Dave McNally Photography

After delay­ing the upgrade for a bit, I finally gave into the temp­ta­tion. It turned out to be quite a good deal. If you buy Light­room with Pho­to­shop CS5, you get a 30 per­cent dis­count.  Add in the addi­tional 15 per­cent dis­count for being a National Asso­ci­a­tion of Pho­to­shop Pro­fes­sion­als mem­ber and it is a really good deal!

As far as the review of the soft­ware, I think the adjust­ments are much improved in ver­sion 3. The noise reduc­tion and sharp­en­ing tools are great. They’ve also added a ton more pre­sets in the devel­op­ment mod­ule.  I’ve been a heavy Light­room user since the first beta. Finally, the pro­gram is start­ing to feel mature and highly use­ful. I would say, “Go for it!”