thehawkins wrote:
Maybe because I'm an idiot - how come you can't buy a US copy of Lightroom if you're in the UK at half the cost?
I think they can determine where you are ordering from . Of course - you could probably import a boxed version from supplier - but I doubt you would save anything.)
I'd be willing, in the spirit of Fred Miranda community-ness, to buy it and then ship it to someone and then you pay me the US dollar amount + shipping.
Seth Tower wrote:
Here's 15% off until July 31st. I just bought my upgrade with it. Kick Ass!
Code: PIA06
GEE Thanks! I was not planning on upgrading for a bit, just to make sure the kinks were worked out, but providing a discount code threw me over the top - just ordered my upgrade.
thehawkins wrote:
I'd be willing, in the spirit of Fred Miranda community-ness, to buy it and then ship it to someone and then you pay me the US dollar amount + shipping.
In theory at least we would have to pay 17.5% VAT plus (possibly) import tax.
Downloaded the demo - amazing that it runs faster on my machine than the beta did. My quad core 64bit vista 4gb ram machine screems with it. They added a new graduated filter adjustment tool near the brush (see picture).
I bought the full version 5 minutes after trying the demo - could not be happier.
The gradient tool looks good (http://www.luminous-landscape.com/videos/LR2-preview.shtml), though I haven't sprung for it yet. It looks like most of the work has been done on modules other than slideshow, which I found the buggiest module. Those of you who have bought it, have they sorted out these bugs, especially the way 1.4.1 sometimes gives you a little loop of a subset of the slides you'd wanted to show (and has a very hit and miss way of starting music from i-tunes)?
It seems to be running well on my machine. Today I upgraded my RAM to 3gigs and it's faster. Noticeably faster but I do find that the brush is really lagging. Everything else responds nice and quickly but as soon as I start with the adjustment brush Lr slows down.
I might put in another gig and see if that helps. My notebook maxs out at 4 gigs.
There is one bug I'm finding and that is the second monitor seems to disappear and turn off when it lags down. I have to open it up again. Anyone else finding this?
there is a icon in the bottom left corner that looks like a square with a number 2 in it. Click that and it should open up a second window that you can move to your second monitor.
DubRepublic wrote:
there is a icon in the bottom left corner that looks like a square with a number 2 in it. Click that and it should open up a second window that you can move to your second monitor.
DubRepublic wrote:
It seems to be running well on my machine. Today I upgraded my RAM to 3gigs and it's faster. Noticeably faster but I do find that the brush is really lagging. Everything else responds nice and quickly but as soon as I start with the adjustment brush Lr slows down.
I might put in another gig and see if that helps. My notebook maxs out at 4 gigs.
There is one bug I'm finding and that is the second monitor seems to disappear and turn off when it lags down. I have to open it up again. Anyone else finding this?
Not sure if the extra ram will help with the brush. It seems to be CPU intensive being that it does "realtime" nondestructive editing on an intelligent layer mask. Impressive imo. I have two computers both with vista 64 and 4gbs of memory. The one with the 2.4ghz quad core CPU has no trouble with the brush - the dual core 1.8ghz computer lags slightly.
thehawkins wrote:
I'd be willing, in the spirit of Fred Miranda community-ness, to buy it and then ship it to someone and then you pay me the US dollar amount + shipping.
You can also use my home address in Chicago to buy it online - all I ask is you send a postcard to me from your homeland.
Kevin Yong wrote:
Will the US upgrade work in Australia??it worked for me fine in Canada. I suspect the program is no different for geographical regions.
MichaelKirk wrote:
GEE Thanks! I was not planning on upgrading for a bit, just to make sure the kinks were worked out, but providing a discount code threw me over the top - just ordered my upgrade.
Michael
No problemo.
REMINDER: Today is the LAST day this coupon will work!
I posted this in the Wedding Forum and thought I would share my experience here as well ...
I, like many other Lightroom users loved the workflow capabilities of LR, but much preferred the color renditions of the camera manufacture. In my case, Nikon. I really like the conversions from Capture NX, but boy, if you have to do any real volume, it is torture in NX compared to LR IMHO.
With the release of LR2 this week, Adobe also released the free DNG Profile Editor which you can use to create, edit or tweak your own camera profiles. You can get into this to the Nth degree or just use a Macbeth color checker and in a split second, create your own custom camera calibration. You can even sync the color output for multiple bodies, even multiple brands. I have used the Fors Scripts in the past but was never really completely happy with the results.
Below is a Before/After screen capture in LR of an image from a recent wedding with no other develop settings applied it is SOOC. The Before, at left is using the ACR 3.3 camera calibration (the standard for the D200) and at right, the After is set using my Custom Calibration. I didn't tweak any setting, just used the auto color chart method using a studio portrait file photo I took early this year. Tried it on this outdoor shot and it seams to work ok. I could probably get more if I wanted to tweak it further.
Let's just say, I am very pleased with the results in LR now!
Here is a link to a tutorial on how to use the DNG Profile Editor. Keep in mind, to edit a camera profile, it has to be a DNG, but the resulting profile can be applied to any RAW image file in LR/ACR or any DNG 1.2 software.
Here is a link to a tutorial on the DNG Profile Editor:
. Of course - you could probably import a boxed version from supplier - but I doubt you would save anything.)
