Friday, February 02, 2007

Adobe Releases Photoshop Lightroom 1.0

Adobe's new professional workflow and RAW-image-processing program will be available for an introductory price through April.

After a year-long beta period, Adobe has released the final version of Photoshop Lightroom 1.0, a program designed to enable professional photographers to process and manage large volumes of image files. PopPhoto.com got an advance copy of the software, and our Hands On report can be found here.

In addition to providing workflow and file-management tools, Lightroom offers advanced raw file processing functions. The software currently supports 150 camera RAW formats, in addition to JPEG, TIFF, and the DNG archival raw format. Lightroom 1.0 includes new features that were added after the last beta version, 4.1, including advanced keyword tools, improved importing and file-management capabilities, enhanced versioning tools, and a Key Metadata Browser.

Lightroom is available in both Mac and Windows versions, and is a Universal Binary application that can run natively on PowerPC and Intel-based Macintosh systems. The program can be pre-ordered at www.adobe.com/store for an introductory price of $199 through April 30, 2007. It will become available to purchasers in mid-February 2007. When the introductory price expires, Lightroom will be available for an estimated street price of $299. Current users of the Lightroom beta will have access to the program until February 28, 2007.

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