Lightroom 3 released today

Adobe have announced the release of Lightroom 3.  You can download a 30 day trial from Adobe or purchase from Adobe: £232.65 for the full version, £74.66 for the upgrade.

The main update since the second beta is the inclusion of lens correction, as per Photoshop CS5 – both through profiles and manual adjustment.  This is a great inclusion and, like the improved noise reduction, should negate the need for using the PTLens plug-in on the majority of my images.

The other main change is the ability to upgrade existing Lightroom 1.x, 2.x and 3 Beta catalogs…so no lengthy import processes required!

Other changes include: additional print templates, improved web templates, migrate Photoshop Elements libraries to Lightroom 3, additional presets and increased print resolution (720ppi for print, 1200ppi for print to jpeg).

If things go according to plan, I will be posting more this week, including a list of my favourite resources etc.

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Comments

[Johnasc]

Mark, I've been following your commentary on the beta version so I will now be buying the upgrade and looking forward to the improved image quality and the "this image is in a collection" icon ;)

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