Comments on: Lightroom 2.1 Release Candidate is Up

By: Biily Bass

Biily Bass — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 12:58:28 +0000

Matt,

I purchased (and really enjoyed) the Kelly Training Lightroom 2 in Depth DVD. You demonstrate a smooth skin technique in the adjustment brush. I was excited to use it, but I cannot find it in my lightroom… I have the latest update but the “smooth skin” does not show up in my drop down list. How can I get it?

By: Dawgdrum

Dawgdrum — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:09:22 +0000

I have a dual 2 G5 tower with 4.5 gigs of ram and the adjustment brushes work great in the new camera raw but still sluggish in Lightroom 2.1. I won’t use Lightroom and I feel ripped off by Adobe. Too bad I spent the money.

By: JOhan

JOhan — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 18:33:09 +0000

After testning the 2.0 and 2.1 the program still sucks in the adjustment brush. It works on 2 low en machine but on my big box its working …. 100% processortime

By: Jaybee

Jaybee — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:52:01 +0000

I’d just be happy if my XP SP3 and 4 gigs of RAM would work as fast as 1.4

The sliders in both 2.0 and 2.1RC are so laggy they are unusable. GeForce 6600 512Mb card with latest drivers too.

How come LR 1.4 and CS2 work fine yet LR 2.1 feels like a big backward step? My specs are way above the minimum and loads of people with the latest machines are having problems too.

Would be nice if Adobe acknowledged this but not holding my breath. Adobe does what Adobe wants to do never mind the users.

Seriously considering Aperture now as LR2.1 has no place in a working pro’s workflow at its current snail’s pace.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:12:10 +0000

Have I missed some updates concerning the issues with the adjustment brush or is there nothing new to discuss? I like many others find the adjustment brush more frustrating then it is worth and I chose not to use it. I thought Adobe was still working to improve its performance. Is there any new information or are we for ever to accept what we have?

By: Erik

Erik — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 15:21:12 +0000

Honestly, LR 2.0 has been a major disappointment. The new features are great in theory, but its BUGGY and even the 2.1RC, whole helping some, is still buggy. I feel bad that I paid good money to be a BETA tester…

By: Don

Don — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 13:31:59 +0000

I have down loaded the 2.1 version. It helped a little but there is still a delay while I use the brush. But anything new that comes out I believe we can expect a few problems. nothing is perfect. I am sure that adobe will fix this.

By: Bob Kupri

Bob Kupri — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:13:07 +0000

I have not down loaded the LR 2.1 candidate out of fear of causing some sort of new problem. Trust in Adobe is edgy on my part at the moment.

The thing that really is fouling my work flow up is the fact I can move a file from LR2 to CS3 but cannot save it in CS3 and have it automatically returned to LR 2 for printing etc.. Does LR 2.1 candidate cure the bug that prevents me from doing a full round trip.

Any help from anyone on this round trip problem will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

By: Bob Kupri

Bob Kupri — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:11:13 +0000

I have not down loaded the LR 2.1 candidate out of fear of causing some sort of new problem. Trust in Adobe is edgy on my part at the moment.

Any help from anyone on this round trip problem will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Bob Kuprion

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 05:08:59 +0000

I have an iMac 2.4 w/4GB and after installing 2.1 I still have very slow adjustment brushes and the sliders are still intolerably sticky and unresponsive. The only thing faster is my Library scrolling. I still get ‘loading’ messages switching between raw files.

I want to love LR2.1 but I’m close to giving up on it. Even tried 32bit vs 64 and same things are happening.