As reported in my post Lightroom Recovers Again, I’ve been running the LR 2.3 release candidate since around the end of January. It solved the terrible memory leaks of LR 2.2 which caused crashes whenever you did much dodging and burning on images. This morning I downloaded the now released final version of LR2.3 – all 131Mb for the Windows version, so don’t try it on dial-up – and it’s now installed and up and running.
So far, fingers crossed, it seems identical to the release candidate and I’ve yet to find any problems. Lets hope Abobe have really got their act together now.
Also available for download is a Camera Raw 5.3 update for users of Adobe Photoshop CS4; Adobe Photoshop Elements 7.0 and Adobe Premiere Elements 7.0. It’s of no use to me as I’m still using Photoshop 7 on those few occasions when I need to work with Photoshop.
There are very few things I need Photoshop for now with digital images, though it’s still essential for working with my scans from negatives and transparencies. But for digital files Lightroom has the convenience and speed of a ‘one-stop shop’.
