A very cool 13 minutes interview of Phil Clevenger, the man behind the Lightroom User Interface (GUI), detailing the development of Adobe Lightroom, code named Shadowland.

It’s not something Adobe started after Apple announced Aperture. The Shadowland project has been going on for years.

The early development of Shadowland was a bit rocky-to say the least.

Adobe just didn’t know how or where to position Shadowland in the ecosphere that is known as Photoshop.

I personally really like Lightroom and the direction it’s headed. I still like Photoshop but Photoshop is an killer application requiring many masters to be used to its fullest.

It’s a huge application, not only from the code base but from the complexity of use.

That’s why I’m really glad that the professional photographic community is finally getting the attention of not one, but two big players in the computer software industry.

Who wouldn’t be thrilled to have Apple and Adobe paying us so much attention!