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Adobe Systems has announced the public beta of Adobe® Lightroom™ software for the Windows platform, a digital imaging workflow solution for professional photographers. Now available for both the Windows and Macintosh platforms, Adobe Lightroom beta is the efficient new way for professional photographers to import, select, develop and showcase large volumes of digital images. Windows-based photographers now have the opportunity to assist with the development of Lightroom by testing this new beta download and submitting feedback to the Adobe Labs forums at http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/lightroom.

We have taken to this package for most of our image adjustments, cropping and web portfolios.

Here is an example web portfolio from a recent shoot: Plein Air Day - Carrick Hill.

It is free for the moment, and great for recovering highlights in RAW files amongst other things.

It has been a big deficiency of Windows that the standard file viewer has a quite arcane, difficult to use and restrictive viewer of Metadata including EXIF information in a file.

After eventually coming out with a raw viewer some months ago, a color profile manager a few months ago too, they have finally release the Microsoft Photo Info Tool to allow viewing, editing, add, change and delete from an easy to use tool that integrates with Explorer - and it works in Windows XP and Visa.

Windows users can download it for free from: here.