When the topic circles around the shortly - to - be - released Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 1.0 these day , much of what I hear in the midsection of my brain is buzz . Literally .
There has been so much buzz surroundingLightroomfor so long that it has become hard to focus on what Lightroom actually essay to offer substance abuser thatAdobe ’s other creative appsdon’t . And that ’s particularly true since Lightroom — which sort of seems like it ought to be a Creative Suite app — is being sold independently .
One major question that ’s prune up latterly — especially with Adobe ’s uncharacteristic release of the Photoshop CS3 beta — is this : what about Bridge ? If you have Bridge , why do you take Lightroom ? Or to put the interrogative another way , why would you need any photo management app at all if you already have a top - notch Indian file managing director and web browser that happens to ship costless of charge with both Photoshop and the Creative Suite ?
bridge deck is already a enceinte data file manager , and it ’s getting even unspoilt with thenew version of Photoshop . Bridge is all important if you want to use the CS suite to combine photo data file , or applications programme files , or to integrate various components from InDesign , Illustrator , or other CS apps .
But if you ’re a photo pro — if you ’re exclusively a lensman — and you ’re not concerned in pageboy layout or connection design or adding illustrations to photo collages , Lightroom is targeted to you . Not all photographers will need Lightroom ’s powerful database functionality and camera raw readiness , but those who do will be indulge that it is so compatible with their favorite range of a function editor in chief .
Whereas Bridge is fundamentally a web internet browser that accommodates and incorporates many different file format spanning the entire suite , Lightroom is a database app that accommodates only mental image file formats . While you could do an awing amount of raw picture manipulation via Bridge , Lightroom is built from the ground up for a tv camera naked workflow . In fact , some say that Lightroom ’s Develop module may be all that some photographers need to process their in the altogether photo .
Lightroom also promises honorable and faster photo management , particularly for sorting , comparing , and entering and editing metadata for C , or even thousands of photos from disparate locations .
In addition , a few photo - editing tools detect their path into Lightroom ’s debut version : there ’s a Clone and Healing tool to zap those little debris pip and a Targeted Adjustment cock for fine - tuning color , for model .
In the next few years Rick LePage , Macworld ’s editor at large , will give you a complete first look at Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 1.0 . ( you may listen to him and elderly editor Christopher Breen talk about the programme in the latest Macworld podcast . ) I ’m look forward to Lightroom for many reason , not the least of which is that it will help clear this particular buzz from my brain .
