am gradually getting to know the program with the help of "The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 Book" by Martin Evening.The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 Book: The Complete Guide for Photographers
I find the Develop and the Print modules to be very efficient and useful, and quite easy to get used to. The built-in creative developing presets are excellent. The Library module will take some more getting used to as there are so many options for organising my image files - sometimes it feels like I'm starting all over again. The Publish link to Flickr is a godsent.
The software runs smoothly on Windows 7 and I use Photoshop CS5 for external editing, so I haven't come across any conflicts.
I was also pleased with Amazon's delivery service.
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