Mar 23, 2010

Lightroom 3 beta 2


Lightroom 3 beta 2, Release, ©Joe  Bridwell

… hit the deck this morning – 5 months after the original beta. It’s time stamped to expire June 30 about 2 months from now.
Tom Hogarty shows intro lists for videos and blogs about LR3b2. I recommend Julieanne Kost, Sean Duggan, and Victoria Bampton for your consideration. As I learn best by reading – Victoria will give some respite for new concepts.

My Workflow
I am going to benefit from enhanced speed, import features, and better image processing. I tend to shoot HDR and have been going through older photos shot with a noisy Nikon body; noise reduction improvements are clearly shown about 4 minutes into Julieanne’s Adobe video show next.

John Beardsworth sez Noise Ware noise reduction seems to have a limited number of days, once photogs really get into this new beta.

As for me, I will be watching exciting tidbits as new information dribbles out from this release. You might want to take a closer look at Victoria’s book; she writes clearly and has lots of advanced insight.

Simply down load, make a desktop folder, open the file w Winzip, drag setupxx.exe to the new folder (depending on your CPU where xx denotes bits), click on it, and you’ve installed LR3b2. While it will re-write LR3 catalogs, it is yet to touch LR2 catalogs. Of course, if you use a Mac, procedure is the same, only the words change.

Enjoy…

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