Adobe Ships Lightroom, Updates Camera Raw

As expected, Adobe on Monday began shipping Photoshop Lightroom 1.0, the company's image processing application for professional photographers. Until April 30, 2007 the software will cost $199 USD, after which the price will be raised to $299 USD. A trial download is available here.

Alongside Lightroom 1.0, Adobe additionally released Camera Raw 3.7, the image processing technology for Photoshop CS2, Elements 4.0 and 5.0, and Premiere Elements 5.0. The update now supports over 150 cameras, including the recently released Nikon D40 and Pentax K10D, as well as support for default image settings.