Adobe’s Lightroom is made for professional photographers as the darkroom alternative for new-age digital-camera-armed photographers. Lightroom falls into a new category—image post-production software, with its only and closest rival being Apple’s Aperture. Lightroom does not come with most of Photoshop’s features like layers, tools, and effects. In fact, though it is an image editing tool, Lightroom looks nothing like Photoshop. Quick Develop in the Library module lets you make basic changes to an image in a matter of seconds. We used some photos of some wildlife taken in broad daylight to see how well the software’s results would be. An auto-tune feature sets the best parameters for a photo, which should be suitable for new users, but we found the results rather appalling. Manual altering of colour levels worked perfectly well,and is the best way to go. A metadata browser in Lightroom makes sorting and categorising large numbers of images effortless by categorizing photos by EXIF parameters such as camera, lens, date, etc. Keyword stamping lets users easily set keywords to images. The Develop mode—the core of the entire program—has plenty of filters and colour alteration features. The Before and After view is a good added feature; it helps users keep track of their progress.Exporting of galleries to a Web format using HTML or Flash is done using the Web module. A program called Adobe Photo Downloader acts as a monitor, looking for new media on external storage devices and cameras. ocumentation is good in terms of explanation, but has few screenshots. Memory consumption spiked from 3 MB when minimised to 54 MB with the program active, which is pretty good. The Image Viewer features such as full-screen view mode are missing in Lightroom. Other than that, there is no shortage of features. Similar results can be achieved using Photoshop, but Lightroom’s interface and workflow are best suited for post-processing work for photographs. Those who would like to have Adobe Photoshop will have to shell out a minimum of $649. Lightroom’s $199 (Rs 9,000) price tag is still pretty hefty for casual home users, but professional photographers would find the money well spent...
Adobe’s Lightroom is made for professional photographers as the darkroom alternative for new-age digital-camera-armed photographers. Lightroom falls into a new category—image post-production software, with its only and closest rival being Apple’s Aperture. Lightroom does not come with most of Photoshop’s features like layers, tools, and effects. In fact, though it is an image editing tool, Lightroom looks nothing like Photoshop. Quick Develop in the Library module lets you make basic changes to an image in a matter of seconds. We used some photos of some wildlife taken in broad daylight to see how well the software’s results would be. An auto-tune feature sets the best parameters for a photo, which should be suitable for new users, but we found the results rather appalling. Manual altering of colour levels worked perfectly well,and is the best way to go. A metadata browser in Lightroom makes sorting and categorising large numbers of images effortless by categorizing photos by EXIF parameters such as camera, lens, date, etc. Keyword stamping lets users easily set keywords to images. The Develop mode—the core of the entire program—has plenty of filters and colour alteration features. The Before and After view is a good added feature; it helps users keep track of their progress.Exporting of galleries to a Web format using HTML or Flash is done using the Web module. A program called Adobe Photo Downloader acts as a monitor, looking for new media on external storage devices and cameras. ocumentation is good in terms of explanation, but has few screenshots. Memory consumption spiked from 3 MB when minimised to 54 MB with the program active, which is pretty good. The Image Viewer features such as full-screen view mode are missing in Lightroom. Other than that, there is no shortage of features. Similar results can be achieved using Photoshop, but Lightroom’s interface and workflow are best suited for post-processing work for photographs. Those who would like to have Adobe Photoshop will have to shell out a minimum of $649. Lightroom’s $199 (Rs 9,000) price tag is still pretty hefty for casual home users, but professional photographers would find the money well spent...
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