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Lightroom 2.0 beta - looking at what’s new

Craig April 4th, 2008

With the release of the public beta for Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2.0, many photographers are eagerly diving in to check out the new features. So lets take a look and some of whats new. All screenshots below are from the Windows version because here in Taiwan, a Windows machine is half the price of a comparable Mac. As always, click on the image for a larger view.

One of the biggest new changes in this public beta is native 64 bit support. For Mac users, that means an Intel-based machine with Leopard (OS X10.5) and for Windows users, Vista-64. The key advantage of this is that it allows Lightroom to access more than 4GB of RAM. There is some discussion in the comments on John Nack’s site as to whetherit will work with Windows XP-64. I’m running XP64 and it seems to be working smoothly for me.

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Adobe Lightroom 2.0 beta released

Craig April 3rd, 2008

Adobe have announced the release of a public beta version of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2.0

Adobe Photoshop® Lightroom® answers the digital photographer’s call for a workflow application that allows photographers to quickly work with raw format images. With Lightroom you can manage all of your photographs; showcase them in print, dynamic slideshows, and interactive Web galleries that are a simple to produce. Lightroom’s cross platform support allows photographers to effortlessly work on projects from any Windows or Macintosh computer on-location or in the office. Lightroom—spend less time at the computer, and more time behind the lens, doing what you love.

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