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Lightroom 3 - Beta 2

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If anyone's interested, Lightroom 3, Beta 2 is available from Adobe right now. Seems to have some nice improvements over Lightroom 2 (noise reduction is much better, more control over sharpening, native watermarks, built in publishers, etc). Most of the changes feel pretty minor (it looks and feels very similar) but are useful nonetheless.
 
That is very cool! I'm looking forward to trying it out - will probably wait 'till it's officially released and buy the full version though. I'm just hoping it has some hdr/tone-mapping functions as well (maybe just a highly amplified clarity slider?), since I still don't really have a good way to achieve those effects.

Also, on the topic of new Adobe apps, check out this vid on the new intelligent-heal (or whatever they called it) features of PS CS5. I'm not really sure how different this is from the CS4 versions, since I don't use the heal that much and would generally just paint in this kind of stuff, or just use the old-school clone-stamp brush; but the way they use the new tools in this video is just insanely impressive!
 
I saw that. The content-aware fill looks simply awesome. Hard to know whether it will work that well in anything but a controlled demo on a small-image. I'll have to keep waiting though as I can't drop the cash for CS5 in any case.
 
botw said:
I saw that. The content-aware fill looks simply awesome. Hard to know whether it will work that well in anything but a controlled demo on a small-image. I'll have to keep waiting though as I can't drop the cash for CS5 in any case.
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i've been thinking how rad cs5 is gonna be ever since i first saw that. between the dessert scene road removal, and the jagged edge panorama fill--i'm convinced. my guess is larger images would work better than smaller ones...but as with any software i'm certain there's a way to "break" it.

also, hoping for some similarly useful (if less wow-ing) updates to the realease version of lr3.
 
My concern is not the size of the image being edited, it is the size of the videos in which the new features are shown. The typical problem with this sort of feature is pixelation or other edge distortion which you simply can't see in the small demonstration videos.
 
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