Jason Dunn
06-20-2007, 03:24 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://photoshopnews.com/2006/01/09/the-shadowlandlightroom-development-story/' target='_blank'>http://photoshopnews.com/2006/01/09/the-shadowlandlightroom-development-story/</a><br /><br /></div><i>"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”."</i><br /><br /><img src="http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/images/shadowland-june20.jpg" /> <br /><br />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)...