Adobe Releases Lightroom 3 Public Beta
I just heard about this, but Adobe has made available for public beta the next version of Photoshop Lightroom. I haven’t had the opportunity to install it yet, but the some of the new features look promising.
The top features, at least according to Scott Kelby are
- Redesigned Importing
- Drag and Drop publish to the web
- Pro-level noise reduction
- Built in film grain feature
- Better vignetting
- Improved sideshow export options.
- Watermarking
- Far more flexible print layouts
- change the background color of printed pages
- Collections panel in the develop module
I’ll be posting a more substancial report of the new features and changes when I get it installed and can put it though it’s paces.
Of course, if you download and install it now, it’s important to remember this is still a beta release, it may not be completely stable and certainly wont be as fast as the final product will be.
Finally here are a couple of links to help get things rolling.
- Points in Focus.com’s Testing of Lightroom 3 Beta
- Adobe Labs Lightroom 3 Beta Page
- NAPP Lightroom 3 Learning Center
