I released two new plugins for Adobe Lightroom today, my Folder Publisher and Collection Publisher. They're what my old "Tree Publisher" plugin should have been, with many extras. They allow you to replicate the folder or collection hierarchy in Lightroom out to local disk, and optionally even FTP the results somewhere.

I was never happy with the old tree publisher, but I'm quite happy with these two new ones. Combined with some big changes to my Crop for iPad plugin that I pushed recently, I've completely revamped my workflow to get a copy of my portfolio onto my iPad. I [...]
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This post is of interest only to Lightroom plugin developers.

Round about Lightroom 3.2, Adobe added support for intercepting "lightroom://" URLs, but have not documented it yet, so I'll do so here. It's particularly useful as part of an OAuth-authentication procedure.

What

You can have your plugin automatically respond to certain "lightroom://" URLs if they are formatted correctly, and if you add appropriate support to your plugin.

URL Form

After registering the appropriate handler in you plugin, as described below, the handler will be invoked when your system browser receives a URL of the form:

The "your.plugin.id" is the LrToolkitIdentifier [...]
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A bit more than a year and a half after releasing Lightroom 3, Adobe today has released (the first?) public beta for Lightroom 4.

Get it here: Lr4 Beta at Adobe

Lightroom 4 has lots of new big-ticket goodies, including a book module, map module (with geoencoding!), soft proofing, more video support, and a new render engine that takes the dramatic improvements in raw image conversion seen in the Lr2→Lr3 to the next leap. There are also many small improvements sprinkled about.

Adobe's Lightroom-Journal announcement gives some details, but for a comprehensive list of changes, see Victoria Bampton's always-excellent "What's [...]
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Adobe has just released Lightroom 3.6, a free upgrade for Lightroom 3.x users, which I mentioned the other day as having new camera-calibration profiles. In addition to assorted bug fixes, it also has new lens-correction profiles for more than 35 new lenses, and support for a bunch of new cameras:

Canon Powershot S100 Fuji FinePix X10 Leica V-LUX3 Nikon 1 J Nikon 1 V1 Panasonic Lumix DMC-GX1 Ricoh GR Digital IV Samsung NX5 Samsung NX2020 Sony NEX-7

Details and download links available on the announcement at Adobe's Lightroom Journal blog.

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This is a followup to April's "Important Note for Nikon D3/D700/D300 Shooters Who Use Lightroom or Photoshop" post about camera-calibration profiles for Lightroom (and Adobe Camera Raw).

It seems that the Lr3.6 beta that Adobe recently put out includes a new version ("Camera Standard v4") for the Nikon D3, D700, and D300 that has been improved yet again. You can't blindly change from v3 to v4 because v3 is intended to be used with -0.5EV of exposure compensation in Lightroom, while v4 somehow gets around that. (I don't recall exactly why v3 required the exposure compensation, but I remember understanding [...]
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