LightRoom 3 BETA
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LightRoom 3 BETA
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/lightroom3/
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 audio—designed 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)*
* 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 audio—designed 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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Hah! I doubt it, I have asked for it several times on the lightroom forums and they stare at me like I just asked them for a 'add goat' plugin.
I want fisheye/lens distortion correction more than anything else, hope it's in there. Someone posted that dual monitor (Loupe) was screwed up in the beta - hope that's not true.
- Frank
I want fisheye/lens distortion correction more than anything else, hope it's in there. Someone posted that dual monitor (Loupe) was screwed up in the beta - hope that's not true.
- Frank
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I've hit a few glitches in LR3, but overall it's not bad.
Rendering 1:1 image is a lot slower than LR2, so I suggest prerendering. LR crawls while it is doing so, even viewing images that it has already rendered, so might want to just let it finish.
I hit a crazy bug where my picture counts got negative and sync hit 'nil' errors. I had to export picture settings, remove the folder, and readd it.
Also don't change a 'filter by flag' option in development - it changes the current picture. swap to loupe first.
- Frank
Rendering 1:1 image is a lot slower than LR2, so I suggest prerendering. LR crawls while it is doing so, even viewing images that it has already rendered, so might want to just let it finish.
I hit a crazy bug where my picture counts got negative and sync hit 'nil' errors. I had to export picture settings, remove the folder, and readd it.
Also don't change a 'filter by flag' option in development - it changes the current picture. swap to loupe first.
- Frank
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Biggest gripe for sure is that it just feels slow.
Even prerendered previews/1:1s take 2-3 seconds or so to rerender (?) on the screen. On LR2 it's instant.
I understand it's not optimized yet, but geez.
- Frank
Even prerendered previews/1:1s take 2-3 seconds or so to rerender (?) on the screen. On LR2 it's instant.
I understand it's not optimized yet, but geez.
- Frank
It is beta
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well that's certainly a step in the wrong direction.. LR2 is laggy and slow enough as it is.. and it was improved in that department, from LR1...
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how about the problem where if you "unlock" in crop mode and set a custom crop, and then go to the next picture and go back into the custom crop and try resizing it, it reverts to the previous used custom crop? did they fix that?
hope I explained that well lol. f'ing ANNOYING
hope I explained that well lol. f'ing ANNOYING
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You can try requesting it on the Lightroom 3 forum, see what they think.
- Frank
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I'm running it now on 64-bit Windows 7 and Server 2008. No issues yet handling raws out of a 5DMKII. They index and preview very quickly! I haven't benched it against Lightroom 2 but Adobe optimized Lightroom just like the other CS5 products to run on 64bit platforms.
Two systems:
i7 920, 6GB RAM, Win Server 2008 64bit
e6600, 8GB RAM, Win 7 64bit
Two systems:
i7 920, 6GB RAM, Win Server 2008 64bit
e6600, 8GB RAM, Win 7 64bit
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