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The 10 Best Things About the New Adobe Lightroom 2.0

Source: Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection

Jul 29, 2008

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Adobe's Lightroom 2.0, which launched today represents a major breakthrough in the field of digital photo processing. I've only just begun to play with the software today, but it is clear that Lightroom 2.0 will be my new imaging software of choice. Prior to using Lightroom 2.0 I did my photo processing using Adobe's Bridge and Photoshop. Lightroom represents a significant leap forward in the power of processing digital photographs. I thought I'd write up a post documenting my 10 new favorite processing tools that Lightroom 2.0 brings to the table.

1. Selective area processing of files. When using Adobe's Camera RAW to process in the past, an image was an all or none, take it or leave it, proposition. Yes, you could increase the exposure and contrast on a shot, but you had to increase the exposure and contrast for *the entire* shot. Frequently when processing photos you want more control than that. For example, sometimes you might have a shot perfectly exposed except for the eyes in a portrait which are too dark. With Lightroom 2.0 you can now contro ...Read the full article

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