For real fans of photography, sometimes taking hundreds of photos a day, as well as for true professionals, the only work tool for 80% of the total is Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. There are a lot of complaints about the tool in terms of working with face color and some other purely subjective characteristics, but one cannot take one away from the converter - it is very convenient, and the community of its users is measured by millions of people around the world, partly due to the fact that the development presets can be saved and exchange, making a backup for the future for yourself or simply sharing experience with others.
Lightroom of the second generation has become much better than Lightroom of the first generation , and already approaching the top five in the second order index, it became clear that the office is working hard on a new generation of software, with number 3 in the title. The fact is that even in the second generation they managed to get rid of many of the problems of the first generation, the developer failed to get away from all of them, and the problems that caused many professionals to choose other developers' programs remained. Today, the company announced the official release of a trial version of the third-generation program. It promises quite a lot of changes, which we will discuss below.
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If you hear about the program for the first time, and you shoot in RAW, you lose a lot - it makes sense to at least try, and now one of the good chances, you can use the stable version 2.5 for a month or download the beta version of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3, after which it becomes clear whether it suits you or not.
There are a lot
of differences from CaptureOne in the work of the program.
According to the developer, the program was reworked from the kernel to speed up performance - in the time since the release of the second version, more than a year has passed, and since that time the architecture of top computers has changed, and the resolution of the devices has become higher, megapixels rule the world so far. Therefore, without taking these parameters into account, sooner or later, it is possible to become obsolete and become a brake.
Reworked the following:
- redesigned interface for importing photos into the catalog, has become more intuitive
- improved integration with online services (hint at Flickr, which now allows almost direct download directly from the Lightroom window without plug-ins)
- improved algorithms for improving clarity and noise reduction (in the beta version, light noise cannot be crushed)
- The opportunity to imitate film grain
- added functionality to the vignette creation panel
- improved algorithm for working with graphic files
- Now you can add music to the slideshow and the ability to create HD video presentations with the H.264 codec.
- redesigned print panel interface
- There is a customizable ability to create watermarks on images.
Resources for the new version of Lightroom: