Go Lightroom

I have been using Lightroom for about 3 months and thought I knew the product fairly well until I started watching Chris Orwig’s Training DVD from Lynda.com.

Instructor and professional photographer Chris Orwig explains how browsing, organizing, and adjusting images in Photoshop Lightroom dynamically improves photo management, processing, and presentation. The training teaches photographers how to establish a more effective and creative workflow so they can focus on what it’s all about — the photo. Tutorials are accompanied by exercise files (full resolution raw files).

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The Lightroom 1.1 update has been at last posted.

New features:

• Improved multiple computer workflow with catalog import/export functionality
• Improved noise reduction and sharpening
• Vista Support
• Additional Camera Support (Canon 1D Mk III, Phase One medium format backs and more)

Update Notes:

• I recommend backing up your 1.0 library file(in this release catalog) before upgrading.
• The Lightroom 1.1 Readme File contains a more detailed list of new features and notes. (Who reads these?)
• For those that tried the Lightroom 1.0 trial and did not purchase Lightroom, the 1.1 update resets the clock and provides another opportunity.
• This update will automatically replace your Lightroom 1.0 application (You don’t need to uninstall)
• Not sure if Lightroom is running fast enough for you? Try the Optimize option in the catalog-specific preferences.

More resources:

• Stay tuned for updates from Lightroom-News.
• Sean McCormack posted some very nice articles on his Lightroom blog
• Richard Earney has prepared an excellent version 3 of his Lightroom Develop presets on www.inside-lightroom.com
• Victoria Bampton has posted her own list of “What’s New”
• Jeffrey Friedl has a summary of the Lightroom udpate as well as an ingenious tool for customizing your metadata panel called Jeffrey’s Lightroom Metadata-Viewer Preset Builder

Download:

• http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshoplightroom/

If you can connect your digital camera directly to the computer, you can import image files to Lightroom directly from the camera.

Photographs can be automatically imported into Lightroom, bypassing the need for a camera card and having to configure the Import settings every time you import a batch of images.

This is also referred to as ‘tethered shooting’ and Lightroom has the ability to do this, but Lightroom will need to rely on other software that can communicate with your camera and put image files to a specified folder location.

This way, Lightroom can be configured to automatically import these images into the library using ‘watched folders’.
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Matt Kloskowski from Adobe Lightroom Killer Tips has published new video for Removing Dust Spots from Multiple Photos.

By using the Remove Spots tool along with the Synchronize feature you can get rid of lens spots and dust in just a few seconds.