I bought it when it first came out. The new version does seem to have a lot of improvements in terms of library and file management. It allows for more hierarchy with the sets/collections and folders are now associated with different drives that show as being active/online or inactive/offline. There are also added sorting features and better handling of keywords.
One of the biggest improvements I appreciate is that Auto adjustment commands now actually work for JPEGs (it used to treat JPEGs like RAW files and make far too drastic adjustments to brightness and contrast). No Auto command is 100% perfect, but it's much better.
Secondary displays are now supported.
I haven't had an opportunity to play around too much with local adjustments, but the graduated filter is really interesting. It's like having a grad ND, but it can do more than adjust exposure... it can do brightness, contrast, saturation, sharpness, color, and clarity. It definitely opens up possibilities for making adjustments in LR itself instead of having to jump over to PS.
Vignettes have also been added to the Develop Module, but other than that and the local adjustments, everything else is pretty much the same.
Slideshow appears to have some added options... I never used it much so I don't know.
Print module is about the same... a new picture package feature has been added to allow printing of different sizes of the same image on the same page.
Web also has a few new things, but again, not a module I used much... I just export to Smugmug.
All-in-all, probably worth the $100 upgrade fee. I haven't used Aperture, so I don't really know how the two compare. I still would like to see a book layout feature a la Aperture, but it's not there yet.
Since becoming a Lightroom user, I hardly ever use Photoshop now. The most I use it for is converting photos exported from LR to CMYK for use with layouts in InDesign before sending the file to press! How hard would it be to add a CMYK option to LR's Export options?!?
I bought it when it first came out. The new version does seem to have a lot of improvements in terms of library and file management. It allows for more hierarchy with the sets/collections and folders are now associated with different drives that show as being active/online or inactive/offline. There are also added sorting features and better handling of keywords.
One of the biggest improvements I appreciate is that Auto adjustment commands now actually work for JPEGs (it used to treat JPEGs like RAW files and make far too drastic adjustments to brightness and contrast). No Auto command is 100% perfect, but it's much better.
Secondary displays are now supported.
I haven't had an opportunity to play around too much with local adjustments, but the graduated filter is really interesting. It's like having a grad ND, but it can do more than adjust exposure... it can do brightness, contrast, saturation, sharpness, color, and clarity. It definitely opens up possibilities for making adjustments in LR itself instead of having to jump over to PS.
Vignettes have also been added to the Develop Module, but other than that and the local adjustments, everything else is pretty much the same.
Slideshow appears to have some added options... I never used it much so I don't know.
Print module is about the same... a new picture package feature has been added to allow printing of different sizes of the same image on the same page.
Web also has a few new things, but again, not a module I used much... I just export to Smugmug.
All-in-all, probably worth the $100 upgrade fee. I haven't used Aperture, so I don't really know how the two compare. I still would like to see a book layout feature a la Aperture, but it's not there yet.
Since becoming a Lightroom user, I hardly ever use Photoshop now. The most I use it for is converting photos exported from LR to CMYK for use with layouts in InDesign before sending the file to press! How hard would it be to add a CMYK option to LR's Export options?!?