Just in Time Debugger

As the headcount reaches 3 on this subject, it's time to have a chat about this.

The Just in Time Debugger causes havoc with lots of programs on PC.. So it isn't just that you can get error messages with LRB Portfolio, Sonar, Mcafee, Filezilla are affected as well.

The 2nd from top link in Google comes to the rescue here though, or at least it did for 2 of those that reported it! The other one still has to get back to me!
The link is http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vsdebug/thread/a52eb0ae-bcd8-4043-9661-d5fc3aa5167c/

And the bit that works is:

Solution

Open Start>Control Panels>Internet Options: Advanced and activate (check box)

* Disable Script Debugging (Internet Explorer)
* Disable Script Debuggung (Other)


The post itself is a wonderful tale of hate for the JIT debugger, so those with this issue can get sympathy from me!
Why does it happen? Well I believe it's because Lightroom for Windows use Internet Explorer to preview inside Web, and the IS is throwing the errors.

Martin Evening interview with TWiP

While not directly a Lightroom related interview, it does get a little mention. Scott Bourne has an insightful interview with Martin Evening (Photoshop for Photographers, Lightroom News) over at TWiP.

Branding Lightroom with the Identity Plate

Here's a short video on how to set up the Identity Plate. Covering both text and graphical identity plates. The movie is in Apple Quicktime format.

A collection of older videos is available via the Lightroom Blog videos page.

Smoke Presets

I was messing around the other day doing the good old internet cliche of taking off camera flash shots of smoke. In true Chromasia fashion, I hand created some Lightroom Point Curves and put them in as presets for you wonderful folks. These 3 variations make the shadows into highlights, force the midtones down and retain the normal highlights.

To handle downloads on this I've set it up as a donationware product on e-Junkie. If you feel these are useful, feel free to buy me a coffee via donation!If not, don't. No obligation. For free downloads, e-Junkie will ask for name and email, this is so you can get the download link emailed to you.

Anyhow to install these presets, open Lightroom Preferences (in Lightroom on Mac, Edit on PC), Click the Presets Tab. Click on the Show Lightroom Presets folder. Open the Develop Presets folder and unzip the smoke.zip file into this folder. Restart Lightroom. In the Presets panel of Develop, there should now be a folder called Smoke Presets. Click on the preset to apply it, or hover over it to see a preview in the navigator.



Enjoy!

Lightroom Links

A few tidbits popping up around the net.

Victoria Bampton has a list of Top 10 Gothcas

Tyler Ginter has a great post about Metadata failings with Lightroom compared to Photomechanic

Martin Evening has a good video post about Exposure and Brightness Adjustments

Update:
As a joke on me... Matt Dawson has posted a 'Restart Lightroom' script, to do a shutdown and restart. As a web developer, restarting Lightroom is a fact of life. Often a reload is not enough to get the newest code into Lightroom and a restart is needed. Matt's script makes it easier!

YAU: Yet another update. LRB Portfolio up to version 2.1

The 24 minute long video demonstrating Version 2.1 of LRB Portfolio, has resolution in the form of an update to LRB Portfolio.
Since the video was created I've added a few small changes: Twitter, Facebook and MySpace contact options, along with a user field. I've also changes the code to allow those using Windows Servers to see their images! These servers block access to folders called bin, and the default image folder for Lightroom is called... bin.
Compared to Version 2.0, there is a massive UI change in this version.
Finally: You can have however many images you like in any gallery. Yep.. the slider is gone and you deal with it on a gallery by gallery basis. The only catch is you HAVE to use consecutive galleries.
To Download, please use your Download link if you are a current user, you know, the one that was emailed to you when you bought and were told to keep safe? Yes that one. New customers can purchase from the LRB Portfolio website.

Please direct support questions to the support thread.

Keyword Lists for Lightroom

Thanks to Brad Snyder for this one:

Nick Potter has created a set of free Keyword lists for Lightroom. The lists cover Geography, Animals, Colours, Natural Landforms and Bodies of Water. While not proclaimed as a comprehensive list, it's certainly cheaper than the Controlled Vocabulary list created by David Riecks. That said, David's list is far more comprehensive. Even more comprehensive is Shangara Singh's Keyword Catalog.

Why Lists in the first place? Well, auto completion is a good reason, as it saves typing. Also when you run through a specific list, it helps keep your keywords tidy.

Featured Gallery

I've posted the first proper featured website over at the LRB Portfolio website. The idea of the the featured website is to show off a mix of LRB Portfolio in action, but also the work of the photographer. This time it's that of Tim Broyer and you'll have to go to the LRB Portfolio website to find the link!

LRB Portfolio 2.1 Preview video

As a new thing, I've created a 24 minute long video demonstrating Version 2.1 of LRB Portfolio. It's a mix of showing off the new UI and features, as well as covering how to use it. It's pretty much stream of conscious, so I do fumble and mumble a few times, but am still understandble. This version will be out shortly when I get a chance to rewrite the User Guide for the new UI.

Twitter

Hey,
As a whole bunch of people are finding me there, I may as well announce that you can find me muttering about Lightroom, rugby(!) and general mutterings on Twitter as @lightroomblog. Find my page at http://twitter.com/lightroomblog

Martin Evening on Grayscale Conversions

During the 1.X cycle Martin Evening did an excellent video on using the HSL panel to overcome noise related issues when using Grayscale conversion in Lightroom. With the advent of noise reduction being added to grayscale, the method became not quite as necessary (but still useful), so Martin has create a new video for Lightroom News on Improved Grayscale Conversions.

Lightroom 2.3 and Camera Raw 5.3 Final Release

Lightroom 2.3 and Camera Raw 5.3 Final Release is now available from Adobe.com.
Beyond the following list of bug fixes and existing camera support for the D3X and Olympus E-30 there is also preliminary support for the Epson R-D1x raw format.

Lightroom 2 Bugs - Fixed

In the Windows 64-bit version of Lightroom an sFTP upload process could cause Lightroom to crash.

Slideshows could return to the first image randomly during playback.

A memory leak could cause Lightroom to crash while attempting to process files with local adjustments.

Canon EOS 5D Mk II sRAW files could process with artifacts in Lightroom 2.2.

Lightroom 2.2 could cause disc burning to fail for Windows customers.

Attempting to undo(CTRL-Z) a single step in Lightroom 2.2 on Windows could cause a series of previous actions to be undone.

Lightroom 2.3 also adds additional languages:

Chinese (Simplified)

Chinese (Traditional)

Dutch

Italian

Korean

Portuguese (Brazilian)

Spanish

Swedish

Via Lightroom Journal

LRB Portfolio 2.0 released

In the midst of all the current madness going on in the country around me, I'm pleased to announce that LRB Portfolio 2.0 has been released and is available to buy now. Users of older versions can use their download link to get the new version.
A new website is now online for the product: http://lrbportfolio.com/. The site will be the most up to date place to look for news on LRB Portfolio.

Changes

Changed charset to UTF-16 to allow for further languages

Fixed Content Area font size issues by adding a Content Font Size control

Added image choice to Menu

Added provisional code to allow Google Analytics code to be pasted:WARNING, each gallery loading will open the Google Analytics code in a browser window. This is how Lightroom deals with external resources and cannot be prevented. If you don't like this, then leave the Insert Analytics Code box unticked.

Added IE8 conditional code

Added an image choice to the mail page

Change the Page title on the mail page to whatever is in the Page Title

Addition of the Dynamic Drive scroll script and making the internal script options available in the Output Settings panel.

Added on text editing for home, about and blank pages

added a body width option

Fixed float issues with images dropping down.

Go to LRB Portfolio Website.