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Considering for the past decade Microsoft has yet to release anything that would even resemble a competitor to Photoshop this could get interesting. However, considering the momentum Photoshop has with photographers and Lightroom is now just as much a staple application even as it comes up on version 2.0, Microsoft has miles of ground to cover. It seems to me the best they could hope to achieve, at least within the next 5 years is to gain some market share against Photoshop Elements and Paint Shop Pro. I can’t foresee a time when serious photographers are going to give up Photoshop or now Lightroom.

What’s Microsoft want with Adobe Photoshop guru Mark Hamburg, who recently joined the Redmond juggernaut?

Hamburg a programmer who has been part of the Adobe Photoshop team since version 2.0 and helped lead the Photoshop Lightroom one, is now a Softie, as News.com’s Stephen Shankland reported on April 28.

The official word from Microsoft is Hamburg will be working on unnamed “user experience” efforts. My bet is Hamburg will be instrumental in helping Microsoft bring to market its Photoshop Lightroom competitor, which is codenamed “SmartFlow.”

Microsoft’s competitor to Adobe LightRoom gets another champion

This is very exciting. Lightroom 1.x has been a phenomenal tool, I can only image what new features 2.0 will serve up.  This is definitely worth further investigation.

Adobe today released a beta version of Lightroom 2.0, the company’s photo management and editing toolkit, which adds non-destructive localized editing and a slew of other new features.

Photographers have had a lot of updates to deal with in recent weeks, with Apple’s Aperture receiving the ability to employ third-party plug-ins, Adobe releasing its Web-based version of Photoshop, after having to pull the Lightroom 1.4 update due to EXIF Timestamp Errors, DNG conversion errors in Windows, and Olympus JPEG conversion errors.

Adobe releases beta of Lightroom 2.0 photo editing tool

Adobe Lightroom 1.3.1

Adobe has released another update to the incredibly popular and one of my personal favorites, Adobe Lightroom.

Updates includes issues encountered with FTP, some module errors, corrections when importing RAW files and Canon 1Ds Mark III, Nikon D3, Nikon D300, Olympus E-3.

More detailed information can be found at: http://www.adobe.com/special/photoshop/Lightroom131ReadMe.pdf

We didn’t quite hit the 1.5 version as I had predicted, but we aren’t too far off. Adobe has developed a pretty solid user base with this new version and I’m sure Christmas will bring quite a few new users on board. I expect Adobe is busy putting version 2.0 together which I think we will see in the not too distant future.

As I mentioned previously I am becoming more of a fan each time I use Lightroom. I still think DxO has a place in my workflow, but with the excellent tools Lightroom has to offer I wonder how much longer DxO will be in my toolbox. I can’t say it will be completely replaced, but without any real lens support it really only has the shadow/highlight recovery and RAW import features. Lightroom is well on its way to being a full featured replacement.