Adobe Lightroom 2

One program that I have found invaluable since its release has been Adobe Lightroom. It is aimed at professional photographers, but is certainly not limited in value to them.

I currently have a photo library of over 18000 images, and Lightroom not only catalogues the collection, making it easy for me to find the image that I want, but also provides a full suite of tools to enhance the images for when I need to use them.

There are colour correction tools, cropping tools, and on and on. I used to use Adobe Photoshop a great deal – pretty much every image I worked with spent some time inside that program to tidy it up, and that step has been replaced in literally 99.9% of cases with the workflow being completed inside Adobe Photoshop Lightroom (to use its full name).

One really beneficial aspect of the program, is ALL the changes you make to the image are non-destructive, and I can’t emphasise just how important that fact is on so many levels.

The point of this entry is that Lightroom 2 is now available – with a swag of new and enhanced features added. Oh, and it is for both PC and Mac.