{"id":1951,"date":"2012-03-06T14:26:02","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T05:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2012-03-06\/1951"},"modified":"2012-03-06T14:26:02","modified_gmt":"2012-03-06T05:26:02","slug":"lightroom-4-0-is-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2012-03-06\/1951","title":{"rendered":"Lightroom 4.0 is Out!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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\n\nCentral Japan<\/span>\nand my photos over the last 11 months\nas seen in Adobe Lightroom 4.0<\/span>'s new Map Module\n<\/div>\n\n
\n\nGreater Kyoto<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n

After a two-month public beta<\/a>, Adobe has just released Lightroom 4.0<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

It's not a free upgrade, but with the price now cut in half (upgrades are now $80), it's an easy decision.*<\/a><\/sup> \nThere's a lot<\/span> new if you're coming from Lr3, the most important likely being the new rendering engine. Laura Shoe\nhas a post<\/span> and video about what's new here<\/a>,\nand Victoria Bampton's always exhaustive “what's new” list is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

*<\/sup>\nAt just $80 for the upgrade, even from Lr1, it's an easy decision, but\nAdobe usually comps me a free<\/span> copy, which is very nice, so if that holds true again,\nI won't<\/span> even have to make that simple decision. \ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/p>\n\n

Lr4 and My Plugins<\/p>\n\n

The biggest change for all my Lightroom\nplugins<\/a> is mostly under the hood, so you'll need new versions. Visit\nthe plugin manager and “check for updates”. It's probably<\/span> best\nto do this Lr3 before upgrading because the old versions might not even\nload in Lr4. (If you need to upgrade after, you can always do a manual<\/span>\nupgrade by downloading the latest version of the plugin from the plugin's\nhome page, unzipping, and replacing the old copy with the new.)<\/p>\n\n

One big thing you'll notice is that plugins that had been registered in\nLr2 or Lr3 are now no longer registered, an unfortunate side effect of how\nI designed<\/span> my plugin registration system some years ago. If you want<\/span> them\nto be registered, you'll have to register them<\/a>\nagain sometime in the next six weeks or so, though as before, you can do so\nwith just 1 cent. Sorry for the hassles.<\/p>\n\n

My Geoencoding Plugin<\/p>\n\n

If you've been using my Geoencoding plugin<\/a>, you'll be excited about the new Map Module in Lr4. The first<\/span> time you bring up Lr4 with a recent<\/span> version of the plugin, all the plugin's location data (its “shadow data”) is migrated over to Lr4's native data.<\/p>\n\n

Personally, I've found that the Map Module is great for manual\ngeoencoding, for browsing, and for searching, but I still<\/span> prefer my plugin\nto geoencode from a tracklog.<\/span> I find Lr<\/span>'s tracklog geoencoding difficult to\nunderstand, and it bothers me that it doesn't handle altitude. My plugin<\/span> does.<\/p>\n\n

The plugin also includes a bunch of stuff that'll be useful regardless\nof how photos get encoded, such as the ability to view mapped locations in\na variety<\/span> of online mapping services, or in Google Earth.<\/p>\n\n

Upgrade Process: Have Patience<\/p>\n\n

Especially if you have a large corpus of geoencoded photos, the first\nthing you'll want to is jump into the map module to play, and in this\nyou will be greatly disappointed because Lightroom apparently has to do a lot<\/i> of processing under the hood before it's ready.<\/p>\n\n

When I upgraded my main catalog on my desktop machine (92,000 photos\ndating until last April when I switched<\/span> to my laptop), I switched<\/span> to the\nMap Module and got a spinning<\/span> beach-ball for five solid minutes. Switching\nback to Library again beach-balled for a few<\/span> minutes. But the biggest<\/span> shock\nwas checking the geoencoded photos: there should have been 50,000 or so, but\nLightroom told me there were only 28,000:<\/p>\n\n

\n\nMy Photo World<\/span>\nsort of\nI can now see at a glance that I geoencoded<\/span> 14 photos incorrectly\n<\/div>\n\n

Apparently, Lightroom needs to do something with each image under the\nhood before the transition from old plugin data to native Lightroom support\ntakes effect in the Map Module and in the Library Grid Filter, and it's\nvery slow. We're talking hours to handle the 22,000 photos that had been\ngeoencoded with my plugin. It's not fun<\/span> to wait, but even worse, Lightroom\ngives you no indication that it's still working and that the data it shows\nyou is incomplete.<\/p>\n\n

So, it's probably best at some point to open the Library Grid to “All\nPhotographs”, select “GPS Data” in the metadata filter, and walk away to\nlet Lightroom grind for a while.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n

Color Label Set<\/p>\n\n

One more warning: if you use a custom Color Label Set\n(“Metadata > Color Label Set”<\/span>\nis anything other than “Lightroom Default”<\/span>), you may be very surprised\nto find that after the upgrade to Lr4 it has been reset to “Lightroom Default”<\/span>.\nThis can be a fairly<\/span> major problem because when you assign color labels, you're actually assigning the label<\/i>\nand not the color<\/i>, and if the label set has been changed out from under you, you'll unknowingly\nbe applying the wrong<\/i> label.<\/p>\n\n

So, be sure to check your color label set.<\/p>\n\n

Plugin Support for Lightroom 2<\/span><\/p>\n\n

Most of my plugins still work in Lightroom 2,<\/span> but with the aggressive\nprice lowering in Lr4, I expect<\/span> most people who are still running Lr2 to\nmove over, so going forward, I don't<\/span> expect to put much more energy to\ncontinue to support Lr2 in my plugins.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After a two-month public beta, Adobe has just released Lightroom 4.0.<\/p>

It's not a free upgrade, but with the price now cut in half (upgrades are now $80), it's an easy decision.*  There's a lot new if you're coming from Lr3, the most important likely being the new rendering engine. Laura Shoe has a post and video about what's new here, and Victoria Bampton's always exhaustive \"what's new\" list is here.<\/p>

* At just $80 for the upgrade, even from Lr1, it's an easy decision, but Adobe usually comps me a free copy, which is very nice, so if [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951"}],"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=1951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}