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Lightroom 2.6 – Windows / Mac

ACR 5.6 – Windows / Mac

Highlights from release notes:

* This release includes improved camera profiles for the Leica M9 and Ricoh GXR.

* Camera Raw 5.6 and Lightroom 2.6 provide a fix for an issue affecting PowerPC customers using the final Lightroom 2.5, Camera Raw 5.5 and DNG Converter 5.5 updates on the Mac. The issue, introduced in the demosaic change to address sensors with unequal green response, has the potential to create artifacts in highlight areas when processing raw files from Sony, Olympus, Panasonic and various medium format digital camera backs.

* The Lightroom 3 beta has not been updated with this new camera support. If you’re working with one of these newer cameras and the Lightroom 3 beta, please use the DNG Converter 5.6 to convert proprietary formats to DNG files that can be used in the Lightroom 3 beta.

Lightroom

Known issues:
* Burning exported images to disc is not available for the Lightroom 64-bit Windows application.
* Upgrading a Lightroom 1 catalog during a catalog import can create multiple temporary copies of the catalog while upgrading
* Lightroom performance can be impacted when the Window’s Recycle Bin contains thousands of files
* Lightroom may not automatically launch an import dialog when a memory card is attached to a Windows Vista computer. Please select the Import button in the Library and select the attached card reader to begin the import.
* Lightroom 2.6 will not automatically migrate plug-ins located in the following directory: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2\Modules\. Any plug-ins in this folder should be moved to:
XP: C:/Documents and Settings/{your_username}/Application Data/Adobe/Lightroom/Modules/
Vista: C:/Users/{your_username}/AppData/Roaming/Adobe/Lightroom/Modules/

Bugs fixed:
The crop tool would unlock a locked aspect ratio after a rotation adjustment
* For Mac OS X 10.6 customers, visual artifacts could appear when panning an image viewed at 1:1 in the Develop module.
* For Mac OS X 10.6 customers, the 10.6.2 update included a correction that prevented Lightroom 2 from opening more than two files using the Edit-in-Photoshop functionality.
* Lightroom 2.6 provides a fix for an issue affecting PowerPC customers using the final Lightroom 2.5 update on the Mac. The issue, introduced in the demosaic change to address sensors with unequal green response, has the potential to create artifacts in highlight areas when processing raw files from Sony, Olympus, Panasonic and various medium format digital camera backs.
* Lightroom 2.5 and earlier did not support the updated Panasonic DMC-LX3 aspect ratio modes added with the camera’s latest version 2.0 firmware.

ACR

New Cameras:
Canon EOS 1D Mark IV
Canon EOS 7D
Canon PowerShot G11
Canon PowerShot S90
Leaf Aptus-II 5
Mamiya DM22
Mamiya DM28
Mamiya DM33
Mamiya DM56
Mamiya M18
Mamiya M22
Mamiya M31
Nikon D3s
Olympus E-P2
Panasonic DMC-FZ38
Pentax K-x
Sigma DP1s
Sony A500
Sony A550
Sony A850

You can see my personal “Photo A Day” photos here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/29353014@N05/sets/72157622770574592/

You can see the entire group’s photos here:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/1255718@N20/pool/

You can also search twitter for the hashtag “#PhotoADay” to see our tweets about it.  This link should work:
http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23PhotoADay

Feel free to comment if you want.  You already have a flickr account if you have a yahoo account (yahoo owns flickr now, and all yahoo accounts automagically are also flickr accounts, too).

Wish me luck!

Tuesday, Nov 3, 11am-1pm PT

General info

Who is this guy?

Art Wolfe web site
Travels to the Edge (Art’s PBS show) web site
wikipedia article on Art Wolfe

Tuesday, Oct 13, 11am-1pm PT

This is part of a 3-day seminar Art has put together and is teaching separately. If this session is successful enough, he may come back and teach the other days in free sessions with creativetechs as well.

General info
Seminar series info
Registration page

Who is this guy?

Art Wolfe web site
Travels to the Edge (Art’s PBS show) web site
wikipedia article on Art Wolfe

If you can tune in this Thursday, you’ll even get to hear yours truly on the phone with Jason, discussing my images below!

For Jason’s (and my own readers!) benefit, I’ve put a brief description of the retouch below — The actual web form used to submit images to Jason only allows 100 characters for comments, so I put my full description here for easier reading…

Here is a retouch I’d love to see if you’re interested.  I love the backlighting and lens flare in this shot, but right at the moment of exposure, the guitarist/singer moved his hand just out of frame, and his hand is clipped.  I have several shots around this, with the hand visible, but no lens flare.  I’d have preferred the shot with the lens flare, but still have his entire hand in the shot.  I’ll upload the lens flare shot, as well as one short immediately before it with his hand still in-frame.  I have a number of other shots “close-by” these, if you’d like to have more to work with.

