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Lightroom 3 Beta 2

S-Curve

I usually don’t bother using beta software – beta software is used for testing and is often buggy and not fully reliable. However, it is also cutting edge – it has the latest features for software that will be released at a later date.

Adobe Lightroom is the most popular software used to manage, edit and work with photographs for photographers. I have been using it since version 1.5. I have played with their beta software for about 5 minutes total – just to get a feel of what new features are coming in future releases. And I am excited for Adobe Lightroom 3!

The latest beta has a real curves tool! Just like in Adobe Photoshop you can now play with the curves and you can be boring with the typical S-Curve or you can go nuts! Here are a few examples of the curves tool in action. You can be sure I will be using the curves tool on my photographs – I love the S-Curve it is one of the best basic edits you can do to make your photograph fantastic.

Going Nuts with the Curve Tool

Chances of me going nuts like the second example? Slim to none. However, the curves tool is extremely powerful. You can create some awesome effects. Now I just wish I could stack the curves tool with more curves. In Photoshop I will often have 2 curves adjustment layers.

And maybe in the next version of Lightroom they will have a feature to design wedding albums from within Lightroom. Apple’s Aperture lets you do that and it is a pretty cool feature.

The results of nuts