{"id":377,"date":"2007-01-29T14:02:30","date_gmt":"2007-01-29T05:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2007-01-29\/377"},"modified":"2007-06-30T19:50:13","modified_gmt":"2007-06-30T10:50:13","slug":"adobe-lightroom-version-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2007-01-29\/377","title":{"rendered":"Adobe Lightroom Version 1.0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n

Adobe has, just one minute ago, announced<\/a>\nthe February release of Lightroom version 1.0, its digital photo workflow\napplication. (The official name is “Adobe® Photoshop®\nLightroom™<\/b>” but everyone but Adobe will call it simply\n“Adobe Lightroom<\/b>,” including me.)<\/p>\n\n

Update:<\/b> see my What's New in Lightroom 1.1<\/span><\/a> post.<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>Adobe Lightroom Version\n1.0,<\/span> “Library Grid View”<\/span>(click image for\nfull-resolution screenshot)<\/div>\n\n

Lightroom allows one to quickly and effectively process large numbers of\ndigital images. I often<\/span> take 500+ pictures at a single<\/span> event, and Lightroom\nlets me quickly go through them, sorting them, hiding\/deleting the bad,\nmake small adjustments (or large adjustments — I'm still not a good<\/span>\nphotographer) in exposure, white balance, rotation, color, de-spotting,\netc.<\/p>\n\n

It has modules for dealing with photos as a library<\/span> (sorting, editing\nmetadata, etc.), “developing” the image (making the aforementioned\nadjustments), producing slideshows, web pages, and for printing. For the most<\/span> part, I use only<\/span> the first two.<\/p>\n\n

I've mentioned Adobe's Lightroom software a number<\/span> of times in the past\n— it's been in public beta for a year,<\/span> and I've been using it since\n“beta 2” in the summer. The most recent<\/span> public beta is\n“beta 4.1”, released in October, but for the last month or so,\nI've been privileged to be part of a small,<\/span> private “beta 5” \/\n“Release Candidate” test group, where we put Lightroom through\nits paces, report bugs and make product suggestions, testing and retesting\nwith each build they release to us.<\/p>\n\n

I use some of the new features in 1.0 to automate each morning's update\nof my bento page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

There's so much to write about Lightroom that I could<\/span> write a book<\/span> about\nit... but I won't<\/span> (although many\nare<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n

In this post, I'll just offer a few<\/span> views of the two modules that I use<\/span>\nthe most — Library and Develop — to whet your appetite. <\/p>\n\n

Note that all the panes around the sides\/top\/bottom can be hidden or\nshown independently.<\/p>\n\n\n

<\/a>Loupe View<\/span><\/div>\n\n

Loupe View is part of the Library Module, along with the Grid View\n(first pic above) and Survey View (pic below). In this screencapture<\/span>, the\nflimstrip at the bottom is showing, as is the metadata pane at right, but\nthe organizational pane (normally at left) is hidden, as is the module\nnavigation pane across the top. (Both are shown in the first picture above.)<\/p>\n\n\n

<\/a>Survey View <\/span><\/div>\n\n

In this screenshot, all the optional panes but the filmstrip are hidden.<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>Develop Module<\/span><\/div>\n\n

The Develop module allows you to adjust a bunch<\/span> of things, including\nwhite balance\/tint, many exposure settings (color intensity, brightness,\ncontrast, etc.), enter grayscale mode, apply sharpening, apply noise\nreduction (separate adjustments for color vs.<\/i> luminance), correct\nchromatic aberration, correct for lens vignetting, use a Photoshop<\/span>-esque\nclone tool and healing tool, fix red-eye, and rotate and crop the image.<\/p>\n\n

What's really cool is that all the controls are the same whether the\ninput is a raw<\/span> file, a JPG,<\/span> a TIFF,<\/span> or a Photoshop<\/span> PSD file.<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>Loupe View with Most Panes Closed<\/span><\/div>\n\n

\n\nThere are so many things new from the previous public beta, I don't<\/span> know\nwhere to start. Just the main ones from the Library and Develop module that\nI can<\/span> think of off the top of my head:<\/p>\n\n