CS3 and Lightroom

Anyone seen it or played with it yet? What are some of the new features? Is it drastically different from CS2? I heard that Bridge FINALLY has a loop in it.

Also, anyone have Lightroom? How does it compare to Aperature? Would you recomend it?

The speed difference alone (I have an Intel Mac) makes the CS3 upgrade worth it. And I like the new photomerge in CS3 although AutoPano Pro does a little better job.

Haven't tried Lightroom since the original beta came out. I'm "in love" with Aperture and now that I've figured out the RAW workflow with it all I need PS for is photomerge, layer work etc.

The Aperture luminanace 1/4 tone controls act the same as curves in PS and I understand how they affect the image way better then I ever did with curves. I think the highlite/shadow/saturation tools are just flat out better then PS as well. I hope that Apple will build plugin/camera profile support and better noise control into the next version.

i have lightroom and Im' very happy with it. i tryed aperture alittle but never got to work with it enough to compare both of them.

if youre using CS3 or 2 go with lightroom as the 2 can work togethor.

importing editing and just organizing any amount of photos is a breeze and all the tools are easy to use and understand.

also buy lightroom before the end of april as it is only 199 right now

Also a big lightroom fan. I had both (aperture and lightroom) on my computer (Macbook pro) and they worked about the same for me since I had not used either previously. In the end I chose lightroom since it seemed to not work the computer as hard.