Go Lightroom

For those, who want to test Adobe Lightroom 3, there is a (free) download at a Adobe Labs site.

Some of the new features included for you to play with in the Lightroom 3 beta are:

• Brand new performance architecture, building for the future of growing image libraries
• State-of-the-art noise reduction to help you perfect your high ISO shots
• Watermarking tool that helps you customize and protect your images with ease
• Portable sharable slideshows with audio—designed to give you more flexibility and impact on how you choose to share your images, you can now save and export your slideshows as videos and include audio
• Flexible customizable print package creation so your print package layouts are all your own
• Film grain simulation tool for enhancing your images to look as gritty as you want
• New import handling designed to make importing streamlined and easy
• More flexible online publishing options so you can post your images online to certain online photo sharing sites directly from inside Lightroom 3 beta (may require third-party plug-ins)

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Adobe has released a new beta version of its Photoshop Lightroom 3 workflow and image editing software. You can immediately download it from Adobe Labs. This new version includes features such as ‘intuitive’ importing, improved noise reduction, enhanced slideshows and direct online publishing options (such as Flickr).

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Lightroom 2.5 ais now available as final releases on Adobe.com and through the update mechanisms available in Lightroom 2.

This update includes camera support for the following models:

• Nikon D300s
• Nikon D3000
• Olympus E-P1
• Panasonic DMC-FZ35**
• Panasonic DMC-GF1

**Note that in Europe and Japan this model is marketed as the DMC-FZ38.

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Nik Software’s five award-winning digital photographic tools for Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom® now available in a bundle

Nik Software announced that its popular Complete Collection, which bundles all of the company’s award-winning digital imaging software tools, is now also available as a Lightroom Edition at a special price of € 299.95 (incl. VAT).

The Complete Collection for Photoshop has been updated to include Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 support as well and also includes installers for Adobe Photoshop and Apple Aperture. Current registered owners of the Photoshop versions of Nik Software products can download and install the Lightroom compatible versions free of charge at http://www.niksoftware.com/lightroom/ .

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