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If you are anything like me you probably have a huge amount of digital photographs piling up in some folder on your harddrive, together with 10+ backup DVD’s and a bunch of pictures drifting around somewhere on flickr.

I’ve found a pretty decent solution in Google’s Picasa which offers good functionality for it’s price (it’s free) but it has it’s limitations too. The other option I had was purchasing a better tool like ACDSee 8 or ThumbsPlus 7 but they either are too bloathed or too simple.

But! Today Adobe released a first beta of Lightroom, their new photomanager. My guess Adobe is trying to get some marketshare from Aperture and they probably think, the sooner the better. The list of known bugs is extensive but it’s a beta so who’s complaining.

If you want to give it a try you’ll need to be using a Mac since they only released a demo for Mac OS X. Check Adobe’s website (or macromedia’s if you will) for the beta and give it a try.

There even are some first looks and reviews popping up here and there, one of them can be found at http://www.luminous-landscape.com and another one at http://dgrin.smugmug.com/gallery/1109600/

Photoshop TV has a nice review on Lightroom in issue 12 of their videocast, just skip past Scott Kelby’s and Dave Cross’ boring jokes and take a look at how Lightroom works. It really looks damn nice!