Wanna know what makes me smile when I’m faced with long days in front of a monitor, working through hundreds and hundreds of images? Anything that makes that job simpler or FASTER. To that end I recently upgraded my iMac’s OS to Snow Leopard. I’m not going to go into that other than to say, I’m very pleased. It’s stable, it’s faster and it was priced right. There are tons of reviews out there so if you want more info it’s only a Google search away.
This morning’s smile came from the Adobe Lightroom 2.5 upgrade. It was a simple install that took only moments. Then came the first launch of the new version. Always in the back of my mind is this little voice that nags and makes suggestions about how I won’t be able to access any of my images and how I’m going to lose days of productivity to this upgrade. I too, live in the tension of excitement and dread, that most of us have developed from way too many years of amazing promises and disastrous deliveries.
Good news! Adobe delivers with Lightroom 2.5 update. What hit me first was the stunning speed of even the applications launch. So surprised by the speed at which it happened that I immediately doubted what I had just seen and closed the application. I needed to see if I could repeat the results. Sure enough, Lightroom bounded onto the screen a second time. WOW! So I started to navigate around and jump from folder to folder to see if I could expect this type of nimble behaviour throughout the application. Sure enough the performance held and I saw my folders load in record time. This is great news for Lightroomers!
I haven’t had a chance to really put it through it’s paces yet but so far I’m really impressed with what Adobe has done with Lightroom 2.5. I just had to get over here and share this with you. Now I’m heading back n to see what other improvements lay undiscovered.
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