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  <title>Digital Asset Management</title>
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  <entry>
    <title>Lightroom™ 2.1 RC Available</title>
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    <published>2008-09-21T06:26:38-04:00</published>
    <updated>2008-09-21T08:28:17-04:00</updated>
    <author>
      <name>Gene</name>
    </author>
    <category term="Adobe" />
    <category term="DAM" />
    <category term="Digital Asset Management" />
    <category term="Lightroom" />
    <category term="News" />
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>While not yet an official release, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom™ 2.1 RC is available for download at Adobe Labs. Windows click <a href="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/lightroom/2-1/lightroom_2-1_091908.zip" target="_blank">here</a>. Mac users click <a href="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/lightroom/2-1/lightroom_2-1_091908.dmg" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>
<p>According to the release notes <span style="line-height: 16px;">The goal of this release is to address several bugs that were introduced with the release of Lightroom 2.0 and provide additional camera raw support. A comprehensive list of issues <strong>fixed in this release</strong> is included below:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 12px;"><a name="Stability_and_High_Severity_Bugs_-_Fixed" style="color: #008811; text-decoration: none;" id="Stability_and_High_Severity_Bugs_-_Fixed"></a></span></p>
<h3 style="line-height: 1.3;"><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 12px;">Stability and High Severity Bugs - Fixed</span></h3>
<ul>
<li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.85em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 12px;">Lightroom could crash when switching to or from the web module on Windows Vista 64.</span></li>
<li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.85em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 12px;">Selecting a custom camera profile or using auto-white balance could cause a spinning ball.</span></li>
<li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.85em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 12px;">Preference files pointing to missing catalogs could prevent Lightroom from progressing past the registration dialog.</span></li>
<li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.85em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 12px;">Errors could occur when attempting to create a virtual copy with a computer that has a processor that is not SSE2 enabled. (This is a method of delivering instructions to the processor which was introduced with the Pentium 4 processor. It should not have affected a significant number of modern machines.)</span></li>
<li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.85em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 12px;">Modal dialogs could try to appear on a disabled second monitor, causing Lightroom to appear hung or unresponsive.</span></li>
<li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.85em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 12px;">When a DNG file was selected for export to a derivative TIFF file and it is added to the catalog at export there was a possibility that one of the files could be treated as a sidecar within Lightroom such that deleting one file deletes both.</span></li>
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<p><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 12px;"><a name="Performance_Bugs_-_Fixed" style="color: #008811; text-decoration: none;" id="Performance_Bugs_-_Fixed"></a></span></p>
<h3 style="line-height: 1.3;"><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 12px;">Performance Bugs - Fixed</span></h3>
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<li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.85em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 12px;">Attempting to import a large number of images that already exist within the Lightroom catalog could cause significant performance delays.</span></li>
<li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.85em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 12px;">The image counts that appear next to each folder could appear to populate slowly.</span></li>
<li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.85em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 12px;">Lightroom scanned the calibration profile directory excessively when switching collections.</span></li>
<li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.85em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 12px;">The 'three dot' indicator in the grid view persisted longer than necessary.</span></li>
<li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.85em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 12px;">The Mac 64-bit version did not have SSE2 optimization, causing reduced rendering speeds.</span></li>
<li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.85em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 12px;">Memory leaks in the Library and Develop modules decreased Lightroom performance.</span></li>
<li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.85em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 12px;">Applying keywords via presets or on import could greatly decrease import performance.</span></li>
<li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.85em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 12px;">Folder synchronizing could experience significant performance decreases.</span></li>
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<p><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 12px;"><a name="Keywords_and_Metadata_-_Fixed" style="color: #008811; text-decoration: none;" id="Keywords_and_Metadata_-_Fixed"></a></span></p>
<h3 style="line-height: 1.3;"><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 12px;">Keywords and Metadata - Fixed</span></h3>
<ul>
<li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.85em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 12px;">Keywords from Lightroom 1.4 were not included on image export by default. (Please note that catalogs upgraded from Lightroom 1.4 using Lightroom 2.1 will not have this issue, but catalogs upgraded from 1.4 using 2.0 will still need to use the script posted at our technical support site at: <a href="http://www.adobe.com/go/kb405074" class="external" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" style="color: #008811; text-decoration: none;">http://www.adobe.com/go/kb405074</a>.)</span></li>
<li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.85em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 12px;">Lightroom stopped rendering previews prior to completion on files with metadata changes applied by other applications.</span></li>
<li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.85em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 12px;">The "Any Searchable Field" search option did not find caption text.</span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 12px;"><a name="Photoshop_Interop_-_Fixed" style="color: #008811; text-decoration: none;" id="Photoshop_Interop_-_Fixed"></a></span></p>
