Camera profiles are now available in the Calibration panel in the Develop module. These profiles are designed to provide different interpretations of raw capture.
Full disclosure, I’m placing my order as I write this post. Amazon.com is selling the full version of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 for just $139.99! I’m not sure how long this deal will last, but a little twitter birdie told me that it may be all weekend. As a dSLR Dad who shoots lots of RAW image files, Lightroom 2 is the perfect tool at managing vast amounts of images, both RAW and JPEG, and intuitively edit single photos or batches of images. It also makes it incredibly easy to create an html or flash slideshow for email or the web. Finally, if you subscribe to Ansel Adam’s view that it’s not a photograph until it is a print, Adobe’s Lightroom 2 has the best print engine in the business (well, at least under $1,000).
Adobe has released downloads of Photoshop Lightroom 2.1 (Mac, Win), Camera Raw 5.1 (Mac, Win) and DNG Converter 5.1. Newly Supported RAW File formats includes:
This is the first preset package that I ever downloaded to work with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. It also happens to be the one that I go back to the most often. onOne Software has a package of 85 Lightroom presets designed by Photoshop Guru Jack Davis which include:
One of my favorite books from the first launch has also been rewritten for version 2. Mikkel Aaland’s Photoshop Lightroom 2 Adventure: Mastering Adobe’s Next-Generation Tool for Digital Photographers looks to be another great resource. More than just a Photoshop Lightroom user guide, it tells the story of a group of internationally renowned photographers that traveled to the remote island of Tasmania. There they photographed during the day and then used Lightroom 2 to manage, process, post, and print their images.
Adobe has released Photoshop Lightroom version 2. This latest iteration packs numerous feature and usability improvements to help any dSLR Dad quickly import, manage, process, and display your work.
Top new features
Local adjustment brush — What Photoshop Guru Scott Kelby calls “painting with light”. One of the most powerful new features I have used.
Graduated Filter — Allows you to recreate the effect of a graduated neutral density filter.
Enhanced organizational tools
Volume management - Freely manage and organize your images across multiple drives, and continue to work with the high-resolution previews — even when your originals are offline.
Extensible architecture — Allows you to take advantage of the wide range of plug-ins to help you quickly and easily transfer images to your favorite sharing sites and photo labs.
Multiple monitor support
Flexible print package functionality — You can now print multiple sizes on one or many pages. Exporting your print as a JPEG to toss to an outside print service is also an option.
Streamlined Photoshop CS3 integration — Enjoy tight integration with Adobe Photoshop software for streamlined use of Smart Objects, panorama stitching, high dynamic range (HDR) functionality, multiple layer workflow, and more.
Enhanced output sharpening (meaning that it’s more than the on/off switch of Version 1)
64-bit support for Windows® and Mac OS — This is a great trend, allowing you to take advantage of more system memory (>3 GB) when working with larger files. Photoshop CS4 will follow the same path (for Windows users at least).
For those of you dSLR Dads who never used Lightroom before, you can still download a 30-day trial and try it out . I highly recommend this route, just be sure to give yourself a project to complete from import to print/post. Read on to find out more information.
Adobe has finally posted their revised the X.4 release of Camera Raw. The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 1.4.1 download is available for for Mac and Windows. Camera Raw version 4.4.1 can be found here (Mac, Win). Both updates support the following new Raw file formats:
Lightroom 1.4.1 includes corrections for the following issues:
Lightroom 1.4 incorrectly modified the EXIF time date field of images that had a metadata update applied. This incorrect modification does not appear in Lightroom or Bridge and is only viewable through third party EXIF tools. This error has been corrected in Lightroom 1.4.1 and all files in a Lightroom catalog that have been incorrectly modified will be corrected on their next metadata update. (Metadata can be updated by selecting the files in the Library grid view and choosing Command or CTRL + S to save and update the metadata.) This has also been corrected in Camera Raw 4.4.1.
Olympus JPEG files could render incorrectly in Lightroom 1.4, displaying an artifact in the exported file. This has also been corrected in Camera Raw 4.4.1.
Any conversion to DNG in Lightroom 1.4 (Windows Only) would cause the DNG file to become unreadable by Lightroom’s Develop Module or Camera Raw 4.4 in Photoshop. The issue has been corrected and files can be converted to DNG again in order to resolve the issue for existing files. Returning to the original native raw files is not necessary. The affected DNG files can be selected and converted again using the DNG Converter 4.4.1 available at www.adobe.com/dng/. This process is not required but recommended to ensure that a correct validation value is stored within the DNG files.
Lightroom 1.4 provided degraded import performance relative to Lightroom 1.3.
The Lightroom team apologizes for the inconvenience caused by the issues presented in the initial Lightroom 1.4 update.
Critical Update (2008-3-16): Adobe has yanked the Lightroom 1.4 and Camera RAW 4.4 downloads. Lightroom users who installed 1.4 should uninstall that update and install Lightroom 1.3.1 (conveniently posted at the 1.4 download page). There are instructions for dropping back to 1.3.1 at Lightroom Journal. The following major errors are occurring:
EXIF Time Stamp Error
DNG Conversion Error (in Windows only). Something that freaked me out after converting 16GB of RAW files over the weekend.
Olympus Conversion Error
There are also reports that certain plugins are broken.
More details are available on the Adobe Lightroom Journal blog here.
The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 1.4 update is available for both Windows and Macintosh. It includes corrections for the following issues:
Compatibility with legacy printer drivers on OS X 10.5 (Leopard) has been updated.
Previous camera profiles identified in the Calibrate panel of the Develop module may have displayed poor results at extreme ends of the temperature and tint ranges. A new camera profile identified as Camera Raw 4.4 is now available and will be applied by default to all images without existing Camera Raw or Lightroom settings. The creation of new default profiles will also include the updated Camera Raw 4.4 profile. Images edited in Camera Raw or Lightroom with earlier profiles will retain the earlier profile value and visual appearance.
In previous grayscale conversions the Color Noise setting was disabled and this could result in an image with excessive noise when grayscale channel mixing is applied (which is why I desaturated all of the colors to make a black & white). Both the tool and effect have been enabled in Lightroom 1.4 providing the ability to reduce noise in grayscale conversions. In order to return to the prior visual appearance, Color Noise reduction can be set to zero.
Jeff Schewe over at PhotoshopNews has a retrospective on the history February 19th in Adobe lore. He shares his thoughts on the beginnings of Photoshop, Lightroom and Camera RAW. You can read the entire article over at PhotoshopNews.
This is a great deal for any dSLR Dad who has owns a license of Adobe Photoshop Elements. You can now move up to Adobe Photoshop CS3 for only $299! That’s more than half off the full price of $649! For those of you are thinking but I don’t have a copy of Elements? Well, you’re in luck, because Amazon still has Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0 in stock and it’s only $35.
The fine print:
Of course this is a limited-time offer, but it runs the entire month to February 29. It’s available only to licensed users of Photoshop Elements 1.0–6 and Adobe Photoshop Elements plus Adobe Premiere Elements bundle who purchase the full version of Photoshop CS3 directly from Adobe (available here).
Update (2008-2-8): Some of you are having issues with the promotion code taking hold in the Adobe Store. If that’s the case, here is the link to the main offer page. You may have to call in the order on the telephone. I know, I know, that’s soooo 1995….
I just wanted everyone to know that I have updated a few things on The Media Shelf page. Most notably to you regular dSLR Dads is a brief review of From Camera To Print - A Fine Art Printing Video Tutorial by The Luminous Landscape and Scott Kelby’s 7-Point System for Adobe Photoshop CS3. I’ll be working on more in-depth reviews of those products at a later date.
For those of you who are new to dSLR Dad (and judging by the incoming StumbleUpon links there are quite a number of you), I have set up The Media Shelf to be a collection of books, video, and all things media that will be of great resource for the dSLR Dad.
Happy New Years Eve everyone. I’ve got a question for you. This day, one year ago, were you even using Lightroom? Probably not right? Even if you had installed the beta (remember, the full version wasn’t out yet) you probably hadn’t really committed to it yet? Seriously. Think about it. Can you even imagine what it’s like to NOT be using Lightroom? I can’t. And it was only 1 year ago that I wasn’t. Crazy huh? It got me thinking of what would be a good post to end the year with. I went down the list of the traditional stuff: a) not posting and just take new years eve and day off, or b) Post the old “Predictions for 2008″ post or c) take a look back at the product that this blog/podcast is all about and see how far we’ve come. Choice “a” - come on, it’s me. I can’t take the day off. Choice “b” - too predictable. Everyone does that right? So let’s go with choice “c” and take a look back. Trust me, there’s lots of cool little nuggets of information and interesting things throughout the list below.
Scott Kelby, the Photoshop master, has written a new year’s retrospective on all things Photoshop for the year 2007.
For my last post of the year, I thought I’d take a quick look back at what has just been an amazing year of change, innovation, and growth for our industry. I’m going to focus on what’s happened in the Photoshop arena, in photography, what’s happened here in my Photoshop Insider blog, and how it’s impacted our lives (and my own work), throughout this year (which seems like it literally just flew by).
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