Adobe is now coming up with an update to the public beta of its Lightroom photography software at the Photokina tradeshow in Cologne, Germany.

It will be called Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, the fourth beta of the product unites the product feature set for Windows and Macintosh platforms, offering professional photographers a new way to import, manage and showcase large volumes of digital photographs.

It is estimated that 325,000 people used Lightroom, since its launch earlier this year. The final release of the software is expected in early 2007; however, the company did not offer details on pricing.

Beta 4.0 offers improved digital photography workflow tools, including a precision white balance selection option and a more streamlined and elegant user interface experience with customizable controls.

Delivering raw conversion in a single workflow experience, Adobe said that Lightroom supports over 125 native raw file formats in addition to JPEG and TIFF; it now supports Nikon D2Xs, Sony A100, as well as offers preliminary support for the Canon Digital Rebel XTi (400D) and Nikon D80.

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom beta ships as a Universal Binary and is available for free download from Adobe Labs website. The company recommends Mac OSX 10.4.3 and a 1GHz PowerPC G4 processor.

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