Lightroom Release Notes Introduction Adobe Lightroom is the complete,…

Lightroom Release Notes

Introduction
Adobe Lightroom is the complete, elegant environment for the art and craft of digital photography, from raw capture to creative output.
Or will be. Currently, Lightroom is not feature complete, we've got many more features to come. We will also be responding to customer feedback and
providing regular beta releases in the coming year. Please help us make this application the best it can be by sending us feedback, and participating in the
discussion groups.
Thank you for helping us!


Basic Information
Launching Adobe Lightroom will bring you into the Library, which is the location for photo management activities. Once you've chosen the photos you want
to work with, you can switch contexts using the Module Picker that is located on the top right of the screen. Selecting "Develop" will bring you to the Develop
module where you can perform image adjustments, Slideshow will enable you to create slideshows for onscreen viewing and exporting, Web will help you
make web photo galleries of your images, and Print will provide you with many ways to set up your printouts.

When you have imported your images, your images will be put into a "Shoot" as displayed in the left panel in Library. Each image can be in one and only
one shoot. After importing, you can create Collections in which photos can live in more than one collection. Alternatively, "Quick Collection" is a quick way
to select your picks. You can quickly gather images in a Quick Collection with the keyboard shortcut (B) and view the Quick Collection either by clicking on
Quick Collection in the Library panel, or using cmd-B.

The Film Strip is the area located on the bottom of the screen and contains the photos that are selected in the Library (that appear in the Grid view). The film
strip will remain populated with these photos throughout the other modules. Print, Slideshow, and Web will work only on selected images. You can multi-
select in either the Library before entering these modules, or multi-select in the Film Strip to add images.



Minimum Requirements
      ·     Macintosh OS 10.4.0 or higher
      ·     G4, G5 or Intel CoreDuo processor (Yes, we will work on a Powerbook)
      ·     768MB RAM
      ·     1GB Free HD space


New in Lightroom Beta 3
General

-Lightroom now has an option to write out XMP sidecar files automatically.


Import

- Presets for Metadata and Develop settings can be specified and applied during import.
- Auto-import folders allow files to be automatically moved out of a designated folder and placed in the Lightroom managed photo directory. (See the
Preferences Window, Import tab).


Export

- The Export dialog supports specifying the resolution of the exported file.


Develop

- Before and After previews provide live comparison of image adjustments
- Enhanced cropping including an additional straighten tool
- The History panel automatically and independently keeps track of the changes applied to each image Selecting any line in the history panel will return the
image to the edited state at that point in time. Selecting the "Add" button at the top of the panel adds a HistoryCheckpoint, collapsing the automatic history
states into a user history state.



Slideshow

The previous Slideshow module included a Flash export options. As of Beta 3 this format has been moved to a separate Web module. An updated HTML
gallery output has also been included in the new Web module.



Web

The Web Module is new in this release. Its design was heavily influenced by the feedback we received on the forums. We welcome your further input. The
web module comes with two pre-installed web templates : one based on HTML and one based on Flash. In the future we will be documenting how
photographers can create their own templates for use in the Lightroom Web Module.



Print

- Below the page in the print module, photographers can click on the paper name to bring up the Page Setup dialog, and the printer name to bring up the
Print Settings dialog.
- The Adobe Color Engine(ACE) for color management, brings Lightroom output closer in line with other Adobe applications.
- Black point compensation is available when printing with a custom printer profile.
- Print settings are automatically saved per collection.
- Relative rendering intent is now functional.


Download Lightroom
Two downloads are available, the Lightroom application and the Lightroom application with sample content to jump start your Lightroom experience.
Download and launch the disk image(.dmg) then drag Lightroom to the Applications folder.


Discussion Forum
Follow the links on the http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/lightroom/ home page. The Lightroom product team will be participating as well, and we look
forward to receiving your feedback.


Reporting Bugs
Follow the links on on the http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/lightroom/ home page. If for some reason your application starts to act oddly, it would be much
appreciated if you could save off a copy of your preference file and your database file. (The database file is named Lightroom B3 Library.aglib, and is located
by default in ~/Pictures/Lightroom).


Known Issues for Beta 3
App General


- Edit in Photoshop from Lightroom does not show an error dialog if a file cannot be opened. This is caused by having an older version of the Camera Raw
plug-in (ie Version 3.0x113). Please visit the following link to update the Camera Raw plug-in: http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/cameraraw.html
- Performance after the database update might be slow. If the app is slow, quitting and relaunching after updating to Beta 3 will help.
- If you have images in a read-only location, Lightroom will not inform you of a failure to write out sidecar files.

Import

- Import is now located only in the File Menu or keyboard short cut.
- 8 bit TIFF files with JPEG compression may appear pixelated in Lightroom.
-"Progressive" format JPEG files have a black line along the bottom of image.
-TIFF files saved as "Packbits" are not supported in Lightroom.
- Some layered TIFF files with a top adjustment layer show incorrectly (gray stripes).
- CMYK files will not import into Lightroom at this time.

Export

- Export is now located only via the File Menu or Keyboard Shortcut.
- Using a very long filename (i.e., greater than 200 or so characters) in the Export Rename dialog may cause the "overwrite" dialog to come up.


Library

- As stated above, the Import, Export buttons have been removed from the interface and are only accessible via the File Menu or Keyboard Shortcut
- Images may not be in correct time-lapse order in Library.

Print

- To properly use Print Presets in Lightroom, you cannot have a preset selected in the OS print dialog. The OS preset will quietly override the Lightroom
preset.

Slideshow

- The previous Slideshow module included a Flash export options. As of Beta 3 this format has been moved to a separate Web module. An updated HTML
gallery output has also been included in the new Web module.

Web

- FTP export does not handle extended characters in usernames or passwords properly. If your username or password has an extended character, a
workaround is to type in the encoding for the character instead of the character itself. (for example, you would type in "%40" for "@".

- The Flash web gallery functionality requires that you have Flash Player 8 or better. The Flash Player can be downloaded from http://www.adobe.com/
shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash .
- There is a separate download of the Flash player for Intel Macintosh computers. The preview release of Flash Player 8 runs natively on Intel-based Macs, but
it has not been extensively tested and customers may run into compatibility, performance, and other issues. Lightroom may crash in web module on Intel
Macintosh computers when previewing a Flash gallery and changing color selection; we are working with the Flash team on this issue. Download the Flash
player for Intel Macintosh here http://www.adobe.com/go/2dda3d81 .



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