Adobe has now released an update to the photo tools Lightroom and Camera Raw is available. The final versions of Lightroom 3.2 and Camera Raw 6.2 come up with some improvements.

What reasons have led to Adobe, the version numbers 3.1 and 6.1 to skip is not known, the changes in the new versions are for a service pack is relatively large.

Thus, newly supported in current products following cameras:

• Canon EOS 60D (to be published in October 2010)
• Fuji FinePix HS10
• Panasonic DMC-FZ100, DMC-FZ40 (FZ45) and DMC-LX5
• Pentax 645D
• Samsung NX10 and TL500 (EX1)
• Sony A290, A390, NEX-3, NEX-5, SLT-A33 and SLT-A55V

In addition, the noise and color profiles of the Casio Exilim EX-FH100 and Leica S2 have been revised. -Daten. Both cameras use the Adobe DNG format for storing its own raw data.

Were significantly expands the supplied lens profiles. The database for the correction of optical errors was expanded by 120 new profiles. In the list are now also the manufacturer Tamron and Zeiss lenses. These profiles were created by Adobe in collaboration with the manufacturers. Some already existing in versions 3.0 or 6.0 profiles were also revised. , oder das des weit verbreiteten Kit-Objektives Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS . Including, among others, the profile of vielgerügte Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM, or the widely used kit lens Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS.

A new feature has its Adobe Lightroom 3.2 also donated more: In the new version can now be exported images directly from the library to Facebook, Flickr and SmugMug.

A detailed list of changes in the Release Notes for Lightroom 3.2/Camera Raw 6.2 (English) read.

The new versions can be obtained free from Adobe by download:

• Adobe Lightroom 3.2 - Windows
• Adobe Lightroom 3.2 - Mac
• Adobe Camera Raw 6.2 - Windows
• Adobe Camera Raw 6.2 - Mac

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) eine Funktion zur Korrektur optischer Fehler von Objektiven eingebaut. Adobe has built into its third version of the tool photographers in Lightroom and Adobe Photoshop CS5 (Camera RAW) is a function for correcting optical aberrations of lenses. Unfortunately, the selection of supported lenses is limited.

As mentioned in my presentation by Adobe Lightroom 3 above, this "one-click correction" is not only simple but also achieves very good results. Unfortunately, there are a few of my beloved lenses not in the list of supported lenses. Especially for my very frequently used Tamron zoom lens profile is not included. For this reason I have my work done with the help of Adobe Lens Profile Creator to create the necessary self-correction profiles. Nearly 400 different settings were necessary to produce the raw material for the three lens profiles. Above all, creating a useful profile for a super zoom lens requires some patience.

Result

LD bei 28 mm. The example shows a 100% cut of the right lower corner of a shot with the Canon EOS 50D and the Tamron AF 28-300mm f/3.5-6.3 XR Di VC LD at 28 mm.

The results speak for themselves. Clearly visible are the distortion and chromatic aberration (color fringing) in the original. After application of the lens profile, these errors are almost completely compensated.

Unfortunately, the portal is planned from Adobe for the exchange of privately created adjustment profiles (yet) and also the function for online submission of finished profiles to Adobe is not currently functional. und Adobe Photoshop auch der Allgemeinheit zugänglich zu machen, habe ich hier das Paket zum Download eingestellt. In order to still the profiles I created for Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Camera Raw and Adobe Photoshop to make even the general public, I have set the package to download. The profiles include the following objectives:

• LD Tamron AF 28-300mm f/3.5-6.3 XR Di VC LD
• Canon EF 28mm 1:2.8
• Canon EF 50mm 1:1.8 II

Download the correction profiles

• Fotomanisch.de Lens Profile Version 1 Packet

Instructions

After downloading the package with the lens profiles , extract its content to the appropriate destination directory for your operating system:

• Windows XP
  • C: \ Documents and Settings \ (username) \ Application Data \ Adobe \ CameraRaw \ lens profiles \ 1.0
  • C: \ Documents and Settings \ All Users \ Application Data \ Adobe \ CameraRaw \ lens profiles \ 1.0
• Windows Vista or Windows 7
  • C: \ Users \ (username) \ AppData \ Roaming \ Adobe \ CameraRaw \ lens profiles \ 1.0
  • C: \ Program Files \ Adobe \ CameraRaw \ lens profiles \ 1.0
• Mac
  • / Users / (username) / Library / Application Support/Adobe/CameraRaw/LensProfiles/1.0
  • / Library / Application Support/Adobe/CameraRaw/LensProfiles/1.0

Reference
Replace "(user name)" with your user name. When Windows XP is "C: \ Documents and Settings" translated into the operating system language. At a German Windows directory is named according to the "C: \ Documents and Settings".

More links

• 30-day trial version of Lighroom 3 (PC / MAC)
• Adobe Lens Profile Creator

A few days ago the final release of Adobe Lightroom 3 is commercially available. What innovations and improvements are worth it and an update?

(siehe unten). After the long Lightroom Beta 3 is now available for several days, the finished product to buy, or a trial version for download (see below). The third generation of Adobe's photographers tool is characterized primarily by changes in detail.

New import module

The Import module has been completely revised. The new tripartite view clearly guides the user through the import process. The preview images to be imported has now given much more space. The source selection is now automatically displays the available drives and connected devices. While the camera is pointed directly to the storage medium. All settings can be saved in a template and import are selected so quickly. So far this Vorlangenfunktion was limited to the keywords and EXIF / IPTC tags.

Users of video cameras with built-in function will look for the new import feature films.

To my mind to the much heralded poorly tethered shooting is advised. fernbedient werden. With this function, a Canon or Nikon DSLR be remotely operated directly from Lightroom. The captured images will then be taken directly to the catalog. Unfortunately, in this module remote control just as the trigger. Since Canon EOS, with its tools more clearly.

Development

For me personally, the Develop module, two real highlights. First I would like to mention the new function of the lens correction. Here, pre-defined profiles for optical defects such as distortion, vignetting and chromatic aberration can be corrected with just one click. Adobe to deliver finished profiles for some lenses of Canon, Nikon and Sigma (Tamron and Sony together for only a negligible three profiles). For more profiles, the user can even use the Adobe Lens Profile Creator to create for its lenses.

The second highlight is the improved function for noise reduction. Lightroom 3 can also reduce luminance noise for the first time. The results are incomparably better than they would have been obtained with Lightroom 2. The example image shows a picture of a compact camera (Canon PowerShot SX110IS) at ISO 400 in RAW mode as a 100% crop.

Also new is a function for correcting perspective and the ability to emulate the classic film grain effects.

Other

In addition to the aforementioned improvements, there are some details worth mentioning. The export module can now be integrated into third-party plugins. Included is a plugin for directly synchronizing the personal photo collection with the online service Flickr. In addition, the printing function was complemented by a more flexible layout design, which should help, among other things, to save paper.

The slide show can now also provide sound effects to the picture. In addition to the existing facilities and the immediate view of the export as PDF, the slideshows can be exported to MP4 video. This allows the output resolution to 1080p pretend.

Conclusion and links

From my perspective, the changes are most probably Lightroom 3 evolution than revolution. The speed over previous versions of the catalog is much better, the noise reduction should be the first time, call it that. Overall, a successful update of a good product.

Adobe Lightroom 3 can be described as a 30-day trial version buy directly from Adobe:

• 30-day trial version of Lighroom 3 (PC / MAC)
• Adobe Lens Profile Creator

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Adobe has ushered in the second round of beta for the new version 3 of the familiar Adobe Lightroom. The second publicly available test version should be much faster and was equipped with additional new features.

New is support for video files. So that the development was taken into account that the most camera models are equipped with a corresponding absorption feature. Was also revised the import dialog, which now shows all subfolders of a selected directory and allows a preview by clicking on the images included. Improvements to the program itself should speed up the import and load the images clearly.

By professional photographers long expected and now first implemented in the beta 2 is the "tethered shooting" function. angesprochen und ferngesteuert. Here, the camera via USB or FireWire is directly addressed by Lightroom and remotely. In addition to a direct import from the camera functions are therefore also possible that were previously possible only with manufacturers programs (remote triggering, image preview, etc.). Supports this function but is currently only a small selection of cameras:

• Canon
• EOS 1Ds Mark II (32-bit operating systems)
• EOS 1D Mark III
• EOS 1Ds Mark III
• EOS 1D Mark IV
• EOS 5D (32-bit operating systems)
• EOS 5D Mark II
• EOS 40D
• EOS 450D (Digital Rebel XSi / EOS Kiss X2)
• EOS 500D (Digital Rebel T1i/EOS Kiss X3 Digital)
• EOS 7D
• EOS 1000D (Digital Rebel XS / EOS Kiss F)
• Nikon
• D3
• D3X
• D3s
• D300
• D300
• D5000
• D700
• D90

Have been significantly reworked the image processing functions. Besides minor changes in the functions for trimming, watermark or vignetting, A new method Demosaik get the details, texture and sharpness of the better noise reduction. Also new is that now dominates the noise reduction and the reduction of luminance noise. Already the first beta version of Lightroom 3 resulted in considerable improvement of the color noise over version 2.6.

