Comments on: Lightroom 2 is Here!

By: Christian

Christian — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 22:48:25 +0000

Hi Matt,

I have a question about Lightroom v2. One of the things I had missed in v1.x was to adjust the perspective of a foto (especially important, e.g. when the fotos contains buildings that should have horizontal / vertical lines instead of a wrong “visual perspective”).
I was surprise to see that this feature hasn’t been added into v2.

Do you think I’m the only one missing this feature? It seems to be straightforward to implement…(?)

Thank you for your opinion about this,
Christian

By: Gerrie

Gerrie — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 03:44:45 +0000

Thanks for all the help guys - well done,great support to have around especially all the new little tricks . Keep up the good work !!
Cheers

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:35:31 +0000

When I use LR2 new brush say adjusting the exposure it will lock up on me or will work very slowly. Is this common or am I having a memory problem. I have 3 g of ram? Help love the program but just can’t seem to use the edit tools which is the most important to me.

By: Barry Nelson

Barry Nelson — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 20:19:06 +0000

I just upgraded and have found my first bug. It is a really strange one. First let me say I am on a Mac with 3 printers always connected. This has never been a problem in the past, but since I have apgraded to LR 2, in the Print module, even though all my settings are set to print to my Epson 4800, the first time I try to print anything, it starts to print to my HP Laserjet. If I cancel the print job and do it over, then it correctly prints to my 4800. This is starting to get a little annoying since I do all my own printing. Anyone else had this problem?

By: Norman Wingrove

Norman Wingrove — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:06:50 +0000

I love Lightroom but will definitely be not donating to Adobe’s scheme to get even richer even quicker by ripping-off its non-US customers. Nor will I be purchasing any other Adobe product as long as their current policy continues. At best, however excellent, their products have always been overpriced but this latest cynical exploitation of their dominant position in the market is just too much to stomach.

By: John Bartos

John Bartos — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 17:53:24 +0000

LR2 is completely worth it. While retouching is fantastic, seems to slow things down a little. My only other gripe at this point is that with picture package you cannot place more than one image (ie. 2 or more different files) on a page; a major bummer for me. Hats off to Adobe

By: Chris Fitch

Chris Fitch — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 13:31:00 +0000

There is an issue with the edit in photoshop option. You do have to sync the folder afterwards. It seems as if LR2 is built for Vista x64 on a quad core system because I have had a improvement in performance compared to LR1.4. Despite what others have said.

On a 64bit quad system with only 2GB of DDR3 I’m running much faster. I have my catalog with over 20,000 DNG photos in it. From time to time I’ve noticed when browsing through all the photos in grid view it can lag from time to time but thats just do to the large files. Launching LR2 is much faster, LR1.4 always took a few min for me and LR2 is pretty instant.

Between the 64bit support and Dual Monitor support the upgrade was worth it. The masking brush and gradient tools are nice touches but not the key features. I’m still waiting for internal HDR and Pano Stitching support.

I have yet to test if I can now load gigapixel photos into lightroom. Previously in LR1.4 there was a resolution limit. Will see if thats the case in LR2

By: John Esberg

John Esberg — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 10:11:40 +0000

Steve,

The markup for the overseas market is substantial. I can’t help but wonder why. I’m sure Adobe has its reasons.

David,

Sorry to hear you are dragging on speed. I run on PC’s. I wish I felt I was in a position to be of senior advice.

Till later,

John

By: David

David — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 04:54:51 +0000

I am sorry, but from where I am standing Adobe screwed up big.

In the first place, LR 2 is very slow on my MACPRO with 4 gigs, as slow as Aperture 1.5 was and was what made me switch from Aperture to Lightroom.

In the second place, PS roundtrip is not working right. LR2 sends the image to PS when I select edit in, but after I finish with the file in PS and close and save, the new file does not show up in LR 2. It is in the folder but not in the catalog. I either have to re-import the image or sync the folder. On either case, it is not stacked with the original.

What’s up??

Is there a setting or something? or just a big screw up from Adobe? Why isn’t Adobe addressing this issues in public?

By: Steve Cribbin

Steve Cribbin — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:08:55 +0000

John,

When we click on the “buy now” button next to “from $99″ for the upgrade, we are redirected to our local Adobe shop site displaying the price we have to pay. This seems to vary from about x1.5 to x2 for the US price, even allowing for local taxes.