Die Disziplin 17 Jahre lang jeden Tag ein Foto (in diesem Fall zwei) von sich zu schießen ist schon beeindruckend. Und offensichtlich schneidet sich Dan Hanna selbst die Haare - wenn es Zeit wird :-) - Thomas Hoppe
The geek side of me is going... "Dude, it's funny because those would be considered 'female' components." And the other side of me is going... "There is no other side of me." - l0ckergn0me
Looks like I'd have to go through a bunch of legal hurdles to get a Sugar Glider in California. I wish someone would just sell me one even though it was illegal... I'd bring it with me everywhere lol. - Brandon
haha, yeah same Brandon. Would be awesome just to have for company no matter where you go. They don't talk, just listen. :) - Zee from WeDoCreative
Songbird scheint mittlerweile brauchbar zu sein. Macht einen stabilen Eindruck und sieht sehr aufgeräumt aus. Ist schneller als die frühen Alpha-Versionen und kommt mit nativem Last.fm- und Smart Playlist-Addon. - Thomas Hoppe
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via Zaphod: via team: a great image bookmarking site. you could spend hours clicking through the never-ending, ever-inspiring stream here. - Thomas Hoppe
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aha und ich dachte ich hätte den Comic gelesen, was man nicht alles übersieht, immerhin mit Tiroler Freistaat, sehr merkwürdig. - Max Hartmann
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"photo showing four members of Argentina’s Olympic women’s football team making “slit-eyed” gestures has emerged on the internet, just days after two Spanish sports teams were criticised for pulling similar poses." - RAPatton
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"Während die subalternen Journalisten ihre Arbeit recht ordentlich machen, versagen allerdings die namenhaften Alpha-Journalisten in ihren Kommentaren auf ganzer Linie. Vor allem Meldungen aus georgischen Militär- und Regierungskreisen werden von ihnen gerne als Tatsachenbehauptungen eingestreut – kein Konjunktiv, keine Quellangabe, keine Glaubwürdigkeit." - Thomas Hoppe
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Super Artikel. Übrigens auf BBC World, hören sich die Nachrichten ganz anders an, als bei uns. Dort ist man bisher nicht auf den Ant-Russland-Zug aufgesprungen! - Ryo
Üble Sache. Als Leser hat man zwar heutzutage gerade auch wegen des Internets eine ungleich größere Möglichkeit die "Fakten" der Presse zu prüfen, aber wer macht sich schon wirklich diese Mühe? Letztendlich beherrschen diese Journalisten noch immer das Meinungsbild. Im Falle Russland/Georgien scheint es mir derzeit unmöglich, sich ein Bild zu machen, wer hier mit welchen Interessen wie agiert. - Thomas Frütel
@Thomas Frütel: Ich fand in diesem Zusammenhang das heutige ZDF-Morgenmagazin ganz nützlich, auch wenn ich erst gegen Ende des ersten Kommentars eingeschaltet habe. Da wurden die Korrespondenten aus USA, Russland und Georgien befragt und alle drei haben zurückhaltend die Angaben der "eigenen" Länder mit Vorsicht wiedergegeben. Auch wurde versucht, die Absichten der Beteiligten zu erklären. Das hat mir die Sache etwas deutlicher vermittelt, ohne dass ich mich durch seitenlange Artikel quälen muss. - Thomas Hoppe
Erler ist ein Trottel. Das Vorgehen von Russland wie Georgien ist absolut Skandalös. Wegen eines sinnlosen Gebietskonflikts beginnen die Deppen von Georgien einen Krieg, die Russen eskalieren ihn, beide haben hunderte tote ZivilistInnen zu verantworten. Erinnert mich ein bisschen an die Situation der deutschsprachigen Gebiete in Osteuropa am Anfang des letzten Jahrhunderts. Die haben sich auch abgeschottet und die Umgebung gehasst. Sie sollen sich damit arrangieren oder weg ziehen, Punkt aus. - sebmos
Tot haben sie nichts von einem kriegerisch gelösten Konflikt. - sebmos
Finde ich nicht. Wir sollten nicht vergessen, dass Georgien hier massiv, eine Nacht vor der Eskalation, in Südossetien einmarschiert ist, und die dort stationierten russischen Friedenstruppen angegriffen hat. Georgien ist hier der Aggressor. - Ryo
Der Begriff "russische Friedenstruppen" gehört immer in Anführungszeichen! - Thomas Hoppe
@Hoppe: Jede Art von Friedenstruppen gehört in Anführungszeichen. Ich traue den russischen genau so viel wie den Anderen. Fakt ist aber, das diese Angegriffen wurden, also ist es völlig legitim zurückzuschlagen. - Ryo
