• Processing of 16/24/32 bit HDR Tiff files generated by HDR Pro in Photoshop, along with other HDR software. There is a major difference from the RC2 version in that you now have ±10 stops of exposure. This can be useful for HDR Tiffs generated by Photomatix Pro.
• New lens colour correction for fringing
• Books may now be saved as JPEGs
• You can now publish to Revel via plugin

There’s been a number of bugs fixed. The biggies were Point Curves from Lightroom 3 have been restored, and the Edit In functionality returned to software such as Nik plugins. 

There’s been a series of performance related fixes for GPS logs, 2nd screen usage and Develop controls. 

Other bug fixes include updating previews for 100+ DNG files, improved viewing for subfolders and large stacks (I had a bug based on creating large stacks to manage timelapse sets that was fixed). 

Further bugs, camera updates and lens updates can be had from Lightroom Journal. 

It’s worth noting that Camera Raw has also been updated to match at 7.1, and that the DNG convertor has also been updated. This means that users of Lightroom 3 can process newer camera files, such as the 5DIII, albiet without the new Process Version 2012 controls. 

It’s a free upgrade to registered users of the plugin.
For Tim’s press release and link information, go to the official announcement post for LR2/Blog.

TTG Horizon CE is an elegant, horizontal-scroll image gallery featuring pagination, a mobile-friendly design, password-protected galleries, and e-commerce features. Built on the Core Elements framework, it also includes robust customization options for page layout and design, support for PHP Hooks extensibility features, and more.

This release marks the first time The Turning Gate has offered e-commerce features in a non-Highslide gallery. TTG Horizon CE integrates fully with the new TTG Cart CE shopping cart system, and also supports image sales via Fotomoto integration.

Demonstration galleries may be viewed at http://demo.theturninggate.net/galleries/03-ttg-horizon-ce/.

For details, please visit the product information page at http://theturninggate.net/galleries/html-galleries/ttg-horizon/.

This latest update — version 3.2.0 — includes the ability to show images in both a retouched and unretouched state, with a smooth fade transition between the two images states. A demonstration of this new functionality is available here.

With this new functionality, photographers can finally build image galleries straight out of Lightroom to show off their mad retouch skillz!

As with previous versions of the engine, the full list of embed-supported Flash galleries includes Autoviewer, DIMIN Slideshow, Flashnifties, Lightroom Flash Gallery, Monoslideshow, Polaroid Gallery, Postcardviewer, Simpleviewer v1 and v2, Slideshow Pro and galleries being managed by Slideshow Pro Director.
TTG Stage CE supports video embedding for YouTube and Vimeo hosted videos, as well has embed support for locally hosted videos using JW Player or HTML5 playback methods.

All embedded content remains accessible to mobile devices. Custom content may also be embedded via The Turning Gate’s “PHP Hooks” extensibility architecture.

For complete details on the 3.2.0 update, visit The Turning Gate blog. Additional information about TTG Stage CE is available on the product page.

Built upon The Turning Gate’s new Core Elements framework, the engine also supports the new HTML5 and CSS3 layout options previously seen in TTG Stage CE and TTG Auto Index CE, password protection for galleries, and PHP Hooks extensibility features.

The Turning Gate has released a 10-minute video highlighting some of these features:

For more information on TTG Client Response Gallery CE, visit The Turning Gate.

February 19, 2011 – The Turning Gate has released the next major update to its gallery indexing plugin for Lightroom’s Web module, TTG Auto Index CE.

TTG Auto Index CE creates a self-populating table of contents of your image galleries, a gallery index. You upload a gallery, the index adds an entry automatically. Organizing your image galleries, and keeping your website up-to-date with your latest image collections is easy with TTG Auto Index CE.

The only product of its kind, TTG Auto Index CE is a must-have web engine for any photographer using Lightroom to create web photo galleries. Whether you produce a single index or many, flexible layouts, extensive customization options and unprecedented extensibility features ensure a wealth of creative possibilities for your websites.

