Lightroom Journal: Lightroom’s Goals

Mark Ham­burg, Adobe soft­ware archi­tect and project lead for Light­room, blogs on Lightroom’s Goals. Inter­est­ing to see a soft­ware devel­oper talk about an appli­ca­tion hav­ing a personality.

I’m a Light­room user and I was drawn in partly by being part of the beta pro­gram but also because of the soft­ware itself. With the tools I had, I had a lot of the basic Light­room already, albeit in sep­a­rate soft­ware pack­ages. But Light­room doesn’t sim­ply glom sep­a­rate appli­ca­tions together, it’s a prime exam­ple of “the whole is greater than the sum of its parts”. Not every “inte­grated” appli­ca­tion does this, per­haps because they didn’t have the clear goals the Light­room has.

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