#ADOBE LIGHTROOM 3 INSTRUCTION MANUAL UPDATE#

Typically, luminance noise reduction reduces the sharpness in your image. Noise reduction has been improved, with more control over the edge detail when using luminance and color noise adjustments. In looking at several hundred images, I didn't find a single image that didn't benefit from updating the process. You can review what changes will be made to the image when updating, and like other editing tasks in Lightroom this is non-destructive so you can always go back if you want (Figure 4).Д«y default, the new process is sharper with better color fidelity and lower noise. This will filter your library to show only those images with the old process.

#ADOBE LIGHTROOM 3 INSTRUCTION MANUAL UPDATE#

Lightroom will not update your images automatically, so to help with finding what version your images are using, you can select Library > Find Previous Process Photos. The results from the new version are superior in every respect to the previous version, especially when it comes to lens correction and noise handling. The new processing version is not backward compatible, so you won't be able to go back to a previous version of Lightroom or ACR if you use the new process, but there is really no reason to want to. Lightroom 3 uses the same new processing engine as Adobe Camera Raw in Photoshop CS5. Image ProcessingДЄt the heart of Lightroom is the image processing component - the Develop module. Hopefully, Adobe will add more in this area as more dSLR's include a video capability. Support for video is minimal - unlike Apple's Aperture, you'll need an external player/editor to do anything with your videos, but being able to manage them is a good start. If you have multiple cameras connected, you can select which camera to control, the current settings of the camera, whether to apply develop presets as the images are captured, and a capture button (Figure 3).ДЇinally, Lightroom 3 will now import your video files into the library. Once your settings are done, you'll see the Tethered Capture Controller. A settings dialog box will be displayed (Figure 2) where you can enter session information, what type of metadata is written with the images, file naming, and where the files will be saved.

To shoot tethered, select File > Tethered Capture > Start Tethered Capture. Currently the app supports cameras from Canon and Nikon, and Adobe says they expect this list to grow as testing is completed on other camera models. Related to importing, Lightroom 3 now includes a Tethered Capture option that lets you shoot directly into Lightroom. Once I've selected the settings I want to use, clicking on Save Current Settings as a New Preset will give me the options to save these settings for future use. On feature I've found very useful is the Presets option. Lightroom will display the subfolders that will be created as well as the number of images each folder will contrain. You can drag the selection bar up or down to choose the location (or double click on the destination folder). On the right side of the import window is a Destination panel that lets you select where your images are placed. Thumbnail size of images in the preview area is adjustable so you can take a closer look if you want to filter the images out prior to import. Import now fills your screen by default (you can collapse this to a smaller window if you like). With version 3, Importing has received a complete face-lift and gained some nice new features (Figure 1) Performance wasn't that impressive, and if you had different groups of images on a card, you needed to perform multiple imports to put these files in different locations. Importing in Lightroom 2 was a straight forward process, but it did have room for improvement. ImportingДЄt it's heart, Lightroom is part digital asset manager - you need to import your images into the Lightroom database, either by copying them, or referencing them at a location on your drive, before you can use the tools or output your images. While Lightroom 2 is a popular option for many, the latest release adds some new features that improve the overall workflow and quality of output. Lightroom, unlike Photoshop, is built from the ground up for photography and the unique workflow that we have as digital photographers.В Rather than dealing with 3D, vector graphics, and other general graphics tasks that aren't of interest to most of us, Lightroom distills the features down to what is important - image management and optimization. Close on the heels of Adobe's release of Photoshop CS5, Lightroom 3.0 is now available.

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