Adobe Lightroom
Lightroom 1.0, Adobe’s answer to Apple’s Aperture, finally came out a couple days ago. There has been a beta version publicly available on their site for several months now, but I tend to not test out beta software. I’ve only spent about an hour now with the final version, but so far I’m extremely impressed, and it’s going to completely change how I import, organize, and correct all my digital photos.
Think of Lightroom as the most useful parts (to digital photographers) of Photoshop and Bridge combined into a single application, and you have a pretty good idea of what’s going on. If, for whatever reason, you need to do things to your photo besides color correct, sharpen, crop, etc, the option is always right there to open in Photoshop. If nothing else, this at least completely obsoletes Bridge for me, which I really enjoyed until I spent about 30 seconds in Lightroom. Handling my RAW files is cake now, and all modifications, including crops, are non-destructive to your original files.
Here’s a screenshot before I get back to messing with my new program. In this picture, a woman has an epiphany at Cameron and Chuck’s Polaroid art exhibition last Saturday.
Oh, going through these photos, I realized I caught a COUPLE epiphanies-in-progress. Here’s another example.
February 19th, 2007 at 3:30 pm
Ugh, it looks like Adobe is still going with the periodic table of the elements for the program icons, eh? That’s kind of a bummer. Instead of a dock full of eyes, feather, and compasses, I’ll just a bunch of boxes with hard to read letters. More like periodic table of stupid. Everything else looks rad though.
February 19th, 2007 at 5:06 pm
Wow, nevermind. If I had to be around those people I would freak out too.
February 19th, 2007 at 5:20 pm
Hahaha
February 20th, 2007 at 12:49 am
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