Lightroom 3.2 to fix bugs, add Facebook support

From CNET News.com: Adobe Systems issued a release candidate for Lightroom 3.2 on Tuesday that fixes dozens of bugs, lets users publish photos to Facebook, adds automated optical corrections for dozens of lenses, and supports Pentax's new medium-format digital camera among other models.

Accompanying the software is a corresponding release candidate for Camera Raw 6.2, the Photoshop module that uses the same engine as Lightroom for converting raw files into more broadly supported, compact formats such as JPEG. Adobe skipped the Lightroom 3.1 number to synchronize the two related packages' release numbers.

If you want to fetch the software, try the Lightroom 3.2 download site or Camera Raw 6.2 download site on Adobe Labs.

One of Lightroom 3's significant new features is publishing, the ability not only to export photos to a Web site but to keep those exported photos in sync with those on a personal computer. That means changes to a photo--a tighter crop, brighter exposure, a new title--can be easily sent to the online version as well. It's a convenient option in today's world where photo libraries on PCs are mirrored online for easy viewing.

But there's a caveat for the Facebook publishing tool: an update doesn't slip seamlessly into place. Lightroom offers this warning when you try to republish a photo after an update in Lightroom: "All comments and likes will be lost on updated photos. Are you sure you want to do this?"

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