Adobe Lightroom Beta for Professional Photographer

Sigma 24-70mm f/2.8 EX Aspherical DF for Canon

01/09/2006 08:49:10 AM · #1

New software for the workflow in the works by Adobe.
Need Mac users to do a beta test and let us at DPC know what its like is it worth it. Picture A Day users will love it from what I read.

Adobe Lightroom Beta

nomad469

Nikon D700

Nikon AF Zoom-Nikkor 80-200mm f/2.8D ED

01/09/2006 08:55:38 AM · #2

The Windows version is not "ready yet" BTW

scalvert

Canon EOS-5D Mark III

Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS

01/09/2006 09:05:58 AM · #3

Kewl!

Telehubbie

Canon EOS-40D

01/09/2006 09:17:45 AM · #4

Looks cool, thanks for posting this. Adobe is probably trying to keep people from steering over to Mac's new "Aperture" program.

Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM

01/09/2006 09:41:51 AM · #5

Tried it...love it so far...fast and intuitive interface...Now depending on the price this is a piece of software I'd add as a complement to PS.

Too bad Aperture did not have a public beta to try.

digitalpins

Canon EOS-60D

01/09/2006 10:25:34 AM · #6

cool downloading now

theSaj

Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM

01/09/2006 10:33:36 AM · #7

Macromedia eh?

*hmmm*

I wonder if this was in Macromedia's development house or Adobe's. (If it was in M's I could see it having been an additional incentive for buying Macromedia.)

Brent_Ward

Canon EOS-5D

Canon EF 85mm f/1.2L USM

01/09/2006 11:40:05 AM · #8

Originally posted by theSaj:

Macromedia eh?

*hmmm*

I wonder if this was in Macromedia's development house or Adobe's. (If it was in M's I could see it having been an additional incentive for buying Macromedia.)

You do know that Adobe owns them , right? ;o)

Downloading it now.

Brent_Ward

Canon EOS-5D

Canon EF 85mm f/1.2L USM

01/09/2006 11:42:57 AM · #9

DOH!!!

You need 10.4 or higher to run.

I'm on 10.3.9. Crap!

p3wiz

Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT

Canon EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM

01/09/2006 11:43:59 AM · #10

Luminous Landscape has a nice write-up/review on Lightroom. First Look

I think Apple has a serious problem for Aperture and the Windows world will get a great new tool.

theSaj

Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM

01/09/2006 11:58:36 AM · #11

Originally posted by Brent_Ward:

You do know that Adobe owns them , right? ;o)

Of course...

But it is always curious to know from out of which "developer house" this has arisen. I believe it was Adobe. Though it's presented in the (formerly Macromedia) Labs.

Yes, I'm well aware of Adobe's purchase of Macromedia. I am a ColdFusion/Flash developer. ColdFusion used to be the product of Allaire, then merged with Macromedia which then merged with Adobe. (I wonder if Adobe will merge with Google next?)

- Saj

Brent_Ward

Canon EOS-5D

Canon EF 85mm f/1.2L USM

01/09/2006 12:00:29 PM · #12

Originally posted by theSaj:

Originally posted by Brent_Ward:
You do know that Adobe owns them , right? ;o)

Of course...

But it is always curious to know from out of which "developer house" this has arisen. I believe it was Adobe. Though it's presented in the (formerly Macromedia) Labs.

Yes, I'm well aware of Adobe's purchase of Macromedia. I am a ColdFusion/Flash developer. ColdFusion used to be the product of Allaire, then merged with Macromedia which then merged with Adobe. (I wonder if Adobe will merge with Google next?)

- Saj

...then what incentive and what benefit would there be to by Macromedia?

