New Color Fringe Correction Controls

One of the new enhancements to Lightroom 4.1 RC2 is the addition of new color fringe correction controls. What exactly is a color fringe correction? This blog post is intended to explain the problem and the solution we’ve provided in Lightroom 4.1.(For ACR customers it will also be included an upcoming version of ACR7 for Photoshop CS6, currently available as a public beta). The content in this post has been written by Eric Chan, the developer primarily responsible for implementing the solution.

http://blogs.adobe.com/lightroomjournal/2012/04/new-color-fringe-correction-controls.html

Scott Kelby on Adobe Creative Cloud

http://scottkelby.com/2012/my-adobe-creative-cloud-quick-qa/ 

But before we get to the questions, I thought I would at least try to explain, in one brief paragraph, what the Creative Cloud is. Here’s how I understand it:

“It’s two things: (1) You can pay a monthly fee and get to download onto your computer, and use, full versions of all of Adobe’s Creative Suite software (everything from the latest Photoshop to After Effects to Dreamweaver to Premiere Pro, and so on [I think it’s 26 programs in all). As long as you pay your monthly membership, you get to use any (or all) of their software programs. And (2) You get a number of Web services including things like Cloud syncing, Adobe’s Business Catalyst Web hosting, storage and online collaberation stuff among others (a list of which I’m sure will grow pretty quickly).”

Read the entire article here: http://scottkelby.com/2012/my-adobe-creative-cloud-quick-qa/  include some good Q&A

Lightroom 4.1 Release Candidate Now Available

Lightroom 4.1 Release Candidate Now Available
 

New camera and lens profile support for Lightroom users






Welcome to the Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom® 4.1 release candidate on Adobe Labs. A "release candidate" label indicates that this update is well tested but would benefit from additional community testing before it is distributed automatically to all of our customers.



The Lightroom team would like the community to help verify the quality of this update through normal usage as this will ensure that the application is tested on a diversity of hardware and software configurations not available internally at Adobe.









Download and Discuss

Download the Lightroom 4.1 release candidate

Discuss Lightroom

If you experience an issue with this release candidate, please submit a bug report. For more information on Lightroom 4, please visit the Lightroom product page on http://www.adobe.com/.
Thank You

The following new cameras are now supported.




New Camera Support

•Canon EOS 5D Mark III



Fixed Issues



The following issues have been fixed in the Lightroom 4.1 release candidate:

•Lightroom 4 did not properly open external applications when using the “Edit In” functionality.

•Point Curve adjustments made in Lightroom 3 have been restored.

•Addressed performance issues in Lightroom 4, particularly when loading GPS track logs, using a secondary monitor, and the controls within the Develop module.

•Ability to update DNG previews and metadata for more than 100 photos has been restored.

•This update allows for improved viewing of subfolders and stacks in folders with a large number of photos.

•It was possible that a layout of a saved book could be lost after quitting Lightroom 4.

The Lightroom team would like to thank all of the photographers on the Lightroom User to User forum who helped provide insight into the issues that we have addressed in this release.

Getting Started

Community

Product Details
Follow these steps to get started with the Lightroom 4.1 release candidate:

1.See the summary of cameras and lens profiles that are now supported ›

2.Download the Lightroom 4.1 release candidate ›

3.Ask questions or share your feedback in the Lightroom forums ›

Can Lightroom 4.1 Release Candidate be installed alongside Lightroom 4?

•Mac: IMPORTANT NOTE, the Lightroom release candidate installation behavior has changed with Lightroom 4 updates. This release candidate will replace your existing Lightroom 4.0 installation. If you wish to return to Lightroom 4 after installing Lightroom 4.1, simply reinstall Lightroom 4 from your original download after deleting Lightroom 4.1 release candidate.


•Windows: By default, this Lightroom 4.1 release candidate will remove or overwrite your existing Lightroom 4 installation. If you wish to return to Lightroom 4 after installing Lightroom 4.1, simply reinstall Lightroom 4 from your original download after uninstalling Lightroom 4.1 using the Windows add/remove program utility.
Both versions of the application share the same catalog format allowing your catalogs to be opened by either version without complications.

When will the Lightroom 4.1 release candidate expire?6/30/2012Will there be an upgrade charge for the final Lightroom 4.1 Release?No, Lightroom 4.1 will be a free update for all current Lightroom 4 customers.Where can I provide feedback on this release?If you experience an issue with this release candidate, please submit a bug report. Ask questions and discuss ideas with Lightroom customers in the Lightroom discussion forum.Will additional camera or lens support be available in the final release?It is possible that additional cameras or lenses will be supported in the final release.

A Thorough Guide to Lightroom Catalog Management

A Thorough Guide to Lightroom Catalog Management   

"If you’re familiar with Adobe’s popular Lightroom software, you have probably heard all of the talk about catalogs. Catalogs are Lightroom’s system for storing image edit data. Different photographers have different approaches to managing their photo libraries, and the talk about catalogs is a highly debated one. Today, we are going to take a look at the options of using multiple or single catalogs"

Read the whole article here:
http://photo.tutsplus.com/articles/post-processing-articles/a-thorough-guide-to-lightroom-catalog-management/

Lightroom 4.0 Resources

Lightroom 4.0 Resources


Lightroom 4 is out and we’re compiling a list of online resources dedicated to educating photographers on Lightroom 4. Adobe maintains an official YouTube channel with many great videos and tutorials, but its often helpful to get additional perspectives. Please submit additional content through the comments section and we’ll add them to the list.

