Lightroom Product Manager, Tom Hogarty, in a recent post at Lightroom Journal revealed that Lightroom 3 will incorporate lens correction technology. According to Tom, lens correction will be available via manual correction and Lens Profiles. There will be a Lens Profile Creation Utility available at Adobe Labs to let photographers create their own Lens Profiles.
This is exciting news and brings a frequently requested capability to Lightroom! Check out Tom’s article and have a look at the video below for more information.
The two biggest (and welcome) adjustments deal with how the Flickr Publish Service works. Previously, users who only had a free Flickr account had problems if a published image was deleted from the photostream in Lightroom or modified in any way, Lightroom couldn’t deal with the changing the image up on Flickr or removing the images from the Re-Publish or Deleted sections.
Adobe has released new betas for Lightroom 2.7 and Camera Raw 5.7. They are available at Adobe Labs. Click here for Lightroom 2.7. Click here for Camera Raw 5.7. This release supports new cameras: Canon EOS 550D (Digital Rebel T2i/ EOS Kiss X4 Digital), Kodak Z981, Leaf Aptus-II 8, Leaf Aptus-II 10R, Mamiya DM40, Olympus E-PL1, Panasonic G2, Panasonic G10, and Sony A450.
Adobe also had the following release notes for the betas:
Slideshow playback on Windows could cause Lightroom and/or the computer to crash. This has been corrected in Lightroom 2.7
In Lightroom 2.7 the camera raw cache limit was increased to 200GB (for an excellent discussion of what the camera raw cache is, see Seán McCormack’s article at Lightroom Blog!)
Please provide feedback on the Camera Raw plug-in on the User to User forums
Please provide feedback on the Lightroom release candidate here.
Lightroom 3 Beta 2′s recent release brought with it a host of new features. In addition to tethering, its greatly improved noise reduction is at the top of my improved feature list.
Noise reduction is the focus of both hardware and software these days. Cameras like the Nikon D3, the Canon 5d Mark II or 1D Mark IV and others are touting their improved low noise handling.
While the cameras are improving, many still find themselves needing to reduce photo noise. In the past, this was kept to meager sliders in Lightroom, or sending photos to Photoshop in conjunction with other plugins like Noise Ninja.
Lightroom 3 Beta 2 changes all that – I now find that I can perform 95% of my noise reduction directly in Lightroom at or above the quality of previous plugins and tools. Talk about a productivity improvement!!
Since the beginning of Lightroom we’ve wanted a watermarking capability that was more powerful and more flexible than the anemic watermark of Lightroom 1.x or Lightroom 2.x. We had some creative possibilities with the identity plate feature but even that was limited and quirky.
With the release of Lightroom 3 Beta 1 we saw the beginning of a new watermarking feature. A welcome change but still not much better. Now, Lightroom 3 Beta 2 bring the watermark a long way! There is still some way to go but this new feature is great.
It’s here! Adobe released Lightroom 3 Beta 2 earlier and there are some nice goodies to play with in Beta 2. Grab it from Adobe Labs now! And if history teaches us anything, Adobe is saving a few tricks up their sleeves for the final release of Lightroom 3. There’s still no official information regarding the release date for the final version or what the eventual pricing might be. But in the meantime we have new features to try out.
One place to watch and get up to date Lightroom information is over on the Lightroom Journal Blog published by the Lightroom team. Stop by for news.
Adobe today launched the help system for Lightroom 3 Beta! You can access it by pressing F1 while in Lightroom 3 Beta or by pointing your browser at http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Lightroom/3.0/Using/index.html . Commenting will be enabled shortly so get ready! for more details visit the article on Phosphors, the blog from the Photoshop, Lightroom, and Bridge teams!
In Part 1 we examined how to use Publish Services to control target folders on the hard drive using the Hard Drive Publish Connection.
There’s another Publish Service that comes with Lightroom 3 Beta. The Flickr Publish Service allows us to connect Lightroom to a Flickr account (or multiple Flickr accounts) and manage our photostream from within Lightroom. However, there are some pitfalls to watch out for. Remember, this is beta software, so as you come across issues or areas that can be improved please join the conversation over at the Adobe Forums and tell the Lightroom team about it. You can help make this a great release!
Prior to the release of Lightroom 3 Beta we had the ability to upload our images to various online sites via the Export dialog. Jeffrey Friedl provided several excellent plugins for the Export dialog making it easy to export to these online services. He is hard at work turning those into Publish Services. By the time the final release of Lightroom 3 is ready I’m sure we will have a lot to choose from! For now, let’s take a deeper look into how this new features works!
You can find Publish Services in the left side panel of the Library module. When you first start install Lightroom there are two basic services provided: Hard Drive and Flickr. Hard Drive allows you to create folders to receive images via Publish Services. This can be very useful for adding to a folder that is synched to your iPod/iPhone. Perhaps your screensaver is based on a folder of images. Make this a target and you can easily add and manage that. Or perhaps you are compiling images for a client to view and you first want to collect them in a folder from which you can FTP up to your client viewing portal. Interested? Let’s take a look.
Since Publish Services debuted in Lightroom 3 Beta 1, Adobe has adjusted some of the issues identified in the first beta. For a full description of what Publish services can do I refer you to my two previous articles 
It’s here! Adobe released Lightroom 3 Beta 2 earlier and there are some nice goodies to play with in Beta 2. Grab it from 
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Prior to the release of Lightroom 3 Beta we had the ability to upload our images to various online sites via the Export dialog. 
