Adobe Announces Lightroom Public Beta
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Adobe Unveils Lightroom Public Beta and Delivers New Technology for Digital Photography Workflows Professional Photographers Instrumental in Developing New Modular Software to Import, Manage, Develop, and Showcase Images
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Jan. 9, 2006 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today introduced the public beta of Adobe® Lightroom™, an all-new digital imaging solution for professional photographers. With its modular, task-based and streamlined environment, Lightroom's goal is to deliver a complete photography workflow. As Adobe collects more feedback from photographers, modules and feature sets will likely change, as customers decide on their popularity and priority within digital photography workflows. Initially available as a beta for Macintosh, Lightroom will later support both the Windows® and Macintosh platforms.
kwc recently reviewed the Qoop printing process, which prints books from your Flickr photographs. He liked that it read data straight from the Flickr photoset, and that the the booklet includes thumbnails. He also notes that the Qoop printing service,is relatively inexpensive. However, the "print quality gets a passing grade, but won't wow you", the shipping protection is light (which resulted in bent corners), and he would like a warning for printing photos with filenames as names.
Cellar Door Software has released Slickr, a screensaver program that pulls images from Flickr. You give it a username or a group or tags or whatever, and Slickr does the rest. The program is PC only.
