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Anyone find it strange how close the Lightroom product looks to ArcSoft PhotoStudio Darkroom 1.5?



Not that I find the Arcsoft product to be as slick or as good, but maybe it was the parent from which Lightroom sprang.



Does Adobe own Arcsoft?
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Well...I gotta agree with ya on that one. Not sure which one saw the light of day first though. And I do not mean a V1 that shipped to customers, but the first one to be seen by alpha testers....



I like the looks of their Lens correction dialog and their batch export looks interesting.



Not too shabby looking for the $99 price tag. Who knows how polished it is or about it's out put though...



But for the casual shooter or Mom/Pop/ Uncle Bob who wants a good work flow and is converting to shooting Raw it may be a good alternative.



Also, look at the spec list: (this is only partial to high lite some good stuff)

*Non-destructive edits on Raw/Jpg/ and Tif

*Spot and Patch Removal (ie clone/heal perhaps)

*Recipies, and copy to these to other photos

*Convert to DNG



Not to mention their base system requirments:

512 Meg of Ram

Pentium III or AMD Athlon

50 meg of HD



interesting
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From their web site: ''Founded in 1994, ArcSoft is a leading provider of innovative digital imaging technologies and multimedia solutions for device manufacturers.''



Well...considering that Lightroom (aka Shadowland) started Dec, 2002 (in my studio) I seriously doubt Adobe stole anything from ArcSoft...



See:
The Shadowland/Lightroom Development Story

I have no need for Darkroom - I've seen the Light!