Most of the upgrades from version 1 have occurred in the organisation area of the program while new features are more prominent in the developing module. Lightroom 2 has a new Smart Collections feature for automatically organising photos and will grow and shrink as you organise your images more effectively. It has five preset collection folders for importing images into and will update as you tag them.
High volume import feature with specified pre-adjustments has been enhanced to work faster as has sorting and filtering feature to find your images after they've been filed.
In the develop module, global adjustments such as brightness, clarity, saturation and exposure can now be made locally and a new graduated filter has been added. The graduated filter can adjust colours as well as other features such as brightness, saturation and contrast. The filter is a simple drag and drop system with three bars for strength and positioning. If you want to put the grad at an angle, just drag it in at the one you desire.
Multiple monitor users can rub their hands with glee as Lightroom 2 now supports dual screens. It's accessed using the two small monitor icons in the bottom left of the screen just above the thumbnail previews.
Other features include being able to transfer images to file sharing websites and access to the new Lightroom Exchange to take advantage of the export plug ins and web gallery styles that are available there. Fine art printers that use Leopard Mac will be happy to know that Lightroom 2 has a 16-bit print output.
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