Lost Canadian
Expedition Leader
Ran my first shots through lightroom 3, just a moment ago. It's quite interesting. First thing I did was I opened and exported the same raw file in lightroom 2.5 and then lightroom 3. I made no adjustments other than I applied the same custom colour profile to both images. No sharpening, no nothing. Side by side there is very little noticable differences. I thought I detectected slightly smoother transitions in the shadows with Lightroom 3 but can't be sure it's not just my eyes playing tricks.
Left lightroom 2.5, right lightroom 3.
Next I ran the auto adjust, just to see if there were any changes there. Doesn't appear to be much, slight differences but hardly noticable. Same thing here, lightroom 2.5 on the left lightroom 3 on the right.
Adobe claims this is a whole new engine, but on the surface with basic adjustments there appears to be very little change with the way it handles slight adjustments. It's only when I started to push the image around more aggressively that I noticed a difference. When pushed, the transitions appear smoother in lightroom 3, and the notorious white band that sometimes appeared around the edges of images that were pushed really hard from a lot of fill light coupled with heavy highlight recovery, is gone,...or so it appears. Sharpening is noticeably improved and this was one area that I thought Lightroom 2.5 already did well. There are a few develop features that are not enabled yet, like the full noise reduction palette, so only time will tell if there is much of an improvement there.
I'm also looking forward to trying out a few of the new features in the display/web/export areas. Creating slideshows with music looks kinda cool, but I haven't had enough time with these new features to form an opinion. You can create a custom watermark now though,..if that is your thing. Personally I don't like them but this new feature does work for those who do.
Here is a look at an image that I purposefully processed somewhat aggressively in Lightroom 3 next to the untouched image.
I'm going to test out the new black and white conversion, I'm a little currious as to why Adobe changed the name from grayscale. I'll get back to this thread if I notice any changes. Oh and if you're looking to process some of those G11 RAW files Mr. Slade posted, you can do so with LR3.
Left lightroom 2.5, right lightroom 3.
Next I ran the auto adjust, just to see if there were any changes there. Doesn't appear to be much, slight differences but hardly noticable. Same thing here, lightroom 2.5 on the left lightroom 3 on the right.
Adobe claims this is a whole new engine, but on the surface with basic adjustments there appears to be very little change with the way it handles slight adjustments. It's only when I started to push the image around more aggressively that I noticed a difference. When pushed, the transitions appear smoother in lightroom 3, and the notorious white band that sometimes appeared around the edges of images that were pushed really hard from a lot of fill light coupled with heavy highlight recovery, is gone,...or so it appears. Sharpening is noticeably improved and this was one area that I thought Lightroom 2.5 already did well. There are a few develop features that are not enabled yet, like the full noise reduction palette, so only time will tell if there is much of an improvement there.
I'm also looking forward to trying out a few of the new features in the display/web/export areas. Creating slideshows with music looks kinda cool, but I haven't had enough time with these new features to form an opinion. You can create a custom watermark now though,..if that is your thing. Personally I don't like them but this new feature does work for those who do.
Here is a look at an image that I purposefully processed somewhat aggressively in Lightroom 3 next to the untouched image.
I'm going to test out the new black and white conversion, I'm a little currious as to why Adobe changed the name from grayscale. I'll get back to this thread if I notice any changes. Oh and if you're looking to process some of those G11 RAW files Mr. Slade posted, you can do so with LR3.
