Adobe Lightroom Gets Even Better in Lightroom 3
Lightroom started out as a very good product and as it has matured and improved it has become more of a do it all tool for photographers. I still do collages and size and edit photos for webdesign or printing on greeting cards in Photoshop, but Lightroom is my daily workhorse for organizing, evaluating, and optimizing my photos. The recent Lightroom 3 release has many workflow improvements and has added some great added functionality to existing tools.
My Favorite Improvements
The new Import dialogue box(es)
A new look for the import window which is more visual
A Quick Import window – this feature streamlines the import process for routine imports and people who are familiar with importing
Overall the import dialogue improvements make it a little more clear where images were going on your system.
An added panel shows drive and folder structures.
Watermarking has improved into a tool that gets the job done right most of the time. I can finally stop adding this in Photoshop.
Develop Module Improvements
A collections panel has been added into the development panel. This improves your workflow by eliminating the need to go back to the Library Module to find the next image to work on.
Adjustment brushes have just a slider mode with a reset button Cropping panel has some predefined sizes. You can choice to crop to popular ratios or other choices that make proportional sense.
You will discover that they have made lots of small improvements and fixes that enhance the workflow and overall experience.
Slide Show
Lightroom will matches the slide show to the length of the song The export command will export the slideshow with the music into form
Printing
Watermarking on your prints
The ability to make a custom printing package: lets you put whatever you want on the page in whatever size . You can save them as templates
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