Lightroom

[MarkBarbieri]

Anyone played with the beta of Adobe Lightroom yet? I've been using beta 3 on Windows and I love it. The only problem that I have is that it's too darn slow. Assuming that they optimize the performance before they release the final version, it'll replace 90% of my photoshop use.

 

[Furgus]

Same here, very slow, but very very cool.

 

[0bli0]

i've playing with it since beta 1, but i'm an Apple Aperture user. it's noticeably slower in windows than it is in osx. i greatly prefer Aperture over Lightroom, but they are very similar programs.

 

[extreme8]

I like that it handles JPG's in much the same way as RAW files. All of the same adjustments are there, and the changes are non destructive.
I agree that it is incredibly slow, but the general belief is that it will be optimized before being shipped.
Lets hope so because this could be a great program.

I'm eligible for a free copy of V1.0 when it ships because I'm a current owner of Pixmantecs Raw Shooter Premium.

 

[0bli0]

have you listened to their podcasts? they say the beta database/raw conversion meta data are not likely to be compatible with the production release. writing a converter is not high on their priority list (unless some junior programmer does it). this means you will have to reprocess your files into the 1.0 release. hopefully they do make a mechanism to migrate.

 

[extreme8]

I hadn't heard anyting concrete, but I expected as much.
I'm just using Lightroom for anything I want to keep mainly because it's just too slow to do any real work with, but also because I expected a change in their RAW conversion processes.
I'm not using it to catalog my images for the same reason. It would be terrible if the database changed for the final release and I lost all of my meta data. Imagine the work involved in re-catagorizing all of your files and re-typing all of yor keywords.

For now it's RSP for RAW conversion & ACDSEE pro for my cataloging.
I wonder if the final version will import the metadata from there.... That would be really nice.