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Adobe announces CS5 release date, second beta of Lightroom 3

by Michael Grothaus Mar 24th 2010 at 12:00PM


Adobe has put up a counter, and announced a launch event for the release of Adobe Creative Suite 5 on April 12 at 11am EDT. Though little is known about the features of CS5, Adobe had previously announced that it will give Flash CS5 the features to allow devs to build Flash-based applications and then export them to the App Store's .ipa standard. This will effectively allow developers to build iPhone apps in nothing but CS5. If you've registered for an Adobe ID, you'll be able to view a video broadcast of the launch event on Adobe TV. CS5 will also be Intel-only, Cocoa and 64-bit native.

Adobe has also announced a second beta of the Lightroom 3 digital darkroom software. Lightroom competes directly with Apple's Aperture software. On February 9th, Apple released Aperture 3. This latest version of the Lightroom beta includes the following features:
  • Improved performance throughout the application for faster importing and loading of images
  • Native tethered shooting support for select Nikon and Canon DSLR cameras
  • Luminance noise reduction has been added to the previous color noise reduction improvements available in the first public beta, for outstanding overall high ISO quality
  • Support for importing and managing video files from DSLR cameras for better overall photographic workflow control
  • Improvements to the import experience in the first beta to reflect public feedback
  • Improved watermarking functionality from the first beta to reflect public feedback
You can download the Lightroom 3 beta 2 here (requires an Adobe ID).

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pete

holy SHIKAKA! Develop iphone apps without having to know all that crap about coding and whatnot?!?? BOOYA

March 28 2010 at 2:20 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Allan

But what about REAL png support?
it really sucks!!!

March 25 2010 at 2:52 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
splinter

@soewie

...Lightroom competes directly with Apple's Aperture software.

"That is not true - Lightroom is way ahead of any of the existing workflow tools and is unique in its kind."

Actually, Apertures workflow is superior to Lightroom's. Lightroom is fundamentally flawed from the very top level of its UI in forcing people to work in modules.

March 24 2010 at 7:40 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Shunnabunich

Anyone taking bets on when Adobe will finally drop all pretenses of being Mac software developers and start using Cider for all their future Mac releases?

March 24 2010 at 7:15 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
soewie

Lightroom competes directly with Apple's Aperture software

That is not true - Lightroom is way ahead of any of the existing workflow tools and is unique in its kind.

March 24 2010 at 5:03 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Mentok

I'm thinking the only thing Adobe really has is Flash to iPhone ARM compiling.

And if that's the case then whatever they're releasing is going to flop because now Apple will be requiring 'Universal Binaries' for the iPad. Adobe should have waited before even announcing this; if they don't have compiling that covers the iPad this could be a costly mistake on their part.

The fact that they got into a pissing match with Uncle Steve makes this highly likely -- think of all the companies he -doesn't- call 'lazy'.

March 24 2010 at 3:55 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Andre

So what's the release date? The article headline implies that the date of release has been announced, but only mentions the launch event.

March 24 2010 at 3:27 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
James

I hope they scrap Illustrator and just improve the vector drawing tools in Indesign, it's much better for creating stuff for print.

Indesign could also do with better tools for loading data into a template for large cataloges.

It would also be nice if they fixed the memory leaks that make all theIr apps so unstable on both platforms, or at least drop the price a little.

March 24 2010 at 2:29 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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ramkanda

Illustrator is a huge program and it's still the best for iconography, logo creation, any scalable vector stuff, creating fonts, etc.. Photoshop has a few vector tools, but can't come near Illustrator for shape creation/control.
InDesign is equally huge, but some need more than "print stuff". Also, if you were to mix any two Adobe programs together, you'd either lose a lot of stuff or make it incredibly unwieldy (like Autodesk Maya, which tries to consolidate modelling, texturing, rigging, lighting, and animating into one of the craziest looking UIs ever. New users should hit spacebar only if they want a heart attack from all the options).

March 24 2010 at 3:01 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Some Dude

D'oh, and I just got done stealing the old one!

March 24 2010 at 2:24 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
smacklin

Damn,

I haven't been even saved up enough to get CS4 yet. Now I going to be stuck with another case of CS Envy. Either that or a second mortgage.

March 24 2010 at 2:07 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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