Let me know if you’re interested!

Attached file is Nikon D90 NEF raw file.  I’ll be happy to export jpgs if you prefer, but what what I heard from Rich, you’d prefer the original raw images.

- Chuck

UPDATE – Oct 8 – Here’s the result!

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again — JASON IS AMAZING!  Keep in eye on the creativetechs web site for the video showing how this retouch was done.

UPDATE – Oct 11 – The great folks at creativetechs gave me the link below to an online version of this video – You can watch it on-demand!

For actors and staff, you may access your photo gallery here (password required).  If you have not received a password, please contact me.

A gallery of sample images may be found by selecting the photo to the right of this post.

Adobe update page

Lightroom 2.5 – Windows / Mac

ACR 5.5 – Windows / Mac

Highlights from release notes:

Lightroom

Known issues:
Burning exported images to disc is not available for the Lightroom 64-bit Windows application. 
* Upgrading a Lightroom 1 catalog during a catalog import can create multiple temporary copies of the catalog while upgrading 
* Lightroom performance can be impacted when the Window’s Recycle Bin contains thousands of files 
* Lightroom may not automatically launch an import dialog when a memory card is attached to a Windows Vista computer. Please select the Import button in the Library and select the attached card reader to begin the import. 
* Lightroom 2.5 will not automatically migrate plug-ins located in the following directory: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2\Modules\. Any plug-ins in this folder should be moved to:
  XP: C:/Documents and Settings/{your_username}/Application Data/Adobe/Lightroom/Modules/
  Vista: C:/Users/{your_username}/AppData/Roaming/Adobe/Lightroom/Modules/

Bugs fixed:
* Lightroom 2.4 on Windows continued to display the import dialog when a memory card was detected regardless of the preference setting “Show import dialog when a memory card is detected.” 
* Lightroom 2.5 includes a correction to the demosaic algorithms for Bayer sensor cameras with unequal green response.

ACR

New Cameras:
Nikon D300s
Nikon D3000
Olympus E-P1
Panasonic DMC-FZ35
Panasonic DMC-GF1

The folks at creativetechs (who also put together the free 4-week and 10-week photography courses, as well as the free 6-month (yes, 6 MONTH) Photoshop Course)… have put together a free 10-week Lightroom class.

Webinar: Free 10-week Lightroom Course!

Preliminary schedule:

Week 1, Sep 14 – Overview.
Week 2, Sep 21 – Importing
Week 3, Sep 28 – Library Module pt1
Week 4, Oct 5 – Library Module pt2
Week 5, Oct 12 – Develop Module pt1
Week 6, Oct 19 – Develop Module pt2
Week 7, Oct 26 – Exporting
Week 8, Nov 2 – Juggling Catalogs
Week 9, Nov 9 – Output Module
Week 10, Nov 16 – Editing in Photoshop

Webinar: Free 6-Month Photoshop Course!

Preliminary schedule:

Course I – Photoshop Fundamentals
Sep 3 – Basics
Sep 10 – Layers
Sep 17 – Selections
Sep 24 – Masks
Oct 1 – Pen Tool

Course 2 – Color Correction
Oct 8 – Advanced Selections
Oct 15 – Color Correction pt1
Oct 22 – Color Correction pt2
Oct 24 – Cloning Basics
Nov 5 – Final Touches

Course 3 – Photoshop Fun
Nov 12 – Scrapbooking Techniques
Nov 19 – Brushes
Dec 3 – Layer Effects
Dec 10 – To Be Announced
Dec 17 – To Be Announced

Course 4 – Advanced Retouching
Jan 7 – Advanced Cloning Techniques
Jan 14 – Retouching Skin
Jan 21 – Retouching Hair
Feb 4 – Retouching Landscapes
Feb 11 – Repairing Digital Anomalies

Course 5 – To Be Announced!
Feb 25 – TBA
Mar 4 – TBA
Mar 11 – TBA
Mar 18 – TBA
Mar 25 – TBA

It has been scheduled on the online calendar, and will continue in the existing 4-week classes’ time slot — Each Wednesday at 1800 GMT (11am PT) — Starting on Sept 2.

So, share and enjoy!

The 4-week class was a lot of fun, but was very basic from a technical standpoint. I expect the 10-week version will have you break out your thinking cap, and take some notes.

Webinar: Free 10-Week Digital Photography Course!

Schedule:

Week 1, Sep 2 – Introduction & Gear Review
Week 2, Sep 9 – Cameras
Week 3, Sep 16 – Lenses
Week 4, Sep 23 – Exposure
Week 5, Sep 30 – Focus
Week 6, Oct 7 – Aesthetics I
Week 7, Oct 14 – Aesthetics II
Week 8, Oct 21 – The Gadget Bag
Week 9, Oct 28 – Full Exposure
Week 10, Nov 4 – Art Wolfe Interview & Slideshow