Adobe Carousel

Adobe announced a new product today at Photoshop World - Adobe Carousel.

So, what is it?

Adobe describe it as seamless access to your image collection whether you’re on a desktop, tablet or mobile phone. It shares both your images and any adjustments you have made. The best bit is the adjustments are non-destructive, just like when you are working in ACR or Lightroom.

Key features:

• Simple library browser
• Drag an drop photos to add to Adobe Carousel
• Single click, non-destructuve editing with slider based refinement (similar to ACR and Lightroom)
• Application looks the same on desktop and iPad
• Add photos direct from your iPhone
• Share a Carousel with other people and all can see, edit and add photos

Key information:

• Supported platforms/devices: iPhone 3GS and 4, iPad 1 and 2, iPod Touch 4G and Mac OS X 10.7 (Windows support scheduled for early 2012)
• Import as many photos as you want
• Install Adobe Carousel on as many devices as you like
• 30 day free trial available
• Introductory price of $5.99/month or $59.99/year (offer ends 31 Jan 2012)

I'll add more information as it becomes available.

Updates:

Adobe product page is now available: http://www.adobe.com/products/carousel.html

Photoshop.com blog post on Adobe Carousel

Follow @AdobeCarousel on twitter

Adobe Carousel on Facebook

Macworld article: http://www.macworld.com/article/162157/2011/09/carousel.html

Comments

[John Stuart-Clarke]

Interesting... I like the concept though I am not sure how I would adopt it into my workflow yet. But the thought of being able to get to my images wherever I am is very appealing. As for no Windows support until early 2012... that's insane.

[Mark J M Wilson]

I think this initial release is aimed more at the consumer than enthusiast/professional photographer.

I can see we may have a single account at home and share a carousel for 'family snapshot' photos - for example we are pretty obsessive about photographing progress on the garden and house. Being able to create a photo on a phone and upload direct to a shared area, with edit capabilities, is very interesting.

Also Mrs W currently uses Lightroom for photos of her jewellery and individual beads for reference etc. This is probably overkill and the simplified interface may well be a better solution, especially with the portfolio possibilities on mobile devices.

I imagine that Adobe have a good handle on their market and combining that with the development platform/language differences between Apple, Windows and Android, I think focusing on the single language platform is a smart move.