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Adobe previews Lightroom for iOS

by Michael Grothaus (May 2nd, 2013)

Adobe's Lightroom product manager Tom Hogarty has shown off an early beta of Lightroom for iOS, according to CNET. Hogarty made the semi-announcement on an episode of The Grid this week. Here's what CNET's Stephen Shankland had to say: He wouldn't promise when the app would ship or what exactly ...

Lightroom 5 beta available to the public

by Michael Grothaus (Apr 15th, 2013)

Adobe today announced the release of the Lightroom 5 beta for Mac and Windows. Lightroom is Adobe's photo-management and post-production software that competes directly with Apple's Aperture. The beta is free to download, but users should be aware that its use -- like all betas -- could vary ...

NIK Software creates bundle of Mac Plugins, drops price 70%

by Mel Martin (Mar 25th, 2013)

NIK has announced all 6 of its high-end photo editing tools for Mac and Windows are available as a US$150 bundle. The new bundle is a set of plugins that previously cost $750.00, and includes tools to help you create black-and-white photos, selective color adjustment, sharpening, and of ...

Flare 1.4 adds Retina support, Twitter sharing, more

by Steven Sande (Sep 6th, 2012)

Yesterday we saw an update to Realmac Software's Analog Mac photo effects app; today the news is from Iconfactory, and the app being updated is Flare (currently discounted to US$9.99). Like Analog, Flare (see TUAW review here) provides a way to add and adjust pre-loaded visual effects. Flare ...

Find the best photo manager to fit your needs

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Mar 30th, 2012)

After months of deliberation, I finally brought home a new addition to our family -- a digital SLR camera. With the DSLR comes a plethora of options I didn't have before, with the ability to shoot RAW images being at the top of the list. My husband and I passed the camera back and forth to take ...

Adobe releases Lightroom 4

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 6th, 2012)

Adobe released a beta version of Lightroom 4 earlier this year and now the company has rolled out the final version. Lightroom is known for its fantastic image color, shadow and highlight processing. Now with Lightroom 4, you can import video from your camera and organize your photos using their ...

Adobe announces CS5 release date, second beta of Lightroom 3

by Michael Grothaus (Mar 24th, 2010)

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 ...

Adobe ships Lightroom 2

by Scott McNulty (Jul 29th, 2008)

Adobe announced today that Lightroom 2, a major update to their photography workflow app, is now available. Lightroom 2 will cost you $299, with an upgrade price of $99, but it includes a host of new features, improvements, and general whizbangery. The biggest news for Mac users is that Lightroom 2 ...

Lightroom 1.4.1 and Camera raw 4.4.1 released

by Mike Schramm (Apr 11th, 2008)

Adobe has dropped updates for both Lightroom and Camera Raw. According to the Lightroom team's blog, the updates include all the changes of the previous releases, but also correct a few issues. Lightroom 1.4.1 will keep the EXIF time date field of images from being incorrectly modified, and has ...

Adobe releases 64-bit Lightroom 2 beta with Retouch tool

by Mat Lu (Apr 3rd, 2008)

Over at the Adobe Labs Lightroom site, the beta for Lightroom 2 is now available. John Nack revealed that among other things (release notes PDF) version 2 will feature 64-bit support as well as a new Retouch tool. This marks a shift toward selective editing similar to the new editing plugin ...

Stop your iPhone from auto-launching iPhoto (or Aperture, etc.)

by Mat Lu (Feb 21st, 2008)

One particularly annoying thing about plugging in my iPhone is that it always launches Aperture and prompts for permission to import photos. While you should be able to turn this off (in the preferences of the Image Capture application), what if you still want iPhoto (or Aperture, Lightroom, etc.) ...

Ask TUAW: Automounting a network drive, iPhone flash memory, XMP photo metadata and more

by Mat Lu (Sep 19th, 2007)

Last week's Ask TUAW prompted an avalanche of questions, so we're going to have to pace ourselves. For this episode we'll tackle questions about auto-mounting a network drive, sending email across an internet sharing Mac, wearing out iPhone flash, using Adobe XMP photo metadata in Windows and OS X, ...

Lightroom 1.1 is available

by Dave Caolo (Jun 27th, 2007)

Lightroom has been updated to version 1.1, and with it comes a very long list of changes. James Duncan Davidson has taken a good look at the update at Inside Lightroom. Here are a few highlights. View the shutter, aperture, and ISO settings you use most often instantly Template Browsers in the ...

TUAW Podcast #25: Aperture

by David Chartier (May 30th, 2007)

Now that I'm on the home stretch of my undergrad (just a thesis project left to finish), I'm finally able to stretch my legs into some hobbies I've been meaning to pick up. One such hobby is photography, and since I've been flexing my digital tools, I've quickly become enamored with Aperture, ...

Grudgematch: Aperture vs. Lightroom

by Dave Caolo (Feb 22nd, 2007)

TUAW reader Sherrod is a photographer on a mission: He's going to examine Lightroom and Aperture side by side, and he needs your help. He has set up what will be a series of posts looking at each of the applications, with the intention of declaring a winner. Sherrod asks his readers what they'd like ...