Glen wrote:
At 09:05 AM 1/9/2006, Bob Shell wrote:
It's partially an answer to Apple's Aperture, and I love it that
Adobe is giving it away for free while Apple is trying to charge an
absurdly high price for Aperture.
This program isn't intended to remain free, is it?
I would expect Adobe to start charging for it, after the beta period is
over. If the non-beta "release version" remains free, this sounds terrific.
Two more questions: What does this program do that Adobe Bridge, or the
Organizer in Photoshop Elements 4 won't do? Aren't these three programs
designed to do roughly the same thing?
take care,
Glen
It's not going to remain free, and the beta will expire.
Lightroom is more capable than Bridge or Organizer is. It combines that
functionality with significantly more editing capability (Well it will,
editing is somewhat limited at this point, but on the feature-add list)
and it is more capable as an image manager, being actually a database.
Think iPhoto on steroids, but without the suck. It's more of a bridge
replacement for photographers (Bridge is a generic file manager, and has
no ability to organize images beyond folders/directories). Also the
Camera RAW portion is built-in rather than opening up seperately, basic
RAW editing can be done just by selecting an image.
-Adam
