Adobe have made public a Release Candidate for Lightroom 2.1. Treat this as a beta. If you are experiencing problems with Lightroom 2 such as missing metadata (or have a shiny new Nikon D700) you may like to see if the RC helps. The link above lists the all the bugs addressed. Otherwise wait a … Read more
iView Multimedia and the iView products are about to be put to rest once and for all. Email support will cease as of 1 September 2008. In 2006 Microsoft acquired iView which became Expression Media. Thankfully Microsoft will keep the iView forums running for now.
Back up – Software Back ups are essential. Professionals need to ensure their digital assets are protected. Everyone wants to know their personal images, videos and documents are safe. Backing up involves a set of protocols; the what, when, where, how (the who and why are obvious), the media, hardware, and software. Today I want … Read more
Lightroom Adventure 29 July 2008 Adobe have released Photoshop Lightroom 2. As previewed in the beta the star feature is non-destructive local area correction. New in the final release is graduated local area correction that some may have seen used by the Lightroom Adventure photographers. Make sure you stock up on RAM as Lightroom is … Read more
Kodak aquires DAM Workflow solutions provider Design2Launch, a visual cataloger for CMS (Content Management System). Kodak calls it VAM; Visual Asset Management, yet another acronym for this sector! As an enterprise level solution Design2Launch doesn’t compete with single user applications like Microsoft Expression Media or Adobe Photoshop Lightroom.
Phase One have released Capture One 4.1.1. A bug fix update it does add support for new cameras and Phase One digital backs.
Adobe announced the update for DNG to version 1.2. Some features were hinted at in our MetaRAW article last year. Adobe have offered DNG to the ISO for a standardised camera RAW file format. Lot’s of good stuff in DNG 1.2 including storing multiple renderings (with associated JPEG previews), custom renderings that are like custom … Read more
Microsoft Expression Media 2 has been released. Now this will have a familiar ring to it: don’t update yet. There are several bugs that will make it a no-go for most users. I’m sorry but for a two year update that concentrated on bug fixing this is one feature poor, buggy update!
Robert Edwards is amongst a group of photographers testing Photoshop Lightroom 2 in the field as part of the Lightroom Adventure. A lot has changed in v2; look for the non-destructive local area adjustment, better Photoshop integration, keyboard shortcuts for Develop adjustments, Smart Collections, more responsive and intelligent keywording, and 100+ more improvements.
Meanwhile Adobe releases a patch for Lightroom 1.4.1 and Camera Raw 4.4.1. links at Tom Hogarty’s blog.