Message edited by author 2006-01-09 12:00:56.

kirbic

Canon EOS R5

Canon RF 24-70 f2.8 L IS

01/09/2006 12:24:49 PM · #13

I'm tending toward Brent's camp on this. I think Macromedia may have had this in development and Adobe wanted it. The Macromedia acquisition makes much more sense in that light.
Interesting, though, that the first public beta is for Mac only. I would not have expected that out of the former Macromedia, but from Adobe it makes sense. Also, Adobe isn't known for public betas; either they needed to get some market "buzz" going, or we're seeing Macromedia's influence.

scalvert

Canon EOS-5D Mark III

Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS

01/09/2006 01:03:00 PM · #14

Originally posted by kirbic:

I think Macromedia may have had this in development and Adobe wanted it.

The lack of support for Adobe's own .PSD format adds credibility to that scenario.

01/09/2006 01:08:44 PM · #15

Originally posted by kirbic:

Adobe wanted to stick it to Aperture! LOL. Unless Apple acts really fast by improving Aperture (the current version of which I consider to be no better than a beta.) they have BIG competition on their hands.

01/09/2006 01:09:27 PM · #16

Originally posted by scalvert:

Originally posted by kirbic:
I think Macromedia may have had this in development and Adobe wanted it.

The lack of support for Adobe's own .PSD format adds credibility to that scenario.

Yeah that surprised me, right now you are exporting the files as TIFF's to Photoshop.

theSaj

Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM

01/09/2006 01:20:10 PM · #17

Originally posted by kirbic:

Interesting, though, that the first public beta is for Mac only. I would not have expected that out of the former Macromedia

Why not, Macromedia was a Macintosh only platform for the longest time.

MadMan2k

Sony Alpha a6400

Tamron 70-180mm F/2.8 Di III VXD

01/09/2006 02:00:19 PM · #18

Really interesting. Kinda makes me wish I had a mac to try that out.

I read something pretty interesting on the adobe forum there...

Originally posted by gjardine:

The thing I'd like to emphasize is that Lightroom should ultimately become the 95% workflow solution for the daily work you do to import, manage, process and output your photos. If you want to do compositing, or deep pixel editing, that's great.... that's what Photoshop CS2 is for.

Sounds good to me, photoshop is a little slow on my system. A lighter program might be nice for general processing.

EDIT: The link:
//www.macromedia.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=589&threadid=1101378&enterthread=y

Message edited by author 2006-01-09 14:01:20.

Video Tutorials on Lightroom at the NAPP site

01/09/2006 02:19:23 PM · #19

bledford

Canon EOS-300D Rebel

Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6

01/09/2006 02:40:13 PM · #20

Originally posted by doctornick:

Video Tutorials on Lightroom at the NAPP site

Cool! Being an application developer on the Win32 side, I can say that Lightroom represents the "next-generation" look, feel and useability that much of the industry is striving for. I would like to know how Adobe are hoping to provide the same UI on Windows without requiring WinFX (Windows Presentation Foundation) be installed on the client. They might be forced to "dumb down" the interface a bit.

For what it's worth, Microsoft have done something similar, but much less powerful in their beta "Max" product--though Max is geared less toward the Photoshop CS2 user and more toward the Mom looking to share photos with Grandma and Grandpa.

dwoolridge

01/09/2006 10:51:32 PM · #21

Originally posted by kirbic:

Some history:
//photoshopnews.com/2006/01/09/the-shadowlandlightroom-development-story/

Spork99

Canon EOS M6 Mk II

Canon EF-M 22mm STM Lens

01/09/2006 11:24:40 PM · #22

Dang, needs a min 1GHz processor and me stuck here with "only" 800MHz..

Time to steal my dad's new Quad....

leaf

Canon EOS-5D Mark II

Nikon AF Zoom-Nikkor 80-200mm f/2.8D ED

02/05/2006 01:29:44 PM · #23

well i want to know when the PC version is coming out.. it looks great.

nomad469

Nikon D700

02/05/2006 01:44:14 PM · #24

Originally posted by leaf:

well i want to know when the PC version is coming out.. it looks great.

At ImagingUSA Adobe said mid-summer

leaf

Canon EOS-5D Mark II