Get Started with Julieanne Kost’s video tutorial series


What’s new in Lightroom 4 Video by Laura Shoe

Lightroom Queen’s “What’s new in Lightroom 4″

Jeffrey Friedl’s take on Lightroom 4.0

Photoshop Cafe Lightroom 4 Review

Comprehensive Lightroom 4 video by Photoshop Cafe (10 hours of video!)

Lightroom Secrets

Lightroom Killer Tips.com

Lightroom Tutorials.com – Book making in Lightroom 4

Video2Brain Lightroom 4 Workshop Videos

Lightroom Secrets’ New DNG Options

Video on using the Fader Plugin in Lightroom 4 (utilizes a 3rd party plugin)

Jan Kabili demonstrating the new Develop Module controls on The Photography Show podcast

Become the Next Photoshop Evangelist!

Become the Next Photoshop Evangelist!


Photoshop Hidden Gem videos reveal lesser-known features or new uses for common tools. Submit a video of your favorite Hidden Gem and you could become the Next Photoshop Evangelist! Win a trip to Photoshop World 2012 to present your tip, spend time with the product team, and receive a copy of Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Design Standard.

Submissions are due by March 5th...

What is a Photoshop Evangelist?

What is a Hidden Gem?

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Adobe released a public beta of Lightroom 4

Adobe today released a public beta of Lightroom 4. It is available immediately for free download from Adobe Labs. The beta version has a books creation module (to compete with what Aperture has had for a while), increased support for video files (high time), soft proofing capability (now you can see what it is going to look like when printed) and a Google Maps-powered geo-tagging module (this one will be fun). You can download the beta from the Adobe Labs site by clicking here.

Starting with Photoshop CS6, which is anticipated to ship in 2012, Adobe will be enforcing a new upgrade policy

For those of you that use Photoshop but do not own CS5
If you thinking about upgrading from CS2,3,4 to CS6 please note that Adobe's upgrade policy is about to change...

The existing policy for upgrades allows you to purchase the newest version at the upgrade price if you up to three major releases back! This will be no more, now the upgrade price will only be available if you own the previous release!

You might want to consider taking advantage of their 20% off on upgrades now and get CS5 if you own older versions...

Lisa


From Rob Galbraith and from Adobe

Adobe revamps upgrade policy for Photoshop CS6, other CS6 applications

Saturday, November 12, 2011 | by Rob Galbraith

Starting with Photoshop CS6, which is anticipated to ship in 2012, Adobe will be enforcing a new upgrade policy. The existing practice is to allow customers to purchase the newest version at the upgrade price if they own an existing version up to three major releases back. To upgrade to Photoshop CS6 or any other Creative Suite 6 application at the upgrade price, however, you will need to own a license to the previous major release (in this case, CS5, CS5.1 and CS5.5 are all considered to be the same version). Earlier major version releases will not be eligible for upgrade pricing. For more information on the new upgrade policy, the 20% discount available on existing upgrades through the end of the year as well as Adobe's subscription plan alternative, see the following articles: News: Adobe to Offer CS6 Upgrade Discount for CS5 Versions Only (ProDesignTools) Adobe Creative Cloud and Adobe Creative Suite: New Choices for Customers (Adobe) Photoshop CS5 Create powerful images with the professional standard Upgrade from US $19900 BuyTry Purchase requires verification of academic eligibility Save 20%. There's never been a better time to upgrade.

Save $100 on Photoshop Lightroom 3

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Adobe Photoshop CS5 update available now.

Dear Adobe Customer,


Adobe is pleased to announce a free update to Adobe® Photoshop® CS5 software that gives you the ability to work directly with mobile and tablet applications as they become available for devices like the iPad*.
http://direct.adobe.com/r?xnJcPJTEPvTvvEJvvPlTnlq

In order to take advantage of this new connection to devices, install the latest update by choosing

Help > Updates in Photoshop CS5 or Photoshop CS5 Extended software.

Along with the update, Adobe is announcing three initial iPad companion apps to Photoshop CS5 that can be purchased separately from the Apple App Store†:

Adobe Color Lava for Photoshop CS5

Create custom colors and color themes on your iPad and instantly access them in

Photoshop CS5.

Adobe Eazel for Photoshop CS5

Create beautiful paintings on your iPad and instantly access them in Photoshop CS5.

Adobe Nav for Photoshop CS5

Tap and swipe your iPad screen to activate Photoshop CS5 tools, browse open Photoshop documents, and much more.

Adobe knows creativity and we’re helping your creativity go mobile. Take your inspiration to new heights, wherever you are.

Best regards,

The Adobe Photoshop Team
http://direct.adobe.com/r?xnJcPJTEPvTvvEJvvPlTnlq

Adobe Sale

Adobe Sale


Adobe has a great coupon code that expires on November 30. Use coupon code SAVE2010 for these discounts on Adobe products to buy Lightroom 3 for $199 or Photoshop CS5 for $599. Better yet, buy them both for $710. That's $111 more than Photoshop CS5 usually costs!

