Adobe Releases Lightroom 1.1 (and more Lightroom News)
Jun. 27
7:48 am
Good Wednesday everybody! Here’s the Lightroom scoop:
- Adobe has officially released Lightroom version 1.1 (which is really more like a version 1.5 release, but it goes WAY beyond fixing bugs–it adds some serious new features, enhancements, and improvements throughout the application, including the ability to merge multiple libraries [now called “Catalogs.”), better sharpening and noise reduction, a new Clarity control that kicks butt, and lots of other little tweaks you’ll love. The update is FREE, and you can download it directly from Adobe’s site (For the Mac version click here. For the Windows version click here).
- I just finished writing a special free Version 1.1 PDF update for people who’ve bought my book “The Lightroom Book for Digital Photographers” and we’re working on having it up live by tomorrow. I call this update “My Lightroom 1.1 Update Kit” and the kit is laid out in two page spreads; the left page shows how we used to do a particular task in the original Lightroom 1.0, and the right page shows the new and improved way to do it in version 1.1. It’s a really clean, quick, and efficient way to get up-to-speed fast, and the initial feedback on it has been really terrific. Also, I threw in lots of cool little tips because…well, I just love cool little tips. More on this when it goes live tomorrow.
- I’m also excited to announce that today we’re launching a 21-day online course with my buddy (and NAPP TV Co-host) Matt Klowkowski, on Lightroom version 1.1. The classes are just 5-minutes per day, and you get to download the same photos Matt works on in the class (so you can follow right along), plus you get a PDF outline each day (and some other cool bonus stuff I can’t tell you about). The 21-day class is $69.95 (but only $49.95 if you’re a NAPP member), and you can get more info, or sign up, at PhotoshopTraining.com
- Lightroom-News.com has posted an in-depth article on the new features. Click here to jump there. There’s also a nice little article over at the Wired Blog Network about the new 1.1 update, complete with some screen caps. Check it out here.
- Scroll down to the next post to see a quick video clip filmed during my Santa Fe Workshop.
It’s a great day to be a Lightroom user—have a good one!
Hi Scott
Thanks so much for the update pdf tomorrow, what a fantastic idea, can’t wait to see it. I downloaded 1.1 last night, it even seems faster! I tried out the “Clarity” feature – I love it, and it works just like it sounds.
Heey Scott
Thanks for the update of your book, as always I enjoy reading your books,
and glad to see there will be a free update. I would have been disappointed if your book was revised and had to buy ““The Lightroom Book for Digital Photographers rev.1.1†.
What’s happening with your “Lightroom Tour”?
Harold
Hi Scott,
What a surprise to get the update notice from Adobe while working in Lightroom yesterday! I’ve been impatiently waiting for 1.1 since your announcement in Atlanta.
Also, the Lightroom book is outstanding. Your wacky writing style has me laughing out loud, enjoying every moment I’m learning Lightroom. I’m the proud owner of an autographed copy… Can’t wait for your update. Thanks for adding the new content free.
Allisan
Scott- we sincerely appreciate you getting a 1.1 PDF update out. Thanks in advance.
I am from China.My English is poor.But I like photography.In China,I know that a lot of friends enjoy photography.
Today I bought your 《Digital photography》(Chinese Version)in local bookstore.A wonderful book I’ve read!
So I came here just want to say:”Thank you,My good teacher far away!You’ve given me so much useful suggestions!”
Welcome write back to me .Maybe I’ll write to you again to ask you for some new problems I meet.I hope I would not interrupt you.
Thank you again,my faraway Friend!
Just an FYI to folks that the upgrade/conversion process can take a significant amount of time (even on a fast machine) if your library contains a lot of images. I’ve not had a chance to play with the new features yet, but I’ve blogged my experience with the upgrade process here:
http://blog.rrdphoto.com/2007/06/lightroom-11-upgrade-now-available.html
Good deal releasing the update for free. I just bought the book a few weeks ago and am still working through it. Hate to replace a book I haven’t finished reading yet. Keep up the good work.
Would you please address in the pdf update what happened to the white balance presets in the library module (daylight, shade, etc.)? They only seem to be available for raw files in 1.1 but they were available for all file types in 1.0.
Thanks in advance,
Leon
Excellent news! Thanks for the update to your book! I look forward to it.
