Lightroom 3 Beta – quick look at the rest

Having already looked at the changes to the Library and Develop modules, here is a quick look at whats new in the Slideshow, Print and Web modules in Adobe Lightroom 3 Beta (Lr3B).

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Slideshow

First up – the Slideshow module.  The big news here is the ability to export the slideshow with music into a Quicktime movie file (MP4).  It uses the popular high quality H.264 format so it should be easy to share the final file through video websites and on devices like the iPhone.  Maybe I will use this module more often now I can create movie files from it.

Other enhancements include the ability to sync the slideshow length to the music and removing the ‘thou shalt use iTunes to find music’ restriction for Mac users.

Printing

The Print module has been improved greatly by allowing you to use a completely custom layout for your photos on the page.  The new layout is called ‘Custom Package’ and seems to work really well.

Ink manufacturers will be rubbing their hands in glee at the prospect of one of the small changes – you can now specify the background colour of your prints…

Watermarking

There doesn’t appear to be any significant changes to the Web module specifically, although it includes access to the long-overdue watermarking functionality.  You can create and manage watermarks by opening the Edit Watermarks dialog (also available in the Edit menu in Print and Web modules).

The watermarks are available in the Print and Web modules and as a new option in the Export dialog.

That is all for now on Lr3B.  I will cover some of the specific changes in more detail over the coming days.

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