Comments on: Media Managers To Organize Your Photos http://www.nickpotter.net/archive/2007/12/media-managers-to-organize-your-photos Just another WordPress weblog Sun, 25 Jul 2010 14:38:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: publicenergy http://www.nickpotter.net/archive/2007/12/media-managers-to-organize-your-photos#comment-4 publicenergy Tue, 11 Dec 2007 08:10:55 +0000 http://nickpotter.net/npwp/http:/nickpotter.net/npwp/2009/04/sample-post#comment-4 <p>Prior to using Lightroom, there were only two things that came anywhere near what Lightroom does - ACDSee Pro (that they missed - which is a shame because it's better than nearly everything listed there) and iView Media Pro.</p> <p>I tried all sorts of software to do this and was never happy with anything. iView Media Pro was the best thing I found prior to Lightroom - Lightroom has replicated all of the best bits of iView though and added all of the other lovely stuff like RAW processing too.</p> <p>Lightroom being this good so early should inspire some good competition though. Microsoft purchased iView which means it should get some polish and they also bought a technology called <a href="http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/129" rel="nofollow">Seadrragon</a> which looks amazing. If I could browse photos like that in Lightroom I'd be happy!</p> Prior to using Lightroom, there were only two things that came anywhere near what Lightroom does – ACDSee Pro (that they missed – which is a shame because it’s better than nearly everything listed there) and iView Media Pro.

I tried all sorts of software to do this and was never happy with anything. iView Media Pro was the best thing I found prior to Lightroom – Lightroom has replicated all of the best bits of iView though and added all of the other lovely stuff like RAW processing too.

Lightroom being this good so early should inspire some good competition though. Microsoft purchased iView which means it should get some polish and they also bought a technology called Seadrragon which looks amazing. If I could browse photos like that in Lightroom I’d be happy!

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