Comments on: Adobe Lightroom getting Pixmantec influence

Adobe Lightroom beta 4 for processing "raw" camera images will get its first technology from Pixmantec acquisition.

[aemarques]

Costs MORE than Photoshop?

more THAN $600? Did I read it correctly? Or is this a mistake from the C|Net editor?
I always imagined the price to be BETWEEN $100 and $600...

[GRMacGirl]

RE: COSTS MORE THAN PHOTOSHOP?

That's GOTTA be a typo. Seriously. My God, if it's more than $600 how do they ever expect to compete with Aperture, which sells for $300? I always thought it might cost more, but DOUBLE? Oh heck no! If that's the case, I'm out.

[Shankland]

Yes, typo: costs less than Photoshop

Yes, you're right: The price tag will be more than Photoshop Elements and less than regular Photoshop. Thanks for the catch.

[BobBobBobBobBobBobBob]

"?better performance, particularly for Windows users?"

"One big change in the new Lightroom beta is better performance,
particularly for Windows users. "When you grab the develop sliders,
things will be noticeably faster with beta 4," Story said."

Seems they forgot Mac users that got their business started. I have
used photoshop since version 1.x but for this reason, I can't wait
for Aperture to evolve into a full blown image editor so I can ditch
Adobe.

[R. U. Sirius]

Not sure of the interpretation

Reading the quote in the article, I get the impression it means that the Windows version had a bug that wasn't in the Mac version.

[cptmcnair]

"Seems they forgot Mac users"

The Lightroom Beta for Mac was released months ahead of the the Windows version. They were up to beta 3 before it was released.
And Lightroom for Windows was slow as molasses. If you moved a slider, it took forever to see changes, so you didn't actually know what worked.
And now the Adobe website is down, so I can't see if they sped it up.

[cptmcnair]

"Seems they forgot Mac users"

The Lightroom Beta for Mac was released months ahead of the the Windows version. They were up to beta 3 before it was released.
And Lightroom for Windows was slow as molasses. If you moved a slider, it took forever to see changes, so you didn't actually know what worked.
And now the Adobe website is down, so I can't see if they sped it up.