Adobe Lightroom Beta for Windows has arrived!

[plastic]

nice...anyone got a direct link to the download?
i don't feel like registering at adobe.com.

[mech7]

http://trials.adobe.com/pub/esd/labs/lightroom/

There ytou can download directly :)

[Maven]

cool...I like it. I wish they would just axe Bridge and replace it with this....sooooo much faster.

[yinako]

Muhahaha! I can't wait!

BTW Bridge is a piece of shit

[klingspor]

Looks and feels pretty solid to me, overall. Although the interface is still sluggish!

I've posted a quick review of Lightroom Beta 3 (http://www.minning.de/plog/adobe-lightoom-beta-mini-review) on my website. I'm not a professional photographer, so it's a review from the perspective of a CG artist using it to manage his texture collection as well as photos.

[ThomasMahler]

Muhahaha! I can't wait!

BTW Bridge is a piece of shit

Bridge could be quite cool if it wouldn't be so doggone slow. I prefer XnView for all that kinda stuff, even though I miss the 'Create Cache for Subfolders' feature.

[aaron111]

Tried it out yesterday. So far I like it a lot. It does feel a bit slow when working with a folder of RAW images, but it is much faster than Bridge, and I the interface is nice - reminds me a bit of Zbrush. It makes me feel like Photoshop might be due for some interface updates.

[Wintermute]

It is nice to see that they've gotten the windows version finally.

I've been using Lightroom since May (Mac version) when I got my E-500.
To put it simply, I love what Lightroom and shooting in RAW lets me do. (Lightroom's system requirements are considerably lower than Aperture)

Some of my photos (all processed through Lightroom) here (http://atomrend.bravehost.com/photos)

[ambient-whisper]

played around with it and it seems to have quite a few things to tweak with. its got a nice presentation format and stuff. however i much preffer raw shooter( which adobe just bought out ), because everything in raw shooter runs at what seems to me to be 10x faster, and its much simpler/cleaner in design.

[hightillidie]

I got it this morning and played around a bit. It looks great but doesnt run very well on my Sony Vaio 1.7 ghz 512mb ram .

Im gonna try it on the 3ghz dual core 2gig ram home pc now to see if the workflow is better.

[Matadŏr]

played around with it and it seems to have quite a few things to tweak with. its got a nice presentation format and stuff. however i much preffer raw shooter( which adobe just bought out ), because everything in raw shooter runs at what seems to me to be 10x faster, and its much simpler/cleaner in design.

Indeed.
I'm a user of raw shooter, and i love all the simplicity and power but what pleases me more is the speed of it! For now the only thing i dislike in Lightroom is the time it takes to make even some basic color operations... I expect that as a Beta this will be improved on future versions, that and also the fact that we need to import to work on our images... i love the browse folders way of raw shooter, much more convenient. I think that Adobe will make some changes on this aspect as it is been very required by many professional photographers.

greets

[marcoracer]

The only thing I have to complain about is that it REQUIRED SP2 to run... I'd been avoiding that successfully until now. I installed it (SP2) and immediatly ran into minor system level snags, hangs and freeze-ups. They seem to be clearing up as I restart a few more times. I'm still tempted to ditch it.

I've tried Lightroom on my work Mac a bit... Not enough to get a good feel for it. I intended to use the home system for more intensive evaluation. I've downloaded RawShooter. I think I'll go ahead and install and see how that works. I've also tried Nikon's Capture NX. I love a few of it's tools... It has a very different feel then things like Photoshop though.

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