First lack of Lightroom 4

To waste one minut :-)
The first lack of Lightroom 4 is its icon, it's orrible
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Its easy to change if you are using a mac.
Just find the icon in the beta and copy it to the desktop, open the LR4 app and find the icon and replace it.
MAKE A COPY of the LR4 final.app before you mess around with it.
I'm not explaining in more detail as if you dont know how, I'm not responsible for messing LR4 up.

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On a new computer, which program should i load first, Photoshop or Lightroom. I will be using both. Thanks

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Good point Chris. I started the Lightroom Exchange to coincide with the launch of the Lightroom Preview SDK released in November. Because of the nature of a 'preview' SDK, I will only start to encourage more aggressive use of the Exchange for posting information regarding Presets, Templates, Galleries, Plug-ins, etc once the Lightroom SDK is finalized.(With the release of Lightroom 2)
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Tried to open a new catalog after closing out first one in Lightroom 3.

After finishing work in one catalog & closing it out, I opened a new one to begin working. LR shut down and now when I try to open it to work I get a message "Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 64-bit has stopped working" and at the top of my screen that reads "Lightroom - Opening Catalog: CSC_0895.JPG.lrcat. Can someone help me with this or explain what is going on? I called tech support and requested a call back, was told call back would be in 4-6 minutes, and never got it! I understand that techs are busy, but so am I (kids, photography business, and a high school teacher prepping for mid-terms!) and when I say I'm going to call someone back in a certain amount of time, I do! I have a project that was to be finished TODAY to get out tomorrow and now I can't. Please Help b/c adobe support isn't.

will other lrcat files open for you? like the one you just closed.
If so then your CSC_0895.JPG.lrcat. could have a problem. My first thought is that I wouldn't recommend naming a file" .jpg.lrcat" since it could cause an issue. rename it "_jpg.lrcat " and try opening it.
If that doesn't work try to open from a backup of that lrcat if you have one.
If none of this works or if none of your lrcat files will open then do the standard restart of you computer.
If lightroom still won't start then reinstalling LR will not affect the lrcat files saved on your computer.
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Ipad first workflow in lightroom mobile

I like the editing options in lightroom mobile. Great job!
My main usage of the ipad is preselecting and tagging images on tours or events and I am using Photosmith until now. This is not yet supported by lightroom mobile. Will creating smart previews from RAW and/orJPG files as well as editing metadata (rating, keywords, description...) be part of the next version(s)?

Thank you so very much. That is, unfortunately, the ONLY use that I have for the mobile app. It will be useful **someday** but not today. Many, many thanks again.

A method to create completely customized photo book page templates from scratch in Lightroom 5

