Lightroom 3 is Out Today

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Out of beta and live on Adobe’s site:

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3

Things I like:

  • New post-crop vignette options
  • New import options
  • No chickens
  • Better export options (flickr!)
  • Better print options

Things I don’t like:

  • Might be chicken adaptive
  • No storing working library on networked drive (I can't see a way to do this, which I badly need)

For a $99 upgrade, seems like a no-brainer. Anybody been bit with severe bugs?

  • http://www.digitalcatharis.com themightyjimbo

    the noise reduction tech looks waaaaaaaaaaaay better than aperture.

    • http://blurbomat.com blurb

      You can download a demo version. Worth taking a look…

  • http://www.digitalcatharis.com themightyjimbo

    i had the original demo — didn’t like it. went with aperture instead. i hear really good things about lightroom now. i’ll look at what they have. don’t have the bandwidth to swap platforms currently, but maybe later.

  • allitode

    Does your network drive support iSCSI? Because that would probably work.

  • http://www.tokenblogger.com tokenblogger

    That noise reduction is awesome!

  • http://mstudios.myopenid.com/ mStudios

    What we do to circumvent the network issue is to use a disc image which is on the server.

    Our setup for it would be some directory on the server where you want the photos, we mostly named them by project number, but can be whatever organization you prefer, such as per year, season or category.

    In that (project root) directory we use several folders for organization: original raw files in one, “killed” images in another (move them from one folder to the other within Lightroom itself), exported jpg’s for print, but also low rez jpg’s for facebook and so on. And the Sparse Disk Image/Bundle will be a sibling to those sub-folders, also located in the project root folder on the server.

    Now, the trick with this all is that when you mount the disk image, Lightroom “thinks” it’s a local drive. Perfect to put the catalog files on it while the photos themselves are outside of that plus having easy access from within the catalog to all images.

    You might be happy with just one huge Lightroom catalog, I find it safer and better to do them per project (a wedding easily will have 2,500 photos) and Lightroom handles such sized catalogs perfectly.

    • http://blurbomat.com blurb

      Thanks for these tips!

      I’ve split my catalogs out by year and monthly folders. Makes it a little easier to get around.

      I’ll have to give your disk image idea a shot.