Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
Tuesday February 27, 2007 at 12:20 am | Filed under Software
For those photographers out there who are looking for a fresh new app to organize their digital photo library, you should check out Lightroom. Now, I’m not talking to those casual point and shooters out there — I’m aiming for the folks to use keywords to make sure they can type in “Aunt Barbara” and “Peach Schnapps” and get some results (although it helps to have photos of that combo). Anyway, after messing with the beta for a couple of months the real deal 1.0 has been released and it’s way better than all of the betas have been. I like it a whole lot better than Apple’s Aperture too. I’ll wait while you recover from the shock.
Lightroom is multi-platform, it works for all kindsa image types (you don’t have to shoot in RAW format, but it helps), and it offers a great interface that is both intuitive and advanced. There’s a demo, and a lot more information available on the Adobe site.
Let’s hope this is a good sign of things to come with the final release of Adobe CS3, which my Intel-based Mac Pro is thirsting for.