Comments on: Lightroom 2.1 has been released

By: Susie

Susie — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 19:54:55 +0000

I just upgraded, so I went straight from 1.4 to 2.1. A lot of posters mentioned performance problems with the adjustment brush. I actually haven’t noticed any slowness with the adjustment brush, per se, but I’ve noticed that the response to all the adjustment sliders (hue/tint, tone curve, etc) are MUCH SLOWER in general. It’s slow enough that I’m starting not to bother with the sliders and just manually adjusting the values instead.

I also had one strange case last night. I had an over-exposed shot. It was of a ship with lots of rigging lines. When I made an adjustment, both my navigator preview and my filmstrip preview showed pink/purple all around the (thin) rigging lines. The photo itself looked fine, and I didn’t see anything significant in the chromatic abberations view. I even closed and reopened LR, and it was still there. Anyone else run into something like this?

By: james

james — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 02:21:21 +0000

when i first upload pics to lightroom they look as tehy do on my d300, but then they all get extreamly over exposed, why does it do this and what can i do to stop it?

By: Paul W

Paul W — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 02:33:42 +0000

Anybody have any advice for working with photos on a laptop, when all your photos are stored on external hard drives. Is there an easy way to grab a few photos and work on them away from the drives that hold your library pictures?

By: Tim G

Tim G — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:50:21 +0000

I’m still looking for a serious performance upgrade for the local adjustment brush. I’m now at the point that I switch to PS CS3 to make an adjustment that was supposed to make my workflow easier in LR2. Sad to say I’m disappointed.

By: Hoshisato

Hoshisato — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 20:44:37 +0000

I noticed that the About… dialogue of LightRoom 2.1 indicates that Camera Raw 4.6 is installed; now that Camera Raw 5.1 is released with all exiting features, how can we get LightRoom 2.x to benefit from that? How do we add Camera Raw 5.1 to LightRoom 2.x?

By: Norm

Norm — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:17:52 +0000

Adobe mentions that you cannot save your contact sheets to a print file. Since this feature does not work on 2.1, to me there is no improvement. I’d rather have 2.0. I also don’t find any improvement in CS4. It takes more memory and forget about upgrading unless you have a super fast video card. I had to load a new driver from nvidia to run CS4. I’d down load a trial version before upgrading any Adobe products again.

By: Bill

Bill — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:09:23 +0000

Matt,

Has anyone reported problems installing ver 2.1 over the rc? I’m having difficultly installing the new update. I get an 2753 error msg saying the “pxsetup.exe” file is not marked for installation. I’ve checked Adobe’s support page but have not found any references to this problem. Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.

Bill

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:54:07 +0000

Thanks for the post. Although, argh. They’ve removed a most useful tool – spot removal preset ability. Now I can’t remove my dust and hot pixels easily on import or in Develop modules, bad bad move.

Anyone know a work around?

By: Madison

Madison — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:34:19 +0000

Yeah. Along with a CS4 camera raw 5.1 update but I am not sure Lightroom uses those.

By: Elliott

Elliott — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:39:53 +0000

Hi Matt,
I am sure you are aware, but have not seen it mentioned here yet. Adobe have released Beta 2 of the DNG Camera Profiles on 22 October 08.