Lightroom is a direct competitor of Aperture: a pro-oriented RAW image cataloging, archiving and editing package.
The b eta version will be functional till June 2006 and requires only to register with Adobe (free).
More details:
http://labs.macromedia.com/technologies/lightroom/
Get it here:
http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=labs%5Flightroom
To us it is good news that Adobe fights back instead of leaving the battlefield to Apple alone: it means that the competition will drag prices down and quality up.
