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If you’ve been on the fence about buying Lightroom for quickly editing and touching-up photos, wonder no more as you can go download and try out the new Adobe Lightroom 4 beta for free.  In addition to the usual enhancements and bugfixes, the new version offers DSLR video support for the first time.

One very interesting change to Lightroom 4 is much better support for video. DSLR video is now supported right in the application. You can playback video, trim the in-and-out points, easily export a still frame and—this is the biggie—do some actual color correction on video using some of Lightroom’s tools. It doesn’t look like it’s a full-blown color grading application (Adobe has Speedgrade for that now!) but it looks like a quick way to make a color correction and export that to a new video file or send it to a supported service like Facebook or Flickr.

Just head on over to the Adobe Lightroom site to download it and try it out.  Post your findings in the comments below!

via Studio Daily Blog » Lightroom 4 Beta Is Alive and Ready for You to Download.

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Adobe has just released the latest version of Photoshop Lightroom, with improved performance and several new features.

Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom® 3 software helps you bring out the best in your photographs, whether you’re perfecting one image, searching for ten, processing hundreds, or organizing thousands.

Create incredible images that move your audience. Experiment fearlessly with state-of-the-art nondestructive editing tools. Easily manage all your images. And showcase your work in elegant print layouts, slide shows, and web galleries, as well as on popular photo-sharing sites. All from within one fast, intuitive application.

Just a short list of new features:

• Support for DSLR video files
• Lens Correction
• Image Watermarking
• Perspective Correction
• Film Grain simulation
• Tethered shooting

And much more.. All available starting at $299 ($99 for existing users).

via photo management software | Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3.

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Fans of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom will definately want to head on over to the Adobe Labs for a look at the upcoming Lightroom3, and to download the Lightroom3 beta to take for a test drive.

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.

The beta is a fully functional standalone English-only version that will operate until April 30th, 2010.

via Adobe Labs – Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3.

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