Adobe buys Raw Shooter

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Well I guess that's that. Adobe have bought the Rawshooter Engine to use in Lightroom and other Adobe products. I guess that's a firm yes by Adobe that RS was the better engine.

In a brief statement Adobe has announced that it has purchased the 'technology assets' of Pixmantec, the Danish company behind the RawShooter raw workflow and conversion application. Adobe states that this acquisition "strengthens Adobe's leadership position in raw processing" and that that Pixmantec's raw processing technology will be integrated into Lightroom and other Adobe products. RawShooter Premium will be discontinued although the Essential edition will continue to be available and support for existing RawShooter customers will be available from Adobe.
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Hopefully they add ACR to RS engine or add new stuff to ACR with it.

Lightroom looks interesting, going to subscribe to it!
 
Newsflash: Danish software developers seen on a very expensive yacht on a very exotic island spending lots of money ;)

Think they'll be happy at that buyout, the integration may prove to be a good thing for all.
 
Had a wee look at the lightroom site after I heard about this. It looks like a sensible move by Adobe - the current Lightroom UI seems, superficially at least, very similar to that of RSE/RSP so hopefully the final integrated product will take the good bits from RSE into Lightbox.
 
TomWilko said:
Newsflash: Danish software developers seen on a very expensive yacht on a very exotic island spending lots of money ;)

Think they'll be happy at that buyout, the integration may prove to be a good thing for all.
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However without competition Adobe can just sit back and not worry. Its competition that fuels innovation. Lightroom wouldn't have appeared if it wasn't for programs like RSE/Apreture.
 
cyKey said:
However without competition Adobe can just sit back and not worry. Its competition that fuels innovation. Lightroom wouldn't have appeared if it wasn't for programs like RSE/Apreture.
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True, don't want Adobe's suite of products going the same way as MS Office or the like. Revamped with new logo's and colour schemes with little to no changes.
 
I would think free RSE will soon be a thing of the past. :(

This is generally quite bad for the industry imo.
 
What's the deal with RSE? I go through some ridiculous process on their website to "register", then I get emailed a product key but no download details, so then I go back to download the trial and install that. Then it asks for my details again and then "times out" when it tries to register me. So now I've got an annoying wait every time I open the program as it times out connecting to some mysterious place.

This is free right? And it's meant to be good?
 
growse said:
What's the deal with RSE? I go through some ridiculous process on their website to "register", then I get emailed a product key but no download details, so then I go back to download the trial and install that. Then it asks for my details again and then "times out" when it tries to register me. So now I've got an annoying wait every time I open the program as it times out connecting to some mysterious place.

This is free right? And it's meant to be good?
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IMHO the product is good. Been a while since I used the site though.
 
I've had a play, and i agree, it's good at what it does. Better than PS. I'll probably use this as my raw adjuster / editor from now on :)

If only I could get it to stop being annoying as well by loudly trying and failing to connect to something on startup, I might actually like it....
 
Sure a few of you guys here have had this email, here it is though..

Dear RawShooter!


As you may have noticed, Adobe Systems Inc. recently acquired the technology assets of Pixmantec. Pixmantec's technology and expertise will be incorporated into Adobe's products. Specifically, some of Pixmantec's raw processing technology will be incorporated into Adobe's raw processing engine which is shared by Adobe Camera Raw and Lightroom. We, the founders of Pixmantec, will join the Adobe team, integrating our expertise into their products, and continuing to be able to serve the photographic community.

As the founders of Pixmantec, we'd like to express how gratifying it has been to see the level of support and praise we have managed to gain through the introduction of the RawShooter product line to the market. We had a vision of making top-notch raw processing capabilities truly accessible to a wide audience of photographers, and the number of devoted users that developed tells us that we made significant progress towards that goal.

Nevertheless, we also saw that we were not the only company recognizing the need for specialized photography workflow software. Specifically, Adobe a company we have always admired had for some time been working on their own workflow solution, which was announced as the Lightroom public beta program in January of this year. When we met with the folks from Adobe, we found that the admiration was mutual, and that our visions for the customer were very well aligned. Ultimately, we saw the opportunity to make a bigger impact by joining Adobe, and lending our own best ideas and expertise to the ongoing Camera Raw and Lightroom efforts.

As we work to integrate Pixmantec technology and expertise into Adobe's raw processing pipeline, we will no longer be working on new versions of the RawShooter | premium product, and have stopped selling this product. Of course, your RawShooter | premium product will continue to work and serve you well, but we also know that many of you will eventually want a software solution that you know will continue to evolve, remaining up-to-date as raw workflows and processing continues to improve. Adobe Lightroom is a product targeted at solving these evolving workflows and up to the minute raw processing. Currently in public beta format for the Macintosh platform Adobe Lightroom will be released as public beta for Windows this summer.

Lightroom is being built from the ground up to address the unique challenges of a photography-centric workflow. Not only will it offer what we believe will be second-to-none raw processing, but it is designed to provide a start-to-finish workflow solution for photographers. We encourage you to learn about Adobe Lightroom: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/lightroom

For those concerned about the transition to Lightroom or the acquisition in general please visit this FAQ that addresses many of the topics discussed in the Pixmantec forums recently. Please continue to let us know how we can ease this product transition for you.

Now that we've joined the Adobe family, we must emphasize that RawShooter users also are now Adobe customers, regardless of whether you ever purchase another Adobe product. Your satisfaction matters to us. Specifically, Adobe will do the following:

  • Offer a free download version of Lightroom 1.0 for customers who bought RawShooter | premium prior to July 12th 2006, 12 noon European Standard Time. Given that Lightroom 1.0 will serve a much broader range of functionality and will be priced at a higher price point than RawShooter | premium, we believe this represents a great value for our customers.

  • Adobe will investigate to what extent your image corrections made within RawShooter can be transferred to Lightroom.

  • We will deliver support for Canon EOS 30D In RawShooter | essentials this summer.
We are deeply thankful for the support you have offered Pixmantec and we thank you in advance for your understanding and continued support.

The best is yet to come!

Sincerely yours,

Kenneth Laerke and Michael Jonsson
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This bit interests me most...

[*]Offer a free download version of Lightroom 1.0 for customers who bought RawShooter | premium prior to July 12th 2006, 12 noon European Standard Time. Given that Lightroom 1.0 will serve a much broader range of functionality and will be priced at a higher price point than RawShooter | premium, we believe this represents a great value for our customers.
 
My heart sunk a little with this email :(

While i no longer use raw shooter it is much better than the lightroom beta i have benn using/testing.

Bibble pro + Aperture are both much better, the raw conversion is not up to rs standards so i assume nothing much has been intergrated yet. However i like adobe products as a whole and lightroom is very fast at what it does. If they can sort the actual raw conversion process then it could turn out to be a great app.
 
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Shimmyhill said:
My heart sunk a little with this email :(

While i no longer use raw shooter it is much better than the lightroom beta i have benn using/testing.

Bibble pro + Aperture are both much better, the raw conversion is not up to rs standards so i assume nothing much has been intergrated yet. However i like adobe products as a whole and lighthouse is very fast at what it does. If they can sort the actual raw conversion process then it could turn out to be a great app.
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Got a link to lighthouse? :)
 
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