Archive for December, 2008
Well here it comes! 2009!!! Are you ready? Yeah, me neither!
While you are formulating those New Year’s Resolution why not take a look in Lightroom and finish up 2008 getting ready for 2009. Here are a few tips:
- Look again at how you are organizing your image files on your disks. If you have been prone to spraying folders of images all over your drives and relying on Lightroom to keep it all straight now is the time to bring some order. Try organizing all your images under one main folder. You can do this in Lightroom’s Folder panel or in your OS. Once everything is organized you can resolve missing indicators in Lightroom via Find Folder or Synchronize Folder commands
- One of the example smart collections that is installed with Lightroom is Without Keywords. Take a look at the image count for this collection. If it’s anything other than 0 then get in there and add some keywords!
- Utilize the new filter bar capabilities to gather together groups of images and then create collections to further organize your catalog.
- Review your keyword list and delete any unused keywords. Look for duplicate keywords (like cat, Cat, and CAT) and correct them down to one version.
- Go through your 2008 images again and remove any that really aren’t keepers. You can still keep the files if you don’t like to delete anything, but consider removing them from the catalog.
- If you don’t have a regular and reliable backup procedure WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR??? Backup, backup, backup! I can’t stress this enough. Your images are unique and irreplaceable. ALL hard drives will fail. Don’t delude yourself into thinking yours is special and will run forever. Make sure that you keep one backup offsite at all times. Whether it’s at the office or in Mom’s china cabinet get it offsite. The best backup in the world does you no good if your house burns down and takes your computer and the backup with it.
Enjoy 2009 and remember Rule 5!
If you shoot with different cameras and want a camera profile applied automatically on import, go to the Camera Calibration panel, choose the profile, then hold down the Option/ALT key. The Reset button will now say Set Default… Click and set your profile!
Adobe has released version 2.2 of Lightroom.
New in Lightroom 2.2
The goal of this release is to address bugs that were introduced with the release of Lightroom 2.0 and provide additional camera raw support. A comprehensive list of issues fixed in this release is included below:
Lightroom 2 Bugs – Fixed
- Images rendered from the Slideshow export process produced a jagged effect on hard edges relative to the quality of normal JPEG export
- li>Increased the number of characters allowed in Web gallery labels beyond 150 characters
- Catalogs with hundreds of root (top level) folders caused very slow launch times
- Drag and drop to move a subfolder to a different folder showed the incorrect photos in the grid
- Print Sharpening produced edge artifacts in certain conditions
- Density defaulted to 100 percent for initial stroke regardless of position of slider
- The Adjustment brush created blocky, straight edges to brush strokes under certain conditions
- Lightroom could become unresponsive when using the graduated filter under certain conditions
- It was possible to lose the ability to edit an adjustment brush setting after applying a graduated filter with hidden pins
- Turning auto-mask on produced a lag in Lightroom performance in when applying the adjustment brush
- Print to JPEG functionality produced a low resolution image when printing photos with panorama aspect ratios
- Extended characters in a folder name caused Edit in Photoshop functionality to fail
- Smart collection did not respond to changes in custom metadata
- Enabling auto-mask produced a lag in performance in when applying the local adjustment brush
Lightroom 2 Enhancements
Camera profiles are now available in the Calibration panel in the Develop module. These profiles are designed to provide different interpretations of raw capture.
There are many features hiding in Lightroom! Try holding down the Option key (Alt key on a PC) whenever you see panel choices or menus. Very often new choices will appear while the Option key is down. Explore!
