Go Lightroom

Julieanne Kost focuses on 25 new minor refinements in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 that could have a major impact on improving your workflow.
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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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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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Lightroom 2.4 is now available as final release on Adobe.com and through the update mechanisms available in Lightroom 2.  This update includes camera support for the following models:

• Canon           EOS 500D (Digital Rebel T1i/EOS Kiss X3 Digital)
• Canon          PowerShot SX1 IS
• Epson           R-D1x
• Hasselblad    CF-22, CF-22MS, CF-39, CF-39MS, CFH-22, CFH-39
• Hasselblad    CFV
• Hasselblad    503CWD
• Hasselblad    H2D-22, H2D-39, H3D-22, H3D-31, H3D-39, H3DII-22, H3DII-31, H3DII-39, H3DII-39MS, H3DII-50
• Kodak          EasyShare Z980
• Nikon            D5000
• Olympus       E-450, E-620
• Panasonic     Lumix DMC-GH1
• Pentax          K-7
• Sigma           DP2
• Sony            A230, A330, A380

Note: Hasselblad support is for the 3FR file format only.  The Hasselblad FFF file format is not currently supported.

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