Ich glaube aber auch, dass die Russen darauf gewartet haben endlich mal wieder den Kriegstreiber zu spielen. Da kam das kleine Georgien gerade recht. - Thomas Hoppe
Schon seit einigen Tagen lese ich begeistert das Peking-Tagebuch von Sportjournalist Jens Weinreich. Sehr zu empfehlen, vor allem für den Blick hinter die Kulissen. - Thomas Hoppe
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“I'm uninstalling piclens. As much as I love it and think it represents one of the best ways to view photos on the web, its lack of an ability to interact with photos in any way -- not even a simple cmd click to open an image in a background tab -- makes it more of something that gets in the way now”
Thomas, I'm not sure what version you are running, but the newer version (1.71.xxx) allows you to escape Piclens to to the photo, comment, fave, etc, then there is a "back to Piclens" button that will bring you right back to the stream view without skipping a beat. My only problem now is that it misbehaves with my video card at home and I get gable when exiting it until I refresh the screen. :-( - cmiper
piclens needs loads of bandwidth, too much for my "narrow" Indian "Broadband" Its not very useful either, once you get past the novelty stage. - Rahul Das
I love it to, but Thomas you are right. I wish you could fav, etc from it. I personally use the Slideshow on Flickr to flip through friends and fav. The Slideshow has keyboard short cuts. - Kreg Steppe
thanks for the update on the new version cmiper. You are right. It is a tad better. I can't find the "back to piclens" button though. Will have to look harder for that. - Thomas Hawk
PicLens on the Mac consumes a large chunk of CPU. I had to disable it to get FireFox to be responsive again. - Jauder Ho
cmiper, thanks for pointing that out. Not sure why I was so dense to miss that. That return to piclens button actually makes it much more functional. Still wish I could cmd-click while in Piclins but I think I'll keep it after all with the return to Piclens button. - Thomas Hawk
I still use it. It gets annoying trying to play a flash video on flickr since both put the play button in exactly the same place. Love it for google image searches though. - Rodfather
The "back to Piclens" button is a definite improvement, but it would be great to be able to interact directly inside the extension. I've been saying this for awhile. Despite its annoyances and memory requirements, I still think it's the coolest way to browse photos on the web and use it almost every day. I tried the DestroyFlickr AIR app, but I didn't think it was as good. - Matt
One other suggestion: it'd be cool to be able to see EXIF data within Piclens if the photographer publishes it. Is the Piclens developer on FriendFeed? Anyone? Anyone? "Voodoo economics". - Matt
@Matt, I'm not sure if it is in fact them, but they added me shortly after my posts and I know they did work with FF on implementation. http://friendfeed.com/cooliris - cmiper
Thomas, We're delighted to hear that you haven't given up on PicLens. (Thanks, cmiper!) You may have missed our comment on your blog, but in June we announced PicLens 1.7 that includes "Return to PicLens", Amazon shopping, and Discover, which aggregates all the latest news feeds from across the web to keep you up to date on the news and more. We hear you - being able to interact with the content in PicLens is a great idea. We'd love to incorporate it eventually. Much more to come so please stay tuned in! - Cooliris
@Matt - Yes! We are on Friendfeed. My name is Luna and I'm a Stanford intern at Cooliris. You can friend us at Cooliris. - Cooliris
@cmiper - Cooliris is the official Friendfeed account. Thanks for being such an advocate on Friendfeed. We truly appreciate it! We love to hear everyone's suggestions and ideas for PicLens so please feel free to post on our account or send us emails at feedback@piclens.com. We will read them all and get back to you as soon as possible! - Cooliris
Ahhh, Cooliris actually showing up here in the conversation at FriendFeed. Very cool. I'm sticking with Piclens for a while. cmiper's tip about the return to piclens button helps quite a bit. I should have been more on top of the tool's development. One thing that I think would help even more would simply be the ability to cmd or ctl click on a photo while using piclens in Flickr and then have that Flickr page load in a Firefox tab in the background. - Thomas Hawk
