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Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 released

Cyril Roger

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LightroomAdobe has silently rollled out version 2 of their successful photo editing program, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. With updates not being too frequent for Lightroom (version 2 was in Beta for a while) the list of improvements is pretty big and comprised of significant new features.

You can now process a specific selection of your image and not just the whole of it. This is great for editing different parts of your picture and paritcularly useful if there are many details to work with. Lightroom also now comes with ‘Suggested Keywords’. If you want your picture to be easy to find in your photo library or on photo sharing sites like Flickr you need to associate tags to them. Lightroom now suggests new keywords based on the ones you have already entered.

A number of tools like printing, healing brush, angling, cropping and photo sharpening have been enhanced and are much more powerful to work with. One feature which surprisingly wasn’t available in the previous version is Smart Collections. Lightroom now includes this so you can organize photos according to specific filters. You can also set a Target Collection to quickly store pictures.

Any serious photographer knows the importance of taking care of metadata for all their photos. In an interesting experiment, Lightroom 2 opens up its metadata SDK to developers. We’ll soon see what they manage to make out of it.

Not to forget, the Lightroom community itself. Adobe’s  photo editing software enjoys a strong following, which has already started on releasing additional resources complementing Lightroom 2. John Nack of Adobe lists out a few of them, like the Lightroom 2 Learning Center, and a number of in depth reviews of the new version. So what are you waiting for? Update your Lightroom and try out the new features!

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