Adobe Lightroom Beta for Windows and Mac

Project: Lightroom™ is Adobe’s effort to engage the professional photography community in a new way, giving you the opportunity to kick the tires and shape the feature set of a new tool being created just for you.

After the merger of Adobe and Macromedia the graphics giant has started a series of new projects - and from a photographers perspective Lightroom is definitely one of the most interesting. The program is an effort to simplify the RAW workflow for digital photographers. There are obvious similarities between this new project and the file management system Adobe Bridge that ships with new Adobe products but instead of being a general program for all types of media files Lightroom is aimed only at digital photography. As such the functionalities are more advanced and the workflow is better.

What makes this project so interesting is the open invitation for photographers to download the unfinished beta version of the program so that the company can shape the program perfectly to the end users.

Downloading and using the beta version of Lightroom is free and gives everyone a chance to have an input on a program that will probably become a standard in a few years.

Download Adobe Lightroom Beta here.