[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ar7Q2LY4rU] Adobe in early September announced a new online photo management service with accompanying apps and today the company released native iOS and Mac clients for the service named Carousel. The apps let you manage and sync photos across your iOS devices and Mac computers via the cloud and requires a paid account with Adobe’s online storage, a $99 a year value (or $9.99 a month). The storage subscription is available at launch for a discounted price of $59.99, or $5.99 a month.
The Lightroom for iPad, as we dubbed it, Carousel lets you perform non-destructive image editing which preserves your original photo, including fixing exposure, white balance and saturation and adjusting contrast, brightness and vibrance, among other features. You can also assign other people privileges to browse your library, favorite photos and more. Windows and Android versions are also in the works, allowing for the full cross-platform solution for photo management. The Carousel page at Adobe’s site lists the following features:
Adobe Carousel is a free download from both the App Store and the Mac App Store. Another cool promo clip after the break…
Apple’s iCloud features a service called Photo Stream that stores up to a thousand photos and keeps them for 30 days in the cloud. By turning on the Photo Stream option on your iOS devices, the iCloud Control Panel applet in Windows and iPhoto on your Mac, Photo Stream automatically syncs every photo taken on any of these devices. Apple’s service has its drawbacks, such as the inability to control which photos go into your Photo Stream on a per-photo basis. Apple has also made it clunky to delete individual images from your Photo Stream. You can only wipe out the entire Photo Stream, which requires logging in to your iCloud account on the web at iCloud.com.
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