This would keep your piclens session uninterrupted while allowing you to go and interact with the photos that you wanted to after your piclens session is over. Right now cmd/ctl click in Piclens does nothing and it would seem like a pretty easy thing to code and a natural way for the software to interact with a browser as cmd/ctl click almost anyplace else opens a new tab in the background while browsing. - Thomas Hawk
We're very happy that you're still finding PicLens useful. I'll pass along your cmd/ctl click suggestion. These are all great ideas on the usability side of our product and constantly trying to evolve. Please be patient as we are first perfecting our current product before moving to new features. The only alternative we can currently offer you is the globe icon that takes you directly to the particular image as soon as you click it. Thank you for the ideas and keep them coming! - Cooliris
Thanks Cooliris, I also appreciate what you've been able to do with Piclens and iPernity a few weeks back. ;-) - cmiper
I enjoy PicLens, but it really is nothing more than eye candy. I haven't found any instability issues with it. - Chris Luckhardt
I second the thought of Thomas Hawk. Loading the photos i want to interact with in a background tab would be great. I do that with all news sites i read. When i'm done with the tabs, i'm done with the reading :-) - Thomas Hoppe
Not sure if I want to upgrade right away or not. Love the selective processing feature, that's probably worth it alone. How is the healing brush and cropping different from the previous version? Seems to be the same to me. - Andre Maltais
Thomas, great writeup. Looking forward to hearing your comments once you've been using LR for a little while. Glad to hear you converted finally! I've been using LR for about 2 years and can't imagine going back to the old way. You will find many more great features as you continue to use it. One of my favorites is the ability to sync settings selectively between two or more photos. Streamlines editing if you have a bunch of shots all done in the same light or with similar exposure. - Jeff P. Henderson
I've been using Lightroom exclusively for my RAW processing for a year now and am excited to move up to the upgrade. Mainly for localized settings. The healing brush has been in earlier releases, FYI. - Jeremy Hall
I'm so glad they're putting in features I've been waiting for since I started using LR. - Donato (ricin)
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I use Lightroom since v1.0 right from the start and today switched from 1.4 to 2.0 after using 2.0 Beta already and desperately waiting for the release. Just love it. It is a dream. I just hope that the departure of Mark Hamburg from Adobe does not do any harm to further development of the product. - Ulrich Hilger
My old processing workflow involved using Adobe's Camera RAW in Bridge to do 95% of my work and then a remaining 5% or so in Photoshop to do spot healing, sharpening, burning and dodging etc. Now I can do all of this within Lightroom without every having to go to Photoshop. The keywording enhancements and *especially* the spot RAW processing will significantly improve my workflow. - Thomas Hawk
Jauder, I did not notice any appreciable speed improvements with this version of Lightroom. That said, this is the first version to support 64 bit processing and I think that if you have a 64 bit system that this should represent a big jump in performance. - Thomas Hawk
Great writeup. I've still been using the included Canon software for RAW image processing that came with my DSLR, but was considering a new tool. Looks like plenty of good reasons to look at Lightroom! - Kevin C. Tofel
I'm particularly interested in custom color profiles, which has been a problem that I have not been able to resolve. Shades of red, pink and lavender have never been accurate. - JodyUnwired
Jody, I haven't tried out the custom color profile for the Canon 5D yet, but I did like the colors that I got better natively from Adobe on this upgrade. - Thomas Hawk
I'm an Aperture user at the moment, but I'm really looking forward to the inevitable Aperture 2 v. Lightroom 2 comparisons. If only because I'm always looking for an excuse to play with new toys. - James Williams (willia4)
It kind of irks me this product is not included in Photoshop CS3 Extended or any of their Creative Suites. Not even Master Collection. - Andrew Smith
