Adobe Photoshop Lightroom for Windows 2.5

3.5 out of 5 stars 3.5 (111 votes)

(September 15, 2009)

Windows Vista/XP / Commercial Demo / 12,080 downloads

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is the efficient new way for professional photographers to import, select, develop, and showcase large volumes of digital images. So you can spend less time sorting and refining photographs, and more time actually shooting them. Its clean, elegant interface literally steps out of the way and lets you quickly view and work with the images you shot today, as well as the thousands of images that you will shoot over the course of your career. Because no two photographers work alike, Adobe Lightroom adapts to your workflow, not the other way around.

Lightroom lets you view, zoom in, and compare photographs quickly and easily. Precise, photography-specific adjustments allow you to fine tune your images while maintaining the highest level of image quality from capture through output. And best of all, it runs on most commonly used computers, even notebook computers used on location.

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  1. 5 out of 5 stars
    Diam0nd

    Reviewing 2.2 (Dec 16, 2008)

    Great product that is overpriced as greatly.

    I complete agree with the commentor below me: Tenoq. If you have a closer look at LR, you won't find THAT much REALLY unusual tools. The main thing about LR is the usability: it designed to follow a certain flow starting from cataloguing and ending at publishing. So yeah, it is structured greatly. BUT would I pay $300 for greatly designed application? Not really. I would pay something, but 300 is a tad too much if you ask me.

    Bibble Pro > *
    imho

  2. 3 out of 5 stars
    Tenoq

    Reviewing 2.1 (Oct 26, 2008)

    Great product, but the price makes no sense. Sorry to all the others trying to justify it, but it's not 10 times better than the $30 ones. It's not even 10 times better than Picasa. It is significantly better, but there's no justification for it costing as much as an entire MS Office suite.

  3. 5 out of 5 stars
    Diam0nd

    Reviewing 2.1 (Oct 23, 2008)

    One of the best in business. Great tool, but terribly overpriced.

    Still, my choice is Bibble Pro.

  4. 5 out of 5 stars
    photonboy

    Reviewing 2.1 RC (Sep 24, 2008)

    I'm impressed.
    The functionality is really progressing nicely.

    As for performance, I'm looking forward to evaluating this combined with Photoshop CS4 and testing GPU processing as well as 64-bit versions.

    $300?
    Listen, a LOT of work goes into this product. People have been using Adobe products for some time so obviously there's a need. For professionals, time is money. There are a lot of lower-priced products and even free ones for more basic needs. Anyone bashing the price obviously is not in a position to need or even understand the full functionality of this product.

  5. 5 out of 5 stars
    Diam0nd

    Reviewing 2.1 RC (Sep 23, 2008)

    I think it's a great tool for a photographer. BUT, a few points:
    1. It's very overpriced (in a sense that you can find very similar kind of functionality for a MUCH lower price)
    2. I would not use this tool for serious archiving, but rather a special tool like Microsoft Expression Media
    3. I prefer Bibble Pro over this, since it's offers a ton more functionality and settings (if LR has a lot of settings and flexibility, I would say Bibble has a TON of them), AND costs less

    But overall, it's a great and quality tool AND one of the best on the market of course, not question about it.

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