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Adobe has released the final version of Lightroom 3.

See our full review for every detail: link here.

Adobe has released final version of Camera Raw 6.1 (raw processing plug-in for Photoshop CS5): it includes the new processing engine (used in the upcoming Lightroom v3) and the important Lens Correction feature that corrects chromatic aberration, distorsion and vignetting using a database of lens profile (user extensibile). Also support for new cameras is introduced (like Olympus E-600).

Download available here: Windows version and Mac version.

Canon has reached 40 million EOS cameras manufactured, starting back from 1987 where the EOS ("Electro Optical System") was launched.

Adobe has posted a prerelease version of its Lens Profile Creator utility to be used with Photoshop CS5 and Lightroom 3 to correct lens chromatic aberration, vignetting and geometric distorsion. The custom built profiles can be used in Photoshop Lens Correction filter, in RAW editing in Adobe Camera Raw (but only from ACR v 6.1 on) or in Lightroom 3. Results for chromatic aberration correction working in RAW are extremely better than working with JPG, since the correction works before demosaicing (conversion of raw data from camera sensor) and image conversion takes place.

Adobe has released yesterday the Creative Suite 5 (CS5) software family: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premier, After Effects, ...

Free 30 days trials are available from Adobe webiste.

Datacolor has released Spyder3 Elite 4.0, its monitor color management solution.

From the press, the main new features in the upgrade are the following: