Adobe Lightroom Beta for Windows is now available!

[ehasler]

Just downloaded, and will be giving it a try tonight hopefully...

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/li

[Bee_Jay]

Still just as annoying as on the mac.

Why should I have to 'import' photos in order to be able to play with them? I didn't have to in Rawshooter?

Also, why isn't there an 'import' button on the homepage.

Still don't like it - when they stop this 'import' business then I am sold.

[fergusd]

Just had a very brief play . . . hmmm . . . clunky, slow, overcomplex and terrible UI . . . certainly not a rawshooter equivalent to me so far . . . I'll persist a little but initial impression is like having your hands cut off compared to the speed and simplicity of rawshooter . . .

Fd

[Bee_Jay]

fergusd said:

Just had a very brief play . . . hmmm . . . clunky, slow, overcomplex and terrible UI . . . certainly not a rawshooter equivalent to me so far . . . I'll persist a little but initial impression is like having your hands cut off compared to the speed and simplicity of rawshooter . . .

Fd

My sentiments entirely - it's exactly the same on the mac.

[thinfourth]

While we are at macs what recommended for a newbie to RAW that runs on a mac

[V6GTO]

I'm with furgus and beejay on this...it's cr4p compared to Rawshooter.

Martin.

[size13]

V6GTO said:

I'm with furgus and beejay on this...it's cr4p compared to Rawshooter.

Martin.

Me too, it's just too dam difficult to pick up and use!

[job38]

thinfourth said:

While we are at macs what recommended for a newbie to RAW that runs on a mac

This I would have thought http://store.apple.com/Apple/WebObjec

[LongQ]

Beta4 now available.

It supports the latest RAW producing cameras apparently.

I have never used RAW Shooter so it's difficult to comment but I like the results from 3 and the import thing is just for the image management surely? The image files can be left where they are, though I guess it affects performance.

4 has more functionality than 3 but seems clunkier at the moment. However the on screen images look fine and 3 seemed to print OK, not tried 4 yet. 4 seems to deal well with getting the white balance right (using Auto set) for some shots taken under mercury vapour lights - which is impressive, at least to me it is.

I tried ACDSee Pro a while back and liked that as far as I played with it. May go back to it again and do a back to back comparison.

[olf]

Apeture import facilities are wonderful, it could't offer you more choices...

[Andy M]

I downloaded it, and deleted it 5 minutes later.

Am now patiently waiting for Aperture 1.5

edit: see: www.apple.com/uk/aperture/overview/

Edited by Andy M on Wednesday 27th September 22:12