So what, you ask. The biggest news, though is that the app will do RAW processing.

A camera raw image file contains minimally processed data from the image sensor of either a digital camera, image scanner, or motion picture film scanner.

“Tom Hogarty, Adobe's group product manager for Lightroom, appeared on Wednesday's episode of The Grid, a weekly online chat show, and showed off RAW processing on an iPad.” - http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2418470,00.asp

Well, to me this is big news, but it is only in its infancy. The heavy duty processing is still beyond the power of the chips in a pad, but perhaps not for long and Adobe’s code wizards are probably hard at work on “work arounds”. Photographers here know RAW processing (most cameras produce jpeg images which have lost a good deal of the info in them) will produce the best images. Jpegs also is a “lossy” file format (each time it’s opened, info is lost).

The important and exciting thing is that Adobe is looking at the future. Portability is a big plus for photographers, and time lost waiting to get back to the computer, is lost opportunities for more photography and face it, time is money. Also, it will in the future decrease the kluge factor radically:

“Ideally, however, the solution being developed by Adobe will allow for on-the-go edits, including 100 percent zoom, which will be synchronized via the cloud on the PC. Right now, photo editors can "kluge things together with Dropbox and other things that will move data around, but it's not going to be as efficient," he said. As host Scott Kelby noted, Dropbox also does not support RAW images and converts them to JPEG.

"I just want to be able to sit there with my mobile device and enjoy my time with photography, wherever I am, with whatever device I have and not be tethered to a laptop anymore," – ibid

Wouldn’t that be sweet?

Source:

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2418470,00.asp