Adobe hopes to squish Apple’s photo software, Aperture, with a light boom next week on the floor of Moscone Center when it shows off an early version of the San Jose-based company’s offering. Not known for taking things lightly in the professional market of video and graphics, Adobe will come out swinging with LightBoom next week at Macworld attempting to woo photographers to commit to Adobe’s offering before plunking money down for Apple’s piece of photo software.

So, interesting, no? I mean Apple went to Adobe back in 1983 asking Adobe to make the Macintosh compelling with its software. Adobe was glad to help and was known for nearly two decades as a Mac-first software company. Now Adobe goes to porting all its software from Windows code to Apple and Apple steps in with its software offering in the Adobe space. Adobe fights back. I like that. :)

It sounds like Adobe will be bringing in a ground-up application to San Francisco and not something it out right bought (like it did for its audio editor…can anyone say CoolEdit2000?) I’m sure we’ll see Photoshop technology in this but I’m interested to see if Adobe takes on a different approach as Apple did for Aperture.

CORRECTION: Adobe’s program is named LightRoom, not LightBoom. Excuse the error as my cold laddened head didn’t catch the typo. Thanks to reader Igor for pointing that out.

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