Is Lightroom Beta an image editing tool or a workflow productivity tool?
The concept behind Lightroom is to provide a single environment that has all of the functions photographers most commonly need to perform on their images. But we’re not interested in trying to pack more knobs and switches into Lightroom than Aperture, or than in Photoshop for that matter. The goal of Lightroom is to have the RIGHT knobs and switches, in the cleanest, least cluttered, easiest to use package. It’s not about having every tool in the hardware store. It’s about having a focused set of features that are just right for photography, are intuitive, powerful, and easy to learn. So yes, it’s an image editing tool, and it’s a workflow productivity tool.
