Wednesday Updates – Lightroom 3 and More

June 9th, 2010 by Jeff

After months of playing with the Lightroom 3 Beta, the waiting is over. Yesterday Adobe announced that Lightroom 3 is ready to ship and is available immediately. A couple of things you might want to know if you are considering purchasing this latest version is that your LR3 Beta catalog will not update into the final version (although I am starting to hear reports that this isn’t the case and you can import your Beta data. Please let me know if this is the case as I have not yet had time to download the official version and confirm this). You will be able to migrate your LR2 catalogs but if you had a lot of images in the Beta, you will need to re-import them. Another thing you might want to consider is jumping over to NAPP and checking out the Lightroom Learning Center. They have lots of updated videos to cover things that were in the Beta and also changes that are in the final release. You can find out about the new Import Dialog, Tethered Shooting, Lens Correction, Noise Reduction, and a whole bunch of other new features in this latest release and it’s all FREE.

Finally, if you were considering purchasing Lightroom 3 and Photoshop CS5 you need to check out the deal below to save yourself 30% off.

Photo Mechanic Gets an Update -

Camera Bits, Inc. has unveiled a bundle of new improvements for users of its popular Photo Mechanic™ photo browser and workflow tool. Features found in version 4.6.4 of Photo Mechanic are designed to increase the speed and ease with which photographers can browse, caption and manage large digital photo collections.

Along with the popular features released in version 4.6, including Live Ingest, geo-tagging and upload templates to services like SmugMug and Flickr, version 4.6.4 offers even faster browsing and new support for RAW files captured by the popular Olympus E-P2 and E-PL1 cameras as well as Phase One models, and recognition of extended range ISO values (Lo and Hi) for Nikon cameras like the D3S. The new version also enables new advanced workflows when combining Photo Mechanic’s unique “variables” and “code replacements” features, such as the ability to split still images from movie files during ingest to aid the import of video clips into Final Cut Pro using Canon’s EOS Movie plugin-E1.

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