Adobe introduced the public beta of Adobe Lightroom, an all-new digital imaging solution for professional photographers. With its modular, task-based and streamlined environment, Lightroom’s goal is to deliver a complete photography workflow. As Adobe collects more feedback from photographers, modules and feature sets will likely change, as customers decide on their popularity and priority within digital photography workflows. Initially available as a beta for Macintosh, Lightroom will later support both the Windows and Macintosh platforms. UPDATE by ELQ: Previews here, here and here. It seems that Lightroom reads RAW images correctly and it has Curves support, compared to Aperture.
Cool to see software come out on the Mac fisrt. Probably just to keep people away from Apple’s solution, but still, pretty cool…
I’m guessing with the introduction of the Intel Mac, this might be something we will gradually see more and more of over time…
This is ultimately good for Apple. It will drive more photographers to their platform. Aperture will (most likely) be always available only for OS X, and LightRoom might take a while to be ported to Windows as it’s a Cocoa app and Cocoa is not available for Windows.
Competition is good.
MacWorld is running an article on it. The interfaces can be written for Cocoa via ObjC++ but the main bulk of the application can be written in C++ and not be difficult to port with different interfaces for Windows.
So it’s a Cocoa app then? I did wonder what it would be seeing as it’s the first truly new app from Adobe for a while.
Also, I’d like to know what (if any) integration it has with Core Image.
Please?
Are you ready to invest on at *least* a DualCore (or DualProcessor) 2.0Ghz PowerMac with 2GB of RAM? If not, then no Core Image please. Not yet, anyway.
Requires 10.4.3 – rules me out.
By making this beta free a fair few photographers will download it and try it out, see what all the fuss is about. The beta expires. Which product do you buy? Apples? or the one you have grown quite familiar with?
to answer another point there is NO integration with core image as stated in this review
http://www.macworld.com/news/2006/01/08/lightroomfirstlook/index.ph…