Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Lightroom: Evolution from Shadowland
Posted by Jason Dunn in "ARTICLE" @ 07:24 AM
"The development of Adobe Lightroom, code named Shadowland, was not something Adobe started after Apple announced Aperture. The Shadowland project has been going on for years. How do I know that Adobe has been working on Shadowland for so long? Because that’s how long I’ve been working on it. Back in October of 2002 Mark Hamburg sent me a little developmental application he called PixelToy (breaking his own rule, there was an innercap) and jokingly refered to as “SchewePaint”."
An interesting article for anyone that's a Lightroom user - it shows the history and evolution of lightroom, from a widget-like piece of software (shown above) to the final product we have with Lightroom 1.0. It's a great read, seeing how complicated it can be for someone with a vision for a piece of software to see it come to fruition. Now if only Lightroom 1.0 didn't still feel a bit like a beta piece of software (especially on Vista)...
An interesting article for anyone that's a Lightroom user - it shows the history and evolution of lightroom, from a widget-like piece of software (shown above) to the final product we have with Lightroom 1.0. It's a great read, seeing how complicated it can be for someone with a vision for a piece of software to see it come to fruition. Now if only Lightroom 1.0 didn't still feel a bit like a beta piece of software (especially on Vista)...
