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Adobe Lightroom 5.7 Update

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Lightroom Updates

Well it’s finally here! Adobe has updated Lightroom to version 5.7, which includes a few tweaks, bug fixes and most importantly some updates to camera and lens support, including Canon’s 7D mkII.

Lightroom 5.7 now available

Lightroom 5.7 is now available as a final release on Adobe.com and through the update mechanism in Lightroom 5.  The goal of this release is to provide support for additional camera raw support, lens profile support and address bugs that were introduced in previous releases of Lightroom.

Release Notes

Features

Updates to Synced Collections:

  • Synced collections now show a more prominent share button at the top of the Toolbar.  This allows you to quickly share your synced collection with friends, family, and clients using Lightroom web (http://lightroom.adobe.com).
  • Comments and likes left on Lightroom web now sync to the Lightroom desktop catalog.  Comments and Likes will be shown in the “Comment” panel for synced collections.
  • Images with comments and likes will display a badge indicating that there are comments and a colored badge to indicate that there are unread comments.

Integrated a utility to import images from Apple Aperture and Apple iPhoto libraries into Lightroom:

  • Previously available as a separate and downloadable plug-in, this utility has now been integrated into Lightroom 5.7

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Glacier National Park Photography

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Montana Photography Workshop

Little Matterhorn, Glacier National Park. Canon 5dMkII  100-400mm 4.5-5.6L IS.   ISO100  f8.0  1/20 sec

I was editing images this evening and kind of liked this one. It’s of the Little Matterhorn in Glacier National Park taken last September in the late evening. The image was taken at a longer focal length around 400mm and processed in Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop.

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classes

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I am putting together my 2011 photography classes and workshops and thought I would check and see what the interest  was for an Adobe Photoshop Lightroom class here  in Montana. I have been getting more and more requests lately for specific Lightroom classes and  I was curious how many out there are using Lightroom?

I started using Lightroom when it first came out, seeing if I could incorporate it into my Photoshop workflow. At the time Lightroom was terribly slow and just not very polished. Fast forward a few years, and I now use Lightroom for almost all of my photo archive management and editing. Don’t get me wrong, I still love Photoshop and still use it heavily for more complex editing and doing certain tasks that Lightroom leaves out, but for a majority of basic editing, Lightroom is my go-to.

In fact, the workflow is so organized and transitions from your Photo Library to Edit, so fast, that it has cut my editing times down dramatically. On any given assignment in the past using Bridge & Photoshop, I might have spent a day or two hunched over the computer, with Lightroom, maybe now half that time. It’s just really streamlined things.

Now that’s just my experience, I still know other Photographers who are only using Bridge & Photoshop or other editing programs and everyone has their own system. However, there is no denying that things continue to improve with Lightroom. More and more amateurs & professionals are utilizing it’s awesome features, especially with some of it’s new RAW editing tools.

So if you’re in Montana and interested in having some Lightroom classes, drop me a line, let me know. I would be glad at looking at hosting some around the state or look at adding it to the classes I teach at the University of Montana College of Technology here in Helena.