{"id":1479,"date":"2010-03-23T13:10:35","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T04:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2010-03-23\/1479"},"modified":"2010-03-23T13:10:35","modified_gmt":"2010-03-23T04:10:35","slug":"lightroom-3-beta-2-and-my-plugins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2010-03-23\/1479","title":{"rendered":"Lightroom 3 Beta 2 and My Plugins"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<div class='resize_warning' id='arw1479'>\n<b>NOTE<\/b>: Images with an <img class='raw' width='19' height='18' src='\/i\/s\/red_zoomup.gif'\/> icon next to them have been artificially shrunk to better fit your screen; click the icon to restore them, in place, to their regular size.\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class='ic'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/lr\/Lr3b2Screenshot.png\" width=\"899\" height=\"585\"\nclass=\"raw\"\nid=\"iLr3b2Screenshot\"\/><\/div>\n\n<p>Adobe has released a <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/labs.adobe.com\/technologies\/lightroom3\/\">second free beta for\n<span class='nobr'>Lightroom 3<\/span><\/a> (&#8220;<span class='nobr'>Lightroom 3<\/span> Beta 2&#8221; &mdash; <b>Lr3b2<\/b>)\nwith <span class='nobr'>a lot<\/span> of bug fixes and speed improvements, and <span class='nobr'>a few<\/span> new goodies not\nfound in Lr2 or the first <span class='nobr'>Lightroom 3<\/span> beta, including:<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n  <li><p>Basic video-file support.<\/p><\/li>\n  <li><p>Initial tethered capture support for recent Nikon and Canon SLRs.<\/p><\/li>\n  <li><p>New rendering engine, new sharpening, new grain, new noise reduction, new tone-curve control, etc. <span class='nobr'>I used the<\/span> new point-curve tone control to create the freaky rendition above, of <span class='nobr'>a photo<\/span> from\n       <a href=\"\/blog\/2010-02-07\/1449\">February's ski trip with Anthony<\/a>.<\/p><\/li>\n\n  <li><p>Unofficial support for Chinese (two flavors), Dutch, French, German,\n      Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish.<\/p><\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>For an overview of the user-visible changes, see <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/labs.adobe.com\/technologies\/lightroom3\/releasenotes.pdf\">the\nrelease notes<\/a> in the Lr3b2 download, or even better, the traditional\ngo-to exhaustive list is <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.lightroomqueen.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/23\/whats-new-in-lightroom-30-beta2\/\">Victoria\nBampton's &#8220;What's New&#8221; post<\/a>. <span class='nobr'>For more of<\/span> an in-depth\npresentation of the bigger items, see <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/lightroom-blog.com\/2010\/03\/lightroom-3-beta-2.html\">here<\/a>,\n<a\nhref=\"http:\/\/blog.rusticolus.co.uk\/2010\/03\/adobe-lightroom-3-beta-2-has-arrived.html\">here<\/a>,\nand <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.computer-darkroom.com\/lr3_beta_2_preview\/lr3-beta2-1.htm\">here<\/a>\n(et en fran\u00e7ais, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.utiliser-lightroom.fr\/2010\/03\/22\/lightroom-3-beta-2-est-disponible\/\">ici<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n<p><b><big>Is Lr3b2 Ready for Prime Time?<\/big><\/b><\/p>\n\n<p><b>Do<\/b> make sure to see the &#8220;Primary Known Issues&#8221; in the\nrelease notes, including warnings about being <span class='nobr'>a beta<\/span> and keeping backups\nand data loss and such, but for what it's worth, unlike the first beta\nwhich was pretty rough, <b>I<\/b> think this one is good enough for prime\ntime, and <span class='nobr'>I use<\/span> it for all my new photos.<\/p>\n\n<p>I don't use Lr2 anymore, except for testing and for old stuff.<\/p>\n\n<p>You can install Lr3b2 on the same machine that Lr2 is installed on, and\neven use them at the same time if your machine is beefy enough (though <span class='nobr'>I\ndon't<\/span> see much benefit in running them at the same time).<\/p>\n\n<p><b><big>New Plugin Stuff<\/big><\/b><\/p>\n\n<p>Internally, Lr3b2 includes a bunch of new goodies for plugin\ndevelopment, some of which I've been able to take advantage of already.<\/p>\n\n<p>For example, I've just released <span class='nobr'>a new<\/span> <a\nhref=\"\/blog\/lightroom-goodies\/snapshot-on-export\">Snapshot\non Export plugin<\/a> that allows one to have Develop snapshots created\nautomatically on export. <span class='nobr'>It's sort of<\/span> like a &#8220;data backup&#8221; of the\nexport-time develop settings, that you can revert to in case you\naccidentally (or purposefully) make later develop changes, but the need to\nrecreate the image exactly as exported..<\/p>\n\n<p>The latest versions of <a\nhref=\"\/blog\/lightroom-goodies\">my other plugins<\/a>, when loaded\ninto Lr3b2, have <span class='nobr'>a few<\/span> new goodies as well....<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n  <li><p>My export\nplugins (for <a\nhref=\"\/blog\/lightroom-goodies\/flickr\">Flickr<\/a>, <a\nhref=\"\/blog\/lightroom-goodies\/smugmug\">SmugMug<\/a>, <a\nhref=\"\/blog\/lightroom-goodies\/facebook\">Facebook<\/a>, <a\nhref=\"\/blog\/lightroom-goodies\/zenfolio\">Zenfolio<\/a>, <a\nhref=\"\/blog\/lightroom-goodies\/picasaweb\">PicasaWeb<\/a>, <a\nhref=\"\/blog\/lightroom-goodies\/photobucket\">Photobucket<\/a>,\nand <a href=\"\/blog\/lightroom-goodies\/expono\">Expono<\/a>)\nhave the snapshot-on-export functionality built in, so your Export Dialog\n       now has <span class='nobr'>a new<\/span> section:<\/p>\n\n     <div class='ic'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/lr\/LR3-exporter-snapshots.png\" width=\"500\" height=\"268\"\nclass=\"raw\"\nid=\"iLR3_exporter_snapshots\"\/><\/div>\n\n<\/li>\n\n       <li style='margin-top:40px'><p>My <a href=\"\/blog\/lightroom-goodies\/data-plot\">Data-Plot plugin<\/a> now\n            has the ability to save sections of images to <span class='nobr'>a collection.<\/span> For example, in this screenshot, <span class='nobr'>I clicked<\/span> on the highlighted &#8220;Zoom&#8221; link to save all images taken with <span class='nobr'>a zoom<\/span> lens\n            to their own collection:<\/p>\n\n        <div class='ic tight'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/lr\/LR3-DataPlot-Save.png\" width=\"500\" height=\"331\"\nclass=\"raw\"\nid=\"iLR3_DataPlot_Save\"\/><\/div>\n\n              <p>You can select individual focal lengths, or ranges, to save as well, so you can\n            easily inspect your lens-use habits along these lines.<\/p>\n\n            <p>This particular enhancement is of interest only if you actually use my data-plot plugin,\n            but the concept &mdash; that plugins can now work directly with Lightroom collections &mdash;\n            bodes well for future workflow-improving plugins.<\/p>\n            <\/li>\n\n\n<li style='margin-top:40px'><p>Another &#8220;bodes well for the future&#8221; example is that <a href=\"\/blog\/lightroom-goodies\/gps-proximity\">my Proximity Search plugin<\/a> now supports an option to immediately switch the Library Filter to show only the images that are within the selected distance from the search epicenter:<\/p>\n\n        <div class='ic'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/lr\/LR3-Proximity-New.png\" width=\"550\" height=\"243\"\nclass=\"raw\"\nid=\"iLR3_Proximity_New\"\/><\/div>\n            <\/li>\n\n<li  style='margin-top:40px'><p>Some improvements are so subtle that you might not notice them unless they're pointed out.