Comments on: News – Lightroom 3 Beta (Part 2)

By: SImon Maxwell

SImon Maxwell — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 09:01:56 +0000

Chung: great to hear someone else on the subject of red colour translation in LR 2 and I am sorry to say 3. I shoot interiors with a Gretag Colour checker and files are consistently almost electric pink / reds really too punchy on a calibrated monitor : my Canon 5D files look accurate in DPP (Canon’s raw converter) but Lightroom is horrible! Have had to create a profile with reduced red saturation and increased hue towards orange end. But this can’t be right. Not least shots look poor when showing a client images straight off in LR prior to post-production. Anyone else seen a red bias in their files?

By: Carsten

Carsten — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 10:28:22 +0000

Another very good news about the new LR3 came from Tom Hogarty these days: LR3 (and ACR 6) will also receive the Lens Correction Solution that already was build into Photoshop CS5 (http://blogs.adobe.com/lightroomjournal/2010/04/preview_of_lens_correction_sol.html). That is what I really hoped for when I saw it appear in CS5.

Now I am even more looking forward for LR3 to be released.

By: Quantum

Quantum — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 23:08:17 +0000

If you are serious about digital photography you must understand color management system and apply it to your workflow. It’s essential need. That means creating profiles for your camera (at specific settings would be good), calibrating your monitor and profiling it as well, and in the end create profiles for your printer and papers. It’s the only way to do this right. Then there’s no need to softproof. Your proof is your printed photograph.

Also, there is Photoshop for softproofing. You can hit Ctrl+E (win) / Command+E (mac) )in Lightroom to open your image in PS and then hit Ctrl+Y (win) / Command+Y (mac) to softproof your colors. It’s only 2 key shortcuts away and takes a split of a second. Is this too much? How simplier and fast could it be?

I personally think this is just fine and see no need to fit too many options in Lightroom when there is Photoshop which works so flawlessly in combination with LR.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 23:40:25 +0000

I have and use LR 2.7, it is very easy to import files into LR 2.7 and almost impossible in LR 3.2, I just spent 15 mins trying to upload a file into LR 3.2 , Could NOT get the file to import.

I went to LR 2.7 and instantly the same file was improted.

It is very difficult to test the beta if I can’t import my files into the program!!

I’m on a late 2009 iMac, and have been using LR since V1.0

By: Jacqueline

Jacqueline — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 16:30:31 +0000

Would really like to be able to use the adjustment brush for ALL of the Basic sliders (specifically Vibrance!) One extremely irritating issue I have is that I can’t figure out why Lightroom 3 Beta 2 WILL NOT give me the option to ADD images to the catalog from the import screen! Copy as DNG and Copy are the only two selectable options from my import and the Move and Add options are greyed out and therefore non-selectable. It’s driving me crazy that I can’t figure out why this is!

By: John T

John T — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 13:20:55 +0000

John,
Unfortunately, you can’t convert on import like you can from your cards. However, once you’ve gotten all your images in LR you can select all and convert to DNG anytime. If you have a big job with hundreds of files, though doubtful since I don’t think you’ll be shooting weddings with a laptop hanging on your hip, you can do it while you eat lunch, or overnight. In the library module, go to the ‘library tab’ and way down in the menu choose convert to DNG. Don’t forget to select all first.
jt

By: Mick Montalto

Mick Montalto — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 13:09:29 +0000

I’m very pleased that Adobe is doing all of these built in advancements in the code so that performance is going to be better and some of the prexisting tools are being fixed. That being said though, I’m still pretty put off that they continue to avoid other highly requested features such as:

1. Native HDR support
2. Lasso tool – Local Adjustment brush (or something similar)

This release seems to be worth the money currently, but only because LR2 was a bit on the clunky side with some of the tools that came along with it not functioning as they should. Everyone is hooping and hollaring over improved noise reduction, but in my mind, with a company as outstanding as Adobe, it should have functioned correctly in the first place. I don’t mean to be a Debbie Downer, I’m simply a bit upset that there hasn’t been any big “WOW” features built in yet.

By: Rodney

Rodney — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 03:26:51 +0000

I think the new features will be very useful! But where is the distortion correction
If Canon can do this in DPP so can Adobe. This is the feature that would make me certain to purchase the upgrade. As a landscape photographer I don’t do much high ISO stuff no studio work so all the nice new features don’t sway me much. But distortion is a problem that has me going back a forth between lightroom and Photoshop. Please Adobe ..

By: captain spin

captain spin — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 02:52:51 +0000

I have been with LR for a long while. I am sure I will finally get used to it bit I fing the inport and export dialogue boxes infuriating. The import may look neet but I find it confusing in the extreme. The export is weird, select a destination and somehow it loads the images onto the desktop. I have been through this a few times and afte selecting the correct destination I find I have to go back and manually select the destination again. Now this never happened in LR2. The import procedure is also far less intuitive.
In export I thought I had renamed files only to discover that they were reverting to the original import file name… I can’t remember this ever happening in LR2???
I will keep practicing but I am not happy.

By: Chung

Chung — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 21:22:02 +0000

I gave LR3 a test drive yesterday. After some conversions, I walked away very disappointed.

My huge disappointment with LR2 was it renders RAW files way too red, especially in low light situation, and tungsten lighting. Guess what, that’s how majority of wedding reception lights are…

I seriously thought LR3, with it’s new version of Camera Profiles, would address this, but after testing it out, the files looks the same. Skin tons are way too red, in fact, the whole image has a magenta/red tint to it.

My cameras were 5d mark ii and 40d. Both have the same issues.

Adobe, FIX THE CAMERA PROFILES!!!!!!!!