Hello. Finally pulled the trigger and bought a new Imac. Also bought Lightroom 2. SO much to learn and I'm actually a bit overwhelmed. I'm going from using Photoshop CS version 8.0 and occasionally Photostudio. I don't do much processing of my pics. I crop, reduce noise, sharpen a bit and increase the contrast. My main question is about LR 2. In photoshop when I would reduce noise in the background for example (using Neat Image) I would then take the history brush and go over the areas that I DIDN'T want noise removal done on (a bird for example). With LR2 I can't figure out how to do this. Seems that the entire image gets noise removed and I don't want that. Also, not entirely sure how to size the pics for the web in LR2. I realize most of these questions are probably already answered on here. i googled such things and couldn't really find the answers I was looking for. I am nowhere near an expert on post-processing. In fact, I'm overwhelmed by it and want to do the few simple steps above for the most part. Hopefully someone can help and be as least technical as possible! Thank you very much. BC
