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June 27, 2006
Adobe buys Pixmantec
As you've no doubt heard, Adobe announced yesterday the acquisition of Pixmantec, makers of the RawShooter raw converter.
My take, as excerpted from a few comments I made around the web:
I view this as an unequivocally good thing.
Adobe will finally get their workflow ducks in a row-- bridge/acr was always a little clunky, and Lightroom needs some serious performance improvements. With a former Capture One developer on board (that's the real purchase here), Adobe can finally make Lightroom and Bridge scream.
I think you'll see a healthy ferment of good ideas between Michael Jonsson (C1/RS dev) and Thomas Knoll (Photoshop author, ACR dev)-- the best of both worlds.
In short, Adobe bought Pixmantec for the talent, the workflow, and the performance.
My favorite RawShooter features I'd love to see in Bridge/ACR:
* versioning for processing parameters (!!)
* fill light
* higlight/shadow contrast
I got some particular film-like tone "looks" in RSE/RSP that I've not been able to reproduce elsewhere-- hoping this means I can get closer in ACR.
Posted by Joshwa at June 27, 2006 12:36 PM