Adobe Lightroom is an awesome photo management application. When I purchased my first DSLR camera and started shooting all my images in RAW format, I needed something to manage and convert them. I tried the free UFRaw plugin for GIMP, as I had no budget. It was terrible. The color rendition was my biggest complaint.
I ended up upgrading to Photoshop CS3, which came with Camera Raw. This allowed me to manipulate the raw image properties and convert files to web friendly formats. When I went to Taiwan, I had to leave Photoshop behind, as my Mac is a desktop. I experimented with a bunch of programs by downloading the free trials. Lightroom far surpassed the competition. After receiving Lightroom 2 as a Christmas gift, I've been using it to manage and edit my entire photo collection. Last week Adobe released Lightroom 3. I have been reading about the new features and have been generally unimpressed. They have added a few new things, but not enough, in my opinion, to be worthy of an upgrade. I just watched a video on some of the new features. The automatic, customizable lens correction looks the most interesting to me. But is it worth the $100 price tag? I'm not convinced. At some point, I'll download the trial and give it a try.
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