{"id":779,"date":"2008-04-02T19:27:38","date_gmt":"2008-04-02T10:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2008-04-02\/779"},"modified":"2008-04-02T19:27:38","modified_gmt":"2008-04-02T10:27:38","slug":"lightroom-20-beta-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2008-04-02\/779","title":{"rendered":"Lightroom 2.0 beta Released"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<div class='ic'><a href=\"\/i\/lr\/Lightroom-2.0-beta-release.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/lr\/Lightroom-2.0-beta-release_sm.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"485\"\nalt=\"Adobe Lightroom 2.0 beta Screenshot showing some new features in action (in this case, selective-area desaturation and a post-crop vignette)\"\nid=\"iLightroom_2_0_beta_release\"\nindexhint=\"left\"\ntitle=\"Screenshot showing Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2.0 beta in action.\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class='caption'>Adobe <span class='nobr'>Lightroom 2.0<\/span> <i>beta<\/i><\/span>\n<br\/>Screenshot showing some new features in action\n<br\/>(in this case, selective-area desaturation and <span class='nobr'>a post<\/span>-crop vignette)\n<\/div>\n\n<p>I like to post right away when there's <span class='nobr'>a new<\/span> release of Adobe Lightroom,\nbut alas, I've been on vacation for the last few days, and <span class='nobr'>I was<\/span> at the\ncar-rental return at the <a href=\"\/blog\/2008-01-06\/680\"\nclass='quiet'>Amami Ooshima Island<\/a> airport when <span class='nobr'>Lightroom 2.0<\/span>\n<i>beta<\/i> was released earlier this afternoon.<\/p>\n\n<p>The 2.0 beta has a lot of exciting new features you can read about\nelsewhere (links below), but the ones I'm most excited about are localized\ncorrections (you can &#8220;paint&#8221; exposure, saturation, tint, etc.) and\nmulti-monitor \/ multi-window support. <span class='nobr'>Now you know<\/span> why <span class='nobr'>I finally<\/span> succumbed\nand <a href=\"\/blog\/2008-02-02\/710\">added <span class='nobr'>a second<\/span>\nmonitor<\/a> <span class='nobr'>a few<\/span> months ago.<\/p>\n\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px'>For details:<\/p>\n<div style='margin-left:2em'>\n&middot; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/\">John Nack's Blog<\/a> (overview, lots of details, lots of links)\n\n<br\/> &middot; <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/lightroomjournal\/2008\/04\/lightroom_2_beta_available.html\">Official announcement<\/a>\n<br\/> &middot; <a href=\"http:\/\/labs.adobe.com\/technologies\/lightroom\/\">The download page<\/a>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>I'll repeat the main points you need to understand before using it:<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n  <li><p>Adobe is making it available so that you can kick the tires; it's\n  not recommended for production work. By design, you can't work with your\n  <span class='nobr'>Lightroom 1.<\/span>x\n  catalogs in the 2.0 beta. Furthermore, you can't be sure that the 2.0 beta catalogs will be\n  completely usable in the &#8220;real&#8221; 2.0 (which will be released, presumably,\n  some time during the summer).<\/p><\/li>\n\n  <li><p>It's free for <span class='nobr'>Lightroom 1.<\/span>x customers (the beta expires August 31st, by which one presumes\n      the real <span class='nobr'>Lightroom 2.0<\/span> will have been released). Anyone else can try it freely for 30 days, just as\n      with the currently-latest production version, <span class='nobr'>Lightroom 1.3.<\/span><\/p><\/li>\n\n  <li><p>You <b>can<\/b> install and use both <span class='nobr'>Lightroom 1.<\/span>x and the 2.0\n      beta side-by-side on the same computer.<\/p><\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>My existing Lightroom export plugins (for:\n<a class=\"quiet\" href=\"\/blog\/photo-tech\/lightroom-zenfolio\/\">Zenfolio<\/a>,\n&nbsp;\u00b7&nbsp;\n<a class=\"quiet\" href=\"\/blog\/photo-tech\/lightroom-smugmug\/\">SmugMug<\/a>\n&nbsp;\u00b7&nbsp;\n<a class=\"quiet\" href=\"\/blog\/photo-tech\/lightroom-flickr\/\">Flickr<\/a>\n&nbsp;\u00b7&nbsp;\n<a class=\"quiet\" href=\"\/blog\/photo-tech\/lightroom-picasaweb\/\">Picasa Web<\/a>)\nshould work fine in the beta. Plugins are much easier to install in 2.0: you place them anywhere on your system you like,\nthen point to them via the new <b>File &gt; Plugin Manager<\/b> dialog.<\/p>\n\n<p>Over the last few months that I've been working with <span class='nobr'>Lightroom 2.0<\/span>\ndevelopment, I've been rearchitecting my plugins to both take advantage of\nnew plugin support in 2.0, and to make it easier for me to add features\nacross all my plugins (and to add new plugin destinations). Unfortunately,\nI've had <span class='nobr'>a cold<\/span> for so long that I'm not ready to release them yet, so\nit'll still be <span class='nobr'>a while.<\/span> <span class='nobr'>But as I<\/span> said, my original plugins for <span class='nobr'>Lightroom\n1.<\/span>x should work fine in the 2.0 beta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like to post right away when there's a new release of Adobe Lightroom, but alas, I've been on vacation for the last few days, and I was at the car-rental return at the Amami Ooshima Island airport when Lightroom 2.0 beta was released earlier this afternoon.<\/p> <p>The 2.0 beta has a lot of exciting new features you can read about elsewhere (links below), but the ones I'm most excited about are localized corrections (you can \"paint\" exposure, saturation, tint, etc.) and multi-monitor \/ multi-window support. 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