Podcast #8: Tim Mark Hamburg, Bruce Fraser Zalman Stern, and Thomas Knoll

This podcast was recorded Thursday, June 22nd 2006, at the home of Thomas and Ruth Knoll in Ann Arbor Michigan. In this discussion, we talk about color space choices made in Adobe Lightroom and Adobe Camera Raw, tone curves, and colorimetric vs. perceptual mappings, before wandering off into a somewhat cynical look at more esoteric subjects such as software development at Adobe Systems, the role of image management in Lightroom, and other inconclusive ramblings. I probably would have edited much of this second half, but for the sake of honesty, I've included most of it. It serves to highlight how complicated many of the decisions are that have to be made when designing a new piece of software in a rapidly changing space, and I so think it actually adds quite a bit of value for listeners who wonder why we make the decisions we do. The views and opinions of the participants in this podcast are their own, and do not reflect or represent those of Adobe Systems.