Adobe Lightroom for Windows (almost) available now

2006-07-18 Thread John Francis
Adobe have just announced the availability of a Beta version of Lightroom fow Windows. The announcement seems to be a bit premature - the link in the announcement email doesn't quite work - but I expect it to be downloadable Real Soon Now (TM). I'm looking forward to trying this product. --

Re: Adobe Lightroom for Windows (almost) available now

2006-07-18 Thread Paul Sorenson
John - After you get to the browser screen that the link in the e-mail takes you to, click on the link that says "download the Mac beta". You will sign in, answer a few survey questions, then get to a page with links to download either the Mac or the Windows beta. I've got it downloaded and

Re: Adobe Lightroom for Windows (almost) available now

2006-07-18 Thread John Francis
No - that didn't work at the time I tried it - that was a broken link to a page on the Macromedia web site. It has now been replaced by a working link to a page on the Adobe site (and the link now says "Download Macintosh or Windows Beta"). As I said, the email was alittle premature; they hadn'

Re: Adobe Lightroom for Windows (almost) available now

2006-07-19 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
So is anyone experimenting with it yet? I'd be interested to hear your comments. I have experimented on and off with Lightroom beta 1 and 2 on Mac OS X for several months. I'm not wholly convinced one way or the other yet. It's such a different way of working from my Bridge-Camera Raw- Photos

Re: Adobe Lightroom for Windows (almost) available now

2006-07-19 Thread Ralf R. Radermacher
Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So is anyone experimenting with it yet? I've been using the Mac version practically from day one. Meanwhile, my library has grown to slightly over 10,000 RAW-files (.pef) and some 10,000 scanned pictures (.tif). The speed is OK on my 2 x 1.8 GHz G5.

Re: Adobe Lightroom for Windows (almost) available now

2006-07-19 Thread Adam Maas
Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > So is anyone experimenting with it yet? > I'd be interested to hear your comments. > > I have experimented on and off with Lightroom beta 1 and 2 on Mac OS > X for several months. I'm not wholly convinced one way or the other > yet. It's such a different way of workin

Re: Adobe Lightroom for Windows (almost) available now

2006-07-19 Thread Bruce Dayton
Best be prepared for some kind of 'Elements' type of thing - or just a high price. Adobe has Photoshop and Elements and then they have the video editor Premier and you guessed it - Premier Elements. They seem to like the high priced pro product and the stripped down, low cost amateur product arr

RE: Adobe Lightroom for Windows (almost) available now

2006-07-19 Thread Bob W
rey DiGiorgi > Sent: 19 July 2006 21:46 > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: Adobe Lightroom for Windows (almost) available now > > So is anyone experimenting with it yet? > I'd be interested to hear your comments. > > I have experimented on and off with Lightroom

Re: Adobe Lightroom for Windows (almost) available now

2006-07-19 Thread John Francis
On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 01:46:13PM -0700, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > So is anyone experimenting with it yet? > I'd be interested to hear your comments. > > I have experimented on and off with Lightroom beta 1 and 2 on Mac OS > X for several months. I'm not wholly convinced one way or the other

Re: Adobe Lightroom for Windows (almost) available now

2006-07-19 Thread Ralf R. Radermacher
John Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've just started experimenting with it. Try the colour -> b/w conversion. It will knock your socks off. Ralf -- Ralf R. Radermacher - DL9KCG - Köln/Cologne, Germany private homepage: http://www.fotoralf.de manual cameras and photo galleries - upd

RE: Adobe Lightroom for Windows (almost) available now

2006-07-19 Thread Lou Billing
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Godfrey DiGiorgi > Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 4:46 PM > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: Adobe Lightroom for Windows (almost) available now > > > So is anyon

Re: Adobe Lightroom for Windows (almost) available now

2006-07-19 Thread Bruce Dayton
Wednesday, July 19, 2006, 2:33:04 PM, Bob W. wrote: BW> I've used PS on and off for years (since v3), but never really BW> invested a lot of time in learning it - it has always seemed to me BW> like a hydra multiplied by an octopus times several squids crossed BW> with a multi-limbed dinosaur.

Re: Adobe Lightroom for Windows (almost) available now

2006-07-20 Thread Eactivist
In a message dated 7/19/2006 1:50:54 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I keep feeling that I'm missing something. Godfrey === I'm missing what Lightroom is supposed to be. I know Elements, and some of PS. How is Lightroom supposed to be different and/or better? Marnie aka

Re: Adobe Lightroom for Windows (almost) available now

2006-07-20 Thread Thibouille
Same here on my old AMD Duron 1800/ 512 RAM. Quite slow to say the least. I just hope that updateing the thumbnail will be a one-time process only, if not I'm in trouble ;) I was amazed at the size of the download... quite small really. -- Thibault Massart aka Thibouille -

Re: Adobe Lightroom for Windows (almost) available now

2006-07-20 Thread Adam Maas
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In a message dated 7/19/2006 1:50:54 PM Pacific Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I keep feeling that I'm missing something. > > Godfrey > === > I'm missing what Lightroom is supposed to be. > > I know Elements, and some of PS. How is Lightroom supposed

Re: Adobe Lightroom for Windows (almost) available now

2006-07-20 Thread John Francis
On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 05:38:54AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In a message dated 7/19/2006 1:50:54 PM Pacific Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I keep feeling that I'm missing something. > > Godfrey > === > I'm missing what Lightroom is supposed to be. > > I know Elements,

RE: Adobe Lightroom for Windows (almost) available now

2006-07-20 Thread Powell Hargrave
>I played with it on my laptop (P4 / 1.8 / 512 / XP) for awhile this morning, >but I definitely need more RAM. This site has several short video tutes for >each module by the likes of Dave Cross, Scott Kelby, and Matt Kloskowski: >http://www.photoshopuser.com/lightroom/library.html >Lou More Tutor

RE: Adobe Lightroom for Windows (almost) available now

2006-07-20 Thread Bob W
> Subject: Re: Adobe Lightroom for Windows (almost) available now > > In a message dated 7/19/2006 1:50:54 PM Pacific Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I keep feeling that I'm missing something. > > Godfrey > === > I'm missing what Lightroom i

Re: Adobe Lightroom for Windows (almost) available now

2006-07-20 Thread Eactivist
In a message dated 7/20/2006 9:58:44 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: To go beyond this (selective touch-up on just some parts of an image, etc..) you need an image editor such as Elements, CS, CS2, or some other external program. = Huh. Thanks, John. Very clear. Marnie --