Adobe Lightroom 3 Beta - Free Download! | NotebookReview

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Hey!

From Adobe:
Adobe Lightroom 3 Beta - free download (is usable til April/2010)

Adobe has a Beta version of Adobe Lightroom 3 on their website for download. It's usable for 6 months (til April 2010).

This Beta version is a fully functional version of 3.0 which will be released next year.

This is great for Photographers!

*You will have to Register as an Adobe Member to get the DL..takes just a minute!

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The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 Beta

Lightroom 3 beta builds on the vision of the very first Lightroom beta. From day 1, Lightroom was designed for photographers and by photographers to help them focus on what they lovethe art and craft of photography. Lightroom provides photographers with an elegant and efficient way to work with their growing digital image collections, bring out the best in their images, and make an impact from raw capture to creative output, all while maintaining the highest possible quality each step of the way.

We're offering a public beta of the next release of Lightroom to give you a chance to preview some of the new features and enhancements in the upcoming version. It's an opportunity for you to evaluate a select portion of the new features planned for Lightroom 3, to help the team discover and address issues if any, and to send feedback that the Lightroom team can use to make Lightroom 3 an even better digital darkroom and more efficient assistant for you.
For the development of this latest release, weve 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 youre 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 audiodesigned 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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Cin', Oct 24, 2009

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Thanks for sharing Cin.

Illegal Operation, Oct 24, 2009

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ViciousXUSMC Master Viking NBR Reviewer

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Hmm great find, but dunno if I want to get hooked on an expensive software to be forced to buy it when the trial ends

Its like feeding an addict some expensive drug for 6 months then telling him to pay up or dont get no more.

ViciousXUSMC, Oct 25, 2009

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Thanks cin', gonna give it a download

mrXniick, Oct 25, 2009

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CalebSchmerge Woof NBR Reviewer

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ViciousXUSMC said: ↑

Hmm great find, but dunno if I want to get hooked on an expensive software to be forced to buy it when the trial ends

Its like feeding an addict some expensive drug for 6 months then telling him to pay up or dont get no more.

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Those of use that are already addicted like this stuff. I skipped buying version 2, and plan to buy 3 pretty much regardless, just time to update. If you deal with photos a lot, this is a great organization/library tool. Don't get it if you want to edit ("photoshop") your photos, thats just flat out not what its for.

CalebSchmerge, Oct 26, 2009

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CalebSchmerge said: ↑

Those of use that are already addicted like this stuff. I skipped buying version 2, and plan to buy 3 pretty much regardless, just time to update. If you deal with photos a lot, this is a great organization/library tool. Don't get it if you want to edit ("photoshop") your photos, thats just flat out not what its for.

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Yeah I know, I have CS4 actually for photoshop, I never was in need of lightroom for the stuff I do.

I like the new avatar Cin' reminds of of .hack artwork style

ViciousXUSMC, Oct 28, 2009

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