Shel Belinkoff wrote on 14.03.06 8:20: > While talking with Marco last night at Godfrey's show (VERY nicely done, > BTW - and Godders is a fine host), he mentioned that he was playing around > with a Beta version of Adobe Lightroom. The program is not yet available > for Windows, and I'm wondering if any other Mac users have been using it, > and what comments you may have. From all I've read, it seems that it might > be a very fine adjunct to Photoshop, or maybe even a replacement for it for > photographers. Any thoughts? While not a replacement for final retouching in Photoshop, it is a great replacement for raw converting and photos managmenet applications. It has most of functions found in Adobe RAW Converter + some ready to go sets of effects like converting to B&W at RAW stage. It seems to be more photographer than computer user oriented, so I think it will be more appealing to people with less computer knowledge. And it has nice tools for managing your photography library - you can categorize photos, then sort it according to theses categories, see all photos by date they were taken and much more. And it has an option to do RAW -> DNG converting during photos import too. One think that I don' like is its speed - especially when "checking thumbnails" occurs - it takes too much time. But it is beta, and this and other problems should be sorted before final version appears. I hope it will be priced well below price of Apple's Aperture - I'm hoping for ~200-250$ range, especially that Aperture has strange hardware requirements (on the one side it is enough to have Powerbook G4, on the other - it doesn't work on much faster G5/1.6 which I have) and doesn't support .PEFs at all.
-- Balance is the ultimate good... Best Regards Sylwek
