That's not a problem for newer DSLRs, which generally don't produce much distortion, but if you're looking to patch up some heavy distortion, look elsewhere. We were disappointed to find that Lightroom 3's new tools failed to correct anything more than very light chromatic aberration.
Chromatic aberration refers to the unnatural fringes you sometimes see in the borders between dark and bright parts of a digital image (it often manifests as a purple halo). Unfortunately, we can't say the same for the new chromatic-aberration tools. While stand-alone noise-removal tools, like Noise Ninja, offer more fine-grained controls, Lightroom 3's built-in tools are good enough that we've largely cast Noise Ninja aside. If you've got a RAW-capable point-and-shoot camera that is capable of high ISO settings, Lightroom 3 is worth the money for the noise reduction alone.
The upgraded algorithm Adobe uses to weed out noise does an excellent job and manages to preserve the details of your image. Also kicked up a notch are the new set of sharpening and noise-reduction tools, which make it simple to get rid of noise in high-ISO images. That means no more importing, then weeding out the blurry shots.
The Import panel also has a few nifty tricks like the ability to zoom before you import. Essentially, everything about Lightroom 3 is really freaking fast when compared to Lightroom numero dos.Īlso improved in Lightroom 3 is the new Import dialog, which has been rejiggered to resemble the rest of the app. Common tasks like switching from Library view to Develop view and exporting images to Photoshop are noticeably snappier. Thumbnail previews remain sharp even when you're scrolling through massive image libraries (we loaded up a collection with 35,000 RAW images). At times it felt like using a prehistoric, web-based editor.
In Lightroom 2, large image libraries frequently meant blurry, pixelated previews that took a few seconds to resolve into sharp thumbnails. And its newest iteration, Lightroom 3, is reworked from the ground up to create a fast, proficient and generally awesome photo editing experience.Īdobe rewrote much of the underlying code for Lightroom 3 and it shows the minute you fire it up. One such piece of software is Lightroom, Adobe's flagship kit for processing and organizing RAW image files - the unfiltered, uncompressed image data generated by your camera's sensors. Now, practically everyone from soccer moms to CEOs have ditched amateur hour handouts like iPhoto and Windows Live Photo Gallery for more capable, grown-up image-editing software. Remember when managing your photos used to involve dropping them into a folder and forgetting about them? Those days are over.
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