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I've just been messing with Lightroom 2.0 this morning, and wow it's impressive.
I'm not much of a landscape 'tog, but the new brush tool goes a long way to eradicating the need to carry around ND Grad filters for much of the time. Expose the scene as you usually would in your RAW converter, and then dial in a reduction in exposure (in this case -1 stop) brushing over the areas where you want the exposure changed (the sky & clouds).
This was my first attempt, and took no more than two minutes:
The output sharpening is excellent too. Very very impressed!
I'm not much of a landscape 'tog, but the new brush tool goes a long way to eradicating the need to carry around ND Grad filters for much of the time. Expose the scene as you usually would in your RAW converter, and then dial in a reduction in exposure (in this case -1 stop) brushing over the areas where you want the exposure changed (the sky & clouds).
This was my first attempt, and took no more than two minutes:
The output sharpening is excellent too. Very very impressed!
Yes, it looks to be an improvement over version 1 in overall usability. The only complaint I have so far is that it made a complete bog of transferring all my keywords over. Hopefully, the release version will correct the errors without losing any adjustments made in the beta. Until then, I'll continue to use v1 primarily and just use 2beta for messing around a bit.
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