Software-update: Adobe Lightroom public beta 1

Adobe heeft vandaag de eerste bètaversie van Lightroom uitgebracht. Lightroom is een zogenoemde image manager waarmee digitale foto's op diverse manieren bewerkt, gesorteerd en verwerkt kunnen worden. De werking van Lightroom is vergelijkbaar met programma's zoals Apple Aperture en Google Picasa. Op dit moment is de bètaversie alleen beschikbaar gesteld voor Mac OS X, het staat op de planning om ook een versie te maken voor het Windows-platform. Hoewel Lightroom pas vandaag is uitgebracht, heeft Michael Reichmann op zijn site een uitgebreide review gepubliceerd. Enkele gebruikerservaringen kan je ook vinden in dit topic op het Fotografie-forum van GoT. De release notes van Lightroom beta laten ons het volgende weten:

General

• It is important to not delete the Journal file next to your database file.
• When using Lightroom with hundreds of shoots, or multiple thousand of photos, the app can be sluggish.
• Some undo functions show the wrong text when undoing.
• Mouse scroll wheel does not work in the side panels.

Import

• Lightroom does not read the encrypted data in some Nikon NEF files.
• Import can be sluggish. We're working on it.
• If you have a Tiff file and a JPEG file in the same directory with the same name (but different extentions) , Lightroom will treat the JPEG file as a sidecar file.
• External HD with DCIM in root causes auto Import function that can not be stopped for a very, very long time on Powerbooks only.
• With some Canon Rebel XT cameras, you cannot directly import into Lightroom from the camera.
• 8 Bit Grayscale files do not import correctly.

Library

• If you edit a file in Photoshop, the EXIF copyright field may gain some garbage characters.
• If you have no shoots, or your search results turn up no shoots, the count of shoots in the header reads 1 not zero.

Slideshow

• If you want to drag and drop a photo on a slide to use as a backdrop to a slideshow, you must be in Slide view in Slideshow, not Grid view.
• The Shoot name token is not working — you will get nothing if you use it.
• Identity plates are not exported with the slideshow.
• In export via FTP upload, if your path does not end with a “/” (slash), the upload will go into the wrong directory.

Print

• The File > New > New Template menu in Print does not work.
• If you bring many files into Print via the Filmstrip, Print will become sluggish.

Export

• The Shoot name token is broken. It will always add the text “{image_shoot}” to the filename.
• LZW compression in TIFF export is not functioning.

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