Lightroom for Windows Release Notes

Adobe Lightroom is the complete, elegant environment for the art and craft of digital photography, from raw capture to creative output.

Or will be. Currently, Lightroom is not feature complete, we've got many more features to come. We will also be responding to customer feedback and providing regular beta releases in the coming year. Please help us make this application the best it can be by sending us feedback, and participating in the discussion groups. It's important to note that we have not reached our performance goals on Windows and continue to work on improving speed in all aspects of the application.

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Basic Information
Minimum Requirements
Download Lightroom
Discussion Forum
Reporting Bugs
Known Issues for Beta 3
Legal Notices

Basic Information

Launching Adobe Lightroom will bring you into the Library, which is the location for photo management activities. Once you've chosen the photos you want to work with, you can switch contexts using the Module Picker that is located on the top right of the screen. Selecting "Develop" will bring you to the Develop module where you can perform image adjustments, Slideshow will enable you to create slideshows for onscreen viewing and Print will provide you with many ways to set up your print output.

When you have imported your images, your images will be put into a "Shoot" as displayed in the left panel in Library. Each image can be in one and only one shoot. After importing, you can create Collections in which photos can live in more than one collection without physical duplication. Alternatively, "Quick Collection" is a quick way to select your picks. You can quickly gather images in a Quick Collection with the keyboard shortcut (B) and view the Quick Collection either by clicking on Quick Collection in the Library panel, or using Ctrl+B.

The Film Strip is the area located on the bottom of the screen and contains the photos that are selected in the Library (that appear in the Grid view). The filmstrip will remain populated with these photos throughout the other modules. Print, and Slideshow will work only on selected images. You can multi-select in either the Library before entering these modules, or multi-select in the Film Strip to add images.

Minimum Requirements

Windows XP SP2
Pentium 4 processor
768 MB RAM (1GB Recommended)
1GB Free HD space

Download Lightroom

Lightroom is available in two flavors - an installer that contains just the application, and an installer that contains the application and sample content.

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Discussion Forum

Follow the links on the Lightroom home page on Adobe Labs. The Lightroom product team will be participating as well.

Reporting Bugs

Follow the links on the Lightroom home page on Adobe Labs. If for some reason your application starts to act oddly, it would be much appreciated if you could save off a copy of your preference file and your database file. (The database file is named Lightroom Library.aglib, and is located by default in /My Pictures/Lightroom).

Known Issues for Beta 3

Lightroom Windows beta 3 is feature compatible with Mac beta 3. However, there are some exceptions:

No Web module
No Identity Plates
No Lights Out functionality
No automatic detection of cameras and memory cards for import
No Music for Slideshows
Printing color management is not optimized yet. While your images will print reasonably well, the color may be off
High ASCII and Double Byte support is not fully enabled

General

Lightroom for Windows currently needs to be run from inside an English language environment.
Thumbnail building uses all available processor capacity.
Cannot shift-tab backwards through fields.
Edit Capture Time does not display the date.
Time on files created for Edit in Photoshop is off by 7 hours.
Edit in Photoshop from Lightroom does not show an error dialog if a file cannot be opened. This is caused by having an older version of the Camera Raw plug-in (i.e. Version 3.0x113). Please visit the following link to update the Camera Raw plug-in: http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/cameraraw.html
If you have images in a read-only location, Lightroom will not inform you of a failure to write out sidecar files.
Updating of the main window, especially when dragging another window on top of Lightroom, doesn't happen immediately.

Import

To Import PSD files you need to save the file in Photoshop with "Maximize Compatibility" turned on.
Text is cut off on the Shoot popup menu.
8 bit TIFF files with JPEG compression may appear pixilated in Lightroom.
"Progressive" format JPEG files have a black line along the bottom of image.
TIFF files saved as "Packbits" are not supported in Lightroom.
Some layered TIFF files with a top adjustment layer show incorrectly (gray stripes).
CMYK files will not import into Lightroom at this time.

Export

Using a very long filename (i.e., greater than 200 or so characters) in the Export Rename dialog may cause the "overwrite" dialog to come up.

Library

There are cases of excessive redrawing of the UI.
Images may not be in correct time-lapse order in Library.

Slideshow

Exporting a Slideshow to PDF can take a long time, especially if more than 50 images are selected. Don't attempt to use the exported PDF file until the Activity Window is empty. The progress bar on the task erroneously shows 100% complete, instead of progressing while the task is working.

Print

Printing using the Managed by Printer setting can produce incorrect colors at this time.

Legal Notices

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The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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