Scott, I have nothing but the outmost respect for you all of the guys and gals at NAPP. Have all your book. But I must disagree with the firts paragraph of your statement. V 1.1 is NOT a major upgrade. Is toes add some promising functionality (clarity), does a better job on noise reduction (I stll prefer Noise Ninja) and work faster when you have a large library (catalog). But overall it does not deal with what most of us are asking for. Make me wonder if Adobe is really listening.
What about the dual display Support, ability to transport “shoots” from laptop to desktop (as in beta 4) and a more robust libary??
I dislike the fragmented aproach of Adobre in LR library. I hate that only the master is moved to a collection leaving behind nay other version stacked with the master. To organize and select images in LR Library module is useless. LR continues to be just a version of Bridge in steroid rather than a robust cataloging solution.
It is dissapointing solution from a company like Adobe. It made me look into Apple Aperture and although is not perfect, I am making the change.
Hi Scott, slightly off subject, but do you have any insider knowledge on when Adobe will release a plugin API for Lightroom, this is one area that it is really lacking in currently. Thanks for any info. and thanks for the pdf update, not many authors would make such a great effort.
Cheers
Jonathan
Any thoughts to how this upgrade will effect the manner in which you teach the Lightroom Seminar? As someone who attended the LA session I would like to know how the future seminars will change. eg. With better sharpening available in 1.1 is there a consistent reason for going to CS3 anymore or would lab sharpening still be preferred.
Hi Scott,
Thought I’d copy over this entry I’ve just put into the NAPP forums:
“Hi Guys,
Last Saturday I was photographing the 2nd Annual Heathrow Airport Summer Ball – a fabulous event, in aid of the Dream Flight Charity who raise money to send terminally ill children around the world to visit places like Disney Land etc…
There were roughly 300 people in attendance, all dressed in the Sunday best and it was my job to do portrait photographs of them all as they came in. I set up two (2) elinchrom flash heads with softboxes, a collapsible black lastolite background with a Nikon SB800 set to add a kick of light onto it.
For the first time I decided to shoot tethered as Scott Kelby describes in his Lightroom for Digital Photographers book, for a number of reasons. The main ones being speed, so I didn’t have to download images throughout the night from a memory card, and secondly, I and the ‘model’ could see the photos on the big screen and say which one they wanted.
Lightroom worked faultlessly!!! and with the aid of an expo disc I had absolutely no need to do any colour correction. All I had to do was simply apply a little sharpening along with a slight vignette (all in Lightroom) and then crop the images using synchronise to 8″ x 6″ for the Dye Sub Printer to churn out. I couldn’t have wished for it to work any better!!!
All in all, the response from attendees was excellent. They loved seeing the images on screen so I was guaranteed a sale, the expo disc was a massive time saver, and Lightroom was a gift from the gods. From portraits alone, in a short space of time I made £840 or put another way $1677, with a percentage going to the charity.
I’ve got more events coming this year alongside my other work, and I think the only thing I’ll change is to shoot wirelessly to the laptop using the Nikon Wireless Transmitter.”
Thankyou Adobe and thankyou Scott!!!
To Leon:
My Lightroom 1.0 white balance presets are missing, too. So were my WOW and Inside-Lightroom presets, but I was able to re-import those sets of presets. I’m hoping Scott’s 1.1 .pdf addresses the 1.0 white balance issue.
Hey Scott, love the books I have a lot of them. Where are you going to put this update? Is it going to be on the page addressed in your books? The same place to get the sample images?
Thanks for the books, can’t wait to pick up the CS3 book!
Two things I wish from Adobe.
1. repair the speed loss of 1.1 has compared to 1.0 (longer load times of images, longer switching times between modules.
2. What I really hope is, that Adobe will break down the impractical wall between library and develop module. It doesn’t make any sense, and makes you switch constantly between the two modules.
As you mentioned in your book, Scott, the before – after comparison is a poor tool to work on versions of images. I also work with virtual copies, but to see those side by side you have to go into survey mode, and for changes back into the develop module
Maybe you found some way around this. I just started your book (which I enjoy as very practical) – after having read Martin Evening’s book, which was a rather unsatisfactory laundry list of features, missing out on practical information.
But I still want the wall between develop module and library come down, and give me the possibility of adding and removing panels. Apple’s Aperture has a clear advantage in this point.