Lightroom upgrade

[DueyDooDah]

v1.3 is available

 

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• Additional camera support for the Canon 1Ds Mark III, Nikon D3, Nikon D300, Olympus E-3, and more
• Updated Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard support

 

[mabas9395]

The ability to create export plug-ins is AWESOME!!! There are some people already working on a plug-in that will upload exported files to Smugmug.

 

[Master Mason]

The ability to create export plug-ins is AWESOME!!! There are some people already working on a plug-in that will upload exported files to Smugmug.

Please keep us posted on this one... that would be a killer feature...

 

[mabas9395]

Please keep us posted on this one... that would be a killer feature...

Another forum pointed me in the direction of this link. http://regex.info/blog/2007-11-16/637 This guy started out as a beta tester and eventually became a paid consultant for Adobe working on Lightroom. He has the plugins for Smugmug and Zenfolio already written. He's just waiting for the OK from Adobe legal to distribute them (I hope that since he's a paid consultant that he would have better luck than someone like me at getting legal's OK). Uploading to Smugmug is the biggest gap right now in my workflow process, I will use this all the time.

This will be cooler than a Dole Whip. Well, almost.

 

[Master Mason]

oh sure, now you went and did it.. now I want a dole whip...

 

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[Groucho]

If only they'd fix the way, when you add a new keyword tag, it jumps higher up in the scroll window, forcing you to scroll back down to be able to drag pictures onto that tag.

Or when you try to drag photos to a keyword tag that's above or below the currently-displayed stuff on the left bar, sometimes it'll scroll up or down, and other times it refuses.

Or the way hidden sidebars sometimes keep popping back up.

Don't get me wrong, I still love Lightroom, but I really wish they'd fix some of these incredibly basic usability issues that have been there since 1.0. (OK, I'm still on 1.2, but I'll be surprised if they fixed those.)

 

[SWDopey]

Groucho, can you drop me a PM or email with some of the issues you're running into, and your system specs. Or send them direct to Adobe at http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform

And there's more information on the improvements on my LR blog http://photoshopservices.wordpress.com/2007/11/16/whats-new-in-lightroom-13/ for anyone who's interested.

 

[mabas9395]

Groucho, can you drop me a PM or email with some of the issues you're running into, and your system specs. Or send them direct to Adobe at http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform

And there's more information on the improvements on my LR blog http://photoshopservices.wordpress.com/2007/11/16/whats-new-in-lightroom-13/ for anyone who's interested.

WOW, Victoria Bampton on our very own DIS boards. How cool is that? I always make sure to read your posts on the other photo boards I visit. Your insight is really valuable.

 

[sweetnsassy]

Thanks for the info, I was waiting for the update since I installed Leopard

 

[Groucho]

Groucho, can you drop me a PM or email with some of the issues you're running into, and your system specs. Or send them direct to Adobe at http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform

And there's more information on the improvements on my LR blog http://photoshopservices.wordpress.com/2007/11/16/whats-new-in-lightroom-13/ for anyone who's interested.

Now that's service!

I'll install 1.3 and play with it a little and let you know. Some of the issues are inconsistent (like the sidebars reappearing and the ability to have it scroll up-down when holding a dragged photo there) but the jumping higher in the list when adding a new keyword is definitely consistent.

Thanks!

 

[SWDopey]

Well thanks for the kind words mabas9395. I crop up all over the place!

Groucho, if we can narrow it down to the triggers, there's a chance we can fix it - hunting for a phantom bug is much more tricky. Let me know what you find out.

Victoria

 

[Groucho]

I'm just downloading Lightroom 1.3 now, but while I have your ear, here's an improvement I'd really like to see - have the exported files retain the timestamp stored in the exif data.

Currently if I am saving the jpgs straight from Lightroom (as I usually do then store away the raws), they all have the timestamp of the time they were exported. I then use Irfanview Thumbnails to change the timestamps to what the exif data is, this allows me to look at the file in my file manager and know when it was taken instantly. It'd be nice not to have to do this extra step.

Of course, this may be a hidden setting somewhere, but if so, I haven't found it.

Thanks!

 

[SWDopey]

You mean you want the date created to be the capture date? By all means put in the feature request direct to Adobe, but I think they're just following standard windows protocols on that one.

You're windows based, right? In explorer, go to Details view, and then right click on the column heading - it'll allow you to show the capture time column.

 

[Groucho]

(Sorry for the late reply, been a tad busy with these damn holidays and such. Heck, this morning is the first chance I've had to play with Lightroom at all since installing the upgrade a few days ago!)

Yep, I'm using Windows, but I generally don't use Windows Explorer, I use Powerdesk; and even with Explorer, I don't like having the extra fields in Details view (which I use exclusively, when I do use Explorer) as it takes much longer for it to query each file for embedded data (exif, id3, whatever.)

I'll try to find some time to put in a feature request/bug report for my issues; since I've been thinking about it, I've come up with a few other things I'd like to see. In other news, once already this morning, the left sidebar, which is normally hidden, showed in Develop and wouldn't go away until I opened it then hid it again. (This happened at some point when flipping between windows.)