Comments on: It’s Lightroom 2.0 Baby! (Beta that is)

By: James Crocker

James Crocker — Sun, 04 May 2008 13:49:40 +0000

I can not load either LR 1.41 or Beta 2. About 1 second after launching, a message appears saying Lightroom has to shut down. I use updated XP and have no trouble with LR 1.31 or any other program. I have spent the last two weeks trying: removing the pref file, removing and reinstaling all LR programs, defraging, reg clean and probably other things I could think of. Does anyone have any cures for this? Thanks jc

By: Todd Naber

Todd Naber — Sat, 03 May 2008 05:16:54 +0000

Hey Matt,
I enjoy your Lightroom Killer Tips. Can you tell me how you made your ” Matt Kloskowski Photography Template that accompanies your photos that you share with us on the lightroomkillertips website?
Was this a tip or an article that I missed from a previous week?
Please let me know your formula for your template.
Thanks in Advance,
Todd

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 03:07:59 +0000

Hey Matt,

I know this is completely off-topic for your LR Killer Tips blog, but could not find another way to contact you. I went to send you an email through the NAPP site about a tutorial you did a while back on creating a calendar for your desktop. (we had messaged a few ties in the forums)…but I know how busy you are and that this site takes up a good portion of your time.

Well…as you likely already know - I did a video version of that for Windows a little later. That has also evolved into a little template project for me using Photoshop (sorry, not LR - many many layers here), which was completed this evening when I finally had some time to get back to it and clean a few things up. Anyway, the video for it is over on my blog - feel free to dissect it or share with others at your leisure (both in QT and flash versions)…

Keep doing everything you guys do at NAPP with LR and PS - the training and resources are second to none!

Oh yeah, the link (for others if interested) is http://www.canonblogger.com - thanks again for the inspiration and genesis of the template idea! PS Guys “Rock the How-ski!”

By: EvKo

EvKo — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:53:53 +0000

I think “Lens Correction” feature (something like DxO has) is one of the most important features in my opinion - because now whole LR’s RAW workflow is weaken by making you to switch to PS (or other third-party software) to fix almost always present lens distortions, the switch that strips files of their RAW data by making LR convert files to TIFFs or PSDs for feather editing. So if (almost?) all lens corrections could be done inside of LR 2, photographs in most case could be kept in their native RAW formats - witch would lead to a lot more flexible work environment.
Can this feature be added to LR 2? If DxO can do it - why LR can’t, right?

By: Kevin Barre

Kevin Barre — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:33:37 +0000

Comments:

1. Post-crop vignetting is worthy of its own upgrade.

2. The new sharpening features kick complete @ss.

3. Dual Monitor Support should be renamed “Here, Show These Images to Your Clients,” ’cause that’s the only thing I can figure this feature (in its current state) is useful for. Adobe, PLEASE give us TRUE dual monitor support, where we can…well that brings me to…

4. Custom Adjustment Panels are a MUST. I am so tired of scrolling up and down through the side adjustment panels. Why can’t we move these things wherever we want them? Why can’t we re-arrange the listing order? WHY CAN’T THEY BE MOVED TO THE SECOND MONITOR? Photoshop is so much better at this, so I know it can be done. How about a little (optional) tear-off panel for each adjustment setting that can be re-ordered or moved wherever we like?

5. Can we PLEASE have a Levels adjustment like Photoshop has, where we can manually set a white point and a black point? I would love to be able to specify a (repeatable) black clipping point, like I can with the levels control in Photoshop.

By: Randy B

Randy B — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 22:48:32 +0000

I was using 1.3.1 and cannot import either the catalog or the collections. Is this correct?

By: Ned Leary

Ned Leary — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 10:26:34 +0000

Given the cautionary notes from Adobe http://blogs.adobe.com/lightroomjournal/
I guess the main use for the Beta is just to play around…not to do editing you want to save….or can you? If not, can’t imagine using much….even testing much…am I missing something?

By: Mike Shih

Mike Shih — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 03:48:33 +0000

Hi Matt,

I wanted to re-visit a lesson that I believe you taught over at kelbytraining.com It had to do with using custom files under the identity plate function to create borders/layers in Lightroom. For the life of me, I can’t find the lesson anymore. Can you or anyone direct me to the right lesson again? Specifically..it was using ornamental textured files from istockphoto.com to overlay on the final print. Thanks for any help. Love the site and I’m addicted to Lightroom!!

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 14:37:57 +0000

Other than that though. I love the program. It’s just incredible how much better (and faster) than Aperture, LR is (for my purposes at least).

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 14:36:53 +0000

Chris,

I’m having the same JPEG consistency problem. In my case, everything I export to JPEG from Lightroom 2.0 is significantly darker.