Adobe Released Lightroom Beta 3

Adobe released the third beta version of its professional digital photography workflow application, Lightroom. It expires January 30, 2007, but Adobe hopes that professional photographers will use the beta and provide feedback which will allow Adobe to shape the final version to be the best possible application to support their workflow.

At the bottom of this Adobe Web page is three tabs. The marked "Community" leads to the discussion forum led by Adobe Pro Photography Evangelist George Jardine, the feature request form and bug reporter. The Lightroom Beta 3 is still Mac only and is Adobe's first Universal application for Intel-based Macs.

Lightroom Beta 3 includes the following new features:

• Support for new raw camera file formats
• Before and After views in Develop
  
• History of Develop edits provided
  
• Live preview of HTML/Flash web output in new Web Module
  
• Auto Import or Hot Folder support
  
• Better handling of PSD and TIFF files
  
• Resolution control in Export
  
• Additional straighten tool
  
• Saving module settings with collections and shoots
  
• Keyword import/export

[Bill Fox]