It’s all over the internet this morning : Adobe has just made Lightroom 3 Beta available as a free download, so that anybody can give it a go and discover a whole bunch of new features such as improved noise reduction and sharpening filter, direct image upload to a flickr gallery (more options available for flickr pro users) and slideshow editing and exporting tools which include sound integration and direct export to the most popular video sharing websites. I wouldn’t be surprise if Adobe tries in the near future to follow the recent integration of HD video in next gen DSLRs, and integrates in turn a video option that will let users manage their video footage the same way they do with their still images. If not entirely as part of Lightroom, it also might be a bridge extension between the latter and Adobe’s video software products (After FX and Premiere). But I’m just guessing here.

For more information, you can read full-length articles on John Nack’s blog, Photography Bay and Light Mods among many others.

You can also download Lightroom 3 Beta for free following this link.

3 Comments

  1. mik mik de mortimer street
    4:30 am on October 22nd, 2009

    moi va downloader ca ce soir je crois ;]

  2. Yes faut en profiter, tant que c’est gratuit :D

  3. yes trop cool, merci papi banban ^^