Adobe today announced Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2.0 beta, The are doing a public preview
of the improved functionality to be delivered in the next major release.

Apparently Lightroom 2.0 beta will provide more functions for people with dual-monitors, as well as localized dodge and burn correction. I’ll talk more about this in a future show.

Perhaps even more promissing it will be the first Adobe application to support 64-bit for
Mac OS X 10.5 Intel Macs. There is also a free beta trial being offered.

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2.0 beta is available as a 30-day trial for
free download on Macintosh and Windows platforms at
http://www.labs.adobe.com/downloads. Existing Lightroom 1.0 customers
will be able to test the beta for an extended period until Aug. 31, 2008
and can invite friends to take part in this trial period. Recommended
system requirements are Macintosh OSX 10.4, 10.5 1 GHz PowerPC G4 or G5
or Intel-based processor, or Microsoft Windows XP SP2 or Windows Vista
Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise, Intel Pentium 4
processor, 1 GBRAM and a 1024×768 resolution screen.