Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom® 3.4 release candidate has been released on Adobe Labs. A “release candidate” label indicates that this update is well tested but would benefit from additional community testing before it is distributed automatically to all of our customers. The Lightroom 3.4 update includes support for many new cameras and lens profiles.
A prerelease of Adobe® Pixel Bender® 3D, which leverages the “Molehill” 3D APIs in the Adobe Flash Player Incubator, is available on Adobe Labs
Pixel Bender 3D is a version of the Pixel Bender kernel language that allows you to produce vertex and fragment shaders that run on 3D hardware to generate output images. These kernels operate on 3D objects and affect their appearance. Pixel Bender 3D is built on the Adobe® Flash® 3D APIs, codenamed “Molehill” and found in the Adobe Flash Player Incubator, which handles the display of 3D objects in Adobe AIR® and Flash Player. Pixel Bender 3D provides a quick and convenient way of supplying shaders to “Molehill.” Where appropriate hardware is available, Pixel Bender 3D is GPU accelerated.
The Lens Profile Downloader has been added to the Lens Profile Creator release.
The Photoshop Lightroom 3.3 release candidate is now available to try on Labs. The “release candidate” label indicates that this update is well tested but would benefit from additional community testing before it is distributed automatically to all of our customers.
The Adobe® Photoshop® Camera Raw 6.3 plug-in release candidate provides easy access within Photoshop to the raw image formats produced by many leading professional and midrange digital cameras.
An update to Adobe® Flash® Catalyst™ CS5 is now available on Labs. This extension provides designers have an easy way to build interactive portfolios, user interfaces and other interactive content without writing code.
Adobe Drive 2 has shipped. A separate prerelease that contains the CMIS connector is still available on Adobe Labs.
Adobe has posted a version of Adobe Drive 2 on Adobe.com in an effort to provide a viable near term solution for current users of Adobe’s Version Cue server asset management system who wish to upgrade to Creative Suite 5 products.
Adobe is pleased to announce the availability of the Adobe® Illustrator® CS5 HTML5 Pack (see related press release). This add-on for Illustrator CS5 15.0.1 provides initial support for HTML5 and CSS3, extends SVG capability in Illustrator CS5, and helps you easily design web and device content. In combination with the HTML5 features available in the Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 11.0.3 updater, these new tools allow web designers to take advantage of the latest advancements in HTML5.
The Adobe® Pixel Bender® Plug-in (v2.1) for Adobe Photoshop® CS5 supports processing of Pixel Bender filters on images opened in Photoshop CS5. These filters can be executed on the graphics card (GPU) or CPU of a computer. Pixel Bender customers as well as members of the Adobe Pixel Bender team have authored the filters that are included in this download.
Lightroom 3.2 and Camera Raw 6.2 are now shipping and no longer on Adobe Labs.
From raw processing to final presentation, Lightroom 3.2 handles your digital photographs in one intuitive application — whether you’re adjusting one image, searching for ten, processing hundreds, or organizing thousands. Together with Photoshop CS5 for pixel-level retouching, panoramas, and compositing, Lightroom offers a complete photography solution.
