Adobe Lightroom 2.0 Beta Available

Adobe Lightroom is a photographic workflow management application. With Lightroom you can manage, edit, publish and print your digital images/photos.

Adobe has made a public beta version of Lightroom 2.0 available. This beta can be used along side the current Lightroom 1.x and will NOT upgrade version 1.x libraries.

Anyone may download the Lightroom 2.0 beta and try it for 30 days while current Lightroom 1.0 customers can try the beta until the expiration date of August 31st, 2008.

Information concerning new features is available:

New Features
Library

• Streamlined Library Layout
• Smart Collections
• Powerful Filter Bar to search and refine images
• Suggested Keywords for simplified keywording
• 10k pixel size limit raised to 30k pixels
• Output-based Collections
  

Multiple Monitors:

• -Four flexible modes for an alternate window: Grid, Loupe, Compare, Survey
  (Check out the Live Loupe mode!)

Photoshop CS3 Integration:

• Open files in Photoshop as a Smart Object
• Select multiple images to merge as a Panorama
• Merge multiple exposures into a single Photoshop HDR image
• Load multiple files or virtual copies into Photoshop as separate layers in a single document.

Export Functionality:

• Auto-add exported images to the Lightroom catalog
• Auto Output Sharpening for images on export

Develop Module

• Non-Destructive Localized Correction for dodging and burning specific areas of an image
• Post Crop Vignette
• Basic Panel Keyboard Shortcuts
• Improved Auto Adjustment
• Improved memory handling through 64-bit support on OS X 10.5 and Vista 64-bit.(Not limited to develop module)

Print Module

• Picture Package for multi-page layouts
  
• Print Module output directly to JPEG
  
• Enhanced Print Sharpening based on PhotoKit Sharpener algorithms
• 16-bit Printing for Mac OS X 10.5