Adobe Shows Off Lightroom-Style Photo Editing for iPadCNET reports on a sneak peek from Adobe product manager Tom Hogarty showing off the company's concept for Lightroom-style photo editing on the iPad. The app would rely on cloud-based connections to serve as a companion app to the full Lightroom software, but offer a number of higher-end features for on-the-go photo editing. He wouldn't promise when the app would ship or what exactly it would do, but he did demonstrate some features of the prototype software running on an iPad 2. He also offered several details about its features: - The ability to edit photos taken in raw photo formats, including Lightroom develop-module parameters like exposure, clarity, shadows, highlights, and white balance. - Cloud-synchronized editing so that changes made on a tablet arrive on the same photo on the PC. - The ability to zoom all the way to 100 percent for checking photo focus and details.Hogarty also noted that he would like to bring features such photo sorting and flagging to the app, although other features such as brushes for tweaking photos have not been included. The app is clearly a work in progress, with the feature set still yet to be finalized and performance issues remaining, but Adobe has made clear that it wants to make some of the same powerful photo editing tools from Lightroom available to photographers on the go. For photographers who travel and spend significant amounts of time in the field, an iPad capable of performing some Lightroom-style editing on raw images could significantly improve their efficiency and workflows. Recent Mac and iOS Blog Stories • Acorn 4 Image Editor Adds Improved Speed, Enhanced User Interface and More • Kindle App for iOS Updated with New Accessibility Features • Leap Wireless Reports Improved iPhone Sales Amid Customer Losses • Apple Seeds Build 12E40 of OS X Beta 10.8.4 Developers • AT&T Announces Upgrade to In-Store Smartphone Trade-In Program • Russian Billionaire Buys $100 Million in Apple Stock • Jawbone Releases API for Developers, Buys BodyMedia • Vine Adds Support for Mentions and Front-Facing Camera
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