New software again

Yeah yeah, I know I sound like a broken record, "buy lightroom, buy lightroom". Yadda yadda.

Hey you know what, in my little business this is just about the only news I have relevant to what I do. Well, except for taxes of course. But that's nowhere near as fun.

Anyway, I'm a few days late but the full release of the lastest Lightroom 2.0 is out. If you're a NAPP member you can get the upgrade for around $85 and it supports multiple licenses so I had it installed on both my MAC and PC machines without any problems.

Once again, if you do any photography at all this is the program to get. The other night my uncle was in town and I heard him discussing this with my father. They had just returned from a 2 week long trip to the Canadian Rockies and returned with about 4000 digital images of their trip. Beautiful shots.

Both of them are somewhat like camera buffs. My dad was always somewhat of a good photographer since I was born. While my uncle just picked up a new Nikon D40 or something right before going off on this trip. They're all going off about whether or not they can fit my dad's 30-year old camera lenses on my uncle's new DSLR...

ANYHOO...they come back after this trip with all these photos taken with loving care on their fancy new cameras, and what do they do? They spend this huge discussion about which free software is better then the other to catalog and "fix" their images. They're using software that would require them to manually drag each photo off their camera one at a time, use multiple steps to do simple fixing tasks (permanently damaging the photos BTW), and then manually cataloging it. At this rate, I think my dad will have his 4000 photos ready for me to see by early 2010.

With the risk of sounding elitist....I say, look....if you can spend thousands of dollars on your fancy cameras, you can spend about $80 for a program that help you with the photos that come out of them. It'll save you countless hours, plus it's damn fun to use. It REALLY is, it makes some of my crappiest photos look somewhat half decent. No brainer.

Go git.