Wes’s Life

Adobe man­aged to sneak this one out pretty qui­etly. I haven’t seen to much in the news yet, but I’m sure its about to explode. The Light­room beta, that was once exclu­sively avali­able to Mac owners and their shiny hard­ware, is now freely avalaible to the wanton major­ity of us. What can you expect? I’m not too ter­ri­bly sure to be honest, but since it is an Adobe prod­uct, you could prob­a­bly wager that it’ll be semi-​polished, a memory-​hog, clean, and useful to a fault. I would def­i­nitely have to rec­om­mend that all RAW shoot­ers at least give this a shot, espe­cially since Cap­ture NX seems to be as fast as the speed of smell.

Edit: After using it a bit, I am quite astounded at the clean­li­ness and sim­plicty that this pro­gram offers. Yes, I was cor­rect about the memory-​hog bit; it man­aged to get up to about half a GB of my memory and around 85% of the CPU. Yet, I love the fact that you can hide the major­ity of the inter­face and leave your­self with the image and the edit­ing panel. I do think it needs a few things to finish off the job. It def­i­nitely needs a way to adjust the curve (and yes, I did notice the con­trast slider, but I want my curve).

I think that once this pro­gram goes retail, I might be seeing if they offer an edu­ca­tion dis­count on it and pick it up at my book­store at col­lege. I highly rec­om­mend you take a look at it.

Adobe Light­room