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"Professional photographers who use Lightroom have one more excuse reason to swap an iPad for their MacBook while traveling. Squared Enterprises has released Photosmith, an iPad app for organizing your photos on the road before importing them into Lightroom."

When people talk about photography apps for the iPad, they tend to talk about apps that control the miserable thing that is in the iPad2. For us people who take photography seriously however, this is what we mean by a useful app. In this case, it is the ability to apply your Lightroom cataloguing workflow out in the field before hitting your desktop. My only concern is memory space; even a 64GB iPad may not be enough if one is out in the field for a long long time. That and the fact you need Lightroom as your Digital Asset Management (DAM) software. So if you have both an iPad and Lightroom 3, go check this out!

"Today only, Amazon has Photoshop Lightroom for for Mac and PC for $188.99. (It retails at $299)"

Not sure if it really is only today or not, as the link via Apple Thoughts [affiliate link] doesn't specify, but it's a good deal regardless. And the discount gets bigger for those of you in either the US or the UK if you go to the Adobe Store [link] and are an educator, up to 80% off with free shipping.

"Adobe released an updated beta version of its Lightroom 3 professional photo management software on Tuesday. Available for download through Adobe Labs, Lightroom 3 beta 2 has made improvements and added new features based on feedback from users of the first beta-a program that has been downloaded over 350,000 times."

They have also released an update for Photoshop Lightroom 2.7, Photoshop Camera Raw 5.7 and DNG Converter 5.7. You can find more about the beta at Adobe Labs, or get the update for 2.7 here. If you need the Raw update or DNG Converter update you can also get both from Adobe, located here.