Lightroom 1.0 released

Lightroom is Adobe's photo management software, which has been available as a public beta for a while now.

Today, Adobe announced that the complete version 1.0 is available, for an introductionary price of �146.88 for the boxed version, or �151.25 to download the 64MB file. (For US users, it's $199.00 - equivalent to �100 - for either method.)

If you've been using the beta, you should know that it will expire in a weeks time.

New additions to the beta include:

• Clone and Healing functionality
• Hue, Saturation and Luminance targeted adjustment tools
• Improved import dialogue with more flexible file handling
• Virtual copies and snapshots for maintaining multiple versions of the same image
• Metadata browser for quick access to key information tags