Remez Ramblings

When I first got my hands on the Adobe Lightroom beta I was really disappointed. The tutorial videos looked great, but the performance (to be brutally honest) sucked, and I couldnt’ see it replacing Raw Shooter Premium as my RAW converter.As a Raw Shooter Premium user, I was sent a free upgrade to Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 1.0 when it was released, and, again, I was disappointed with its performance. It has memory leaks, and I’ve seen memory usage over 700MB a number of times.

I’ve been playing with it more now though, and am starting to really like it. I can adjust exposure, contrast, b&w / split tone conversions, cropping, cloning, and all basic high level edits required in a workflow application (barring sharpening).

Lightroom also offers the facility of virtual copies, as it’s non-detructive editing, this is a fantastic feature, and I started to play. Initially I thought, great, now let’s stack the different versions of the same image, but then I found this article on why you should use collections with virtual copies, and not stacks.

I think with an extra Gigabyte of RAM, and a couple of patches from Adobe, this could be a fantastic application, as opposed to just a really good one.

I’m sure I’ll post more tips I learn about Lightroom, as I get to grips with it.