Holy Cow Lightroom Rocks!

So, I just got it...sorry no pics Im too excited to post...wow, I almost feel like, who the heck even needs to learn all this WB, and other setting crap when you have lightroom? Now dont jump me over that one, I know Im learning, and I will continue to learn, Gosh Forbid something happen to my Lightroom! LOL....but wowee...Im super excited to start learnin more on how to use this program.....

I'm finding that the more I use it the less I like it from a performance point of view. Once your catalogs get large it really bogs down.

I have some other comments in the other I love Lightroom thread. I'm not up to retyping them here.

It does tend to get bogged down when the catalogs get large, but the overall work flow is great.

oh,ok, I'll have to watch for that..I just plugged in a pic real quick and messed for a few minutes with it..then did the side to side action.....and was like...wow!

It is a very nice program but I'm finding myself preferring the use of ACR in PSCS3 even more.

I'm at the point now where I'm deciding to make different catalogues by genre. The performance hit is massive once above 15,000 images with keywording and edits applied to say 1/3.

Lightroom needs a fast drive and a defragmented database once your collections grow.

Enjoy!

I've got 21,000+ in my catalog right now. It has slowed down a 'touch' but nothing thats stopping me from changing to a new catalog right now. However now with the busier wedding season, I'm thinking I may start to use a new catalog by year.

Hopefully, they'll introduce some more performance improvements with v2.0.

ssim wrote in post #5011214
I'm finding that the more I use it the less I like it from a performance point of view. Once your catalogs get large it really bogs down.

I have some other comments in the other I love Lightroom thread. I'm not up to retyping them here.

I too share your pain. I tried Lightroom, and it has the Potential to be a good program, but it painfully show, and just quirky at times. Lightroom's editing capabilities are just wrappers around Adobe Camera Raw. You can do the same stuff in ACR that you can do in Lightroom. Lightrooms value is in it's photo organization capabilities, as well as it's keywording capabilities. I found both too frustrating to work with, and in the end didn't feel like the program was worth it's $300 price tag. I COULD have reworked my workflow to compensate for Lightrooms performance problems (i.e start using smaller catalogs, etc), but felt it was rediculous to do that when the whole purpose of getting Lightroom is to improve your workflow and make it more efficient

Now that Apple's Aperture 2.0 program is out, I am anxiously awaiting to see how Lightroom 2.0 will respone. Apple priced Aperture at $199, so I think Adobe will have to respond and match prices in the 2.0 release.

Until then, I will stick to PS3 and ACR. Mark my words. Right now everyone is high on Lightroom, but when Adobe releases Lightroom 2.0 everyone will start openly talking about the problems that reside in Lightroom 1.0. But until then, everyone will sing it's praises.

Is there a release date for LR 2.0 ? I've got about almost 10,000 images in LR and I've noticed it bogs down. My machine is 4 or 5 years old, but I'll be anxious to upgrade both hardware and software.

gparvan wrote in post #5017768
My machine is 4 or 5 years old

You'd see a major improvement in a new rig.

Tsmith wrote in post #5017906
You'd see a major improvement in a new rig.

Yup, no argument here, but my car just bit the dust today. Either I get a new transmission or a new car, in either case probably no new computer.