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- Date added: July 19, 2006
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A newer version of Adobe Lightroom is available.
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 27 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
Professional photographers and serious digital camera hobbyists will appreciate this free beta for Adobe's Lightroom. Upon launching the program, your library of images appears at the bottom of the screen for easy selection, with drag-and-drop functionality to bring selected images into the workspace for proofing. Lightroom's main functions are divided into four sections including Library, Develop, Slideshow, and Print, each offering different options for working with your images. Using the Library tab, it's easy to pick and choose the best images of a set, with layout options for viewing similar images side by side and zoom options for image comparison. Image ratings let you differentiate among similar shots so when you're done you know which images to keep. The Develop tab lets you experiment and manipulate several photo attributes and color correction values with easy-to-use sliders. The Slideshow tab lets you assemble a presentation of your best shots, giving you control over positioning, fade transitions, and how quickly Lightroom displays each image. When it's time to Print, Lightroom lets you work with a number of options for positioning, background, and photo information overlays (such as title, exposure, date, and keywords) to make your final product look the way you like.
While lightroom is fairly easy to work with, more effects to apply to images would have been a welcome feature, as would the ability to quickly create and execute layouts for Web pages. The absence of music during slide shows and automatic digital-camera or memory-card detection are also noticible exclusions from the Windows version. We found Lightroom to be a useful tool for those who are serious about their photos. This free prerelease offers both pro and casual users a chance to check out Lightroom's capabilities before Adobe sets the professional price point in January 2007.
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From Adobe Systems :Note: The Lightroom beta 3 requires free Adobe membership. The Download Now link will take you to a page to log in or register.
Project: Lightroom is Adobe's effort to engage the professional photography community in a new way, giving you the opportunity to kick the tires and shape the feature set of a new tool being created just for you. Ultimately, we want Lightroom to be truly built from the ground up by photographers, for photographers, helping solve your unique workflow challenges.
The Lightroom beta 3 build expires January 30, 2007.
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User reviews of Adobe Lightroom beta 3
- Average user rating: 3.2 stars out of 27 votes
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15 out of 19 people found this review helpful
Version: Adobe Lightroom beta 3
Pros: If you have nothing else, this software is good for you. It's free.
Cons: Nothing much it can do, just changing the light, sepia or color filter. Not even red-eye correction. It still needs other photo editing software for editing. You are not missing anything. Some third party application come with your printer might do a better job.
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6 out of 6 people found this review helpful
Version: Adobe Lightroom beta 3
Pros: Easy to use photo editing tool which will turn your photo look profesional. Although still in beta, it look good enough to be publish. No common bug found accept for memory hog.
It can make a slideshow too. Thumb up for this one.
Cons: take a lot of memory (768MB RAM, to big for many users). Current trend is still 512MB thing. Overall it still a marvelous photo editing tool.
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: Adobe Lightroom beta 3
Pros: 1. The interface
2. It's functions
Cons: Lightroom took more than two hours to load my photos.
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3 out of 6 people found this review helpful
Version: Adobe Lightroom beta 3
"A great workflow tool, but other programs can do the same."
Pros: Amazing organization tools, lots of "development" features that allow you to fix or modify your photos, superb interface, makes slideshows, the BEST printing engine bar none
Cons: Uses excessive memory, works slowly even on the fastest computer, will cost upwards of $100 when the beta expires, there are "free forever" programs that will do the exact same thing
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9 out of 9 people found this review helpful
Version: Adobe Lightroom beta 3
"Flawless digital photography editor!!"
Pros: So many features that you could not find in the existing photoshop, such as photo management and library, presets, all digital photography graph, ID, even detailed vignetting that really change the pictures.
Overall, this program gives you flexibility dealing with digital photography. All-in-one solution!! Impressive!
Cons: Even you use high speed computer, still, working and processing time is slow. But once you retrieved the information, it will stay there for quite a while!
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