Sometimes we start working with our photos and start to outgrow the hard drive we started with and add new ones as they fill up. Soon you can find yourself in a mess of drives and unclear as to where any of your photos are. The following procedures are for consolidating your photos in Lightroom which are residing on multiple hard drives in to a single hard drive and eliminating any missing photos in your Lightroom catalog. To perform this task you will need to have all your hard drives containing your photos connected, a newly formatted hard drive large enough to accommodate all your photographs and room for future photos, and know where your current Catalog is on your drive.
Today Adobe announced the release of the all new Lightroom 5 in a beta release and with the new version of Lightroom of course comes new features. Some of the new highlighted features in Lightroom 5 are a new Advanced Healing brush, Upright, Radial Gradient, Offline Editing with Smart
Adobe has released an update to Lightroom 4.4 today. The new update includes bug fixes, new lens profiles, and support for 25 new cameras including the Canon EOS 1D C, Nikon D7100 and Samsung NX300. This release also includes improved support for the X-Trans image sensor in FujiFilm cameras, such as the X-Pro1. See the Lightroom 4.4 ReadMe file for additional details.
Included in the update is the support for new cameras including the Canon 650D/Rebel T4i, Fujifilm X-E1, and Sony DSC-RX100. The update also adds Album Support within the Revel Publishing Service and corrections for issues introduced in previous versions of Lightroom. There's also new support for a list of cameras including the Nikon D800 & Canon 5D MIII. Here's the full list of fixes and added support.
You can get the update by checking for Updates in the Help menu of Lightroom & Photoshop or download it from the Adobe Website.
Adobe Labs has posted a release candidate update to Lightroom 4.2. The new release supports new cameras including the Canon Rebel T4i, adds new lens profiles, and fixes various bugs and issues. The update also now fixes tether support for the Nikon D4, D800, and D800E (win only). You can read more about the details here and download the update here.
A Release Candidate is a pre-release of the update to get user feedback and make sure it works all right before the official release.
One of the advantages of using Lightroom catalogs is while you travel or are on location shooting you can download photos to your laptop, develop them on your laptop then transfer all the work to your studio computer at a later date. This is a real common workflow for photographers who travel with a laptop and have a studio computer back at home. Without a little knowledge of catalogs and how to transfer them, this could be a headache and potentially make a mess of your studio catalog if not done right. Let's take a look at how to transfer your photos in Lightroom from your laptop to your studio computer.
Adobe has posted updates to Lightroom 4.1 and Camera Raw 7.1 on their websites. You can download the Lightroom 4.1 updates for Mac and Windows. The Adobe Camera Raw 7.1 updates for Mac and Windows.
Ne in the updates are Lightroom adding HDR TIFF processing, the ablility to save photo books in JPEG, additional color fringing corrections, and new cameras supported including the Canon 5D MIII & Nikon D800. You can read more about the details here.
Adobe Labs has released another update to Lightroom bringing it to version 4.1 RC 2. The new release supports new cameras, adds a new Defringe Control to help address chromatic aberration, and now can read 16-bit, 24-bit, and 32-bit HDR files. You can read more about the details here and download the update here.
A Release Candidate is a pre-release of the update to get user feedback and make sure it works all right before the official release.
The new Defringe control is available in the Lens Correction panel in the Color section. If you want to read the details on how to use this new feature you can read the technical sheet at Adobe's website here.
One of the new features to appear in the new version of Lightroom 4 is the ability to email directly out of the Lightroom program. The new feature allows you to send email containing your photos from Lightroom or use your default email application. Lightroom is set up to use email providers like AOL, Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, or your own provider.
One of the new features to appear in Lightroom 4 is the addition of the Map module. The Map module allows you to see on a Google map where your pictures where taken if your camera has built in GPS. If your camera does not have built in GPS you can place your photos on the map manually or import a track log from a GPS device and match them up to selected photos in your catalog. The map data and screen images come from Google so you will need to be connected to the Internet in order to see the map.
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