I was able to successfully create completely customized Lightroom 5 page templates (including altering the number of, positions, and sizes of pictures) by making edits to the templatePages.lua file(s) in the Lightroom directory tree. I have never heard of the LUA file format before, but it is ASCII and looks somewhat like XML, so it was fairly easy to decipher. Here is a high-level description of how I did it. This applies to Lightroom 5 on Windows 7. If this doesn't make any sense to you, then don't try it - you're likely in over your head. Although my description is brief and lacking in detail, it should enable someone who is capable of handling this to figure it out with a little of careful trial and error. Do this at your own risk - if you screw-up your installation, catalog, or computer, it's your own fault. It all worked great for me.
First, open the "<lightroom 5 install directory>\Templates\Layout Templates" folder. Then navigate to the template set that contains the template you would like to use as a starting point for the new template. For example, "12x12-blurb\clean12x12". Make a back-up copy of the templatePages.lua file in case you mess something up and want to revert.
There will be a bunch of .jpg files in this directory that each contain a preview image of the layout that carries the same name as the .jpg file. Find the one that you would like to use as a starting point. Take note of the name of the file, which is probably something similar to "page_26_preview.jpg". Duplicate the file and rename it to something unique, such as "dummy_preview.jpg". It's just temporary, so it doesn't matter what name you pick, provided it is a legal file name with no spaces.
Next, open the templatePages.lua file in a text editor. I suggest using one that can automatically recognize and format ULA (such as Notepad++, which is open source and free to use). Then search the file for the unique portion of the file name you took note of earlier, such as "page_26". It will point you to a section in the LUA file that describes that particular template. Carefully copy that entire section, including a balanced number of brackets (starting with the two brackets and commas before "children" and ending with the one bracket and comma after the "title" line. Paste the copied text into the end of the file on a new line immediately following the bracket and comma after the "title" field for the last page template section (right near the end of the file). Change the "previewName" field to the name of the preview file copy that you created ("dummy_preview.jpg" for me) and the "name" field to the name of the new template you're creating ("dummy" for me, since it is just temporary). Next change at least one of the hex characters in the "pageID" field such that the new template will have a unique page identifier.
Now you can make edits to the photo and text fields included in the new section, using other templates in the template file as examples. "x" and "y" fields are coordinates (in pixels) for the bottom-left corner of the picture or text field, "height" and "width" are the width of the field in pixels. The fields should be mostly self-explanatory, but make sure that the "photoindex" fields are filled-in starting from 1 to N, where N is the number of pictures in the template, with no duplicates or gaps. They do not need to be in order. Treat the "textIndex" fields similarly for text fields. If you want to add an additional picture or text field, simply copy the section describing a picture or text field from another template and paste it, carefully, into the new template that you are creating.
Once you are done, save the file (you may get interference from Windows UAC, in which case save the file elsewhere and the move it back to the correct directory). Then open Lightroom. Create a new photobook, and choose the new template for one of the pages, remembering that the preview image will look like the JPG that you copied. Voila! If you didn't screw anything up, you should see a page based on your new template. Then right-click the page and select "Save as custom page", which will cause a fresh preview file to be created for your new template and your template to be copied to the "custom pages" section of the template menu. The new section you added to the "templatePages.lua" and the "dummy" preview file can now be deleted, since they are no longer needed. I save them so that I may simply overwrite them the next time I need to create a customized template.
Enjoy, and please share any clarifications, corrections, or enhancements to my process.

peter at knowhowpro wrote:
DHWachs wrote:
This post was great! Thank you so much. But I am hoping you know one more thing related to this. In the "transform" section of the definition (where the x/y coordinates are set along with height and width) there is an option called "angle". I was hoping that changing this value would allow me to offset the angle of the picture. However, if I put any value there other than 0 the template becomes unusable.
Do you happen to know what this option does?
I haven't looked into the files, so this is just a guess based on how some graphic applications work. It's common to think of rotating a shape as pivoting around a center point, but It's possible that the file sets a value for the rotation point not at the center. In some graphics applications, you can set a shape's pivot at any corner or in the middle of any side, of the rectangle that contains the whole shape.
So, your value may be rotating the shape around a pivot that moves the shape into some area that upsets the behavior of other shapes. Just a thought.
HTH
Regards,
Peter
Peter Gold
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Peter's point is a good one. I would also assume that the "angle" property allows you to rotate an image, but I haven't tried it myself. One thing to investigate - are there any page templates included in LR that have image placeholders that are at an angle (I don't recall any, off-hand)? If so, looking at the associated .lua file could provide insight into how an angled image placeholder should be described.

