Note: some of the features discussed on this page are more-easily handled via my Metadata-Viewer Preset Builder plugin.

As I discussed in a previous post, Adobe's new photo-workflow application, Lightroom, has the sometimes-unpolished feature set one might expect in a "1.0" product. The main core functionality is great, more than I think one could expect from a "1.0" product, but it lacks a lot of user-customization abilities that you know will be added eventually, once the "to do" list of must-have features gets down to terrestrial levels.

(Note: the technique discussed on this page does not work with [...]

As I noted in my previous post, three weeks after having been officially announced, Adobe has released Lightroom Version 1.0 (a free 30-day trial can be downloaded from Adobe's Lightroom page).

Especially considering it's only a "Version 1" product, Lightroom offers a lot of things that can be customized. The subject of this post is the list of image metadata shown by the Metadata Panel in Library mode.

The metadata panel can show much more for an image than anyone's likely to want to see at one time -- over 100 items, such as its filename, the [...]

Adobe Lightroom Version 1.0 was made public today, in line with the schedule previously announced. I eagerly downloaded and installed 30-day-free evaluation copies, one for my Mac, and one for my Windows box... (my Linux box is still Lightroom-free, unfortunately).

One nice thing about Lightroom is that the licence is for two computers, so you can buy one copy and use on both your Mac laptop and Windows desktop (for example, which is what I'm doing).

Over half a million people registered to try the free betas last year, and with the advances between October's "Beta 4.1" and today's "1.0", [...]