Lightroom 3 beta released

Adobe released the latest beta version of Lightroom last week.

It is available for free download at Adobe labs here

My initial impressions are that the major changes over 2.5 are "under the hood". In terms of usability, there is a much improved import interface, the ability to export to Flickr etc direct from the library, and much beefed up noise reduvtion (for all thes new high ISO camers!)

I notice that Jeff Friedl is re-writing his excellent export plug ins-this should improve 3's functionality.

I know lots of people use LR on here, it would be great if we could share impressions and ideas on the new release.

Adam

Sepia tone in Lightroom

I took some trout pictures in Capernwray yesterday and whilst downloading them, started playing with the greyscale conversion in Lightroom and using the split toning function. One comment I have had about my Capernwray is that the pictures are too blue, so Ithought adding some greenish tint back into the black and white may work.

I'm not sure what do you think?

Marine Life Keywords for Lighroom or Aperture

One of the key problems that we as digital photographers face is keeping track of the vast numbers of images we produce. I took 10000 images last year, and remembering what I took when is a challenge. This results in missed opportunities for selling images, and frustrations in trying to view them!

I have found a solution for my underwater ones at least-keywording. By purchasing the Marine Life Keywords list, this will giva you a great head start into catalogueing and organising. This list of marine life species allows you to easily group your images into family or species group, allowing the amazing search functions in Adobe Lightroom or Apple Aperture to find your images.

It is now available to purchase ($99)-just click here!

Getting in tight with Lightroom

I was playing with the perch pictures that I put up. I had posted them onto wetpixel (www.wetpixel.com) and thought that I would like to maybe improve the crop on them. This was the result! 
 
The level of detail post crop is amazing! All I did was tweak the white balance a tiny bit.