\n     For example, in Lr2 and Lr3b1, those using <a href=\"\/blog\/lightroom-goodies\/extended-search\">my Extended-Search plugin<\/a> had to remember to deselect all images before invoking it, an unintuitive hassle resulting from\n     <span class='nobr'>a limitation<\/span> in the Lightroom plugin infrastructure. Now, in Lr3b2, the plugin can tap into the &#8220;do the right thing&#8221;\n     selection mechanism that Lightroom itself uses, for <span class='nobr'>a more<\/span> intuitive user experience: if you have <span class='nobr'>a bunch<\/span> of images selected, they'll be worked on, but if you have just one image (or no images) selected, the plugin will work on all images in the filmstrip.<\/p><\/li>\n\n\n<li   style='margin-top:40px'><p>With the video support new in Lr3b2, <span class='nobr'>I can finally<\/span> retire my kludgy\n<a href=\"\/blog\/lightroom-goodies\/video-assets\">Video-Asset\nSupport plugin<\/a>. <span class='nobr'>It was a<\/span> maintenance nightmare, so I'm happy to see it\ngo.<\/p>\n\n<p>I've added a &#8220;migrate&#8221; feature to the latest version,\nso if you had used my video-asset plugin in Lr3b1, you'll want to invoke the migration\n     tool:<\/p>\n\n<div class='ic tight'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/lr\/VideoAssetsMigrate.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"196\"\nclass=\"raw\"\nid=\"iVideoAssetsMigrate\"\/><\/div>\n\n<p>The plugin is still useful in Lr2, but once the real Lr3 comes out and everyone can upgrade their\nLr2 catalogs to Lr3, the video-asset plugin can finally be fully decommissioned. Woo-hoo!<\/p><\/li>\n\n<li style='margin-top:40px'><p>A few new tokens are available in my plugins\nthat use <a href=\"\/blog\/lightroom-goodies\/template\">my\npreset template language<\/a>, allowing you to select date and time formats\nin your favorite system localized format.<\/p>\n\n<p>I use the new localized dates in some of my plugins as well (for\nexample, in the &#8220;uploaded at...&#8221; metadata item created by my exporter\nplugins).<\/p><\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>There are plenty of other little changes and enhancements that I'm\nprobably not thinking of at the moment. I've been so steeped in this for\nthe better part of the last year that it's sometimes hard to keep things\nstraight. Regular readers of my blog will have noticed that I've put up\nsignificantly fewer posts in the last few months... besides having some\nnasty colds, I've been working on Lr3-related things almost 24\/7.<\/p>\n\n<p><b><big>Lr3's Publish Feature<\/big><\/b><\/p>\n\n<p>The &#8220;Publish&#8221; feature, which first appeared in Lr3b1, is\nstill not ready for prime time. <span class='nobr'>The simple<\/span> Flickr plugin that Adobe\nincludes in Lr3b2 works as far as it does, but my export plugins &mdash;\nincluding my Flickr plugin that is much more feature-laden than Adobe's\n&mdash; still can't take full advantage of the promise that Publish offers,\nso full support is still <span class='nobr'>a work<\/span> in progress, targeting the real Lr3.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adobe has released a second free beta for Lightroom 3 (\"Lightroom 3 Beta 2\" -- <b>Lr3b2<\/b>) with a lot of bug fixes and speed improvements, and a few new goodies not found in Lr2 or the first Lightroom 3 beta, including:<\/p> <p>Basic video-file support.<\/p> <p>Initial tethered capture support for recent Nikon and Canon SLRs.<\/p> <p>New rendering engine, new sharpening, new grain, new noise reduction, new tone-curve control, etc. I used the new point-curve tone control to create the freaky rendition above, of a photo from February's ski trip with Anthony.<\/p> <p>Unofficial support for Chinese (two flavors), Dutch, French, German, Italian, [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}