Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 beta is designed for photographers and by photographers to help them focus on what they love—the art and craft of photography. Now you can grab Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 for absolutely free.

What’s new in Lightroom 3 beta?

1. Brand new performance architecture, building for the future of growing image libraries

2. State-of-the-art noise reduction to help you perfect your high ISO shots

3. Watermarking tool that helps you customize and protect your images with ease

4. Portable sharable slideshows with audio—designed to give you more flexibility and impact on how you choose to share your images, you can now save and export your slideshows as videos and include audio

5. Flexible customizable print package creation so your print package layouts are all your own

6. Film grain simulation tool for enhancing your images to look as gritty as you want

7. New import handling designed to make importing streamlined and easy

8. More flexible online publishing options so you can post your images online to certain online photo sharing sites directly from inside Lightroom 3 beta.

Download Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 Beta for free.

This release is aimed only for the adventurous types, as it’s not really a complete beta; technically, it’s the test build of the first 3.6 beta version. In other words, if you decide to upgrade, expect bugs.

As far as new features go, you can expect better JavaScript performance, new version of the rendering engine (Gecko 1.9.2), and the uber-neat tab previews. As far as rotation-related functions, we don’t have a laptop equipped with an accelerometer, but if you do, we’d like to hear your opinion in the comments!

Another new release recently posted is the release candidate for Firefox 3.5.4; since this is an update that aims to improve stability, we’d recommend most users to simply wait for the final version before upgrading.