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| Adobe Photoshop Lightroom (PC/Mac) | 
 enlarge | From: Adobe Systems Inc.
Category: Software
Buy New: £206.49
New (2) from £206.49
Avg. Customer Rating:  31 reviews
Sales Rank: 1063
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Mac Os X, Windows Xp
Media: CD-ROM
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 7.8 x 2.1
MPN: 19250102
EAN: 5051254088349
ASIN: B000MQCFJQ
Release Date: March 14, 2007
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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| Customer Reviews:
 PC 0, Mac 1 June 29, 2007
3 out of 66 found this review helpful
If you use Lightshop on any PC it will be slow, well slowER than Mac. Mac is designed specifically for the graphic designer, photographer, etc. If you think Lightshop is slow on your PC, bin the PC!
 Nice program but too slow. Unbearable on Athlon XP. June 26, 2007
16 out of 21 found this review helpful
I think other people have covered the pros and cons of the software well, but I would like to point out that it is unbearably slow to people like me who want the computer to do what I say as soon as I tell it. I like to be able to work in the "click-click-click-click-done" way and Lightroom doesn't cut it.
If you have an Athlon XP, avoid this software. Apparently LR needs SSE2 support to run anywhere near properly, and the Athlon XP doesn't have it. I'm having to look at upgrading my system now to make this run tolerably. :(
An excellent tool June 20, 2007
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
As a fairly keen amateur photographer, I think that this software is excellent. I'd used the free beta version and was quite impressed, but agonised over spending 130 to buy the release version. I no longer have any doubts that this was an excellent purchase. I haven't had any significant problems with the software (it's frozen maybe a couple of times in the 3 months that I've been using it, but each time I just closed the package and restarted it and all was well). My PC isn't particularly powerful (over 2 years old and mid-range when purchased), but I have got 2Gb RAM, which probably helps with image manipulation.
In terms of the package, I keep on finding new features which are really useful. Recent discoveries have been the automatic generation of webpages, the ability to save "snapshots", comparison of before and after versions of images, red-eye and cloning/healing tools, etc, etc. And I'm discovering the power of the "develop" module in the manipulation of images. And I love the contact print facility.
It isn't perfect and it is a bit "clunky" in places, but I'd have no hesitation in recommending it to anybody who wants to do any significant processing of RAW images.
However, I'd strongly recommend buying a separate book describing the functionality (more expenditure!). There is so much functionality in the package that it will take years to find it all without some kind of help. I bought Martin Evening's book, which seems pretty good, but I guess that they will all tell you much the same things.
 Potential buyer June 2, 2007
4 out of 41 found this review helpful
Having read the reviews on this site, this is my impression. I feel inclined to wait for this product to be developed mainly because of memory and video card issues that have been mentioned by those who have used it. I feel confident however,that in the end the boys in the backroom will prevail over sales and marketing and I sincerely hope, sooner rather than later.
Adobe Lightroom June 1, 2007
27 out of 28 found this review helpful
This a fantastic product, made for photographers, by photographers. There is the good and the not so good though.
The good: (1) The `Recovery' and `Fill' sliders salvage detail from burned out highlights and blocked shadows - this is non-destructive in RAW. (same idea as the Shadow/Highlights too in CS2). A fantastic tool, very powerful.
(2) The `Vibrance' slider is like a `smart' Saturation slider, it only saturates colours which are not heavily saturated already. The `Saturation slider' would affect skin tones, this doesn't. (3) I gave up B/W photography 20 years ago, this has got me interested again. Converting colour to B/W generally looses a lot of cloud detail in a blue sky - not here, this is incredible, and you have complete control. (4) You can now put jpeg's through the same process as RAW, none destructive editing, you can't do this in CS2. (5) Copying the settings of one photo to another is simply a matter of `Copy' and `Paste'
The not so good: my pc was top of the range a little under 2 years ago. With the exception of dual core, there is still nothing to upgrade it to. Lightroom freezes. It freezes on start-up, it freezes in between modules. (for some, not all). To release it after it has frozen I had to CTRL - ALT - DELETE, this would shut down Lightroom, if I loaded it again it froze immediately. So I had to Restart the pc each time it froze.
This could only happen to older pc's with Nvidea graphics cards. I had to download the latest driver for the Nvidea graphics card - I then needed to re-calibrate my monitor. It still froze. I then had to disable the nView desktop manager (Nvidea). It seems to works fine now.
If you have this information, it is done very quickly - it took me 2 days.
Shame on you Adobe, a brilliant product (5 star) sent out for the consumer to test and rectify.
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