Adobe Lightroom 3 Released

Adobe has included a slew of improvements in its latest version Lightroom 3, released this week.

Creative-types can now take advantage of enhanced noise reduction, lens correction, image sharpening features as well as editing DSLR video files.

The overall speed of Lightroom 3 is noticeably faster as well, to cope with ever-increasing photo and video file sizes.

The previously mentioned DSLR support means that you can now edit Raw files, allowing you to make more significant adjustments to pictures without losing any picture quality.

There is a wider range of colour embedded in picture details as well, resulting in higher quality inkjet photo prints.

You now have the option to remove photo distortion as well, by straightening converged lines, which happens when the camera is pointed upwards.

Lightroom 3 now supports custom soundtracks on slideshows, and will export the finished product as a video file, up to 1080p. Photographers can also now design and include custom watermarks to images.

Adobe has teamed up with Flickr as well, providing a built-in Flicker upload function.

“There have been over 600,000 downloads of the Lightroom 3 public beta, which has supplied us with a huge amount of valuable feedback from a passionate community of professional and advanced amateur photographers,” said Kevin Connor, vice president of product management for Digital Imaging at Adobe.

Existing Lightroom users can purchase an upgrade for £75, while the full version will set you back £232.68 to purchase outright.

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