“At its MAX conference, Adobe [yesterday] previewed Project Nimbus, a new cloud-native, Lightroom-like photo editor that takes away a lot of the complexity of Adobe’s flagship photo-managing and editing application and replaces it with simpler, smarter tools,” Frederic Lardinois reports for TechCrunch.
“You will be able to use natural language to find images in your library, for example. That’s similar to what Google is doing with Google Photos, for example, but in Lightroom, you always had to tag your photos if you wanted to find them again,” Lardinois reports. “Similarly, Adobe is using some of its cloud-based Creative SDK and Adobe Sensei artificial intelligence service to power features like Nimbus’ photo retouching tools.”
“It’s clear that Adobe believes the way forward is to give its users the option to work on their projects across devices and applications,” Lardinois reports. “It’s not hard to imagine that Adobe could position Nimbus (or whatever it will call it when it finally launches it) as a more consumer-oriented version of Lightroom. But in some ways, it almost feels like the kernel of a next-gen version of Lightroom that could actually replace the older tool in the long run.”
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So Adobe is going to take a page from Apple’s playbook. Let’s dumb it down so we can say we have 50 million everyday schmos using it, versus 1 million pros and semi-pros.
That worked well for Final Cut Pro didn’t it?
You would think Adobe could figure out that Premiere is doing so well because of such bone head moves. Guess they aren’t as smart as they are greedy.
Not saying there shouldn’t be enthusiast software. Just don’t try to make it one size fits all.
If it’s subscription only…no thanks.
I left Photoshop some time ago. Now I use Affinity Photo and Pixelmator, a combo which seems to cover most of my photo needs for print and web.