Adobe Lightroom 2 beta
I know this is not programming, but one has to go out once in a while. Of course, after going outside, once I’m home I’m right back on the computer (my wife will be happy to tell you this).
I went on the Golden circle excursion with the ICALP attendees today. This is the “standard” tour given to most visitors and involves visiting the area around Geysir, Gullfoss and Þingvellir. After I got back I started selecting photos to put on the ICALP photo-webpage. I’ve been trying out Adobe’s new beta of Lightroom and I must say I like it. It has all the same features as the previous version, but feels considerably snappier.
One new feature is selective retouching, i.e. you paint a mask and can make some exposure/color changes to selected areas. Of course, performance goes out the window as soon as you do that but it is quite powerful and saves you from starting Photoshop.
While at Gullfoss, I took the following picture of Bláfell, a mountain north-east of there (if I’m incorrect and you know better, please correct me in the comments). The picture straight from the camera wasn’t that great…
… so I played with it for about a minute in Lightroom…
While it is still not great, I think it is quite good less than 60 seconds of work. The correctios I made were exposure correction, removing the dirt from the lens with the spot tool and then I made the mountain and sky a little more pronounced by upping the saturation and using the clarity slider (which I think is just the high-pass sharpening technique).
So.. try it out yourself if you like photography.