There’s over 120 new lens profiles, most of which are made in conjunction with the lens manufacturer.

New Camera Support

Canon EOS 60D

Casio EXILIM EX-FH100*

Fuji FinePix HS10

Leica S2 (DNG*)

Panasonic DMC-FZ100

Panasonic DMC-FZ40 (FZ45)

Panasonic DMC-LX5

Pentax 645D

Samsung NX10

Samsung TL500 (EX1)

Sony A290

Sony A390

Sony Alpha NEX-3

Sony Alpha NEX-5

Sony SLT-A33

Sony SLT-A55V

^*The DNG raw file format is supported in previous versions of Lightroom and Camera Raw. This update improves the color and noise profiles for these models.

New Lens Profile Support

Lens Mount	Lens Name
Apple	Apple iPhone 4 (back camera)
Canon	Canon PowerShot S90
Canon	Canon EF-S 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 IS
Canon	Canon EF-S 55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS
Canon	Canon EF-S 60mm f/2.8 Macro USM
Canon	Canon EF 14mm f/2.8L II USM
Canon	Canon EF 24mm f/1.4L II USM
Canon	Canon EF 50mm f/1.2L USM
Canon	Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II
Canon	Canon EF 75-300mm f/4-5.6 USM
Canon	Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM
Canon	Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM
Canon	Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM
Canon	Canon EF 300mm f/4L IS USM
Nikon	Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 16-85mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR
Nikon	Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-NIKKOR 17-55mm f/2.8G IF-ED
Nikon	Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 16-35mm f/4G ED VR
Nikon	Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 50mm f/1.4G
Nikon	Nikon AF-S Zoom-Nikkor 17-35mm f/2.8D IF-ED
Nikon	Nikon AF NIKKOR 35mm f/2D
Nikon	Nikon AF NIKKOR 50mm f/1.4D
Penax	smc PENTAX-D FA645 55mmF2.8AL[IF] SDM AW
Penax	smc PENTAX-FA645 33-55mmF4.5AL
Penax	smc PENTAX-FA645 35mmF3.5AL[IF]
Penax	smc PENTAX-FA645 45mmF2.8
Penax	smc PENTAX-FA645 45-85mmF4.5
Penax	smc PENTAX-FA645 55-110mmF5.6
Penax	smc PENTAX-FA645 75mmF2.8
Penax	smc PENTAX-FA645 80-160mmF4.5
Penax	smc PENTAX-FA645 MACRO 120mmF4
Penax	smc PENTAX-FA645 150mmF2.8[IF]
Penax	smc PENTAX-FA645 150-300mmF5.6ED[IF]
Penax	smc PENTAX-FA645 200mmF4[IF]
Penax	smc PENTAX-FA*645 300mmF4ED[IF]
Penax	smc PENTAX-FA645 300mmF5.6ED[IF]
Penax	smc PENTAX-FA645 400mmF5.6ED[IF]
Samsung	Samsung EX1
Samsung	Samsung 18-55 f/3.5-5.6 OIS
Samsung	Samsung 30mm f/2
Samsung	Samsung 50-200mm f/4-5.6 ED OIS
Phase One	Schneider LS 80mm f/2.8 (For 645DF System)
Nikon	SIGMA 17-50mm F2.8 EX DC OS HSM (Nikon mount)
Nikon	SIGMA APO 70-200mm F2.8 EX DG OS HSM (Nikon mount)
Sony	Sony E 18-55mm F3.5-5.6 OSS (For NEX System)
Sony	Sony E 16mm F2.8 (For NEX System)
Canon	TAMRON 18-200mm F/3.5-6.3 DiII A14E
Canon	TAMRON 18-250mm F/3.5-6.3 DiII A18E
Canon	TAMRON 18-270mm F/3.5-6.3 DiII VC B003E
Canon	TAMRON 28-200mm F/3.8-5.6 Di A031E
Canon	TAMRON 28-300mm F/3.5-6.3 Di A061E
Canon	TAMRON 28-300mm F/3.5-6.3 Di VC A20E
Canon	TAMRON 55-200mm F/4-5.6 DiII A15E
Canon	TAMRON 70-300mm F/4-5.6 Di A17E
