I've done that a number of times as well when I want to get fairly close and there is a bright background.

Oops... Sorry, posted the wrong one... I have three versions of the same photo and just picked it by the thumbnail

I have a really good photo for this one, just need to get my computer back so I can post it

Which way is up?

I liked the new vignette tool as well. Lightroom is supposed to support plugins, the only thing is the SDK has been slow to be released and nobody really knows how to make plugins for it at the moment.

I just downloaded the Lightroom 2 beta and have started to play with the new features.

I am very happy to have a controlled brush to only change exposure, brightness, saturation, clarity and tint on part of the image. It is controlled because once it has changed that area you can't run over it again with the brush and overdo the correction. This is especially useful when you don't want to use fill light which can be somewhat destructive to other parts of the image to bring out shadow detail or when you want to pull down some highlights but not change other parts of the image.

This is the only improvement I have noticed.

CA correction is still not anywhere near as good as other programs. It can't correct any of the CAs caused by my terrible 50-200 which has blue yellow CA of more than 10 pixel widths around a lot of edges.

The rest has received minor alterations which don't really seem to affect my usage. I hope the upgrade price is not too high as the brush tool is exactly what I need and it is the only major change. It is something which should have been included in the original.

Here are some instructions for posting images. I'd only post 800x600 or 1024x768 (or there abouts) images and have crop sections for detail. Otherwise it takes ages to upload for you and ages to download for everyone else.

Instructions/Guide:
https://www.pentaxuser.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5446

where are the test shots with and without teleconverter?

Well, I didn't think I had anything but then me OH remembered this:




K10D + 50-200 (in its working range which is under 4m otherwise CA is bad and it can't focus . Need to send it back to Pentax)

Lightroom is the easiest way I have found to catalogue my pictures and find those I want easily. You can try the 30 day trial from the adobe website. It is a really good program.