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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/

Tom Hogarty gave some more info about Lightroom 1.1 – what there will be, and what there will be not:

 I can’t comment specifically on future feature timing but one of the key updates already provided in the Camera Raw 4.1 release and the next update of Lightroom is improved noise reduction and sharpening technology. A plug-in API for third party software is very important for Lightroom but will not be included in Lightroom 1.1. – TH

About sRAW support:

…the Camera Raw 4.1 readme indicates that we were unfortunately unable to include SRAW support in this release. Lightroom’s next camera support update will be identical. We will address SRAW support in a future release…

Original post, comments, questions, and answers you can read at: http://blogs.adobe.com/lightroomjournal/2007/05/lightroom_and_camera_raw_41_1.html

Recently Scott Kelby wrote that Adobe gave a sneak peek of Lightroom 1.1 at his Boston Lightroom seminar.

Adobe Lightroom Product Manager Tom Hogarty gave the sold-out crowd of nearly 500 the first public look at the cool new features included in the Lightroom version 1.1 upgrade (which is coming soon), which included improved sharpening and noise reduction as well as improved file mobility.

Among main new features shown at seminar were:

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