Bill Atkinson (left) and Michael Reichmann (right), photo by George Jadine.

George Jardine, Pro Photography Evangelist of Adobe has posted a new iTunes Podcast. This is the first podcast from the “Lightroom Iceland Adventure” with Michael Reichmann and Bill Atkinson. The team is really moving fast, so there should be more soon.

Peachpit releases The Adobe Lightroom Book by Martin Evening as a new “Rough Cut” publishing concept-a book available as it’s being written. Which dovetails well with a product like Adobe Lightroom which is being developed as a public preview.

Digital photographers who have relied on Adobe Photoshop to work with their images have a new tool at their disposal: Adobe Lightroom.

As a professional photographer, author Martin Evening knows firsthand what photographers need for a more efficient workflow.

John Nack, Photoshop product manager writes on his blog that over 100K downloads happened in just five days.

George Jardine by Jeff Schewe

George Jardine, Pro Photography Evangelist of Adobe has posted a new iTunes Podcast about Adobe Lightroom with Thomas Knoll, Zalman Stern (Camera Raw engineers), Lighroom engineer Mark Hamburg and the newest member of the team, Michael Jonsson-formerly of Pixmantec.

A number of Lightroom resources have sprung up, here’s a roundup of a few of them.

Adobe has released the long awaited Adobe Lightroom Beta 3 for Windows.
Note: the main Lightroom website has not yet been updated but the Windows download for Lightroom beta 3 is listed on the download page as of 9:20PM Pacific…

Fast on the heels of Episode 8 comes another Lightroom Podcast from Pro Photography Evangelist of Adobe, Goerge Jardine. This time he has Lightroom engineers Kevin Tieskoetter and Andy Rahn.

To clarify the circumstnaces surrounding the puchase of Pixmantec, Adobe has posted updated FAQ’s regarding the purchase and what it will mean for current RawShooter users. Included in the FAQ is the statement that current registered users of RawShooter Premium will receive a free upgrade to Adobe Lightroom version 1.0 when it ships.

George Jardine, Pro Photography Evangelist of Adobe has posted a new iTunes Podcast about Adobe Lightroom with Mark Hamburg (Lightroom founding engineer), Bruce Fraser, Zalman Stern (Camera Raw engineer), and Thomas Knoll, Photoshop co-author and Camera Raw primary engineer.

Adobe Further Extends Leadership in Digital Photography Raw File Workflows

Press Release: SAN JOSE, Calif. — June 26, 2006 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced it has acquired the technology assets of Pixmantec ApS, makers of digital imaging software that provides advanced workflow management and processing capabilities for digital camera raw files. The acquisition strengthens Adobe’s leadership position in raw processing. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

Former Photoshop engineer and current Adobe Lightroom engineering architect Mark Hamburg will be at the upcoming Photoshop Soup2Nuts Conference June 23-24, 2006 in Ann Arbor, Michigan

Mark, the second engineer to work on Photoshop (after Thomas Knoll) is actually from Midland, Michigan.

He’ll be attending the Soup2Nuts Conference where he has agreed to do several Adobe Lightroom presentations with speaker Jeff Schewe.

George Jardine, Pro Photo Evangelist will also attend and attempt to record several Lightroom Podcasts during the event.

The Offices of Adobe Minnesota.

After a recent Epson Print Academy event in St. Paul, Minnesota I had the chance to hook up with some of the Lightroom engineers at Adobe’s offices in Arden Hills just outside of Minneapolis.

Adobe Incorporates Early Testers’ Feedback and Additional Raw File Support in Updated Beta

Press Release: SAN JOSE, Calif. — June 13, 2006 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced an update to the public beta of Adobe Lightroom, an all-new digital imaging workflow solution for professional photographers that allows them to import, select, develop and showcase large volumes of images. The latest version adds features suggested by beta testers that allow greater control over export size and resolution, refined metadata selection with print output and RGB value readouts for greater editing precision.

Adobe has released Adobe Lightroom Beta 3 for Mac.
It is available for download at Labs.Adobe.com/Lightroom. Beta 3 brings a variety of new functionality including a new module and refinements of other modules. Also added is a new “Watched Folder” function to automatically import files into Lightroom when new files are added to a specified folder. It should also be noted that the application name has been changed from just ‘Lightroom’ to ‘Adobe Lightroom’. Hopefully, this will be the last name change. Read the rest of this story for an in depth look at Beta 3.

George Jardine by Jeff Schewe

George Jardine, Pro Photography Evangelist of Adobe has posted a new iTunes Podcast about Adobe Lightroom with Tim Grey of Microsoft.

Left to right: Zalman Stern, George Jardine, Seetharaman Narayanan (aka Seetha), Dave Story and Jeff Schewe

George Jardine, Pro Photography Evangelist of Adobe has posted a new iTunes Podcast about Adobe Lightroom talking about the Windows version of Lightroom, Camera Raw and DNG .

Mac Holbert (left) and Graham Nash (right)

George Jardine, Pro Photography Evangelist of Adobe has posted a new iTunes Podcast about Adobe Lightroom with Mac and Graham of Nash Editions.

Martin Evening by Jeff Schewe

George Jardine, Pro Photography Evangelist of Adobe has posted a new iTunes Podcast about Adobe Lightroom with Martin Evening, author of Adobe Photoshop CS2 for Photographers.

Greg Gorman by Jeff Schewe

George Jardine, Pro Photography Evangelist of Adobe has posted a new iTunes Podcast about Adobe Lightroom with Greg Gorman.

At Photoshop World last week, Scott Kelby announced the release of his new book, The Adobe Lightroom eBook for digital photographers.

Scott says: you can actually buy and download my book right now, today online, because it’s my first eBook (well, it will be an eBook until the product leaves beta and finally ships, but the advantage of the eBook is that it will be updated as Adobe updates each version of Lightroom).

Left to right is Kevin Tieskoetter-Lightroom engineer, Mark Hamburg-Lightroom “Founder” and Jeff Schewe-photographer. Photo by George Jardine.

George Jardine, Pro Photography Evangelist of Adobe has posted two new iTunes Podcasts about Adobe Lightroom.

Source: Forbes
Written by Danit Lidor

Once a company crowns itself king of a particular industry, it has to keep the little people happy if it wants to sit easily upon the throne.

A number of Lightroom resources have sprung up, here’s a roundup of a few of them.

Michael Reichmann of The Luminous Landscape has updated his Lightroom Tips & Tricks page to include information about Lightroom Beta 2.