Adobe Systems is having a big week, shipping Creative Suite 6 on Monday and Creative Cloud expected on Friday, but in-between they’ve quietly slipped Photoshop Lightroom 4 into the Mac App Store, marking their fourth title to land on Apple’s virtual store shelves.
Adobe has released Photoshop Lightroom 4 to the Mac App Store, which now joins Photoshop Elements 10 Editor, Premiere 10 Elements Editor and Adobe Revel (formerly Carousel) on Apple’s Mac storefront. Lightroom 4 is priced at $149.99, which matches Adobe’s own retail pricing, but it’s not much of a deal considering the software can be purchased at a discounted $99 for customers also buying a Creative Suite 6 bundle, which Adobe shipped on Monday.
“Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom® 4 software helps you create amazing images that inspire, inform, and delight,” the app description reads. “Perfect your shots with powerfully simple one-click adjustments and a full range of cutting-edge advanced controls. Craft elegant photo books, organize your images, and share them easily on social networks, in web galleries, and more -- all with one fast, intuitive application.”
Unlike the Mac App Store-only “Editor” editions of Photoshop and Premiere Elements 10, Lightroom 4 appears to be feature complete when compared to the boxed copy offered by Adobe. (The company had to remove Elements Organizer from its consumer-based photo and video editing apps, but the software was otherwise intact.)
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 is now available on the Mac App Store for $149.99 as a 388MB download; the software requires Mac OS X 10.6.8 or later and a 64-bit processor.
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