February 16, 2007
Mark Hamburg Interview: Part 2
The second part of the Since1968.com interview is now online. In this part Mark covers the reason Lightroom started out on the Mac and covers why 40% of the program is written in Lua. “I’m primarily a Mac user, and as it happens a lot of people on the initial team were primarily Mac people. We’ve now got some hardcore Windows users on the team for balance. We started out doing what was much more a research project, though, and it seemed sensible to only focus on doing one platform first.”
Although this part of the interview is more about the development environment of Lightroom, there are still some gems for the average Lightroom user. “One of the really surprising features for me in Lightroom came out of the Print module. It starts with doing the basic grid work, but combining extreme grids with the “zoom to fill” options start to push you toward discovering new way of looking at your images and new layouts that wouldn’t have been expected on our part.”