Get yer Lightroom now...

For those of you who've camped here a while and stuck with me through all my nonsense random posts and rants, you may have heard me tout about Adobe Lightroom more then once. Quite simply if you do any photography at all, this is the first software you should get hands down.


I mention this again because Adobe has a Beta version of their next release version 2.0 if you want to check it out for free. I've downloaded the thing but having had a chance to check it out yet. But the promises for multi-monitor support along with new tools for non-destructive localized photo touchups is sounds very exciting.

I took the photograph above just this past weekend of my lovely wife. She loves watching "Top Model", so as the sun hit that golden moment I told her to go do her "top model moment". She went ahead and walked over but then she gets all shy. Tsk tsk...go study the episodes again babe! I thought the photo came out cute...almost like a shopping mall catalog shot eh? Not quite Vogue magazine material yet but we'll get there!

Anyway, 90% of the workflow on this photo was done in Lightroom with just some minor tweaking later in Photoshop. Maybe I should do a simple tutorial one day? There's a billion tutorials on this workflow if you're a NAPP member. But for those of you who aren't maybe I can show the basics when I have the chance. Tune in.