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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:

• Canon EOS 450D (Rebel XSi/EOS Kiss X2)
• Fujifilm Finepix S100fs
• Nikon D60
• Olympus SP-570UZ
• Pentax K20D, Pentax K200D
• Sony Alpha A200, Sony Alpha A300, Sony Alpha A350

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.

Lightroom 1.4 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. 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.

Lightroom 1.4 includes the following known issues:

• In the print module, deselecting the Identity Plate option when the option to render on every image is already applied will result in no change and the Identity Plate will be applied to every image. To remove the Identity plates, deselect the option to render the Identity Plates on every image then deselect the Identity Plate option.

Lightroom and Photoshop Camera Raw share the same image processing technology to ensure consistent and compatible results across applications that support raw processing. These applications include Photoshop CS3, Photoshop Elements 4.01 for Mac, Photoshop Elements 6.0 and Premiere Elements 4.0 for Windows.

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