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Adobe Lightroom Review

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the photo-editing-for-the-common-man dept.

onethumb writes "Andy over at Digital Grin got his hands on a pre-release copy of Adobe's hot new app 'Lightroom' last week and has a nice review up. Adobe Lightroom, is designed to go head-to-head with Apple's own recently released Aperture. Is digital photo editing finally getting both powerful and easy?"

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  1. requirements by Tibor+the+Hun · · Score: 3, Interesting

    One thing that seems nice about Lightroom is that right now it only requires a 1GHz G4. Aperture on the other hand needs at least a powerbook 1.25 G4.

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  2. Really a Macromedia app? by aclarke · · Score: 3, Interesting
    It's also worth noting that this might be a Macromedia application, rather than an Adobe one. It's hosted on Macromedia.com (http://labs.macromedia.com/technologies/lightroom ) and requires a Macromedia login rather than an Adobe login to download the beta.

    I have absolutely zero inside knowledge of this, but it would be interesting to know how much inside knowledge Macromedia had of Apple's Aperture, how much input Adobe actually had in the Lightroom product, and what impact, if any, Lightroom had on Adobe's decision to purchase Macromedia.

    Or maybe Adobe just thought Macromedia's site was better for hosting betas.

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