{"id":847,"date":"2008-11-16T08:34:50","date_gmt":"2008-11-16T15:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2008\/11\/16\/lightroom-2-upgrade\/"},"modified":"2008-11-16T08:34:50","modified_gmt":"2008-11-16T15:34:50","slug":"lightroom-2-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2008\/11\/16\/lightroom-2-upgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightroom 2 Upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Painless, amazingly.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>My extensive tests with the free trial version of Lightroom 2 confirmed that the product is stable and debugged and I now find I cannot live without the localized adjustment features LR2 added.  Not to mention enhanced keywording and search functions.  Hopefully Adobe will add keystone\/perspective correction in the next version and I will be able to bid a not-so-fond farewell to Photoshop CS2 (and its many predecessors), that user interface nightmare of a product.<\/p>\n<p>Having had nothing but trouble upgrading Adobe products in the past I approached the idea of an online upgrade of Lightroom 1.4.1 to Lightroom 2 ($99) with trepidation.<\/p>\n<p>Mercifully all went well.<\/p>\n<p>Pay your $99 &#8211; assuming you have a version of LR1 on your computer &#8211; and off you go:<\/p>\n<p><center><img src=http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/LR2Upgrade1.jpg><br \/>\n<i>Download in progress &#8211; you have to elect either the Mac or Winblows version.<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img src=http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/LR2Upgrade2.jpg><br \/>\n<i>The new serial number is provided for input.<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img src=http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/LR2Upgrade3.jpg><br \/>\n<i>Old and new numbers input and she&#8217;s ready to go! I have blurred out the last four digits for security &#8211; you have twenty thousand guesses!<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Even though I had the trial version already loaded, Adobe insisted on uploading the whole thing again &#8211; no big deal as it only took a minute or two.<\/p>\n<p>My only complaint so far is that the auto-masking feature, when applied to large areas, is very sluggish. Now I must try the application on our old iMac G4 (PPC, 1.25gHz) and see how well it works on a relatively ancient machine.<\/p>\n<p>If you do not have LR1 then LR2 will run you $299 &#8211; $100 more than Apple&#8217;s Aperture. Adobe has no earthly reason to drop the price to compete with Apple&#8217;s offering.  If you elect the latter, be prepared to blow another $2-3,000 on a machine which might actually run it at something approaching reasonable speed.  If you don&#8217;t believe me, stop by an Apple Store with your favorite RAW file and load it in Aperture on a MacBook.  Then try the crop tool.  Convinced?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Painless, amazingly. My extensive tests with the free trial version of Lightroom 2 confirmed that the product is stable and debugged and I now find I cannot live without the localized adjustment features LR2 added. Not to mention enhanced keywording and search functions. Hopefully Adobe will add keystone\/perspective correction in the next version and I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2008\/11\/16\/lightroom-2-upgrade\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lightroom 2 Upgrade<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adobe-lightroom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}