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Not sure what there is to like about the new Adobe Lightroom, well here is a list to help get you started. I’m a huge fan of Lightroom 1.x so I’m hoping to get the new version up and running so I can have a look at the new features.

Adobe’s Lightroom 2.0, which launched today represents a major breakthrough in the field of digital photo processing. I’ve only just begun to play with the software today, but it is clear that Lightroom 2.0 will be my new imaging software of choice. Prior to using Lightroom 2.0 I did my photo processing using Adobe’s Bridge and Photoshop. Lightroom represents a significant leap forward in the power of processing digital photographs. I thought I’d write up a post documenting my 10 new favorite processing tools that Lightroom 2.0 brings to the table.

Thomas Hawk’s Digital Connection: The 10 Best Things About the New Adobe Lightroom 2.0

Looks like the latest and greatest iteration of Lightroom is here, bringing with it a whole list of new features, and 64 bit compatibility.

Adobe has officially released Photoshop Lightroom 2, following three months of beta testing for the photo management software. It is Adobe’s first product supporting 64-bit Windows Vista and OS X.

Lightroom 2 is available now for $299 USD, or $99 USD as an upgrade from the previous release. This workflow enhancing software is billed as “the professional photographer’s essential toolbox,” and is geared toward users working with large volumes of photos.

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 brings 64-bit compatibility

It looks like we were a little premature, but I think this confirms that we aren’t going to see any real photography from Microsoft anytime soon:

“I can’t imagine doing serious imaging anywhere other than Adobe, but, I needed to do something other than imaging for a while.”

If you were hired by Microsoft to make the Windows experience less annoying, what would be on your to-do list?

Mark Hamburg, the Adobe Photoshop/LightRoom guru recently hired by Microsoft, is tasked with figuring out how to improve the way Microsoft’s operating system works.

Hamburg didn’t recently join Microsoft to work on SmartFlow, Microsoft’s alleged competitor to LightRoom, as I guessed yesterday. Instead, he’s working on future OS interface concepts, according to a posting on the ProPhotoHome blog that a reader forwarded to me. According to the post:

What would you change (first) about Windows’ look and feel?