Adobe Lightroom beta 3 released

Adobe has recently released the beta 3 of Lightroom, their answer to Apple's Aperture software for (semi) professional photographers.

The release notes for this version mention the following new and fixed features:

Support for new raw camera file formats (complete list of supported formats)
Before and After views in Develop
History of Develop edits provided
Live preview of HTML/Flash web output in new Web Module
Auto Import or Hot Folder support
Better handling of PSD and TIFF files
Resolution control in Export
Additional straighten tool
Saving module settings with collections and shoots
Keyword import/export

The beta 3 of Lightroom is currently only available for PowerPC and Intel based Macintosh users who will be able to find the download here (Login with Adobe ID required). The beta 3 has not been made available for Windows yet, but it will be soon. If you want to be kept up to date about the release for Windows you can leave your contact details on this page and Adobe will notify you as soon as the Lightroom beta 3 build for Windows has been made available. If you want to see a demo of the Lightroom environment first then check out the movies on this page (Flash required).