Bob Shell wrote:
You'll love it.
My only complaint is that Adobe is too damned conservative in their
public product names. "Lightroom" is an OK name, but the code name
prior to release was "Shadowland", a MUCH cooler name! I was hoping
they'd keep that name.
It's partially an answer to Apple's Aperture, and I love it that Adobe
is giving it away for free while Apple is trying to charge an absurdly
high price for Aperture. And yes, it runs on older Macs. Apple would
give me a NFR copy of Aperture, but it won't run on my two year old G4
iMac.
Bob
From what I see, it's more than an answer to Aperture, since Adobe
didn't make some of the major mistakes Apple did (Building RAW support
in at the OS level is nifty, but not very flexible, and Apple made some
stupid mistakes, like supporting the Rebel XT but not the 350D, despite
their RAW's being identical apart from 1 tag. Or the lack of real DNG
support, or the stupid monolithic database structure a la iPhoto[
ironically, that's one of the two reasons I don't even contemplate using
iPhoto).
But yeah, the name kinda sucks, the interface isn't as pretty, and it's
not feature complete. But it does run on my 1 year old eMac (And
hopefully soon on my much faster PC with the 21" monitor).
-Adam
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