Lightroom beta and adobe photoshop cs2

When Adobe Photoshop Lightroom was in development, it was not intended that Adobe Photoshop Lightroom becomes another plug in for the established Adobe flagship, the Photoshop, but it was meant for it to be a separate, stand alone software solution. The idea was that the bulk editing features and batch processing should suffice for the initial image evaluation, but later, if the need be, some separate images can be loaded in a separate process, into Photoshop and edited there, like two separate programs, but mainly compatible. From the very early beginnings, when the idea named "Shadowland" began to take forms, it was understood that Adobe Photoshop Lightroom in the final version should be able to edit not only RAW image files, but also JPEG, TIFF and the Photoshop native PSD formats.

The "Minnesota Phats" Team, with a seasoned Photoshop programmer, Mark Hamburg, was under pressure. Apple announced that they are working on something called Aperture, which was supposed to snatch the market niche perceived by Adobe. In addition to that, Photoshop CS2 was in development, as was Adobe Bridge; moreover, Adobe was acquiring Macromedia, the software company which was the main web design software provider besides Adobe, with such products like Flash, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Director and so on.

But what was at first perceived as bad, turned out to be good, because when Apple was pushing Aperture, Adobe suits figured that the "Shadowland" project, named after a K. D. Lang album, was indeed important and did not axe it. Then the Adobe team had a stroke of genius. The Adobe Lightroom was announced and public betas were available to all for download and everyone was invited to participate in the development of the new photographer's application. The response was overwhelming.

The first public beta was only for Mac, the OS X platform, the interest was huge, and developers buckled under the pressure and released later also a Windows beta, which was the Beta 3. By then, the most development was done already and the application was more or less final. Then it was perceived that some possibility should be given to Adobe Photoshop Lightroom to actively interact with Photoshop, without actually being an integrated part or a common Photoshop plug in.

The seamless integration with Photoshop CS 2, although professed already when Adobe Photoshop Lightroom was initially released in January 2007, was established later, with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 and Photoshop CS 4. It is now possible directly from the Adobe Photoshop Lightroom platform to switch over with a single click to Photoshop and quickly edit single images.

Linus Orakles
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