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Lightroom for OS X - Courtesy Adobe Labs

Written on January 09, 2006 by Nick Santilli and 5 people have commented

Go check it out now, it’s free and in Beta. At first glance, it looks nice. Haven’t taken the plunge with Aperture, so I don’t have a comparison here - If you have, let us know how they compare.

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  1. #1 Andrew says:

    I do prefessional photography and when Aperture came out it was a big help to me. I quickly brought it into my workflow and i don’t plan to change anytime soon. I got Lightroom from Adobe and i have to say i will be using it. There are things in both that make them very close to the same but then again there are things that are different.

    Conlcusion: Aperture will not leave my workflow when i am home and uploading and editing all of my RAW files. But on the fly lightroom is a quick and easy setup for my on the go Powerbook. Lightroom will quickly become a brother to Aperture in my setup and they will work together
    BUT as of now nothing will take the place of Aperture.

  2. #2 Jørgen Arnor Gårdsø Lom says:

    OK, I’ve jotted down my first thoughts on Lightroom over at my own blog, and I don’t bother rewriting it all here - but overall; as I’m on a Mac Mini, this is the obvious choice…

    It lacks some of Aperture’s sophisticated bells and whistles (I mean that in a nice way… I actually considered buying a G5 quad, just for running Aperture…), but takes it all back in speed…

  3. #3 Nick Santilli says:

    I appreciate the insights guys - thanks.

    It looks like a pretty nice app so far, from my initial tinkering. It’s upping my 1.5ghz Powerbook processor a bit….but I’ve got a lot of other stuff running too.

    Not bad for a free (for now) beta. Guess we’ll wait and see what happens with it down the road.

  4. #4 Tim Brown says:

    Michael Reichmann has posted an article, Adobe Lightroom First Look and Primer at his website.

  5. #5 Andrew Creek says:

    Its small, fast, and doesnt have a button that loads the damn Adobe bridge. I might be wrong but it feels like the work of those Macromedia boys. Anyone else think this feels slightly askew (in a good way) of the Adobe norm?

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