* Save $100 on Lightroom - $199 total!

* Save $100 on Photoshop CS5 - $599 total.

* Save 30% on Lightroom 3 when purchased with Photoshop CS5.

* Buy Photoshop Elements 9 for $49.99 after a $20 mail in rebate.

Updates Lightroom 3.2 and Camera Raw 6.2

Lightroom 3.2 and Camera Raw 6.2 are now available as Release Candidates on Adobe Labs. (Download here: Lightroom 3.2, Camera Raw 6.2, including the DNG Converter 6.2) The ‘release candidate’ label indicates that this update is well tested but would benefit from additional community testing before it is distributed automatically to all of our customers.

WAIT! What happened to Lightroom 3.1? Well, it never happened. In order to simplify the presentation of updates for raw file format compatibility, the Lightroom and Camera Raw “dot” version numbers have been aligned at “2″. We update the Camera Raw plug-in and Lightroom regularly to provide access to new proprietary raw file formats and have aligned the decimal place so that there’s no confusion over which Lightroom update corresponds to a Camera Raw plug-in update and vice versa.

The final releases of Lightroom 3.2 and Camera Raw 6.2 may have additional corrections or camera support.

NEW --> The ability to publish directly to Facebook from within the Library module

Adobe Announces Release of Camera Raw 6.1

Adobe Announces Release of Camera Raw 6.1

Adobe today announced the immediate availability of the Photoshop Camera Raw 6.1 plug-in on Adobe.com.

Originally posted on Adobe Labs for community testing, the final release of Camera Raw 6.1 brings new lens correction functionality and adds raw file support for 10 new popular camera models for Photoshop CS5 customers. New lens correction features allow photographers to automatically apply profiles that correct for geometric distortions, chromatic aberration and lens vignette effects as well as manually make vertical and horizontal perspective transforms. Customized lens profiles can also be created with the newly released Lens Profile Creator, available now on Adobe Labs. Newly Supported Camera Models: 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; Olympus E-600; Panasonic G2; Panasonic G10; Sony A450

Availability

Photoshop Camera Raw 6.1 is available as a free download for Photoshop CS5, Photoshop Elements 8 (Win/Mac) and Premiere Elements 8 customers. For more information and to download the updates visit: http://www.adobe.com/downloads/updates/.

The Adobe Lens Profile Creator is available on Adobe Labs: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/lensprofile_creator/.

It is April 12th -- CS5 is here!

It is 11hours away from the offical release at 11am later today...

Just hearing from Adobe now that ALL products in their online store (including CS5) will ship free for one day only on Monday, if you enter the promo code FREESHIP when checking out. Coupon code expires April 12, 2010, at 11:59pm PDT.

CS5 Pre-Release

Wow! Thanks Rick for passing this along!!

Hi Lisa,
I’ve attached a Word document that summarizes links to CS5 from your blog with some additional info.
Rick

For all you Photoshop mavens, the long-awaited CS5 (White Rabbit) is almost here. I have 4 links below with brief descriptions above them (links originally from Lisa’s blogs). I’ve been a beta-tester of the expanded pre-release version of Adobe Photoshop CS5. Because of the non-disclosure document I agreed to, I wasn’t able to say anything about this until about 2 weeks ago. I still can’t mention any of the features or even show the interface until April 12. But at that time, everyone will be able to see the launch (the link at the bottom). Because one of the features, Content Aware Fill, is all over the Internet and was also shown at the NAPP conference in Orlando, I can talk about this one. It will save you an immense amount of time in retouching! I can only marvel at the algorithms that went into the programming code to do this. Take a look at these links. - Rick

Photoshop World 2010 Orlando – Sneak Peek at Photoshop CS5 with Katrin Eismann on Content Aware FillKatrin is Chair of the Masters in Digital Photography Program at the School of Visual Arts in NY & has authored a number of books and DVDs on digital photography and Photoshop.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPCWPH1AuXw&feature=player_embedded

More on Content Aware Fill
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH0aEp1oDOI

Just incredible what Content Aware Fill can do! Posted 4/1/10.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ScWu7pG7r0&feature=player_embedded

Adobe Creative Suite 5 Launch to be held 4/12/10 at 11 am EDT. You’ll need to register at this site.http://cs5launch.adobe.com/?trackingid=FDJZH

wow -- all this in CS5, what a bargain!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ScWu7pG7r0&feature=player_embedded



April fools...
:-)

CS5: more on content aware fill

more on content aware fill...cannot wait until April 12th!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPCWPH1AuXw&feature=player_embedded

Counting down to CS5

With the right tools, your creative horizon changes. A tree is still timber, but suddenly in a whole new way. Old ideas germinate again, and new ideas branch into unexpected opportunities. Welcome to Adobe® Creative Suite® 5—software that will allow you to reach more people, more effectively, in more places, with whatever masterpiece you can imagine.

Join us for the exclusive Global Online Launch Event, Monday, April 12, 2010.