Lightroom Upgrade at a client - sucess? - keyword problem deal breaker

Hi
Just a small report, on how upgrading a client's LR 2 catalog went.
Background: The client is a professional photographer specialized on garden photography. Her customers are gardening and lifestyle magazines who publish her photos regularly as illustrations to various articles. She has a professional Canon EOS 1Ds MK III equipment and shoots exclusively raw. In a shoot around 300 to 1000 images are shot. The Lightroom catalog has around 20,000 images currently.
In Lightroom she uses mostly DAM and some basic development features, images are delivered either as raw of as JPEG images to the clients. Keywording is especially important. She has an extensive hierarchical list of plants most of them multiword keywords with spaces, and lots of other keywords indicating if images were sent to clients and other stuff.
The upgrade went just very well. I exported the catalog to a new intermediate catalog without previews, installed LR3 and imported this intermediate catalog into LR3 generating new previews from scratch. The hardware is modest, and some functional tests (especially switching images in develop, spot tool, and adjustment brushes) revealed that everything performs well enough.
Then she asked me where she would have benefits from using the new version. And then I told the whole benefit story, which can be read everywhere.
- New process version, better details and noise reduction. She asked where she can see it? Hmm, I switched to 1:1 view changing the process versions, not really much to see on Canon 1Ds Mk III files. Even with noisier files, it was hard to tell, what has actually changed. So only a 4:1 view very tiny changes were visible. The impact on her business? Near to nothing as she does not print large. The differences would hardly be seen in the magazine prints.
- Lens corrections and perspective control: does not really matter in garden photography, but she could see some occasional usefullness.
- Publish services: no real need for it
- Print packages: nope
- Slightshow improvements: no use for it
- Performance improvements: nothing visible
- Effects: completely superfluous
- New import dialog: at first glance a hindereance, as she has to get used to it
Then she asked: did they correct the keyword handling, when entering keywords witrh spaces? (You know the nasty bug, where keyword completion is broken at keywords with spaces). We checked (I knew it wasn't fixed), and of course she was heavily disappointed. Thus, after 2 years of development nothing new for her, keyword bug not fixed? Of course she said, that I should tell her, when keyword completion works, then and only then would she consider an upgrade.
So, despite all the bells and whistles about the new version, I doubt that for many photographers the benefits are really so overwhelming in the real world. It is a pitty that Adobe continues to neglect the DAM features (some fresh ideas for client management would be great), that existing features aren't consequently implemented (esp. the possibilities to query the catalog, and keywording), and that existing bugs are constantly ignored and not fixed.
So, please Adobe, get keyword completion fixed for keywords with spaces immediately !!! This is what professionals need. A catalog without reliable DAM features, renders the catalog concept to a great extend useless. Please listen!
Disclaimer: As I am not a professional for me the situation is not the same. I just report my experience I had, with a photgrapher, who needs a proper asset management. I recommended Lightroom to her because of the overall package (she moved from Cumulus), so I feel a little obliged to help her in this issue. In my case, as a user of a modest Lumix G camera system, I would consider the IQ benefits more signifcant. I don't know, if this is a general observation.
Kind regards
Thomas

W.W. Webster wrote:
tgutgu wrote:
Just a small report, on how upgrading a client's LR 2 catalog went ...
So, please Adobe, get keyword completion fixed for keywords with spaces immediately !!! This is what professionals need. A catalog without reliable DAM features, renders the catalog concept to a great extend (sic) useless. Please listen!
I just report my experience I had, with a photgrapher (sic), who needs a (sic) proper asset management.
So the over-riding conclusion from your experience with just one photographer is that Lightroom is 'useless', and this compels you to demand, in bold type, that Adobe must listen?
That Lightroom has issues and areas for ongoing development is obvious, and Adobe won't dispute this. But rants like yours add nothing and are unhelpful. Julie's response is extremely tactful and far more moderate than your post deserves.
Dear Mr. Webster
I think when you post, you should definitely change your tone. Julie simply answered my original post by acknowledging the problem, your accusation that I did not use appropriate "netiquette" is ridiculous. Posts like yours are a real problem of this forum.
I simply gave a user story example to show that not for everybody the shiny advertised new features provide real benefits and that paying attention to a thorough implementation of features can be equally important. I think Julie has recognized this. And the issue is nothing for ongoing developments. Lightroom supports keywords with spaces, so it has to be done consequently. Keywording is essential for DAM. If keywording gets too tedious or leads to wrong keyword assignments, then DAM is really pointless.
The intention of my post was to point Adobe to an apparently small problem, which has quite a big impact to people, who depend on good DAM features. The issue is nothing new, existed since the first release of Lightroom, but nothing was done about it, unfortunately. Now that Lightroom addressed keywords with spaces even with a new preference setting, it was fair to assume, that they had done something about it with care. This isn't so obviously. The issue was discussed in previous threads, but did not get any visible notice from Adobe. I am glad that this has changed now with Julie's post.
In no way did I say that Lightroom is useless or even that I regard it to be so. I merely said that the catalog concept is to a great extend (not completely) useless, if its implementation is sloppy. DAM starts with data entry and only after doing this, you can use it to your benefit. Therefore it has to be efficient, which currently is not. Lightroom is criticized by a large number of users that it is forcing them into a catalog system instead of just providing access to the file system. Long existing bugs like this, likely proves them right in their view.
The competition (I mean complete workflow solutions) is not really better than Lightroom with respect to DAM features, however, my take is, that the developers should be equally ambitious with the quality of the catalog system as they are with IQ, especially if the achievements in IQ are apparently less relevant to owners of high end camera systems. (I could be wrong with the last statement, but it would be interesting to hear if others have similar observations).
Kind regards
Thomas
Thomas

