The digital imaging blogs are all abuzz with the news that Adobe has released the beta of Lightroom 3.0. It is anticipated that there will be several more versions over a matter of months before the final version is released for sale. The beta can be downloaded for free in the meantime. Of course the beta becomes unusable once the official release occurs. I have tried mightily to switch from Photoshop to Lightroom but have been unsuccessful-- mainly because of problems transporting my files into LR. I have an organizational system that I devised and it doesn't lend itself to the LR format. I am probably going to download this version of LR to see if I can make it work for me because I believe that PhotoShop, as we know it, is going to eventually become an anachronism and evolve into something quite different-- perhaps returning to its roots as a tool for graphic designers-- and that Lightroom will become the principle imaging software for photographers. Adobe Camera Raw is really the Lightroom develop module simply tacked onto Photoshop. It may be foolish to continue to resist the rising tide that is taking place at Adobe.
Michael Reichman's site The Luminous Landscape (http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/software/lr-3-beta.shtml) has a good summary of the main features which are new to LR in this version and PhotoshopNews ( http://photoshopnews.com/2006/06/12/adobe-lightroom-beta-3-released/)includes a series of excellent screen-grabs to illustrate these new features as well as very thorough discussion of the new aspects by Jeff Schewe an active participant in the development process.
Byron
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