Adobe working on tabletversion of Lightroomwith RAW support

It looks like Adobe is planning to
launch a high-end photo editing utility
for tablets, on the lines of its
Lightroom software for desktop PCs.
Adobe's Tom Hogarty, who leads the
Lightroom team, demonstrated an
early build of an app that allows users
to edit RAW photos on an iPad 2 in
the latest episode of photography
focused web video series, The Grid.
Going by the demo, the tablet app
offers the ability to edit RAW photos
and tinker with elements like
exposure, shadows, highlights,
sharpness and white balance of the
photos, as noted by CNET. It will also
allow users to zoom 100 percent to
get access to photo focus and other
details.
But one of the major features is Cloud
synced editing which essentially means
that changes made on tablets reflect
on the PC. The app uses 'Smart
Previews', a feature that was
introduced in Lightroom 5 beta, which
allows users to make changes to
lightweight photo previews while the
original RAW files are processed in the
cloud and synced to the user's PC,
eliminating the need to store large
image files on the tablet.
Hogarty did not talk about a release
time frame for the app and whether
the app would be made available for
Android tablets as well. He also did not
shed any light on whether it would be
part of Adobe's Creative Cloud suite.
Adobe already offers Photoshop Touch
for iPad, iPhone and Android, though it
doesn't let users edit RAW photos.
Although there are some RAW editors
available for iOS, they're different
from Lightroom's processing model.
With Adobe launching a Lightroom-like
software utility for tablets, one can
expect increased tablet adoption
among the photographer community.