Archive for September, 2009
Adobe has released an update for Lightroom to version 2.5. This is a maintenance upgrade and fixes the following issues:
- Lightroom 2.4 on Windows continued to display the import dialog when a memory card was detected regardless of the preference setting “Show import dialog when a memory card is detected.”
- Lightroom 2.5 includes a correction to the demosaic algorithms for Bayer sensor cameras with unequal green response.
In addition, the following new cameras are now supported:
- Nikon D300s, D3000
- Olympus E-P1
- Panasonic DMC-FZ35, DMC-GF1
The update can be downloaded within Lightroom via Help then Check for Updates… of you can download it directly from Adobe. It is available for both Windows and Mac.
Also released is an update to bring Camera Raw to version 5.5. It is also available for Windows and Mac.
Welcome to a new feature at Lightroom Secrets called Spotlight. My intent is to introduce you to members of the Lightroom community who help us all get the most out of Lightroom. Photographers. Developers. Authors. I’ll put them in the Spotlight so you can learn more about them and what they are up to!
Mark Wilson is a professional full-time Photographer. He spent some time in Massachusetts and is now back living and working in the U.K. His love for wildlife (birds in particular) and the outdoors is expressed masterfully through his photography. You can see some of his work at his website Rusticulos Images.
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Lightroom is rich with presets. There are metadata presets. Keywords sets. Web templates. Print layouts. The list goes on and on. However, one of the features of Lightroom that gives it such power and makes your workflow much more efficient is the ability to create, save, and reuse Develop Presets.
To start on your Develop Preset adventure you need to go to, you guessed it, the Develop module. In the left panel, below the navigator, you will find the Presets section.
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