Tag: LIGHTROOM

It's always a pleasure when Adobe posts something to their Labs page for users to try, but it's even better when it's a release-candidate for one of their best pieces of software. Today it's version 3.4 RC of Lightroom, which is code for a completely free copy of the latest Adobe Lightroom. The RC, which is available at Adobe Labs right now, is mainly a giant bug-fix for the still-young ...

If you use your digital camera for anything other than family or touristy snaps, you've probably run into the raw image format. If you haven't heard of raw, think of it as a bigger, high-quality JPEG file. Unlike JPEG, raw files contain a lot more data, enabling you to manipulate your photos a lot more easily. With JPEGs a lot of data is lost -- if you shoot raw photos, you have more choice over ...

Aperture is Apple's answer to Adobe's Lightroom -- and with Aperture 3 being released today, Lightroom 3 (still in beta!) definitely has some serious competition on its hands. With the tag line 'Taking photos. Further.' -- complete with punchy period and Web 2.0 reflection! -- this new release definitely pushes the envelope on sub-$200 'prosumer' software. If you got a new digital camera this ...

SimpleViewer, a customizable image gallery package for displaying photos on your site, just hit version 2.0 and added some slick new features. SimpleViewer can now grab photos directly from Flickr, and it also has the ability to automatically create galleries from Lightroom and Photoshop. The latest free version offers three gallery styles, it's also customizable via XML. Other new features ...

Until April 30th 2010 -- six whole months! -- Adobe Lightroom 3 is available for public beta testing. In the last week there's been a lot of news regarding Lightroom 3's advanced feature, and now here's your chance to actually give it a whirl! Lightroom is great for every kind of photographer -- casual, avid snapper or professional. It's not a full-featured editing suite like Photoshop, but it ...

It was online, then it was offline, now its back up. Will Adobe Photoshop Lightroom ever see the light of day? Ok, it will, with a ton of cool new features. Adobe's Photoshop Lightroom 1.1 was made available online, then quickly removed on Monday, not to be seen again until today. The new version of Adobe's professional photography toolbox, provides a way to easy manage, adjust and present large ...

After approximately a year of beta testing, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 1.0 is ready for prime time. Photoshop Lightroom is a software application that helps improve the digital photo workflow by providing a central point to organize and adjust digital images. It is a compliment to Photoshop, not a replacement. If you didn't get a chance to check out the beta, you can download a 30-day trial of ...

This morning, Adobe announce the latest beta of their Adobe Lightroom RAW workflow software. Top on the list of improvements is feature parity between OS X and Windows versions. Windows users are no doubt saying "it's about time." Other enhancements include improved curves algorithms and controls, a "more streamlined and elegant" GUI, customizable UI, precision white balance, ability to easily ...

Adobe has released the Windows version of Lightroom Beta 3, its new program aimed at professional photographers, the same market targeted by Apple's Aperture. The beta for Mac OS X has been available for awhile, and both versions can be downloaded for free from Adobe's web site (though its servers seem a bit overwhelmed just now). The Lightroom web site has some videos that show just what can be ...