A quick and dirty look at email in V1.0

A quick, off the cuff, video on emailing from V1 of lightroom.

Video: Spot Removal Tool

The first of my Version 1 Quick Tutorials: The spot removal tool. This is a very handy tool that both allows you to remove dust spots and do basic skin retouching. It can also be synced or copy/pasted into other images.

Adobe Thanks

Adobe have made a Special Thank You page. I made the first page! Must be the 2200+ posts. Actually I have to say it's Thank You, Adobe.

Develop Presets

The keeper of the flame since I kicked off a Develop Presets Sharing post many moons ago, has been Richard Earney of Method Photo. He's recently updated the Lightroom Presets page to reflect the new V1.0 preset changes. Added to the light are a few new ones by Martin Evening.
http://www.method-photo.co.uk/lightroom/

Tutorials

Rather than cover the ground on the 'Big' sites, I'll be posting a few short tutorials on new features in V1.0, perhaps including video clips of them in action. Until further notice that is.

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom: Cross Platform

In a bold move Adobe have made the license for Lightroom cross platform. You can install on 2 machines regardless of OS.
Tom Hogarty from Adobe makes this clear: "The End User License Agreement(EULA) for Lightroom specifies 2 computers but does not restrict the platform."

Lightroom Version 1 links and news

All those sites that have been poised for weeks are pushing out the news.
Photoshop News
Digital Outback
Rob Galbraith
NAPP

Lightroom released.

Lightroom is GO!. Lightroom is officially here at last. All the details are there. Pricing: $299 with a $199 dollar introduction price to reward all the testers. Price will go back up a the end of April. Us Europeans have a slightly different pricing of €174 Plus VAT until June 28th when it will go to €249 plus VAT.
I've been very proud and busy with the Prerelease Beta program and helping to get this product out the door. The product will ship in both Mac and PC versions on 19th Feb before the expiration of Beta 4.1 on the 28th Feb.

Oaktree Imaging on Preset Management

Oaktree Imaging have a handy little article on preset management in Lightroom: http://www.oaktree-imaging.com/blog/archives/2007/01/23/68/.
I'd still prefer a way of containing similar presets together ala parent and child collections.

Mark Hamburg on since1968.com

In the first part of a 2 part interview, Mark Hamburg talks to since 1968 about the background of Lightroom and making Kevin Tieskoetters eyes bleed. He also mentions that neither Feb 28th or Jan 29th are the release dates and that there will be no Beta5 or even a Beta 4.2.

http://since1968.com/article/187/

Imaging USA has a video of Tom Hogarty on Lightroom.
 
From  Adobe Gives Photographers a Choice: http://iusatv.imagingusa.org/2007/01/adobe_gives_pho.html. Tom mentions that B4 was the last public Beta and that the product will ship by the end of February. He shows a little of the spot removal tool and talks about the similarities of Develop and ACR4.

Darkroom

With a not very clever twist on the clever twist of Lightroom, NAPP are publishing a Lightroom magazine called Darkroom. It's free to NAPP members and a thinner (in his photo) Scott Kelby remarks "The integration between Lightroom and Adobe Photoshop CS2/CS3 creates the seamless, consistent, and efficient workflow that today's professionals need, and we launched Darkroom magazine to help these pros make the most of using these two amazing tools together."
Sorry for the lateness of this 'olds' rather than 'news'. I had to overcome my fear of the inimitable first.

Tom Hogarty on LR

A few weeks back Tom Hogarty made a post on a thread on Archiving. It's so fundamental to the vision for Lightroom I'm going to reproduce it here:

For Lightroom 1.0 the focus will be on getting images off the camera, sorted, tagged, organized, developed and back to the client as quickly as possible.(While maintaining the highest possible quality) An elegant solution to this portion of the workflow is what professional and amateur photographers alike have been missing and asking Adobe to provide. Once we address the missing piece of the workflow we can begin addressing elegant solutions to problems that may have already been solved.

We also have designed Lightroom to be extensible so if we're unable to provide the asset management tools you need, we'll be releasing a Software Development Kit(SDK) that will allow third parties to create their own modules that will plug directly into Lightroom.(We'll be releasing this after we release Lightroom 1.0)

Regards,
Tom Hogarty
Adobe Systems

Andrew Rodney: Colour Management

Colour Guru Andrew Rodney has produced an article on Colour Management in Lightroom. Well worth a read.

http://www.ppmag.com/reviews/200701_rodneycm.pdf

Podcast #26: Maggie Taylor and Jerry Uelsmann

Posted on George Jardines iDisk is Podcast #26: Maggie Taylor and Jerry Uelsmann. From the Podcast notes:
“There is an inherent believability that photography has, and we've been conditioned from a very youthful age, to believe in images. So there is a wonderful sort of psychological dissonance that occurs when you're seeing these images where all the detail is there, but the mystery remains, and that's what I personally find attractive.” - Jerry Uelsmann

“I feel that I have a greater appreciation now because of the digital revolution that has occurred. Manipulated images are far more readily accepted as a viable form.” - Jerry Uelsmann

“The subject matter I'm interested in is just everyday life. Things that you encounter everyday, whether these are outdoors when you're working in the garden, or something you see on the TV everyday. That becomes are a part of our subject matter for both of us. You're just working from your own everyday emotional interaction with things.” - Maggie Taylor

This podcast was recorded on Wednesday December 20th, 2006, at the home of Maggie Taylor and Jerry Uelsmann in Gainesville, FL. Maggie and Jerry sit down with George and have a conversation about their art. We talk about the ways in which their work is similar, how it differs, and how fantasy, dreams and technique all play a role in their creative pursuits. In the process, we touch on their sources of inspiration, and the thinking behind their choices of materials and technique.

The views and opinions of the participants in this podcast are their own, and do not reflect or represent those of Adobe Systems.

Duration: 45:25

Lightroom on Amazon

Amazon have a prerelease page on Lightroom:

http://www.amazon.com/Lightroom-Mlp-Retail-Ue-1U/dp/B000M9CMC8/sr=1-3/qid=1167848300/ref=sr_1_3/102-9110307-8540145?ie=UTF8&s=software