Canon	TAMRON SP 10-24mm F/3.5-4.5 DiII B001E
Canon	TAMRON SP 17-50mm F/2.8 DiII A16E
Canon	TAMRON SP 17-50mm F/2.8 DiII VC B005E
Canon	TAMRON SP 180mm F/3.5 Di MACRO 1:1 B01E
Canon	TAMRON SP 200-500mm F/5-6.3 Di A08E
Canon	TAMRON SP 28-75mm F/2.8 Di A09E
Canon	TAMRON SP 60mm F/2 DiII MACRO 1:1 G005E
Canon	TAMRON SP 70-200mm F/2.8 Di A001E
Canon	TAMRON SP 90mm F/2.8 Di MACRO 1:1 272EE
Nikon	TAMRON 18-200mm F/3.5-6.3 DiII A14N
Nikon	TAMRON 18-250mm F/3.5-6.3 DiII A18N
Nikon	TAMRON 18-270mm F/3.5-6.3 DiII VC B003N
Nikon	TAMRON 28-200mm F/3.8-5.6 Di A031N
Nikon	TAMRON 28-300mm F/3.5-6.3 Di A061N
Nikon	TAMRON 28-300mm F/3.5-6.3 Di VC A20N
Nikon	TAMRON 55-200mm F/4-5.6 DiII A15N
Nikon	TAMRON 70-300mm F/4-5.6 Di A17N
Nikon	TAMRON SP 10-24mm F/3.5-4.5 DiII B001N
Nikon	TAMRON SP 17-50mm F/2.8 DiII A16N
Nikon	TAMRON SP 17-50mm F/2.8 DiII VC B005N
Nikon	TAMRON SP 180mm F/3.5 Di MACRO 1:1 B01N
Nikon	TAMRON SP 200-500mm F/5-6.3 Di A08N
Nikon	TAMRON SP 28-75mm F/2.8 Di A09N
Nikon	TAMRON SP 60mm F/2 DiII MACRO 1:1 G005N
Nikon	TAMRON SP 70-200mm F/2.8 Di A001N
Nikon	TAMRON SP 90mm F/2.8 Di MACRO 1:1 272EN
Pentax	TAMRON 18-200mm F/3.5-6.3 DiII A14P
Pentax	TAMRON 18-250mm F/3.5-6.3 DiII A18P
Pentax	TAMRON 28-200mm F/3.8-5.6 Di A031P
Pentax	TAMRON 28-300mm F/3.5-6.3 Di A061P
Pentax	TAMRON 70-300mm F/4-5.6 Di A17P
Pentax	TAMRON SP 10-24mm F/3.5-4.5 DiII B001P
Pentax	TAMRON SP 17-50mm F/2.8 DiII A16P
Pentax	TAMRON SP 28-75mm F/2.8 Di A09P
Pentax	TAMRON SP 70-200mm F/2.8 Di A001P
Pentax	TAMRON SP 90mm F/2.8 Di MACRO 1:1 272EP
Sony	TAMRON 18-200mm F/3.5-6.3 DiII A14S
Sony	TAMRON 18-250mm F/3.5-6.3 DiII A18S
Sony	TAMRON 28-200mm F/3.8-5.6 Di A031S
Sony	TAMRON 28-300mm F/3.5-6.3 Di A061S
Sony	TAMRON 55-200mm F/4-5.6 DiII A15S
Sony	TAMRON 70-300mm F/4-5.6 Di A17S
Sony	TAMRON SP 10-24mm F/3.5-4.5 DiII B001S
Sony	TAMRON SP 17-50mm F/2.8 DiII A16S
Sony	TAMRON SP 180mm F/3.5 Di MACRO 1:1 B01S
Sony	TAMRON SP 200-500mm F/5-6.3 Di A08S
Sony	TAMRON SP 28-75mm F/2.8 Di A09S
Sony	TAMRON SP 60mm F/2 DiII MACRO 1:1 G005S
Sony	TAMRON SP 70-200mm F/2.8 Di A001S
Sony	TAMRON SP 90mm F/2.8 Di MACRO 1:1 272ES
Canon	Zeiss Distagon T* 3,5/18 ZE
Canon	Zeiss Distagon T* 2,8/21 ZE
Canon	Zeiss Distagon T* 2/28 ZE
Canon	Zeiss Distagon T* 2/35 ZE
Canon	Zeiss Makro-Planar T* 2/100 ZE
Canon	Zeiss Makro-Planar T* 2/50 ZE
Canon	Zeiss Planar T* 1,4/50 ZE
Canon	Zeiss Planar T* 1,4/85 ZE
Nikon	Zeiss Distagon T* 2/28 ZF.2
Nikon	Zeiss Distagon T* 2/35 ZF.2
Nikon	Zeiss Distagon T* 2,8/21 ZF.2
Nikon	Zeiss Distagon T* 2,8/25 ZF.2
Nikon	Zeiss Distagon T* 3,5/18 ZF.2
Nikon	Zeiss Makro-Planar T* 2/50 ZF.2
Nikon	Zeiss Makro-Planar T* 2/100 ZF.2
Nikon	Zeiss Planar T* 1,4/50 ZF.2
Nikon	Zeiss Planar T* 1,4/85 ZF.2
Canon	Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM**
Canon	Canon EF-S 17-55mm f/2.8 IS USM**
Canon	Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS**
Canon	Canon EF 17-40mm f/4 L USM**
Canon	Canon EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 IS USM**
Nikon	Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D**

