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Adobe buys RawShooter!

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Posted by Juza on June 26, 2006 at 10:13 AM
From Dpreview :"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"

Link: Adobe buys RawShooter

Posted by Guy Tal on June 26, 2006 at 10:22 AM
Cool. Rawshooter has some neat features and a much nicer user interface than ACR. Hopefully they'll combine the best of each in the next version or two.

Guy
Posted by Rick Lamb on June 26, 2006 at 12:33 PM
I'm actually a bit bummed about this. As Guy states RAW Shooter has a SWEET interface and powerful features in a VERY tight/compact/FAST application. My fear is Adobe Lightroom will not be any of the above...sigh.

RAW Shooter Premium 2006 has been my primary RAW converter for quite some time....

:frown: :frown: :frown:
Posted by Bruce Painter on June 26, 2006 at 9:33 PM
I have been using RSE and just bought a Canon 30D which is not yet supported in "Essentials". I'm not sure now that it will ever support the 30D. :frown:

Bruce
Posted by Ed Cordes on June 26, 2006 at 10:22 PM
My guess is that Adobe saw the good atributtes Raw Shooter and wanted to compete with the features. The cheapest and fastest way to do this is for Big Business to buy Small Business.

My hope is that the best of both will surface not only in Lightroom but also the CS2 replacement.
Posted by Prashant Khapane on June 29, 2006 at 11:38 AM
This is bad for the rse users (paid). I just can not imagine the policy of the company. hopefully c1p and others are not acquired soon...monopoly is bad.