Lightroom 3 er kommet i Beta!

Så har Adobe frigivet Lightroom 3 i beta version som kan hentes på adobe labs.

Jeg har downloadet og installeret Mac versionen, og er i skrivende stund i færd med at importere billeder så jeg kan teste det ordentligt.

Adobe skriver selv følgende på Labs:

For the development of this latest release, we’ve focused on what we believe are the fundamental priorities of our customers: performance and image quality. Lightroom has been rebuilt from its core to provide a performance architecture that meets the needs of photographers today and into the future. The raw processing engine has also received an overhaul in order to ensure that you’re maximizing the potential in your images in terms of sharpening and noise reduction. And, a number of other new areas have also had new features added and enhanced. Like any beta, Lightroom 3 beta is unfinished, which means some of the features we have planned are not in this release, and some of the features in the beta are not yet complete.

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)*

Jeg håber at have et blog-indlæg klar om et par dage der fortæller mere om de nye funktionaliteter. Noget af det første der springer mig i øjnene er muligheden for at forbinde og uploade direkte til Flickr uden tredjeparts plug-in, og importen virker smartere og hurtigere.