**These lens profiles were in the previous release but have been updated to address quality concerns.
NOTE: The Pentax, Tamron and Zeiss profiles are the result of collaboration between Adobe and the respective lens manufacturer.

Lightroom 3.2 Release Notes

• Direct publishing to Facebook and SmugMug is now available
• Tethered capture now supports the Leica S2
• A larger list of corrected issues has been included as part of the Lightroom 3.2 Release Candidate notes. Additional issues have been address in the final Lightroom 3.2 update:

Fixed authentication issues that could be experienced with the Facebook publish collection

Adressed performance issues that could occur while reviewing images in Loupe view

Corrected several Adobe Photoshop Elements upgrade issues

Corrected a file renaming bug involving date or time fields

Export with watermark will now function correctly when choosing the Limit File Size option

Camera Raw 6.2 Release Notes

• Scroll bar arrow performance has been improved
• Fixed: Slow Scrolling could occur when working with the Mac Trackpad and a multiple image selection
• Full screen performance issues have been addressed

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(Via Lightroom Journal.)

This plugin can be used to blend multiple exposures of a scene in order to create an image with greater apparent dynamic range. Exposure blending is similar to HDR, but the results are most often far more natural.

Here are the highlights:

-LR/Enfuse now uses (and requires) Enfuse version 4. This is the latest version of Enfuse and offers niceties such as multi-processor support for improved performance.
-The installation procedure has been greatly simplified. Users no longer need to download and install the third party applications themselves, the plugin can do this for them.
-LR/Enfuse now supports blending of focus stacks!
This plugin is donationware and may be downloaded from the Photographer’s Toolbox.

Photo Library Structure – 10:49
The Lightroom Catalog Overview – 6:23
The Lightroom User Interface – 15:21
The Pro Workflow Overview – 32:50
The Lightroom Import Dialog – 14:15
The Library Module – Part 1 – 23:42
The Library Module – Part 2 – 25:21
Keywords & Metadata – 19:57
File Renaming – 18:54
Editing Methods in Lightroom 3 – 23:35
The Lightroom Filter Bar – 12:29
Virtual Copies – 9:16 (Check out the free sample movie, here.)
The Export Dialog & Publish Services – 13:35
The Lightroom to Photoshop Workflow – 17:09
Digital Photo Library Backup Strategies – 16:43
Working With Multiple Lightroom Catalogs – 20:15

Priced at a very reasonable $29.95. More information is available from http://mulita.com/blog/?page_id=2.

Using the new password protection controls, a Username and Password combination may be designated from within Lightroom’s Web module. Visitors will be prompted to login when attempting to access protected galleries on the web. Password protection has been much requested by users, and should be an excellent tool when posting client galleries, wedding galleries or sensitive images to the web. A PHP-enabled web-server is required to use this new feature.

