No, it’s not quite there yet, if that was what you thought, but once it’s released, there’s going to be a killer new feature in Lightroom 3 that a lot of us have been waiting for and that – just by itself – would be a reason to upgrade! Below you can find a demo by Tom Hogarty, Product Manager for Lightroom & Camera Raw. The demo shows the feature in Camera Raw, but, as Tom points out repeatedly during the video, it will also be a part of the final version of Lightroom 3.
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Do you, coincidentally, have any news to announce or predictions to make about the release date? Perhaps?
(My plan is to wait with the achievement of LR ’till the release of LR3).
Hi Stephanie. I really don’t know. You can use the LR3 Beta 2 in the mean time, but that won’t allow you to upgrade existing LR2 Catalogs. LR3 should however be able to read your LR3 Beta Catalogs.
Piet,
I have two questions:
1. Are these lens corrections the same as we can find in Photoshop under “Filter-Distort-Lens correction”? I really hope so because I frequently use this option and it would be handy to have the same controls in Lightroom!
2. Did Adobe create these profiles or did they cooperate with DxO? If not, are their profiles as good as those of DxO? Do you have any idea?
Thanks!
and that also means bye bye to DxO I guess ….
Life has just become a bit easier on our side …!
@ Jürgen: it’s not as clear cut, I think: the main advantage of LR’s lens corrections is that it’s part of the raw-workflow, and you don’t need an extra step that involves creating a (bulkier) TIFF file. On the other hand, especially at the start, there’s still a lot more profiles available for DxO and they can also correct for more things, such as lens unsharpness and noise automatically and individually. Also, DxO’s way of just drawing a rectangle to ‘correct’ perspective distortion is very user-friendly.
But it’s clear you might not want to use it on all of your pictures, all of the time, anymore… But maybe some of your pictures, some of the time…