Lightroom 2

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Alternatives To The Mainstream

I am a little punch drunk from spending far too much time on reinventing the site with a bunch of new features so I thought I would take a little break and discuss a couple of products that serve as partial alternatives to the heavy hitters in the image work-flow field. The two players that come to mind would be Photo Mechanic and ACDSee Pro. I don’t claim to be remotely proficient with either product in the way that I am with Aperture and Lightroom but I thought I...

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Aperture2 vs. Lightroom2 – Aperture Forum Post

Thought some readers here would find my sarcastic but true response to a name redacted poster in the Aperture forum’s post regarding his switch to Lightroom. The really funny part was his response to this sadly Apple deleted it before I could grab it. Knew that would happen that is how you are able to enjoy this part. Original author in normal text – my caviler response in grey italic. RB

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Adobe Lightroom2 and DNG camera profiles

Let me start out by stating that I am an Aperture zealot. I jumped on board Aperture from day one and believe that the product’s introduction was revolutionary. Heck it kicked Adobe in the head and woke the digital media giant into understanding what photographers really need, hence Photoshop Lightroom and now the (if I must say so) excellent Lightroom2. I can forgive Apple for the lame plugin implementation of dodge and burn, I can forgive no multi-adjustment presets, even if they do seem idiotically easy to implement. What...