Adobe Lightroom 2 is the latest version of Adobe’s photo editing and management system. It competes with Apple’s Aperture 2. The retail price of Lightroom is $299 which is $100 more than Aperture. Before buying, you can try it out. They let you download the full version and use it for 30 days absolutely free.
What is Lightroom?
This is your digital darkroom. Use Lightroom to acquire, edit, adjust, distribute, backup, print and publish your photographs from your digital camera–especially if you are shooting in a RAW camera format.
How is Lightroom Different from Photoshop?
Photoshop is essentially a digital painting program. If you are doing pixel level manipulations, making composites, HDR images or any other complex image processing you need Photoshop. But for most photographers, Lightroom can handle the bulk of the work. Lightroom is optimized for photographers that need to process thousands of images.
For an overview of Lightroom 2:
Lightroom 2 Features
Download the Lightroom 2 free trial
If you don’t already have an Adobe account, you will have to create one.
Here is a page with a bunch of learning resources for Lightroom 2. It includes learning websites, podcasts & blogs, books & magazines and a few white papers.
Using Lightroom
