While recent Adobe programs/modules such as Adobe Bridge and Camera Raw have helped to alleviate some of the challenges facing photographers in efficiently managing digital images, Lightroom is a full-featured product that aims to apply the lessons learned with those products into a more feature-filled a photographer-oriented package. Adobe Lightroom is also modular in design and Adobe will release an SDK to allow 3rd party developers to release their own modules for the application to extend functionality.
The Adobe Lightroom beta had been previously released for the Mac OS X platform and as such is slightly ahead of the Windows version. Adobe points to recent developments in the Windows Vista operating system for the later release of the Windows beta and states that the shipping version of Adobe Lightroom for Mac OS X and Windows will be within months of each other.
For those that want to take a stab at the beta software, you can head over to Adobe Labs to download it. This Beta 3 version will expire on January 30, 2007.
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