Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 1.0 Pre-Order Announced

Adobe announced today that it's groundbreaking photography workflow application Photoshop Lightroom is officially out of Beta and should begin shipping in mid-February.

Lightroom has been in public beta for around 12 months now so this is great news!

Leveraging Adobe Camera Raw technologies, Lightroom allows photographers to streamline their RAW workflow. It's competition, Apple's Aperture, met with lots of user apprehension and disappointment with it's initial release and it wasn't until version 1.5 that Apple has straightened out many of it's kinks. Hopefully we won't have any of those headaches with Adobe's new product.

Check out the write-up on dpreview.com for more details.

I guess I need to go download the last version of the beta and kick the tires again before I place my pre-order.