Adobe Lightroom review

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Adobe Lightroom review

Adobe Lightroom is a new type of photo application, combining image editing with image management for keeping track of photos.

It's more efficient than using two different programs.

Lightroom uses 'non-destructive' editing, saving adjustments within the image library rather than modifying the original. You can go back at any time and change things or create a Virtual Copy, which you can apply a different set of adjustments to.

Image correction

You can save photos in albums, create slideshows and web galleries and print images too. The RAW conversion tools are excellent, with a Highlight Recovery slider and a Fill Light slider which adjust highlights and shadows separately.

The Auto Tone option is especially smart, producing super-bright, clean-looking RAW conversions.

Lightroom is very good at maximising the dynamic range of your photos. It's so good at this, though, you might overlook a side-effect, which is a general loss of mid-tone contrast and saturation.

The extent of this will depend on how much correction the software's had to make, but you can find that achieving the maximum dynamic range has also knocked a lot of the 'life' out of the photo.

Noisy conversions

Lightroom's RAW conversions are the same as Photoshop's and Elements'. Generally very good, but there can be a lot of noise in blue skies.

It's not necessarily the sharpest converter, though the colour fringing controls are good.

Lightroom is good, make no mistake, but its RAW conversions aren't always the best and it needs a pretty fast computer to run efficiently.

Source : techradar

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Specifications

Price at Launch     206

MPN    19250102

Features    Non-Destructive Photo Editing/ Task Oriented Workflows

OS Requirements    Apple Mac OS X 10.4 or later, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP SP 2
Platform    MacOS/Windows

Processor Type Required    Intel Pentium 4 or equivalent, Multicore Intel, Power Mac G4 or higher

RAM Recommended (MB)    768

Ram Required (MB)    768

Required Hard Disk Space (GB)    1

Graphics Requirements    1024x768 resolution

Required Peripherals    CD-ROM Drive