As part of my ongoing investigations regarding professional image editing software, and as a PD commitment, I've been working with Lightroom over the holidays, and let me say as a photographic editing tool it is very good. A no nonsense digital darkroom, I'm still not convinced however that the Asset management side of things is going to work as well as it could? Because I've been using Expression Media for so long now, we'll see, for the time being I guess I'll have to use both, systems to compare, thank god hard disks are so cheap these days.
These first four of five screens, will be a great class starter this year.
Everything a digital photographer could need is here, with no extra bells and whistles to slow down the learning process or the workflow.
Expression Media, is designed to organise and catalogue images, something it does well, it has minimal processing tools. It recognises many image formats, including raw. I've yet to get my head around how Lightroom does this.
I've gone from using Picasa 3 to Lightroom 2 for my post processing on a Mac and a PC. It's a good piece of software --functional and effective. I don't know anything about Expression Media