Quick little update. Lightroom 1.1 is out and I encourage everyone to head on over to their favorite download site and pick it up. I got mine from versiontracker.com. Strangely, the automatic update function on Lightroom isn’t registering the update yet but I have no doubt it’ll be fixed soon.
According to the public released information 1.1 adds:
• Flexible image management for multi-computer workflows
• Improved Noise Reduction and Sharpening technology
• New camera support
This was posted by EliBurak from the Luminous Landscape forum on Lightroom. These bullet points describe what Scott Kelby demoed for a seminar in Boston last month:
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•Easier to merge libraries - he actually called them catalogues and you can export images or a subset of images as a catalogue and they should merge seamlessly with existing libraries. He didn't get into too much detail but looked like it solved a lot of the issues with merging separate databases from different computers.
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•Sharpening - Tool now has amount, radius, detail and masking. Only viewable at 1:1 but definitely at least as good as USM.
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•Clarity Slider - In addition to Saturation and Vibrance, there is a slider called "clarity". This looked really neat. It might have something to do with saturation but he described it as a large radius unsharp mask like thing and it looked like it really worked well on the image he showed us.
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•Can categorize presets now in every module.
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•You can edit your metadata presets instead of having to redo the whole thing if you made a mistake or wanted to change something.
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•Spraypaint can - They got rid of the keyword stamper but added this tool. This is like the stamper but you can just "spray" or apply it to a number of images very easily. And you can choose to spray a number of things such as keywords, flags, rotations, etc..