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Adobe ships Lightroom 2
Adobe announced today that Lightroom 2, a major update to their photography workflow app, is now available. Lightroom 2 will cost you $299, with an upgrade price of $99, but it includes a host of new features, improvements, and general whizbangery.The biggest news for Mac users is that Lightroom 2 is Adobe's first native 64-bit app for OS X. Also new in Lightroom 2:
- Libraries can span harddrives
- Customizable print templates
- Smart Collections to automatically organize photos
Lightroom 2 requires OS X 10.4 or above, and a 1 GHz G4 processor or better.
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Jörg said 1:52PM on 7-29-2008
Correct me if I'm wrong but my Lightroom 1 spans perfectly across multiple drives..
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Andy said 2:06PM on 7-29-2008
Just a quick note on the native 64 bit option. You actually have to enable this by navigating to the executable and bringing up the get info dialogue. From there you can uncheck the 'open in 32 bit' option. Otherwise it runs in 32 bit mode.
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Jon Niola said 2:49PM on 7-29-2008
That's interesting. I wonder why 64-bit is not enabled by default?
Christina Warren said 3:05PM on 7-29-2008
Ooh, good call! Thanks for the info!
I guess they do 32-bit by default for anyone on a Core Duo (and not a C2D) or G4. Still, you'd think that they could write in a processor check to handle the defaults, though I guess some people might only want to run in 32-bit mode anyway.
Christina Warren said 3:05PM on 7-29-2008
Ooh, good call! Thanks for the info!
I guess they do 32-bit by default for anyone on a Core Duo (and not a C2D) or G4. Still, you'd think that they could write in a processor check to handle the defaults, though I guess some people might only want to run in 32-bit mode anyway.
Clark said 7:08PM on 7-29-2008
What are the speed differences with 64 bit and large files?
zerocalories said 12:50AM on 7-30-2008
yes, lets see some performance comparisons
Lon Varscsak said 6:11PM on 7-29-2008
Isn't this the whole point of FAT binaries...so users don't have to worry about the details? Weird.
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Mo said 6:51PM on 7-29-2008
I can't remember how Lightroom 1 installed, but Lightroom 2 is via .pkg.
If CS4 is also via .pkg/.mpkg, Adobe-using Mac users of the world WILL rejoice.
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