Yet more on Adobe Lightroom
May 30th, 2007 | 
Author: After my excitement for Adobe Lightroom, I went searching the Net to see what kind of price I could find on this little gem. To start off with I went straight to the source and checked the price on Adobe. Egad man! $299! I was hoping for something a little less wallet gouging!
However, it only took a quick search through the web to come up with something better. Amazon has Adobe Lightroom
I also noticed that Amazon now sells DxO Optics Pro $159 as well. I know, I laud the protection scheme they use, but DxO is still impressive software. It’s basically the same price as on the DxO site, so I don’t know if you gain anything. I think I’m more impressed with the exposure it should get by being on Amazon.
And if you add Paint Shop Pro XI
So it’s an interesting question, is it worth getting Lightroom, Paint Shop Pro and DxO for roughly $450, or would it be better to go “all in” and grab the brass ring of Adobe Photoshop CS3 for $650? For me, it’s better just to add Lightroom since I have the other two apps already. This would basically complete my workflow (until some other magical piece of software comes out that I simply must have!) 
Of course, even if I had CS3 I still wouldn’t give up my DxO, I’ve just gotten so used to it now. And I would find a reason to still use Lightroom and have that as part of my bag of tricks; so basically, it’s easier just to buy them all! Although I seem to have misplaced that extra $1,000 I leave around the house for just such things…
As the guys at the Porsche Club keep saying, “What about this hobby did you think was cheap?”
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Well, Pete, I think you are right – this is kind of expensive software… but what is the target market?
According to Adobe target market is Professional Photographers – people who make their living from photography… And for serious hobbyists… Like myself…
On the other hand there is almost no competition for Windows. On Macs they have Aperture.
Actually, at $200 I think Lightroom is reasonably priced to fit well with most serious amateurs. I look at it this way, it should allow most people to use a combination of working with powerful yet more economically priced programs such as Adobe Elements or Corel Paint Shop Pro, which can size, crop, use layers, masks and filters. Once those adjustments are made, the image can then be brought into Lightroom where you can use the full power of Curves, exposure adjustment, fill light, highlight recovery and other powerful Photoshop like tools for full color adjustment. Plus, Lightroom gives the awesome power of Adobe Camera Raw.
I look at it as Adobe took the best photography elements out of Photoshop and made them available to everyone regardless of what image editor you’re currently using.