Love/hate Lightroom

I must confess that I have been having a love/hate relationship with Adobe Lightroom ever since it was released.

To start with I obtained the programme cheap as I was one of those foolish lucky people who had shelled out on Pixmantic’s RawShooter Premium shortly before they sold out to Adobe leaving loads of us punters high and dry as well as bitter and twisted. To their credit, Adobe, honored us by “giving” us Lightroom 1.0 “Free” of charge.

RawShooter was just a raw processor and Lightroom did so much more, I loved it.
My computer is a PC, under a year old and pretty fast with 1 GB RAM - well within the recommended spec for Lightroom. But I do quite a lot of other things on the same machine and Lightroom was so slow it was painful, I hated it.

I then added an extra 2 GB RAM and, like magic, Lightroom came alive, I love it.

The RAW processing engine is awesome, the search facilities amazing and, because I take photos for the press, I am not tempted to do any pixel editing that is so non-correct these days. At last I understand levels and the vibrancy adjustment  gives me digital Velvia.

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