If you’re even semi-serious about digital photography you owe it to yourself to check out Lightroom – it’s hard to describe the product in a sentence but Adobe pretty much have the niche to themselves, at least until Bibble Labs get around to releasing version 5 of their much-acclaimed RAW converter.

If you’re already a Lightroom user you’ll be pleased to know the release candidate for version 2.3 is available to play with on Adobe Labs.

Highlights of the new release include support for the new Nixon D3X and Olympus E-30 cameras, as well as a batch of bugfixes and additional foreign language support.