As the release of Photoshop CS3 and Camera Raw 4 gets into the wild, there are some questions regarding whether the Camera Raw 4 settings-which look a lot like Lightroom’s raw settings-are interoperable with Lightroom beta 4.1. No says Lightroom product manager Tom Hogarty in this Lightroom forum thread.

Introduction to tethered shooting – If you are able to connect your camera directly to the computer, Lightroom has the potential to let you import image files directly from the camera.

Photographs can be quickly brought into Lightroom, bypassing the need for a camera card and having to configure the Import settings every time you import a batch of images.

This is also referred to as ‘tethered shooting’ and I say Lightroom has the potential to do this because Lightroom will need to rely on other software that can communicate with your camera and download capture files to a specified folder location.

With this in place, Lightroom can be configured to automatically import these images into the library.

George Jardine by Jeff Schewe

George Jardine, Pro Photography Evangelist of Adobe has posted a new Adobe Lightroom iTunes Podcast with Richard Benson and Jay Maisel.

George Jardine by Jeff Schewe

George Jardine, Pro Photography Evangelist of Adobe has posted a new iTunes Podcast about Adobe Lightroom with Richard Benson and Thomas Palmer.

Photo Plus East was held again this year at the Javits Center in New York from the 2nd-4th of November. Several members of the Pixel Genius team plus friends were there to take part in the various seminars and events. Here is a summary of what took place, in particular the Adobe Booth seminar sessions, where demos of Lightroom Beta 5 were shown for the first time in public. To find out more about what happened, read on…

Source: Macworld
Written by Rick LePage

As I’m typing this, I’m sitting outside the exhibition hall at the Javits Center in New York, watching a stream of photographers, graphic artists and a large group of art school students pass into the packed hall at Photo Plus East. I have always liked this show—the focus on imaging is right up my alley, and I like the mix of digital tools with the traditional stuff like lighting products and wedding portfolios.

The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Killer Tips web site

Get your daily video dose of the coolest Adobe^® Lightroom tutorials, tips, timesaving shortcuts, photographic inspiration, and undocumented tricks with Matt Kloskowski, one of “The Photoshop Guys” from Photoshop TV.

“This site will be dedicated to one thing – teaching you how to use Adobe Photoshop Lightroom – the new killer application from Adobe for Photographers.” says Matt.

New videos are posted each Monday as well as other news during the week.

Adobe has released an update for Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4.0 to bring the version to 4.1. The update addresses various issues found after the initial release of version 4.0.

Source: RawWorkflow.com

Michael Tapes has posted a sequence of video tutorials about Adobe Lightroom Beta 4, totalling an hour in length, which are available for free viewing at rawworkflow.com.

The movie is split up into manageable sections and covers various topics about the new beta such as: the user interface, importing files and the Develop module, including how to use the Basic and Tone Curve panels, plus the crop tool.

Michael Tapes is an alpha tester for Adobe Lightroom and the owner of RawWorkflow.com, a division of PictureFlow LLC, a Florida based Limited Liability Company.

Project: Photoshop Lightroom with photographer Colin Finlay and Adobe’s Julieanne Kost recently visited the College of DuPage in suburban Chicago. Over the course of two days, students and faculty heard a lecture by Finlay in which he shared his career as a photographer and Adobe’s Senior Evangelist Julieanne Kost, provided students with in-depth seminars on using Photoshop and Lightroom to support a digital workflow.

The second day also comprised a small group of photo students participating with Finlay in a photo shooting assignment. Students selected images from this assignment to be placed into a portfolio and then uploaded to the Project: Photoshop Lightroom site for sharing with the extended community.

Since it was in my general neck of the woods, I drove out to the college to see what was going on (and shoot some snaps).

According to The Business News Source, Apple and Adobe are at war. Which comes as a bit of a shock to people I know at both companies.

The Business News Source, which bills itself as “a free and impartial review of global business news” obviously isn’t all that concerned with “getting it right”.

Adobe has released Adobe Lightroom Beta 4 for Macintosh and Windows now available for download at: Labs.Adobe.com. Windows users can now access more of the module features that were previously unavailable in the PC version of public Beta 3. But the main changes in Beta 4 have all taken place in the Library and Develop modules. In this second part review we are going to concentrate on what’s new in the Library module, such as the new interface changes to the grid layout, the ability to batch rename images, and convert to DNG and CD/DVD archiving. Read the rest of this story for an in-depth look at the Beta 4 Develop module.

With the release of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Beta 4, Adobe has posted a web page for the Lightroom Beta 4 Release Notes. Anybody downloading and using B4 should read the release notes to find out more about new features as well as the known issues.

