Adobe on Monday will annunciate the public beta firing of Lightroom , the caller ’s solvent to Apple ’s of late release Aperture . Adobe will release Lightroom as a public beta for the Macinstosh to get feedback from professional lensman before release the full version later this yr , the party said .

“ We see this as the effective , young way for photographers to spell , develop and showcase enceinte volumes of images , ” Kevin Connor , Director Digital Imaging Product Management , tell Macworld .

The Lightroom beta has an port more standardised to Aperture than any other Adobe program . In Lightroom control panels and tool fade into the background in Lights - Out mode , earmark the image to take center stage .

Photographers also can rapidly scroll through 100 of mental image and Quick One - to - One Zoom allow instant magnification of the finer points within the image .

Adobe pronto admits that Lightroom does offer some of the same features of Photoshop , but contend that the software also offer a all raw workflow for photographer .

“ In some way of life this does have some intersection with what Photoshop already does , in particular some of the thing photographers do with Bridge and Camera RAW , but it also put in some new ways of doing things , particularly when you ’re conduct with big volumes of figure of speech , said Connor .

Using Camera RAW , Lightroom corroborate over 100 television camera and integrate raw transition into the work flow .

image can also be showcased via slideshows with dip shadows , border , Identity Plates and different colored backgrounds . The sizing and position of the images can be manipulated and render in Macromedia Flash , Adobe Portable Document Format ( PDF ) or HTML formatting , accord to Adobe . A variety of templates are offered for contact tack with the power to add identity plates or produce a fine art print .

The public debut of Lightroom for Macintosh OSX 10.4.3 will occur at Macworld 2006 on January 10 , 2006 in San Francisco at Booth # 1307 and is available forfree download from the Adobe Labs WWW site . Recommended organisation requirements are Macintosh OSX 10.4.3 , 1GHz PowerPC G4 processor , 768 MB Aries the Ram and a 1024×768 resolution screen .

Adobe said that regular update to the software will be post on the web site , feedback will be pile up and the final product is await to be introduced in late 2006 . Final system requirements and pricing have not been settle , harmonise to the society .

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