The more I’ve been learning about Lightroom 2 (technically now at 2.3), the more I’ve been liking it!  First of all, I learned that - thanks to new camera profiles (also available in the latest camera raw software) - I can get my photos to start from where Canon’s own RAW software would have started.  I never realized it was a better choice than photoshop because I liked the photoshop workflow so much.  But now that I’ve played with the camera profiles in Lightroom, I realize that I’ve been selling my images short.

There’s something about this little, brown, cube monster that people love.  I first came across Domo when chatting on AIM with my high school friend, Lawrence Kwan.  He had it as his buddy icon.  I asked him what the brown square with the mouth was and he directed me to a website with an animation.  I didn’t really get it.  But there was something neat about the little guy.  Then, all of a sudden, I see him all over the place for Target’s Halloween in-store decorations.  (I wish I’d taken a photo)  There’s something people love about the little guy.  On flickr there are, as of this writing, nine groups featuring Domo.

I just wanted to really elaborate on why I think Adobe Lightroom is a program any enthusiast to pro user should own.  Although, as I related here, LR has grown on me, going through the photos I shot at my cousin’s wedding has really cemented my love for Adobe’s product.  Here are my two favorite features.  You may want to open up the images in a new tab at full size so you can follow along.

Once again I’ve had one of my photos published by an outside source.  I always had an image used by WNYC, which you may remember.    This time it was the above photo in a blog post about Social Enterprenuership in Minnesota.  As I said before, if the most important thing to you is getting your artwork out there, use the Creative Commons.  At any rate, most artists (Van Gogh, etc) die poor.  So why not at least know others are seeing your photographs - the more eyeballs the better.  Plus, it might get you famous enough to get paid commissions.

Recently I’ve been going through my old analog photos and scanning them in.  This is the oldest picture I have that I took.  I took some pictures earlier in our first vacation to the Smokey Mountains.  But those prints and negatives were lost by the time I started putting together photo albums.  I’ve been remembering so much about my childhood and it’s been so much fun.  I’m still deciding which photos to upload to flickr, but keep up on my Analog Set which covers up until the middle of my Freshman year in college.

Instead of the usual Top 20 most viewed photos, I wanted to indulge in my geek side and show only prime numbers from my top 200 most viewed photos.

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So I did a test and found that as long as I save the metadata to the file, Adobe Bridge (even with CS2) can correctly read the changes.  So I decided to work in Lightroom to see if it was worth buying.  I can say that I am really loving it!  I’ve been able to adopt my usual RAW workflow with only some small changes.  Now I can’t see how I could ever work without LR!!  (It’s no wonder why Adobe gives a 30 day free trial!)