{"id":12830,"date":"2008-07-29T01:31:12","date_gmt":"2008-07-29T01:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2008\/07\/lightroom-2-is-here.html"},"modified":"2008-07-29T01:31:12","modified_gmt":"2008-07-29T01:31:12","slug":"lightroom_2_is_here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/29\/lightroom_2_is_here\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightroom 2 is here!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">I&#8217;m delighted to report that the 64-bit native <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/products\/photoshoplightroom\/\">Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2.0<\/a> is now shipping for Mac and Windows.&#160; LR2 sells for $299 ($99 upgrade), and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/go\/trylightroom\">30-day tryout version<\/a> is available for immediate download. <\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&#160;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">Tom Hogarty has posted <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/lightroomjournal\/2008\/07\/lightroom_2_now_available.html\">a wealth of info<\/a> on the Lightroom Journal blog, so I won&#8217;t attempt to duplicate everything here.&#160; Instead let me note some highlights:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&#160;<\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<li>The Develop module now includes a highly useful gradient tool (<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/files\/images\/lr_gradient.jpg\">screenshot<\/a>), offering power similar to working with real-world graduated filters. <\/li>\n<li>Lightroom News offers a detailed list of all the <a href=\"http:\/\/lightroom-news.com\/2008\/07\/29\/what-are-the-main-changes-from-the-lightroom-20-beta-to-the-release-version\/\">improvements made since the introduction of the LR2 public beta<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>LR supports <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computer-darkroom.com\/lr2_review\/lr2-library-7.png\">external editor presets<\/a>, enabling easy jumps to\/from apps like Noise Ninja and PTLens.&#160; Thus Lightroom handily matches Aperture 2.1&#8217;s ballyhooed plug-in support, while offering far superior Photoshop integration plus non-destructive localized image adjustment. <\/li>\n<li>Adobe Labs now hosts the new <a href=\"http:\/\/labs.adobe.com\/wiki\/index.php\/DNG_Profiles%3AEditor\">DNG Profile Editor<\/a>.&#160; This is a big deal.&#160; In brief:\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<li>It enables the rendering you get in LR (or in Camera Raw)  to <u>match what your camera renders<\/u> as JPEGs&#8211;frequently a pleasing starting point for adjustments.&#160; As photographer Ian Lyons <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computer-darkroom.com\/lr2_review\/lr2-review-3.htm\">writes<\/a>, with these profiles you can &#8220;approximate the in-camera JPEG rendering as well as the various styles and looks provided either in-camera or via the camera vendor&#8217;s own software solution.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>It offers demanding photographers a new degree of control for finessing the appearance of colors (e.g. skin tones). <\/li>\n<li>In other words, we can put a fork in assertions of &#8220;Raw converter X looks like what I see on the back of my camera, so it must be more accurate than what Adobe shows&#8221; and &#8220;I just can&#8217;t get look\/tone\/value X in LR\/ACR.&#8221;&#160; Expect to hear more soon.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Camera Raw 4.5 for Photoshop CS3 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/support\/downloads\/detail.jsp?ftpID=3940\">Mac<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/support\/downloads\/detail.jsp?ftpID=3941\">Win<\/a>) has been released &amp; offers full support for rendering edits made with LR2 as well as profiles created with the Profile Editor. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&#160;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">Tons of resources are going live now, so I&#8217;ll post links to what I&#8217;ve seen so far:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&#160;<\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<li>Videos:\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<li>The NAPP has launched their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.photoshopuser.com\/lightroom2\/\">Lightroom 2 Learning Center<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>Colin Smith of the Photoshop Cafe posts <a href=\"http:\/\/www.photoshopcafe.com\/lightroom\/index.html\">videos and screenshots<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Reviews and overviews:\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<li>As noted above, Ian Lyons gives an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computer-darkroom.com\/lr2_review\/lr2-review-1.htm\">in-depth tour<\/a> and talks about how to pair Lightroom &amp; Photoshop to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computer-darkroom.com\/lr2_cmyk\/lr-2-cmyk.htm\">support CMYK files<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Scott Kelby scores <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottkelby.com\/blog\/2008\/archives\/1739\">Lightroom 2 Vs. 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