Adobe Lightroom beta

for those of you who take pictures in RAW format (you may have seen my post earlier enquiring about a RAW converter) Adobe has pre-launched a beta version of adobe light room which is free to download at

http://labs.macromedia.com/technologies/lightroom/

only availiable for mac at the moment and a small dmg download it works pretty well although not the best program usability wise.

the current beta works till june and i anticipate more updates to take us till the end of the year.

I have tried it and prefer Aperture much better. Unless Adobe greatly improved on it I wont be buying it and will be sticking to my 500$ purchase of Aperture (which i probably will no matter how good LightRoom becomes because it WAS 500$ and I know Apple will always update it to compete with Adobe).

RAW....cool!

CS 2 also does a good deal on raw files.