Adobe has released Adobe Lightroom Beta 4 for Macintosh and Windows, and is available for download at: Labs.Adobe.com. Windows users can now access more of the module features that were previously unavailable in the PC version of public Beta 3. But the main changes in Beta 4 have all taken place in the Library and Develop modules.

In this first part review we are going to concentrate on what’s new in the Develop module. This is the first chance to see how the Raw Shooter raw processing technology has been incorporated into Beta 4, and how Adobe has added more versatility to the tone and color edit controls. Some of the key new features are that you can drag-edit the histogram and have the ability to directly edit the tone curve plus make on-image tone curve edits. Read the rest of this story for an in-depth look at the Beta 4 Develop module.

New Round of Enhancements in Latest Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Beta Unites Feature Set for Macintosh and Windows Versions

SAN JOSE, Calif. and COLOGNE, Germany – Sept. 25, 2006 – Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced an update to the public beta of Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom(tm) software at the Photokina tradeshow in Cologne, Germany. Available immediately for download from Adobe Labs, this update unites the product feature set for Windows® and Macintosh platforms, giving professional photographers a new way to import, manage and showcase large volumes of digital photographs. More than 325,000 people have opted to try Lightroom during the beta period and feedback has been fueled by over 3,400 of them sharing input in Adobe online forums. The final version of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is expected to ship in early 2007.

George Jardine, Pro Photography Evangelist of Adobe has posted two new iTunes Podcasts. These podcasts were recorded in May, 2006 while George was visiting the Santa Fe Workshops with photographers Michael Clark and Nevada Wier.

George Jardine, Pro Photography Evangelist of Adobe has posted two new iTunes Podcasts. These is the more podcasts in the series from the “Lightroom Iceland Adventure” featuring photographers Maggie Hallahan and John McDermott.

Michael Reichmann of The Luminous Landscape has released his second Lightroom Video Tutorial DVD featuring Michael and myself (Jeff Schewe) with discussions about Lightroom and tutorials on how to use Lightroom Beta 3. The DVD is available for $14.99 directly from the web site and is available to regular Video Journal subscribers for $5.00 off.

The DVD was shot in June at Michael’s “little cottage in the country” (well, that’s how he described it to me when he invited me). Chris Sanderson, the regular videographer for the Video Journal, taped Michael and I (and served double duty being head chef for dinners). The following is a photo story outlining the shoot. Note: it only has a bit of content regarding Lightroom but has more than a bit of humor mixed in with the photos.

Project: Photoshop and Lightroom Education Road Show Begins September 5
Photography students in the US experience Adobe® Photoshop® and Lightroom(tm) first hand with world-renowned photographer

SAN JOSE, Calif. – Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced that the U.S. leg of its Project: Photoshop and Lightroom education road show will begin on September 5 at over 25 colleges and art schools across the nation. In collaboration with Colin Finlay, a world-renowned documentary photographer and four-time Picture of the Year Award winner, the road show will give students and educators direct access to Adobe Photoshop CS2 and Adobe Lightroom public beta, the new digital workflow solution for professional photographers.

George Jardine, Pro Photography Evangelist of Adobe has posted a new iTunes Podcast. This is the second podcast from the “Lightroom Iceland Adventure” with Richard Morgenstein.

Russell Brown, the chief Adobe Evangelist and all round funny guy has started a photo contest-The Best Photos of Russell.

The contest is only actually open to those photographers that went on the “Lightroom Iceland Adventure” but Russell has given PhotoshopNews permission to post them so our readers can also add to the vote tally.

The winning photographer from the trip will receive an Apple iPod (probably given to Russell by Apple).
Editor’s note: We’ve added the photo credits to the images so you can see who shot which images.

Derrick Story’s legs by Mikkel Aaland

George Jardine, Pro Photography Evangelist of Adobe has posted a new iTunes Podcast. This is the second podcast from the “Lightroom Iceland Adventure” with Derrick Story.

Source: ComputerWorld
Written by Dan Tennant

The Association for Computing Machinery held its annual Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (Siggraph) conference in Boston earlier this month, paying special tribute to Martin Newell, an Adobe Fellow at Adobe Systems Inc. Computerworld’s Dan Tennant spoke with Newell and David Story, Adobe’s vice president of Digital Imaging Product Development, about their work at Adobe, how the development process unfolds, and kinds of products they’d like to be working on. Excerpts from the interview follow.

Mikkel Aaland by George Jardine

George Jardine, Pro Photography Evangelist of Adobe has posted a new iTunes Podcast. This is the second podcast from the “Lightroom Iceland Adventure” with Mikkel Aaland.

Check out the results of the Adobe Lightroom/Photoshop Adventure 2006

And all reports are that Michael Reichmann is fine…