Craig April 4th, 2008
With the release of the public beta for Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2.0, many photographers are eagerly diving in to check out the new features. So lets take a look and some of whats new. All screenshots below are from the Windows version because here in Taiwan, a Windows machine is half the price of a comparable Mac. As always, click on the image for a larger view.
One of the biggest new changes in this public beta is native 64 bit support. For Mac users, that means an Intel-based machine with Leopard (OS X10.5) and for Windows users, Vista-64. The key advantage of this is that it allows Lightroom to access more than 4GB of RAM. There is some discussion in the comments on John Nack’s site as to whetherit will work with Windows XP-64. I’m running XP64 and it seems to be working smoothly for me.
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Craig December 8th, 2007
Photo District News has compiled a list of the best photo books released in 2007. Clicking on each title will take you to a short review of each book. There’s plenty there to inspire everyone.
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Adobe has released a new version of the Camera Raw plug-in for Photoshop. The new version adds support for the Canon EOS 1Ds Mark III, the Canon G9, the Nikon D3 and D300, the Olympus E-3, and a couple of others. Here it is for Windows and here for Macintosh.
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They have also updated Lightroom to version 1.3.1. Windows. Macintosh.
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For those of you in Taiwan, the Kaohsiung Flickr group will be having their monthly meet up on December 22nd. Info is here.
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Phase One have their Capture 1 RAW software available in beta 2 stage available as a free trial download .
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Craig November 17th, 2007
Adobe have posted updated to Lightroom to 1.3 and Photoshop CS3 to 10.0.1 Click on the following links to go to the update sites, and read below for a list of changes.
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Lightroom for Windows. Macintosh.
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Photoshop CS3 for Windows. Macintosh.
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Here are the changes in updates.
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Lightroom
New file formats supported in the 1.3 release are:
- Canon 1Ds Mark III
- Canon PowerShot G9
- Nikon D3
- Nikon D300
- Olympus E-3
- Olympus SP-560 UZ
- Panasonic DMC-L10
Lightroom 1.3 includes corrections for the following issues:
- Writing XMP metadata automatically has been corrected for performance issues
- Printing with the native resolution option enabled no longer sets the wrong dimension for portrait oriented images
- Prior to Camera Raw 4.3 there was the possibility that artifacts in edge transitions could be introduced through the
- Bayer demosaic and luminance noise reductions algorithms. This has been corrected.
- The Canon sRAW format and the Fuji compressed RAF formats are now supported.
Lightroom 1.3 includes the following enhancements:
- The import dialog now offers the option to render 1:1 previews as part of the import process
- The export dialog layout has been enhanced
- A Lightroom Preview Export SDK is available for developers to create and distribute Export Plug-ins. Further details are located on Adobe Labs
This update also brings OS X 10.5 compatibility with Apple’s new Leopard OS which itself was updated today to 10.5.1.
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Photoshop CS3
The Update addresses these Windows version issues:
- A crash that could occur when Microsoft Intellipoint software is installed has been fixed.
- The speed of moving objects contained within multiple layer sets has been improved.
- The speed of closing large documents has been improved.
- Converting images to CMYK using certain profiles no longer results in black files.
- A crash that could occur when saving a 4-bit BMP file with 16 or fewer colors has been fixed.
- The Save for Web feature now includes an option to “Include XMP” (metadata) in the settings menu within the main Save for Web interface, making the existing capability easier to access.
- When using Save For Web with “Include XMP” enabled, all XMP data is now included in the optimized file.
- A problem that could cause the incorrect printer to appear within the print dialog box has been corrected.
- Images no longer print with odd-sized margins on various Epson printers, or print smaller and off-centered.
- Printer settings in Windowsﾮ are saved with a document while that document is open. If a document has not had Page Setup settings applied to it, the document will get the previous page setup used during the current session of Photoshop.
- Photoshop now turns off Windows ICM (system color management) when “Photoshop Manages Colors.”
- Print color matching has been improved.
- A problem that caused certain laser printers to show distortions when printing to a nonsquare resolution has been fixed.
And the following issues in the Macintosh version:
- The speed of moving objects contained within multiple layer sets has been improved.
- Converting images to CMYK using certain profiles no longer results in black files. \The Save for Web feature now includes an option to “Include XMP” (metadata) in the settings menu within the main Save for Web interface, making the existing capability easier to access.
- When using Save For Web with “Include XMP” enabled, all XMP data is now included in the optimized file.
- Print color matching has been improved.
- Images saved as DICOM and reopened in Photoshop CS3 are no longer corrupted on PowerPCﾮ based Mac computers.
Craig October 29th, 2007
One of the often overlooked aspects of digital imaging is the need to properly color calibrate monitors and printers to ensure that you are seeing accurate colors. Datacolor have just released the Spyder 3 calibration tools. I’ve been using the Spyder 2 Pro for a couple of years now and it has been a good performer for me, ensuring that the colors I see on my monitor look the way they are meant to. I’ll be writing a more detailed post about color calibration in the future, so anyone who wants to learn more should keep an eye on this space.
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Here’s Datacolor’s press release for the Spyder 3.
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Craig September 21st, 2007
During Patrick Gelsinger’s keynote at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) today, Intel made a small announcement regarding a group of companies who are now working together to create a “superspeed personal USB interconnect” with 10 times the speed of the current generation technology of USB 2.0. The USB 3.0 Promoter Group — which consists of Intel, Hewlett-Packard, NEC Corporation, NXP Semiconductors, Microsoft and Texas Instruments — looks to make several other major changes. More about it can be found here.
