Adobe Lightroom Killer Tips
Adobe has teamed up with the National Association of Photoshop Professionals to launch a new website, “Adobe Lightroom Killer Tips,� to provide resources to professionals who are trying out the new software.
If you’re into photo editing, tweaking digital pictures as a hobby or profession, there’s this free software from Adobe Labs that you can try out, if only to try to understand the digital photography workflow and the RAW imaging format that’s starting to become popular among serious amateurs and professionals.
It’s called Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, or simply Lightroom. It’s born of the Photoshop tradition, only more specifically attuned to the requirements of acquiring, processing and managing digital photographs, with an emphasis on the RAW digital format. While Adobe Photoshop has grown over the years to become the all-encompassing highly successful image editing suite that it is today, Lightroom seeks to fill a specific niche in digital photography occupied by the photographer who has recently acquired a digital SLR camera; in short, it’s a photographer’s software.
And while the 18-year-old Photoshop has become an 800-pound gorilla in image editing, Lightroom is no chimp. The 18-month-old Lightroom has features that streamline the importing, organizing, processing and presenting of digital pictures, most useful to the photographer whose library of digital pictures is continually growing.
Lightroom as of today is a work in progress. The current version is Beta 4.1 and Adobe wants you to be part of its development by trying it out and providing feedback to Adobe Labs.
Adobe Lightroom Beta 4.1 is free to download until the end of February 2007.
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