Blue screen with Lightroom 3 and Beta 4

I have had some program closings and blue screens from the first use of Lightroom 3 on this desk top, but it is getting worse. I am wondering of there is a comnflict with some of the components. It doesn't happen on my laptop which is an older dual core running vista 32 bit. This is the spec on the desktop and the lightroom info. Any thoughts?....Thanks
Motherboard     Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD4P
Processor         Intel i7 920 2.66ghz
Cooler             Cooler Master Hyper 520 CPU Cooler
Memory            OCZ - GB DDR3 1600 Memory
Video Card       NVIDIA Geforce 9800GTX+ 512MB
Hard Drives      (2)X 750GB Western Digital Black Edition
DVD                 Lightsource - DVDRW Drive – SATA
Power               Antec 550Watt True Power
Case                Antec 300 Case with (5) 120mm case fans
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Real memory available to Lightroom: 6142.3 MB
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System DPI setting: 120 DPI
Desktop composition enabled: Yes
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Serial Number: 116040087951456345013428
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Edit your post.
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ACR 8.7 has been released with support for the Nkon D750. Why no Lightroom support yet? Am I wrong or was support for the D810 available far more quickly?

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Then I found some info online that says when Lightroom CC doesn't run, you must uninstall it and download it from the Adobe website instead of using Creative Cloud.
When I try to download it in either Firefox or Chrome, I get this error message "Firefox/Chrome doesn't know how to open this address, because one of the following protocols (aam) isn't associated with any program or is not allowed in this context."
After a lot of searching around, I discovered that I needed to download the Adobe Application Manger. I did so but it calls itself the Adobe Update Management Tool. Very confusing.
Then I went back to the Adobe website and tried to download Lightroom again and got the same error message.
Next, I ran the Adobe Update Management Tool and clicked on Get and Install Online Updates which seemed to be the only relevant choice. In the dropdown box under Select Product Type, there are many Adobe programs listed but Lightroom isn't one of them. I gave up on trying to download Lightroom directly from the Adobe website.
I then re-downloaded Lightroom successfully using Creative Cloud. It still would not run.
Next I found some info online that says you have to go into Appdata > Adobe > Local and rename the OOBE file to OOBE.old, so I did that. Lightroom still would not run. I rebooted. This time when I tried to run Lightroom, I got the screen where you have to accept Adobe's terms and conditions. I did so. Lightroom but still would not run.
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You might reboot and try the other Solution #1/2 items, again. Since you did so much hacking which may not have been related to the issue, there may be something else not right because of it.
You also might try uninstalling and reinstalling LR 5.5 from the cloud, again, or installing the LR 5.5 standalone update from the Adobe updates page: http://www.adobe.com/downloads/updates/
You also might try uninstalling your all Adobe software, running the CS Cleaner and installing, again:
http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-suite/kb/cs5-cleaner-tool-installation-problems.html
You haven't said what other Adobe software you're running.
Is this the very first time you've tried to run LR on this computer or have you upgraded from previous versions that worked ok?

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Hello,
I have used Lightroom 4.4 successfully with Lumix GF1 .RW2 files but I just discovered Lightroom 4.4 does not recognize Lumix GX7 .RW2 files.
Do I need to upgrade to Lightroom 5? I checked for updates on 4.4 and I am up-to-date.
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Thanks.

I just borrowed a D3 to shoot a concert:
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My shots were all at very high ISO so it could be that LR is applying a strange profile in the high ISO range (I haven't tested any "normal" images yet but that's where the trouble lies. It's not unique to the D3 but it's waaaaay more extreme at least with these high ISO images.
If anyone has done the work to create a better preset for the D3, I would love to get a copy.'
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Recently I downloaded photos from an sd card. When the download was complete all photos were loaded in a random fashion completely out of order.This is the first time it has ever happened this way. downloaded same card to iPhoto and all photos were in order. Help needed. Am working on a job that needs immediate attention and HDR images out of order are impossible to deal with.

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First lack of Lightroom 4

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