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p.3 #1 · Lightroom 2.0 released

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?

Jul 31, 2008 at 12:40 AM

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p.3 #2 · Lightroom 2.0 released

I just downloaded the trial version. Runs fine on mine, and I've had problems with all the version 1 builds.

I'm too tired to figure it out. How do you get dual monitor support to work?

Thanks,
Jeff

Jul 31, 2008 at 01:27 AM

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p.3 #3 · Lightroom 2.0 released

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.

Jul 31, 2008 at 01:28 AM

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p.3 #4 · Lightroom 2.0 released

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.

Thanks! That works.

Jul 31, 2008 at 01:56 AM

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p.3 #5 · Lightroom 2.0 released

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.

Have fun!

Edited on Jul 31, 2008 at 04:50 AM

Jul 31, 2008 at 04:49 AM

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p.3 #6 · Lightroom 2.0 released

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.

Jul 31, 2008 at 09:10 AM

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p.3 #7 · Lightroom 2.0 released

Will the US upgrade work in Australia??

Jul 31, 2008 at 09:32 AM

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p.3 #8 · Lightroom 2.0 released

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.

Jul 31, 2008 at 01:52 PM

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p.3 #9 · Lightroom 2.0 released

MichaelKirk wrote:
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.

Michael

No problemo.

REMINDER: Today is the LAST day this coupon will work!

Jul 31, 2008 at 08:59 PM

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p.3 #10 · Lightroom 2.0 released

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:

Profile Editor Tutorial

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Jul 31, 2008 at 10:14 PM

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p.3 #11 · Lightroom 2.0 released

I don't see this upgrade being worth the $99. The only thing they've done that I feel is really worth anything is the brush and I do all of my serious adjustments in PS which already has these features and more. I'll stick it out with LR1 until they really do something worth the money.

Aug 01, 2008 at 01:52 AM

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p.3 #12 · Lightroom 2.0 released

Thanks Butch for your feedback. The new image is so much better - just for this LR 2 is worth the € 99 upgrade to me. Ordered it right after testing the new profiles. Addition of brush (portraits, lighting up eyes, softening skin) and gradient (for landscapes) is an added boon.

Aug 01, 2008 at 08:28 AM

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p.3 #13 · Lightroom 2.0 released

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?

I find that the brush and filter actions lag big time on my dual core 3.6 Ghz XP Pro box that's maxed out with 4GB.

I'd agree with you on the monitor issue, I hadn't connected it to slow downs but you are right.

Aug 02, 2008 at 01:00 PM

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p.3 #14 · Lightroom 2.0 released

Ok good, at least it's not just me that is going crazy. I've also noticed that sometimes when the second monitor does disappear if I keep working away it will reappear out of nowhere. I don't have to reopen it.

Aug 02, 2008 at 04:30 PM

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p.3 #15 · Lightroom 2.0 released

So a computer with 1 GB will not handle LR 2 as LR1 did pretty well ?

Edited on Aug 02, 2008 at 05:56 PM

Aug 02, 2008 at 05:55 PM

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p.3 #16 · Lightroom 2.0 released

Emile Gregoire wrote:
Don't forget to check out the new camera profiles. They're still in beta but I've got high hopes that finally the colors will come closer to what DPP produces. They work with LR 2.0 and Camera Raw 4.5 (released yesterday as well) and can be download from http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/DNG_Profiles

I just received my 2.0 upgrade and installed the profiles.

Question, Should the calibration numbers for each profile show in the color fields? Mine do not and even thought the colors do change when I am changing the calibration profiles, the slider numbers always remain at Zero.
I had made my own custom calibrations for my Nikon D200 and D300 so I have these calibrations numbers, but wanted to see what the differences are between my calibration settings and the new adobe camera profiles.

Michael

Aug 20, 2008 at 01:57 PM

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p.3 #17 · Lightroom 2.0 released

For those of you who upgraded to LR2 from LR1 is there any consensus as to whether it was worth the extra US$99? Considering the upgrade myself but as I am only just learning to take full advantage of LR1 I'm not sure whether I should just stick with that or upgrade now & invest the energy in L2 learning curve now ...

Aug 20, 2008 at 02:59 PM

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p.3 #18 · Lightroom 2.0 released

Perhaps I should add to the question above that I also have CS3...

Aug 20, 2008 at 03:02 PM

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p.3 #19 · Lightroom 2.0 released

Absolutely worth it. The local adjustment brush and grad ND filter is worth the price alone!

Aug 20, 2008 at 03:49 PM

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p.3 #20 · Lightroom 2.0 released

globalkiwi wrote:
For those of you who upgraded to LR2 from LR1 is there any consensus as to whether it was worth the extra US$99? Considering the upgrade myself but as I am only just learning to take full advantage of LR1 I'm not sure whether I should just stick with that or upgrade now & invest the energy in L2 learning curve now ...

Definitely worth it ... do a Google search for Adobe promotion codes that you can use at the Adobe store and you could save a little in the process.

Not much of a learning curve compared to v1... just more tools to take advantage of.

Aug 20, 2008 at 03:57 PM

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p.3 #21 · Lightroom 2.0 released

It took a little searching but I did indeed find a 15% discount link making the final upgrade price US$84. In the spirit of FM reciprocity here it is: upgrade

Aug 20, 2008 at 06:28 PM

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p.3 #22 · Lightroom 2.0 released

I am enrolled in a digital photography class at my city college and they are using Lightroom 2 in the class. I could pick it up for $99 with a student discount. We have the program available to us in the computer lab, but I would like to have it as well at home.
The thing that I am worried about is if my computer can support it fairly decently.. or.. would Lightroom 2 make my computer cry if I installed it?
I have a MacBook with 2.16 Core 2 Duo with 2 gigs of ram..

Aug 21, 2008 at 08:18 PM

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p.3 #23 · Lightroom 2.0 released

Download the free 30-day trial and give it a test spin.

Aug 21, 2008 at 08:29 PM

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p.3 #24 · Lightroom 2.0 released

chrisnyee wrote:
I am enrolled in a digital photography class at my city college and they are using Lightroom 2 in the class. I could pick it up for $99 with a student discount. We have the program available to us in the computer lab, but I would like to have it as well at home.
The thing that I am worried about is if my computer can support it fairly decently.. or.. would Lightroom 2 make my computer cry if I installed it?
I have a MacBook with 2.16 Core 2 Duo with 2 gigs of ram..

It should do ok with your machine. As always, the more processor speed and RAM you can throw at a graphics program, the better. I have an iMac with the same processor speed and 3GB RAM and it does fine.

Aug 21, 2008 at 08:30 PM

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p.3 #25 · Lightroom 2.0 released

another question I have is if you purchase Lightroom and download it to your computer can you instal it on multiple computers? I have a desktop as well that I would like to instal it on though I use my laptop more for most things.
thanks

Aug 22, 2008 at 07:53 AM


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