Built upon The Turning Gate’s new “Core Elements” framework, TTG Auto Index CE supports unparalleled customization options, including CSS3-powered background images, drop-shadows, rounded corners, gradient backgrounds and more, as well as several new, flexible layout options. The classic ‘Descriptive’ and ‘Iconic’ index layouts return from previous versions, and are joined by the new ‘Iconic, Entitled’ layout, and the text-based layouts ‘Text-Box’ and ‘Text-Only’, useful for indexing content which may not be gallery-related, such as an auto index managed links page. Layouts also include options for custom header, site navigation menu and footer design, including social networking options for your Facebook, Twitter, Model Mayhem and other profiles.

While the intent of TTG Auto Index CE is to allow anyone to publish their work to the web with minimal effort and no design experience, experienced web-designers may take advantage of The Turning Gate’s PHP Hooks extensibility features to take complete control over page design and functionality, adding widgets, changing the appearance, or managing page content site-wide from a single source.

The full release announcement for TTG Auto Index CE, including demonstration pages, may be found on our blog:

http://theturninggate.net/updates/ttg-auto-index-ce-released/

For more information on TTG Auto Index CE and other releases from The Turning Gate, please visit our site:

http://theturninggate.net

TTG Stage CE creates embed pages — containers — for Flash image gallery and web video content in a style consistent with the rest of your website, featuring playback support on mobile devices such as the iPhone, iPad and Android phones for all embedded content.

The full list of embed-supported Flash galleries includes Autoviewer, DIMIN Slideshow, Flashnifties, Lightroom Flash Gallery, Monoslideshow, Polaroid Gallery, Postcardviewer, Simpleviewer v1 and v2, Slideshow Pro and galleries being managed by Slideshow Pro Director.

TTG Stage CE supports video embedding for YouTube and Vimeo hosted videos, as well has embed support for locally hosted videos using JW Player or HTML5 playback methods.

Custom content may also be embedded via The Turning Gate’s “PHP Hooks” extensibility architecture.

With its myriad design and layout features, and the ability to expose your still-image and video content to both desktop browsers and mobile devices, TTG Stage CE pushes Lightroom’s web module to new heights of creative possibility, and allows you — the photographer — to focus on publishing your work, sound in the knowledge that your audience will be able to experience your work at home, in the office or on the move.

For more information on TTG Stage CE, please visit The Turning Gate at http://theturninggate.net.

Until now the WSPP series has been fine tuned to display portfolio images in their best light thanks to a beautiful presentation.

With the latest release they now address the needs of your clients too thanks to a new “Contact sheet” view. This view can be applied to any galleries in the hierarchy, although its obvious purpose is to be used on the galleries in the client are of your site. The images are displayed in a very nice grid view, and there are options to allow the user to download images and to display geographical information via Google Maps.

By default the shape of the grid changes dynamically to fit the window size whilst still remaining centered for the best aesthetics.

See the Photographer’s Toolbox blog for more information:

http://photographers-toolbox.com/blog/2011/01/big-update-to-our-wspp-plugins-bad-news-good-news-and-fabulous-news/

PS CS5 update: Mac, Win

Camera Raw 6.3 Mac, Win

Lightroom 3.3 Mac, Win

There is an extensive list of bug fixes, new camera support (e.g. Canon G2, S95, Nikon D7000, Olympus E-5) and news lens profile over on Lightroom Journal.

Filmstrip WSPP allows users to create and entire web site based around a hierarchical set of horizontal scrolling gallery.

There are plenty of configurable options. Here are the highlights:

* Impressive and memorable viewing experience thanks to scaled-to-browser-height images.
* Images are preloaded and faded in as they become available.
* Multiple image resolutions are exported and the most appropriate resolution is used when displaying the images. This ensures fast loading on mobile devices without penalising the image quality on desktop machines.
* Very configurable interface. The “filmstrip” can be displayed in many ways thanks to the ability to add spacing and borders.
* Optional fixed size header and footer areas give you space to put menus and controls that won’t interfere with the images.
* Individual annotations can be displayed on the images. Annotations can include image metadata and may be formatted with Markdown.
* The display of annotations can be turned on and off by the viewer.
* Custom pinch gestures for iOS devices such as the iPhone and iPad allow visitor to change the height of the strip.
* Pure HTML/Javascript – no Flash.

As with Impact WSPP, publication of web sites is done through Lightroom’s Publish Services, and the resulting simplicity of creating an entire site has to be tried to be believed.