OK, I admit, I think that sliced bread is pretty good. But Lightroom 2 is better. Way better. (Truth be told I like whole French bread better, breaking it off in hunks is much more satisfying than a slice of bread. grin.)
Anyway, back to Lightroom 2. I think it's terrific, but it's also got a ton of new features that I don't even know exist. The newest ones that I do know about have enhanced a lot of my photos - particularly the graduated filter tool and the spot filter. I found out more about how to use them from a terrific book though - The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 Book for Digital Photographers (Voices That Matter) by Scott Kelby. Scott is a Photoshop and photography expert, and his Lightroom books have been awesome in giving instructions to photographers to get the best from their photos. I used to think that modifying photos was antithetical to photography - you show what comes out of the camera. But then I read a lot about the photographers that I admire, and how they developed. Ansel Adams in particular I suspect would have fully embraced RAW and the tools to develop digitally. And so I wanted to learn to use the tools to get the photo I wanted to display.
I highly recommend the book.
Anyway, back to Lightroom 2. I think it's terrific, but it's also got a ton of new features that I don't even know exist. The newest ones that I do know about have enhanced a lot of my photos - particularly the graduated filter tool and the spot filter. I found out more about how to use them from a terrific book though - The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 Book for Digital Photographers (Voices That Matter) by Scott Kelby. Scott is a Photoshop and photography expert, and his Lightroom books have been awesome in giving instructions to photographers to get the best from their photos. I used to think that modifying photos was antithetical to photography - you show what comes out of the camera. But then I read a lot about the photographers that I admire, and how they developed. Ansel Adams in particular I suspect would have fully embraced RAW and the tools to develop digitally. And so I wanted to learn to use the tools to get the photo I wanted to display.
I highly recommend the book.
