Customer Rating: 
Summary: Take the time to study Lightroom
Comment: If you have the time to study Lightroom, learn its strengths and weaknesses, and fortify your knowledge with some third-party resources, this product is an excellent adjunct to Photoshop and a great tool on its own. It's hard to find a new twist or turn to add to the already thorough set of reviews here, so I'm going to step aside and return to reading those.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Lightroom 2 - worth the money
Comment: Lightroom 2 is a great digital darkroom product. I have also tried Apple's Aperture, but find Lightroom 2 easier to work with. I like the work flow organization and the fact that you can see the before and after pictures side by side.
It's a wonderful product to start with if you are Photoshop challenged like I am. There are things you cannot do in Lightroom. But if you are just looking for a digital darkroom program, you can't go wrong with this one.
The one thing to remember is to NOT move your files once you start working on them in Lightroom. If you move them to another file or folder or to another portable harddrive, Lightroom will no longer be able to find them.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Lightroom- Not PhotoShop
Comment: This software is designed for photographers that take volumes of pictures without too much tweaking of the images. It is set up much like Photoshop. With our Mac, it is easier for some of our family members to use than others. I love it. My daughter, the budding photographer, gets frustrated with its limitations at times. It is great for developing a new set of skills, especially if you take lots of photos. The organization of the software is pretty intuitive and easy to manage. Just don't expect it to be Adobe Photoshop.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Wonderful photo management tool for the Pro or Pro-sumer
Comment: I'm really happy with Lightroom 2. I'd been a Lightroom 1 user since it came out, but used it inconsistently, wavering between iPhoto and Lightroom 1. Lightroom 1 just seems a little sluggish. I also found myself firing up Photoshop quite a lot from Lightroom 1.
Although it may seem like a small feature, I use the Vignette for Cropped Images feature, new to Lightroom 2, quite a lot. In Lightroom 1, you were able to control the photo's edge vignette if you didn't crop the photo, but if you did want to crop your photo and have control of the edge vignette, it meant a trip to Photoshop. Good addition to LR2.
My main use with Light Room 2 is managing a large number of photos. I've recently had a few jobs where I come back to my studio with around 200 similar shots and I need to have a way to find the best 5 or so to present to a client. Light Room is build to easily handle a task like that. I take several passes through my latest import and rank them with successively higher rating star ratings until I'm left with just the best shots.
From there, I will "develop" the Raw image files directly in Light Room and produce a small web site, again directly in Light Room 2, for my client's selection and approval.
Adobe's done a great job with this software package.
Customer Rating:
Summary: No Major Complaints.
Comment: I don't have any major issues with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 (APL2). But an annoying gripe for me and what needs a little bit of work is automasking. I don't lean on automasking, but it does come in handy. And on APL2, It's far from perfect. It does seem to take a little bit more time than usual, but is not total pain. A RAW file may take a little bit more time, a tiny delay, but it's not a snail's pace, a more equipped computer will help. You will still need Photoshop (APL2 can't invert masking) if you want to get in depth with masking, but the integration between the two programs is easy.
But that's not a main deterrent. I still give this product five stars just for its excellent cataloging skills and ability to get your stuff to the web. You won't master it in a day. The learning curve for APL2 is not that steep but it is does offer its share of complexity. But the main selling point is its zippy-ness. APL2 handles the majority of the work you throw at is with ease and that's why I'm using it.
Summary: Take the time to study Lightroom
Comment: If you have the time to study Lightroom, learn its strengths and weaknesses, and fortify your knowledge with some third-party resources, this product is an excellent adjunct to Photoshop and a great tool on its own. It's hard to find a new twist or turn to add to the already thorough set of reviews here, so I'm going to step aside and return to reading those.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Lightroom 2 - worth the money
Comment: Lightroom 2 is a great digital darkroom product. I have also tried Apple's Aperture, but find Lightroom 2 easier to work with. I like the work flow organization and the fact that you can see the before and after pictures side by side.
It's a wonderful product to start with if you are Photoshop challenged like I am. There are things you cannot do in Lightroom. But if you are just looking for a digital darkroom program, you can't go wrong with this one.
The one thing to remember is to NOT move your files once you start working on them in Lightroom. If you move them to another file or folder or to another portable harddrive, Lightroom will no longer be able to find them.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Lightroom- Not PhotoShop
Comment: This software is designed for photographers that take volumes of pictures without too much tweaking of the images. It is set up much like Photoshop. With our Mac, it is easier for some of our family members to use than others. I love it. My daughter, the budding photographer, gets frustrated with its limitations at times. It is great for developing a new set of skills, especially if you take lots of photos. The organization of the software is pretty intuitive and easy to manage. Just don't expect it to be Adobe Photoshop.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Wonderful photo management tool for the Pro or Pro-sumer
Comment: I'm really happy with Lightroom 2. I'd been a Lightroom 1 user since it came out, but used it inconsistently, wavering between iPhoto and Lightroom 1. Lightroom 1 just seems a little sluggish. I also found myself firing up Photoshop quite a lot from Lightroom 1.
Although it may seem like a small feature, I use the Vignette for Cropped Images feature, new to Lightroom 2, quite a lot. In Lightroom 1, you were able to control the photo's edge vignette if you didn't crop the photo, but if you did want to crop your photo and have control of the edge vignette, it meant a trip to Photoshop. Good addition to LR2.
My main use with Light Room 2 is managing a large number of photos. I've recently had a few jobs where I come back to my studio with around 200 similar shots and I need to have a way to find the best 5 or so to present to a client. Light Room is build to easily handle a task like that. I take several passes through my latest import and rank them with successively higher rating star ratings until I'm left with just the best shots.
From there, I will "develop" the Raw image files directly in Light Room and produce a small web site, again directly in Light Room 2, for my client's selection and approval.
Adobe's done a great job with this software package.
Customer Rating:
Summary: No Major Complaints.
Comment: I don't have any major issues with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 (APL2). But an annoying gripe for me and what needs a little bit of work is automasking. I don't lean on automasking, but it does come in handy. And on APL2, It's far from perfect. It does seem to take a little bit more time than usual, but is not total pain. A RAW file may take a little bit more time, a tiny delay, but it's not a snail's pace, a more equipped computer will help. You will still need Photoshop (APL2 can't invert masking) if you want to get in depth with masking, but the integration between the two programs is easy.
But that's not a main deterrent. I still give this product five stars just for its excellent cataloging skills and ability to get your stuff to the web. You won't master it in a day. The learning curve for APL2 is not that steep but it is does offer its share of complexity. But the main selling point is its zippy-ness. APL2 handles the majority of the work you throw at is with ease and that's why I'm using it.