Lee Yuan Sheng
07-28-2010, 10:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/adobelightroom3/' target='_blank'>http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/adobelightroom3/</a><br /><br /></div><p><p><em>"Adobe Photoshop Lightroom first </em><em>saw the light of day</em><em> in January 2006, as a publicly available beta. Its intended audience, then as now, was professional and enthusiast photographers who want to organize and edit images - primarily RAW files - quickly and simply. For this reason, it doesn't offer layers, or any of Photoshop CS5's various graphic design-oriented features, and originally it offered very little in the way of pixel-level adjustments either."</em></p></p><p><img src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com/resizer/thumbs/size/600/dht/auto/1280343823.usr15670.jpg" style="border: 0;" /></p><p>dpreview.com has their writeup on Lightroom 3, and liked it a lot. Since I'm still not going to use Adobe Camera RAW for my photos, I will give this a pass. For others though, Lightroom 3 offers plenty of power for organising and doing workflow edits to your photos. I tried the beta and quite liked its organisation-to-editing capabilities. I'm looking forward to what Phase One comes up with when it updates its acquisition of Expression Media (formerly iView Media Pro), and see how the two compare. I know they're different, but it's interesting to see how they'll shape up.</p>