The Adobe Lightroom 3 Beta 2 can be downloaded for free from Adobe. A license is needed to do that. Detailed descriptions of all changes and improvements (in English) can be removed from the release notes for the current beta.

Swell

• 3 Beta 2 Download Adobe Lightroom 2 Beta 3
• Release Notes for Lightroom 3 Beta 2 (PDF in English)

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Adobe has updated their products for photographers. 5.4 zum Download bereit. Now, Adobe Lightroom 2.4 and Camera RAW 5.4 available for download. What's new?

In the near future following changes:

1. Support for RAW formats of new cameras
2. New features for the converter to the DNG format
3. Introduction to the DNG format version 1.3

RAW format support for additional cameras

2.4 ist die Unterstützung für Kameratypen: New in Camera RAW 5.4 and Lightroom 2.4 is the support for camera models:

• Canon EOS 500D (Digital Rebel T1i/EOS Kiss X3 Digital)
• Canon PowerShot SX1 IS
• Epson R-D1x
• Hasselblad CF-22
• Hasselblad CF-22MS
• Hasselblad CF-39
• Hasselblad CF-39MS
• Hasselblad CFH-22
• Hasselblad CFH-39
• Hasselblad CFV
• Hasselblad 503 CWD
• Hasselblad H2D-22
• Hasselblad H2D-39
• Hasselblad H3D-22
• Hasselblad H3D-31
• Hasselblad H3D-39
• Hasselblad H3DII-22
• Hasselblad H3DII-31
• Hasselblad H3DII-39
• Hasselblad H3DII-39MS
• Hasselblad H3DII-50
• Kodak EasyShare Z980
• Nikon D5000
• Olympus E-450
• Olympus E-620
• Panasonic Lumix DMC-GH1
• Pentax K-7
• Sigma DP2
• Sony A230
• Sony A330
• Sony A380

Other options DNG

-Format umwandeln. The RAW converter of the new Adobe product can convert camera-specific raw data to the universal DNG format. This converter has been enhanced with several new features. These are borne mainly by the introduction of the new DNG 1.3 specification and compatibility with older versions of bill:

• Camera Raw 2.4 and newer:
  1.0 und neuer gelesen werden. The DNG file in Camera Raw 2.4 (Photoshop CS) and new, and in Lightroom 1.0 and later can be read.
• Camera Raw 4.1 and newer:
  1.1 und neuer gelesen werden. The DNG file in Camera Raw 4.1 (Photoshop CS3) and new, and in Lightroom 1.1 and newer are read.
• Camera Raw 4.6 and newer:
  2.1 und neuer gelesen werden. The DNG file in Camera Raw 4.6 (Photoshop CS3) and new, and in Lightroom 2.1 and newer are read.
• Camera Raw 5.4 and newer:
  ) und neuer, sowie von Lightroom 2.4 und neuer gelesen werden. The DNG file in Camera Raw 5.4 (Photoshop CS4) and new, and in Lightroom 2.4 and later can be read. Depending on camera model, the possibility that earlier versions of the program can read the DNG file.
• Custom (not in Lightroom 2.4)
  • 1.3 (Standard 1.3) Earlier version: DNG 1.1, DNG 1.3 (default 1.3)
  • Linear (mosaic-free) (default disabled)
  • Uncompressed (default disabled)

DNG 1.3 specification update

As already mentioned, the DNG specification has been updated to version 1.3. In this chapter, the identification of defective pixels, the DNG tags as well as compatibility with earlier versions adapted. The details can be in one Adobe PDF document provided to the DNG 1.3 specification is read.

Bugs fixed in Lightroom 2.4

The Lightroom 2.4 update includes some bug fixes. Following issues:

• Web galleries whose titles contain more than six characters are not exported.
• Three mistakes in trimming tool (aspect ratio, fast development, turning)
• Display errors by importing images via MTP / PTP USB protocol
• Sony. ARW files are not recognized in the Import dialog
• Error in the DNG metadata export
• Missing "Zoom Out" button in the Japanese language version
• Some speech and button in the eight corrections in Lightroom 2.3 introduced new language versions

Download

The latest versions can be downloaded for free from Adobe. As with previous versions of Lightroom is also used 2.4 as time-limited trial version without a license key.

• Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2.4 for Windows
• Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2.4 for Mac
• Adobe Camera Raw 5.4 for Windows
• Adobe Camera Raw 5.4 for Mac

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