November 15, 2007
Lightroom gets a 1.3 Facelift
Early indications on Adobe’s FTP servers is that Lightroom 1.3 will be available shortly.The Mac version is hereThe Windows version is hereNew file formats supported in the 1.3 release are:
- Canon 1Ds Mark III
- Canon PowerShot G9
- Nikon D3
- Nikon D300
- Olympus E-3
- Olympus SP-560 UZ
- Panasonic DMC-L10
Lightroom 1.3 includes corrections for the following issues:
- Writing XMP metadata automatically has been corrected for performance issues
- Printing with the native resolution option enabled no longer sets the wrong dimension for portrait oriented images
- Prior to Camera Raw 4.3 there was the possibility that artifacts in edge transitions could be introduced through the
- Bayer demosaic and luminance noise reductions algorithms. This has been corrected.
- The Canon sRAW format and the Fuji compressed RAF formats are now supported.
Lightroom 1.3 includes the following enhancements:
- The import dialog now offers the option to render 1:1 previews as part of the import process
- The export dialog layout has been enhanced
- A Lightroom Preview Export SDK is available for developers to create and distribute Export Plug-ins. Further details are located on Adobe Labs
This update also brings OS X 10.5 compatibility with Apple’s new Leopard OS which itself was updated today to 10.5.1.Camera Raw 4.3 will also be released tonight, more info when available…