Elsewhere: Lightroom 3 beta

One of my favorite software programs is Adobe Lightroom, and late last night, they announced the availability of a public beta for version 3.  The beta is good until April 2010, so that should give us a hint at when the final version will launch.

Improvements I’m looking forward to include: better handling for large catalogs, an entirely new import system, better noise reduction, and “publish services”.  The Lightroom Queen has more details about the new version, and Eric Scouten lists other links that have additional details.

One thing they didn’t fix was the name.  It still appears to be the oddly named “Adobe Photoshop Lightroom”.

I guess I’ll have to start playing with it this weekend.