Lightroom 2 and CS4 Launch

Last night was the Melbourne Adobe CS4 Launch party. It was held at a standard IT party location, only the crow was different. The normal IT party is a swarm of suited up sales crowds and distribution hawks…think…”I am a PC”. Last night it was “…and I’m Mac”. Everyone had a Mac…the demos where on Macs…many a lap was covered with a Mac…possibly the drinks where shaken with a Mac. As usual the bar was open…but I wasn’t drinking (maybe some more on that in another entry).

Apart from the Mac love fest the night was all about integration, easy and wow. Edit a video clip from Premiere in After Effects without rendering out. The changes made in After Effects are reflected in Premiere in real time…. Integration! Create a key frame in Flash, click and dragging an object creates a path…bend the path with the mouse…animation done…correctly with all the web friendly coding done….easy! A photo of a field with 4 cows…need more field…increase the size of the image..field grows (doesn’t distort) the cows remain unchanged (and trees)….wow!

I got home and had to break out the only current generation Adobe product I have, Lightroom 2. I hadn’t really played with it..but wow. Last night I did a 30 min shoot of some food..imported the raw images to Lightroom..created a set of modifications and copied them to a bunch of the shots. Fast…really fast..processing took less time than the shoot. The developed photos were on flickr within 40 mins of packing up the shoot. I am a convert…Don’t cry Photoshop…you can still play with the jpgs.

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