I’m about as far away from being expert in Adobe Lightroom as can be.  But I’m working at it, you know?

I have a legit installation of Lightroom on my MacBook but a, um, un-legit version on my PC.  Which is not the best set-up because I prefer to edit photos on my PC – no special or logical reason.

So Lightroom 2.4 doesn’t load Panasonic RW2 files.  And I don’t feel like spending time learning the software that comes packaged with the Panasonic camera – which will only output in JPG, not do simple conversions.  Which means I could use Adobe’s DNG converter.  Fortunately, the public beta of Lightroom 3 does load RW2.

I thought the colors in the JPG looked kind of flat.  I finally got around to loading the Lightroom 3 beta and loading the RW2 files into it.  Anyway, here’s the very first shot that I took with the Panasonic GF-1, about a week ago, RAW, straight outta the camera.  Nothing special about the photo, just using it as an example.

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Here it is again, after playing around with it in Lightroom for 10 minutes.

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The biggest problem I have with Lightroom is knowing when to stop.  And having time to really work on the hundreds of photos I take each week.  But I save everything – as I said to a friend, “Who knows, maybe two years from now blurry poorly-lit photos might come into fashion!”

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