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Have you ever wanted to meet the folks whose names appear on the Lightroom splash screen? 
Well, here’s your chance. Up first is Andrew Rahn.(@paddlefish) We’ll be posting more in the future so it would be good to get your feedback on what you would like included.
As part of Scott Kelby’s second-annual worldwide photowalk Adobe is leading the charge with four walks of our own, hosted and joined by members of the Photoshop, Lightroom, Bridge or Camera Raw teams. Space is limited so sign up quickly to walk and shoot with Adobe’s digital imaging team:
Enjoy!
Lightroom 2.4 and Camera Raw 5.4 are now available as final releases on Adobe.com and through the update mechanisms available in Photoshop CS4 and Lightroom 2. These updates include camera support for the following models:
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Note: Hasselblad support is for the 3FR file format only. The Hasselblad FFF file format is not currently supported. |
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Lightroom 2.4 Bug Fixes
The Lightroom 2.4 update includes several bug fixes. The following is a list of items FIXED in this release.
New Lightroom 2.4 and Camera Raw 5.4 DNG Options
This release includes new DNG Compatibility conversion options. These choices help address the additional options available with the new DNG 1.3 Specification (http://www.adobe.com/dng):
DNG 1.3 Specification Update
The DNG specification has been updated to version 1.3.[LINK] The update includes the following changes:
The additional "Opcode Lists" allow complex processing to be moved off the camera hardware, which can have limited processing power, and into the DNG reader, which is often running on more powerful hardware. This also allows processing steps to be specified, such as lens corrections, which ideally should be performed on the image data after it has been demosaiced, while still retaining the advantages of a raw mosaic data format.
The Camera Raw 5.4 Release Candidate is now available on Adobe Labs. The release includes new camera support for the following models:
* Canon EOS 500D (EOS Rebel T1i)
* Epson R-D1x
* Hasselblad CF-22
* Hasselblad CF-22MS
* Hasselblad CF-39
* Hasselblad CF-39MS
* Hasselblad CFH-22
* Hasselblad CFH-39
* Hasselblad CFV503
* Hasselblad 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
* Sigma DP2
This release also includes new DNG Compatibility conversion options. These choices are explained on the Adobe Labs web site and help address the additional options available with an upcoming revision of the DNG Specification.
If you have feedback on this release please post a descriptive topic on the Adobe User to User forums.
A Lightroom 2.4 Release Candidate is not currently available.
Adobe evangelist Terry White has posted a recording of his session “An Evening with Terry White – My Photoshop Lightroom Workflow” along with some follow up Q&A for folks who couldn’t make it to the session last night:
Melissa Gaul, Lightroom Technical Evangelist and the Melissa in MelissaRGB, has begun posting nuggets of Lightroom goodness to Twitter.
Other Lightroom team members on Twitter (in a personal and/or professional capacity):
Eric Scouten – Computer Scientist
Tom Hogarty – Product Manager
Troy Gaul – Project Lead
Philip Clevenger – Experience Design Manager
Kevin Tieskoetter – Computer Scientist
Jeffrey Tranberry – Photoshop QE Product Lead & Lightroom Evangelist
Adobe TV tweets updates to free video content featuring expert insight, tips and tricks for Adobe products including Lighroom.
For those interested, Serge Jespers has compiled a list of Adobeans on Twitter here.
Our own Winston Hendrickson, Sr. Director – DI Engineering, recently sat down with Derrick Story to discuss Lightroom, Photoshop, Bridge, and Adobe Camera Raw.
Derrick writes, “During this chat in a conference room at Adobe headquarters, Winston and I talk about what’s happening under the hood for Bridge, ACR, and Photoshop. He explains lots of goodies such as, the difference between the Lightroom and Bridge “databases,” the similarities between the Develop module in Lightroom and the sliders in ACR, improvements in Photoshop, and some great lesser-known features such as Camera Profiles. Terrific, informative interview.”
Listen to the interview here: “Adobe Engineer Pops the Hood on CS4” – Digital Photography Podcast 171
Join Adobe evangelist Terry White via Adobe Connect for “An Evening with Terry White” where he will cover his Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 workflow from start to finish.
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Time: 7:00pm – 8:00pm Eastern Time Zone
Location: http://my.adobe.acrobat.com/eveningwithterry
Details on the event are on his
Facebook event page
Additional details from Terry in this post’s extended entry.
Adobe has put together a series of free eSeminar for professional photographers to learn more about Lightroom 2 and Photoshop CS4:
Adobe® Lightroom® 2
Thursday, April 9, 2009, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM US/Pacific
Adobe® Photoshop® CS4 for photography
Thursday, April 23, 2009, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM US/Pacific
Adobe® Lightroom® 2
Thursday, May 7, 2009, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM US/Pacific
Adobe Photoshop CS4 + Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 – The pro photo solution
Thursday, May 14, 2009, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM US/Pacific
See the Adobe Online Events page for details & registration info.
Lightroom 2.3 and Camera Raw 5.3 have graduated from Adobe Labs and are now available as final releases on Adobe.com.(UPDATE: Use this link to download the new language versions of Lightroom ) These updates include camera support for the following models:(Previously provided in the release candidates of these updates)
This update also includes preliminary support for the recently announced Epson R-D1x (and R-D1xG).
The Lightroom 2.3 update includes several bug fixes.
FIXES originally provided in the Lightroom 2.3 Release Candidate
- In the Windows 64-bit version of Lightroom an sFTP upload process could cause Lightroom to crash.
- Slideshows could return to the first image randomly during playback.
- A memory leak could cause Lightroom to crash while attempting to process files with local adjustments.
- Canon EOS 5D Mk II sRAW files could process with artifacts in Lightroom 2.2.
- Lightroom 2.2 could cause disc burning to fail for Windows customers.
FIXES new to the final version of Lightroom 2.3
- Attempting to undo(CTRL-Z) a single step in Lightroom 2.2 on Windows could cause a series of previous actions to be undone.
Lightroom 2.3 now provides language support for the following additional languages:
(UPDATE: Use this link to download the new language versions It indicates a trial version but it’s identical to what we’re now shipping from the Adobe.com Store for this new version. Since technically these versions didn’t exist before there was no place to put them on the Update page.)
I’d like to thank everyone who provided feedback on the release candidates of Camera Raw 5.3 and Lightroom 2.3 that were posted to Adobe Labs.