Hitting tab works like it does in other Adobe apps, switching panels on and off, giving you more room to look at work. It's also very customizable, with a ton of collapsible palettes, view modes and shortcuts for toggling between the variety of modes, full-screen/panel scenarios or tools. The interface manages to remain relatively uncluttered as it's all very well-thought-out and simple to navigate. The overall appearance of Lightroom is a single window with panes along both sides and a filmstrip along the bottom for quick navigation in all views, with the image content always centered. The interface in general is much the same as it was in the beta but with improvements that will be covered separately. That's on the 1440x900 MacBook Pro screen.
Module picker at top right panels on either side and the Filmstrip at the bottom. Or maybe it's a suggested size to account for the image preview cache file: Maybe the boxed copy comes with 981MB of tasteful nudes of CEO Bruce Chizen? We can only hope. Test hardware used for reviewĪlthough the official requirements list Lightroom as requiring 1GB of disk space, the actual app weighs in at a mere 43MB for the Universal Mac version so I don't know where that number comes from. Windows users should know that an update will be required to enable disk burning for Windows Vista but everything else is supposed to be working fine. Adobe is hoping that one of the big draws of Lightroom is that it doesn't require computers that reach "ludicrous speed" to work comfortably. It was pretty clear when the beta was released that this is not just a slapped-together product-Adobe's had this in the works for a while.Įither way, it's a great time to be a digital photographer as recent computer speeds make real-time feedback for high-res RAW image editing a reality, even for the 12- or 16-megapixel images of higher-end DSLRs. But Adobe isn't playing copycat here-and I think their release of a public beta was an attempt to send that message.
With Apple's Aperture and now Adobe's Lightroom, it seems the big boys are finally ready to fight over who is going to be at the center of the digital creative arena.
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