LightRoom 3 Public Beta

Despite my moaning about Adobe in the past (and future) they still produce my main workflow tool: LightRoom

Now after a year and a bit they’ve released the beta version of LR3. As usual with the beta versions you cannot use an existing library. Which is a little frustrating as it means to test I have to duplicate work. Though I guess as the Beta is slated to be a little buggy then I suppose they don’t want togs to destroy their work.

So differences:

Initially the Interface looks the same, not a great deal of difference here then.

Normal navigation screen

A few differences on the left hand side as it now shows a Publish Services option. Handy for a quick upload to Flickr or in my case hopefully my webserver. Though only tested Flickr at the moment. Will save me using iPhoto! Also it seems many API have been written for the LR2, so no doubt these will be converted for LR3. Would be nice to see an Alamy one!

Publish

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