Adobe Lightroom = zzzzzzz for me

Now that the windows version is finally out I've managed to install it and pointed it directly at my huge (I consider it huge) collection of pictures. I've got about 4000 of them being somewhere around 20 gigs or so. Lightroom did manage to go through them all and dispaly them, but it took a while.

Now, is it just me or does Adobe's Lightroom just not fill a void that isn't there? I think if it is going to replace Bridge somehow (Bridge is very slow for me) then it would be neat but it doesn't seem to do much other than organize pics. Another item, and I don't mean this as an insult to the designers and developers on the project, but it looks and feels like it was built in Flash. The text isn't crisp, it moves sluggishly and in general feels like a Flash application.. hard to expain, but that's definitely the first thing that went through my mind.

All in all, I suppose it's a useful app, but it's going to need to do more than what it seems to do for me to take me away from Photoshop and Bridge. I like the fact that I can do quite a bit in just those two programs and then it also all just nicely integrates with Premiere and After Effects (even though I'm having problems with AE7 right now...).

Ah well, maybe once it makes it a bit farther along in development I'll check it out again.

Posted by Graeme at July 25, 2006 03:56 PM