New Adobe product to combat Apple's Aperture (Mac only)

Yes I know it's not a sale item but I figure some people may be looking to buy aperture and so may be here.

This is adobe's RAW workflow project.

http://labs.macromedia​.com/technologies/ligh​troom/

It's free while it's a beta, so you may as well try it before dropping $500 for Aperture.

Damn... You Mac people got one up on us. Surprise--this doesn't happen a lot =)

Except it sounds rather like Adobe trying to play catch-up with the workflow options which have been available for some time in the likes of Raw Shooter.

saqib wrote:
Yes I know it's not a sale item but I figure some people may be looking to buy aperture and so may be here.

This is adobe's RAW workflow project.

http://labs.macromedia​.com/technologies/ligh​troom/

It's free while it's a beta, so you may as well try it before dropping $500 for Aperture.

Thanks. I will give it a try, since Aperture costs so much.

darn..not for Windows!!

Its only in its beta release and already its further ahead of Aperture in terms of what it can do and how you do it. Not a sexy as Aperture though.

like what?

most of the functionality isn't in the product, yet. it can't even roundtrip to Photoshop the same, to say the least send it .PSD files.

the RAW conversion is much better, i'll admit. but this is just version 1. it crashes often, it's limited. it expires in june (i know a new beta or two will be out, but i definitely can't use it with clients). it's faster at filtering (although it takes longer before it actually applies), but it's slower switching between images (to work on) - this makes aperture 10x faster for ranking and culling images. you can' compare two images at 100%. there are no stacks. there is no dual screen support. there is no image versioning. building thumbnails takes much longer. there is no vault. mouse scrolling doesn't work. it seems to eat memory from other apps (subjective opinion, but everything else seems very slow when running it). there aren't as many quick-use tools as Aperture (crop, straightening, dust-removal, etc.). no smart libraries. Lightroom's HTML export is better. i don't see how to export one subsection (like an individual Aperture project) - but maybe i havent found it, yet. i still havent decided on the sharpening - it's a better process, but oversharpens way too quickly. i'm still experimenting with setting on both.

this i just a quick list from the top of my head, there are, i'm sure, quite a few other area that it's not ready, yet.