Lightroom Product Manager, Tom Hogarty, in a recent post at Lightroom Journal revealed that Lightroom 3 will incorporate lens correction technology. According to Tom, lens correction will be available via manual correction and Lens Profiles. There will be a Lens Profile Creation Utility available at Adobe Labs to let photographers create their own Lens Profiles.
This is exciting news and brings a frequently requested capability to Lightroom! Check out Tom’s article and have a look at the video below for more information.
Last week Adobe released a maintenance upgrade to Lightroom. Lightroom 2.7 is available at Adobe’s download site or you can have Lightroom check for updates and download from there. Also released was an update to Camera Raw bringing it to version 5.7.
The update mainly supports new camera models including:
Canon EOS 550D (Digital Rebel T2i/ EOS Kiss X4 Digital)
Kodak Z981
Leaf Aptus-II 8
Leaf Aptus-II 10R
Mamiya DM40
Olympus E-PL1
Panasonic G2
Panasonic G10
Sony A450
The demosaic algorithm used to interpret raw data was updated bringing it more in line with the stellar improvements we’ve seen in Lightroom 3 Beta 2.
For more information take a look at Tom Hogarty’s article on Lightroom Journal.
Adobe has released new betas for Lightroom 2.7 and Camera Raw 5.7. They are available at Adobe Labs. Click here for Lightroom 2.7. Click here for Camera Raw 5.7. This release supports new cameras: Canon EOS 550D (Digital Rebel T2i/ EOS Kiss X4 Digital), Kodak Z981, Leaf Aptus-II 8, Leaf Aptus-II 10R, Mamiya DM40, Olympus E-PL1, Panasonic G2, Panasonic G10, and Sony A450.
Adobe also had the following release notes for the betas:
Slideshow playback on Windows could cause Lightroom and/or the computer to crash. This has been corrected in Lightroom 2.7
In Lightroom 2.7 the camera raw cache limit was increased to 200GB (for an excellent discussion of what the camera raw cache is, see Seán McCormack’s article at Lightroom Blog!)
Please provide feedback on the Camera Raw plug-in on the User to User forums
Please provide feedback on the Lightroom release candidate here.
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It’s here! Adobe released Lightroom 3 Beta 2 earlier and there are some nice goodies to play with in Beta 2. Grab it from Adobe Labs now! And if history teaches us anything, Adobe is saving a few tricks up their sleeves for the final release of Lightroom 3. There’s still no official information regarding the release date for the final version or what the eventual pricing might be. But in the meantime we have new features to try out.
One place to watch and get up to date Lightroom information is over on the Lightroom Journal Blog published by the Lightroom team. Stop by for news.
Apple has finally released an update to its image processing software application. Aperture 3 arrived on the scene several days ago. With this release we photographer humans once again raise the question “Is it time to switch?”
Since you are reading this on a site called Lightroom Secrets you must know how this will turn out. Right? But the answer may not be as black and white (no pun intended) as it may seem. There are many factors that go into a decision about which application to choose. Either will be a major investment in time, learning, personal/professional workflow, and so on. So let’s start with a little background.
I was a long-time Windows user and switched to Mac about two years ago. I still use both platforms but do prefer Mac. Obviously, as a Abode Certified Expert in Lightroom and one of the Adobe Community Professionals for Lightroom, I am a Lightroom user. I am not, however, an Adobe employee.
I’m also comparing Aperture 3 to Lightroom 3 Beta. In the past Adobe has always included more features in the final release than they exposed in their public betas so there may be things coming that we’re unaware of right now. So there you have it. What follows is editorial in nature and, to the best of my abilities, objective. Let’s get started…
I was in a recent DALPUG user group meeting and the topic of Lightroom vs. Aperture came up. Specifically, someone mentioned that they were a bit tired of how slowly Aperture released updates to support the RAW files of new DSLRs from Canon, Nikon, etc.
I’ve always generally been okay with how fast Ligthroom supported new cameras, but the discussion got me thinking about how fast both these tools support new cameras.
The following are the results of my research. You can scroll to the bottom of the post for a bit more information on how I collected the data. As you can see, it isn’t exhaustive, but it is composed of over 30 models, primarily from Canon, Nikon and Sony.
While this may not guarantee how fast Lightroom and Aperture will support the RAW files from your new camera in the future, it is interesting to see how fast they’ve done so in the past.
Anita’s name may not be familiar to you but I bet that she’s helped you more than once! Whether you are new to Lightroom or have been using it for some time chances are you’ve seen Anita’s handiwork! Every time you invoke the Help feature in Lightroom — there’s Anita!
Anita is one of the driving forces behind Lightroom’s Community Help. She is always gathering input from the community, tweaking articles to make them clearer, updating links, clearing out old help items, and on and on and on.
I asked Anita to tell us a little about herself and here’s what she had to say…
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