As users have come to expect, the controls allow full localization of the login page for non-English languages. Optionally, users may also post a gallery title, subtitle and paragraph of information to the login page.

TTG Highslide Gallery Pro is a flexible, feature rich plugin for Adobe Photoshop Lightroom’s Web module. It allows users to create thumbnail-based image galleries, client proofing galleries with email response options, and supports several types of online shopping carts for images, including support for the PayPal and Fotomoto services, as well as a proprietary PHP shopping cart. The gallery is fully compatible with other TTG engines, such as TTG Pages and TTG Auto Index, often used to create complete photographic websites.

TTG Highslide Gallery Pro costs $40 for new users. Existing users with valid subscriptions to the product may download the 2.0.5 update for free using the download links issued at time of purchase. For more information on this and other TTG products, please visit The Turning Gate.

Although this plugin will function in Lightroom 2, users of Lightroom 3 will gain the most benefit since FTP Publisher makes use of the new Publish Services. This allows users to create a collection hierarchy containing images that need to be uploaded and synchronised with a server. Lightroom remembers which images have been modified or removed from the collections and will apply these changes to the server when you ask it to do so.

The plugin is donationware and may be downloaded from the Photographer’s Toolbox.

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Keyboard Tamer is a plugin for Lightroom 3 that allows you to redefine most of Lightroom’s keyboard shortcuts, and to create new shortcuts for functions that don’t yet have them. This plugin will be invaluable for those who wish to streamline their workflow and make Lightroom work for them.

It’s also a must for those who use Lightroom in a language that’s different to the expected one for their keyboard layout. For example, those who run Lightroom in English on a machine with a non-U.S. keyboard will normally find that many of the shortcuts are inaccessible – with this plugin they can be redefined.

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The release also includes an option to disable the browser’s right-click menu, discouraging casual theft of page content. Several new control options have been added, as well as many improvements under-the-hood. To view the full changelog, please visit The Turning Gate.

TTG Pages 3.7.1 is a free upgrade to existing users. New users may purchase TTG Pages for $25.

Keyword Master is a powerful keywording assistant for Adobe Lightroom 3. Photographers who sell their work on-line understand the high importance of good keywording – if your images aren’t keyworded properly then they won’t be found by potential buyers.

The problem with keywording is that it’s a long and laborious process. It’s hard to think of keywords, and it’s time consuming to type them in. Keyword Master helps to relieve these issues by providing photographers with a tool to help them harvest keywords from other sources.

The concept is simple – search for similar images on-line and cut and paste the keywords you find into Keyword Master. Keyword Master significantly improves your workflow by automatically removing any formatting and punctuation, thus extracting the keywords from the text. Common words and duplicates are removed.

This will give the photographer a fantastic starting point to work from. It’s much quicker and easier to start with a bunch of keywords and then remove the irrelevant ones than it is to create new ones from scratch.

Timothy hopes to expand this plugin to provide other keyword related features and he’s happy to hear from users with particular needs that they’d like to address.

Update: Following feedback from LRN readers Timothy Armes has updated his new Keyword Master plugin in order to offer Lightroom 2 users a taste of what they’re missing.

Lightroom 2 users can use the plugin’s most crucial feature – keyword gathering. Once the keywords are gathered they’ll have to be applied to images manually by copying and pasting the list into the Keywording pane – a quick and painless process.

Seth Resnick and Jamie Spritzer, the Co-Founders of D65 also announced  their new book , D65’s Lightroom Workbook, Workflow, Not Workslow in Lightroom 3. This book details everything you ever wanted, or needed to know about the five modules in Lightroom, including setting up preferences for optimal results and organizing catalogs. Included is an entire chapter which details the D-65 legendary workflow;  an advanced, yet simple workflow from capture through editing, tweaking, processing and exporting.

To coincide with the announcement and launch of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3, The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 book by Martin Evening and published by Adobe Press, is now also ready to ship. The book will be be available to buy  via the Peachpit website, plus the usual on-line and retail stores.

The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 book contains 672 pages and provides readers with a website <www.thelightroombook.com> with movie tutorials, supplementary PDFs and sample files (registration required). It promises to be the most comprehensive book on Lightroom and all that’s new in Lightroom 3.