I’ve been browsing around and decided that I wanted to upgrade to Adobe Lightroom 2. Photoshop CS4 is too much money to spend considering that I don’t use most of the capabilities in 7. I downloaded a trial version of Lightroom last night to try out and I think it’s too much for me! I feel like an old fuddy duddy, but it seems like too much information to absorb. The thing I liked about the advertising for it was their tagline of spending more time behind the camera and less time at the computer, but I think the learning curve is going to be so high that I’ll be spending a lot of time at the computer. Just about all of my photos benefit from a little editing, but I don’t want to spend a ton of time with photo editing software. I know some people really enjoy that, but I'm not one of those people.
The basics like cropping and adjusting colors are fairly intuitive, but they have this whole cataloguing system for saving your photos that I’m not really interested in. I was reading about it online today and there’s a >20 minute video tutorial about it! I’m someone who hates reading instructions and I don’t have any desire to spend that much time learning about a cataloguing system. I have a very easy system of putting original files in one folder, saving duplicates that I edit in another and that’s it. Takes me all of a few seconds to put things where I want them. I couldn't even figure out where my photos were saving last night. I have this new Lightroom folder that has half a bajillion subfolders and I still couldn't find a jpeg amongst them. Granted, I didn't try that hard, but I don't want to!












