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.

Today when starting Lightroom 1 was told that Lightroom 1.1 was available for download (at the Lightroom website). Being the technofile that I am I downloaded and installed instantly. Install is painless. By reading the release notes I was wondering if…

Thanks for the books, can’t wait to pick up the CS3 book!

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.

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!!!

Cheers
Jonathan

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.

THE WAIT IS OVER! Yes indeed! Adobe has rolled out the FREE upgrade to Photoshop Lightroom 1.1

Aside from some bug fixes there is an abundance of new functionality just waiting to be explored! Windows users can click here to download the upgrade.

Thanks in advance,

Leon