Camera Raw 5.6 and Lightroom 2.6 Available on Adobe Labs
Camera Raw 5.6 and Lightroom 2.6 are now available on Adobe Labs.(Camera Raw 5.6, Lightroom 2.6) The release includes new camera support for the following models: Canon EOS 7D Canon PowerShot G11 Canon PowerShot S90 Leaf Aptus II 5 Mamiya DM22, DM28, DM33, DM56, M18, M22, M31 Nikon D3s Olympus E-P2 Pentax K-x Panasonic FZ38 Sigma DP1s Sony A500 Sony A550

Resources for Lightroom 3 beta
There are plenty of great resources for the Lightroom 3 beta. I'll keep the list below updated as new content comes online Julieanne Kost on AdobeTV http://tv.adobe.com/show/what-s-new-in-lightroom-3-beta/ Terry White's Tech Blog tackles the beta http://terrywhite.com/techblog/archives/3747 Matt Kloskowski with the NAPP Lightroom 3 learning center http://www.photoshopuser.com/lightroom3 Victoria Bampton describes what's new on www.lightroomqueen.com

Lightroom 3 beta now available
The Lightroom team is proud to introduce the third public beta program of our application designed by and for digital photographers. We've come a long way since our very first public beta on January 9th 2006 at MacWorld.(We didn't even have a crop tool in the first release!) For this latest release we went back to the drawing board and revisited what we believe are the fundamental priorities of our customers: Performance and Image Quality. Lightroom has been stripped down to the "engine block" in order to rebuild a performance architecture that meets the needs of photographers with growing image collections and increasing

Important Note Regarding Lightroom 2.5 and Camera Raw 5.5 for those using PowerPC
Several photographers have found a bug in the final Lightroom 2.5 and Camera Raw 5.5 releases that affects customers who are currently using a Mac computer with a PowerPC processor. The bug, introduced with our recent demosaic change to address sensors with unequal green response, affects raw files from Sony, Olympus, Panasonic and various medium format digital camera backs. The bug has the potential to create artifacts in the highlight area while using the highlight recovery tool. An example has been posted to Flickr here. (http://www.flickr.com/photos

Lightroom Exposed
Last year Lightroom's lead engineer, Troy Gaul(@tgaul) presented at the C4 Mac Developer conference in Chicago. Over the course of the hour long presentation Troy provided a background on the project, dove into the details of Lightroom's technology platform, provided a demonstration of the development environment, discussed the plug-in APIs and explained Lightroom's path to 64-bit. The presentation is clearly targeted at developers but if you ever wanted to peek behind the curtain it's a great opportunity. The presentation is available here: http://www.viddler.com/explore/rentzsch/