Lightroom 3

[giga Veteran]

What is Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom® 3?

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 software is an intuitive digital darkroom and efficient assistant designed for advanced amateur and professional photographers. Lightroom lets you manage, edit, and showcase all your photographs — quickly, powerfully, smoothly.

Who uses Lightroom 3?

Lightroom 3 is a product for advanced amateur and professional photographers. These include fashion and portrait photographers; photojournalists; and wedding, landscape, and commercial photographers as well as amateur photographers who aspire to achieve the same results as the pros and who demand the same level of quality from their tools. Lightroom is also used by educators and students, as the next generation of professional photographers hone their skills in the classroom.

What's new in Lightroom 3?

Lightroom 3 offers a host of enhancements to help manage, edit, and showcase your photos more easily than ever before. Accelerated performance makes key tasks quicker, and the newly designed import interface is exceptionally intuitive and transparent. New support for video files from most digital SLR cameras lets you easily manage and organize video clips alongside still photos. New nondestructive editing tools, including world-class noise reduction, let you create even more amazing images. Share your slide shows more easily than ever by exporting them as videos in high definition, with music. Streamlined publishing to online photo-sharing sites and more customizable print layouts give you more options for showcasing your work with style and maximum impact.

What file formats does Lightroom 3 support?

Lightroom 3 supports more than 290 native camera raw file formats, in addition to DNG, TIFF, and JPEG files — in other words, the formats primarily used in digital cameras. In addition, Lightroom 3 also supports the Photoshop PSD file format for enhanced integration with Photoshop CS5. For a complete list of manufacturers and models supported in Camera Raw, see the camera rawpage.

Is Lightroom 3 a photo-editing tool or a workflow productivity tool?

Lightroom is both an image-editing tool and a workflow productivity tool. It provides what photographers need to manage, edit, and showcase all their images in one clean, uncluttered, intuitive package.

How does Lightroom 3 differ from Adobe Photoshop CS5?

Lightroom includes the core essentials for digital photography in one intuitive solution. Lightroom helps photographers work faster and more efficiently with one image, an entire shoot, or a large image library. Adobe Photoshop software is the industry standard in digital image editing, with advanced tools used by photographers, graphic designers, and other graphics professionals when they need complete control to perform detailed, pixel-level editing and to merge multiple photos into a panorama, a high dynamic range photo, or a multilayered file.

Product page: http://www.adobe.com...oshoplightroom/

What's new: http://www.adobe.com...troom/features/

[:: Lyon ::]

Wowww nice! I've been using the Beta versions and loving it

The Superior noise reduction feature is another too good to be true feature O_o can't wait to test it out

[Argote]

So it has been finally released then?

[lawtai]

It's looking pretty nice.

[Argote]

Downloaded the trial, so far it seems pretty good. The enhanced noise reduction really is much better.

[mealies]

Bought the Upgrade version last night. Very nice.

One thing to note is that there is a new lightroom process, the switch is in the develop section down in camera calibration . For existing photos in the catalog you can switch between the profile (2008 = lightroom 2.x 2010 = lightroom 3) This allows you to redo the existing photos with the new RAW processing in Lightroom 3

Andrew

[Andre]

Noise reduction is very on par with that of Noise Ninja. You might not get as many options to play with, but LR3 does it good enough without that. Lens correction is also pretty good, but sadly enough doesn't include as many profiles as for example PTLens.

[Pam14160]

Using the combination of Lightroom and Photoshop is a photographer's dream. And the nice thing is if you have both you can use Lightroom to organize your library and do some editing or right click and choose to edit the photo in Photoshop if you have both installed. I have yet to fine a combination that can beat the two when used together. :yes:

[Argote]

Using the combination of Lightroom and Photoshop is a photographer's dream.??And the nice thing is if you have both you can use Lightroom to organize your library and do some editing or right click and choose to edit the photo in Photoshop if you have both installed.??I have yet to fine a combination that can beat the two when used together.?? :yes:

You could do the "edit in Photoshop" thing since LR2. It's still a very nice combo, using content aware fill to fix ?up small things is bliss.

[Pam14160]

Argote, yes I know been using it since it hit the market, albeit thanks for the reminder. :laugh:

[qdave]

I wonder if it is possible to keep photos as files, instead of having a bunch of them in lrcat file?

[Prince Charming]

Using the combination of Lightroom and Photoshop is a photographer's dream. And the nice thing is if you have both you can use Lightroom to organize your library and do some editing or right click and choose to edit the photo in Photoshop if you have both installed. I have yet to fine a combination that can beat the two when used together.

Adobe's Bridge software for library/catalogue and a decent folder structure works great combined with Photoshop. Indeed, because Bridge doesn't index and build libraries, it's suitable when working with extremely large libraries or networked libraries which cause Lightroom to seriously slow down. And you have the ACR edit module of Photoshop which is basically Lightroom's 'Develop' area.