Thomas, Going from a 32 to a 64 bit application will have little or no impact on the speed of the application. It only allows the application to address more memory. Going to an application that can use multiple processors would show a significant speed improvement. I do not believe Lightroom was written to support multi processors. - Jeff P. Henderson
Lightroom is very tempting, but I'm not sure I can justify the premium over ACR (which comes as part of the $89 Photoshop Elements) - Andy Roth
good point Jeff. I haven't done any work with 64 bit processors yet but I know that sometimes when my photo processing gets bogged down it's because I've got too many apps open at once. I'd assume with more memory you'd get less of this sort of behavior. Potentially. - Thomas Hawk
I used to use PhotoShop all the time. When LR2.0 Beta came out I decided to give it a try and have never looked back. It is by far the best processing tool I have used for images. It has improved my workflow tenfold. The presets are great, the healing and cloning brushes work well and the vignette control is fantastic. I find the speed to be pretty good. I can't wait to purchase this. I am happy to pay the price for this software. - Tom Quinn
Jeff is incorrect. 64-bit CPU processing can have an impact on performance. And it has nothing to do with multiple processors. Lots of variables, but it can impact performance -- though he's correct in that it may not matter in the case of Lightroom. - Peter Kirn
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Let me just add one comment - Adobe Online store sucks big time. I live in Bermuda, which does not have an Adobe Online store, so I tried purchasing from Adobe US Store. No dice unless I have a US Billing address. Get this - I have to call a *toll number* and try to purchase that way. I can order stuff from Amazon with a Bermuda billing address without issues. Adobe needs to wake up to global e-commerce... - Tom Quinn
@Peter you are correct that a 64 bit OS can have a positive impact on performance compared to a 32 bit version, but in real life application, the performance improvement is fairly small. Here are two articles, one PC and one Mac oriented that discuss the variables and show some test data. http://www.smartcomputing.com/...http://www.geekpatrol.ca/2006/... - Jeff P. Henderson
Oh, so I call the number and it is no longer in service. So I call customer service and they cannot take my order, and can't tell me how to get it from Adobe (due to shipping contracts, even though I only want the download). Eventually they tell me to order from CDW, which is a joke because it does not sell LR2 yet. - Tom Quinn
Would this app be good for a photo noob like me or should I stick with gimp or something like photo elements? - Dylan McIntosh
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I wish work and sleep would stop getting in my way so I can play with LR2. :( - Squid
Two words: adjustment brush. *genuflects* - ☺ Cecily ☺
OK, this goes on the shopping list. Wow. - Chris Baskind
Dylan, Adobe let's you download any of their fully functional applications to try out for 30 days free. Why not try it out to see if you like it. If you do, all you do is pay on their web site for a software key and keep using it. If not you can uninstall it after the 30 days are up. Depends on your work flow, but it seems like if you are using Gimp or Photoshop now, Lightroom might just work for you also. - Jeff P. Henderson
Squid, I hear you! I'm trying to catch up on all of the LR2 articles and watch the Kelby videos to learn how to best use the new features. I uninstalled my beta copy of 2.0 but haven't had time to install the 2.0 upgrade that I bought last night. Still have 1.4.1 installed. - Jeff P. Henderson
Good writeup, Thomas. Some of the features you mention have been in Lightroom since the beginning (Healing Brush and Crop/Rotate tool) but if you're coming from Camera Raw they're new. - Ole Begemann
One bad thing about Lightroom: US price = $ 299.00 (€192.048), EU price = € 298.80??!... I know this ain't an exclusive of Adobe but someone's earning a few bucks with this "bogus exchange rate", because its not like my copy is shipped directly from the US... - João Almeida
Nice write up - I was going to point out that some of the features you mention aren't new, but I see that's been well covered |=o) - TreJack
