{"id":12493,"date":"2007-09-22T16:38:34","date_gmt":"2007-09-22T16:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2007\/09\/on-the-personality-of-lightroom.html"},"modified":"2007-09-22T16:38:34","modified_gmt":"2007-09-22T16:38:34","slug":"on_the_personality_of_lightroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/22\/on_the_personality_of_lightroom\/","title":{"rendered":"On the personality of Lightroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over in the Lightroom Journal, software architect <a href=\"http:\/\/photoshopnews.com\/2006\/06\/16\/lightroom-engineer-mark-hamburg-to-be-at-photoshop-soup2nuts\/\">Mark Hamburg<\/a> shares his thoughts on power vs. complexity &amp; other aspects of <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/lightroomjournal\/2007\/09\/lightrooms_goals_1.html\">the personality of Lightroom<\/a>.&#160; I find his thoughts refreshingly candid:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We wanted Lightroom to seem elegant. To exhibit grace. To show an attention to style beyond the utilitarian aspect that dominated Adobe&#8217;s products up to that time. We wanted a richer UI experience.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve been successful in many ways. At the same time, we are painfully aware that there are places where we could be yet more graceful or elegant.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested in more, see also Mark&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/since1968.com\/article\/187\/mark-hamburg-interview-adobe-photoshop-lightroom-part-1\">interview<\/a> on since1968.com, or listen to the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2007\/02\/lightroom_podca_4.html\">podcast<\/a> in<br \/>\nwhich he &amp; other members of the Lightroom team tackle these issues.   As for the personas of Photoshop, Illustrator, and Flash, see <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2007\/02\/on_the_personal.html\">previous<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over in the Lightroom Journal, software architect Mark Hamburg shares his thoughts on power vs. complexity &amp; other aspects of the personality of Lightroom.&#160; I find his thoughts refreshingly candid: We wanted Lightroom to seem elegant. To exhibit grace. To show an attention to style beyond the utilitarian aspect that dominated Adobe&#8217;s products up to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,40],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12493"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}