Adobe Photoshop Lightroom

[Zach Matthews]

I just downloaded the most recent build of the Adobe Lightroom program, now titled Adobe Photoshop Lightroom.

[Billy Belsom]

Zach, are you avoiding CS2 because of the cost or because of the functionality?

[Zach Matthews]

Oh, I’m not avoiding CS2 – although that is a great price.

[none]

Onthe Mac the switch to the Intel CPU made software

[Zach Matthews]

That’s true, and I don’t know if Lightroom is being written in Universal or if it’s still being translated through Rosetta.

[Eric DeWitt]

The coolest thing about lightroom is that you can work on jpegs and it saves the edits in a seperate file, similar to a recipe for raw files.

[Ian Crabtree]

Lightroom has been universal since it first came out. The Adobe team has indicated that they expect the final release to be noticeably faster, as there’s been little speed tweaking with the program itself still under heavy development. I only mention that because Apple’s Aperture runs like a dog on my computer, and that’s at full release (and has been updated several times).

Zach
I’m surprised you said you thought it would run at $400. Everyone on the Adobe Lightroom board seems to think its going to run well below that, but at this point I guess it’s all speculation.

There’s also another Adobe program in public beta testing right now called Soundbooth which interestingly (and controversially) is Intel only – no PPC version. Might be worth fooling around with for your podcasts. http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/soundbooth/

[anonymous]

Anybody here using ACDSEE Pro Photo Manager? I attended a workshop last August with Loren Neil, product line manager at ACDSee, where he demonstrated the program. I purchased the program shortly after. It is a cataloger like Lightroom but also a browser like Adobe Bridge. You can also edit raw files non-destructively, and a couple times I’ve saved some photos that I shot underexposed. You simply change the exposure compensation setting in the program. Pro Photo’s core competence is speed.

Would be interested in any comparision between Pro Photo and Lightroom if anyone has used both. Loren did say, which made a lot of sense to me, once you decide on a Data Asset Management program stick with it. You build up quite an investment in the time you spend cataloguing. It doesn’t make sense to have multiple data bases of your files.

Any thoughts?

[Matt Tucker]

I haven’t really messed around with lightroom — although I downloaded it and am going to start looking at it pretty hard.

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