<h3 style="line-height: 1.3;"><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 12px;">Photoshop Interop - Fixed</span></h3>
<ul>
<li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.85em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 12px;">Edit in Photoshop did not work correctly or at all for some customers.</span></li>
<li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.85em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 12px;">Copyright Status and Info URL fields were not transferred when a file was created from Lightroom for use in Photoshop.</span></li>
<li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.85em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 12px;">XMP metadata from the IDimager application was not carried over during an Edit in Photoshop operation.</span></li>
<li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.85em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 12px;">Files with an ampersand in the file name were not added back to the Lightroom Library after an Edit in Photoshop session.</span></li>
<li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.85em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 12px;">Choosing to Edit in Photoshop from a folder with an apostrophe in the name would cause the feature to fail.</span></li>
<li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.85em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 12px;">Certain NEF files were rotated incorrectly when opened into Photoshop from Lightroom.</span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 12px;"><a name="Miscellaneous_Troubling_Items_-_Fixed" style="color: #008811; text-decoration: none;" id="Miscellaneous_Troubling_Items_-_Fixed"></a></span></p>
<h3 style="line-height: 1.3;"><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 12px;">Miscellaneous Troubling Items - Fixed</span></h3>
<ul>
<li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.85em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 12px;">Re-importing missing photos from an exported catalog could ignore the setting 'preserve old settings as virtual copy.'</span></li>
<li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.85em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 12px;">Choosing to undo a slider adjustment in Lightroom on Windows would cause two undo steps to occur if the slider was still under active mouse selection.</span></li>
<li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.85em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 12px;">Lights Out mode could flicker on Windows when the detail panel was selected in the Develop module.</span></li>
<li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.85em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 12px;">The crop aspect ratio could revert to the last selected ratio even when it had been reset to original.</span></li>
<li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.85em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 12px;">The spot tool might not switch from clone to healing mode upon request if the brush was above a certain size.</span></li>
<li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.85em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 12px;">Certain ORF files were not read by Lightroom.</span></li>
<li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.85em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 12px;">During import and conversion to DNG, file renaming could use the operating system's date stamp rather than the file’s EXIF date.</span></li>
<li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.85em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 12px;">Panoramic images printed with a portrait layout and utilizing the auto layout functionality would cause images to print at a low resolution.</span></li>
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  <entry>
    <title>Selecting Images Not in a Collection</title>
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    <published>2008-01-06T22:32:47-05:00</published>
    <updated>2008-01-06T22:36:51-05:00</updated>
    <author>
      <name>Gene</name>
    </author>
    <category term="Digital Asset Management" />
    <category term="Lightroom" />
    <category term="Photography" />
    <category term="Tips" />
    <category term="Tutorial" />
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One of Lightroom&#39;s great features is the ability to put images into collections. An image can appear in several collections so you can build groups of images that make sense to you. If you click on a collection name you can see and select all the images in that collection and create a web gallery or prints.
</p>
<p>
But what do you do if you have a large number of images and you need to find out which ones are <strong>not</strong> in a collection?  Here is a step-by-step way to select all your <em>non-collected</em> images.
</p>
<p>
While in the Library module, open your Collections panel on the left.
</p>
<p>
<img src="/files/u1/colpanel.jpg" width="296" height="227" />
</p>
<p>
Now click on the first collections in the list to highlight it.
</p>
<p>
<img src="/files/u1/colpanel1.jpg" width="285" height="219" />
</p>
<p>
While holding down the shift key click on the last collection in the list. You should now have all your collections selected and all the images in them appear in the grid.
</p>
<p>
<img src="/files/u1/colpanelall.jpg" width="290" height="227" />
</p>
<p>
To select all these images either press <strong>Control-A</strong> (<strong>Command-A</strong> on the Mac) or go up to the Edit menu and click <strong>Select All</strong>.
</p>
<p>
<img src="/files/u1/selectall.jpg" width="262" height="300" />
</p>
<p>
What&#39;s that you say? You&#39;re right! Now you have all your <em>collected</em> images selected. Here&#39;s how we get to our goal of select all images <strong>not in a collection</strong>.
</p>
<p>
Go to the Library panel and click on <strong>All Photographs</strong>.
</p>
<p>
<img src="/files/u1/libpanel.jpg" width="295" height="155" />
</p>
<p>
Now the grid shows all your images with the collected ones selected. To finish off got to the edit menu and click <strong>Invert selection</strong>.
</p>
<p>
<img src="/files/u1/invert.jpg" width="262" height="300" />
</p>
<p>
Viola! Now the grid shows a selection of all your images that are not in any collection!
</p>
<p>
<img src="/files/u1/noncollection.jpg" width="500" height="290" />
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  <entry>
    <title>The DAM Book: Digital Asset Management for Photographers</title>
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    <id>http://pixveritas.com/dam_book_digital_asset_management_photographers</id>
    <published>2006-12-16T18:35:07-05:00</published>
    <updated>2007-02-01T17:04:10-05:00</updated>
    <author>
      <name>Gene</name>
    </author>
    <category term="Catalog" />
    <category term="DAM" />
    <category term="Digital Asset Management" />
    <category term="Photography" />
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