Lightroom vs CaptureOne

I am a user of capture one but am considering lightroom. Does anyone know if there is an overlay feature in lightroom? The purpose is to check the composition relative to the type on the page the image is being shot for without exporting into inDesign.

There is a "Text overlay" function in the <Slideshow Module>. One option lets you enter custom text in whatever fonts you have on your computer and you can place it wherever you want on the image. You also can resize the text (by dragging on the text box) and adjust the color and the opacity but you can't specify text size in picas, points or pixels.
Why don't you download the trial version of Lightroom - it works for 30 days - and see what it can do for you? If you then decide to buy you just enter the serial # into the trial version and you are good to go.
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Aperture support for RAW Nikon D600.

Just bought the latest Nikon D600 and when loading RAW images, I'm getting a "Format not supported" error. It reads the JPEG just fine but not the RAW. I also have a Nikon D3S and it reads the RAW images just fine. I'm currently on Aperture V3.2.
Thanks

Danl1,
This is the way it works with every new camera that comes out.
Untill Apple and Adobe and PhaseOne get a final production sample in their hands, they cannot write the code neccessary to process the RAW files from any manufacturer.
Some camera makers provide this information pre-release, but most tend to be pretty secretive right up to the end.
So the solution is to shoot JPG or convert RAW in Nikon's software for the next 2 weeks or so, and by then Aperture and Lightroom and CaptureOne will be up to speed.
Enjoy your new camera... it looks great!

Lightroom 4.4 cannot import files exported from CaptureOne Pro8, but LR5 can??

I am a recent new user to PhaseOne's CaptureOne Pro8 software. I am using it for some RAW conversions, but still want to use my LR4.4 product to catalog, and further edit, those conversions.
I have tried exporting TIFF, DNG, and JPG from Pro8, but NONE of those files can be imported by LR4.4 I can selected the file, and then LR hangs on "Importing files...". Oddly enough, I can move to other LR modules, like Develop, and the software still works, but the import never completes.
I downloaded a trial LR5.6 via Creative Cloud, and that version of Lightroom imports the JPG files just fine. I have not tried to see if TIFF or DNG can be imported.
So my questions come down to :
Are there any LR4.4 users here who also have CaptureOne Pro8? Can you import Pro8-exported JPGs into LR4.4?
Is there any insight as to how LR5.6 handles files differently than LR4.4 that could explain why LR4.4 cannot load these files?
I have no other issues with any other software package that can read JPGs, only LR4.4. Keep in mind LR5.6 works fine, as well.
Hmmm?
Thanks for any help, insight,
Mike

BKKDon - Thank you so much for the Photoshop Family route. I kinda found myself going in circles on the Adobe support pages, and thought this user-to-user forum was my only option for LR4 support. Appreciate the link.
And, I believe you have helped me greatly narrow the problem down. I was not familiar with JFIF, and now I am. I was able to find some utilities to essentially strip all of the APP markers within the JFIF, and now I can import those files into LR4. I suspect that CO7 did not utilize APP marker in the JFIFs, CO8 does, and LR4 stumbles when it sees APP markers. That's speculation based on how I made the LR4 import work, and not by doing direct inspection of different JPGs or JFIFs. Thanks for the tip on JFIF, that gave me a lead that panned out.
Now if I could just figure out why DNG and TIFF seem to be similarly afflicted, LOL.
-Mike

When will we have Lens Cast Calibration in Lightroom

Hi,
I do postproduction all the time for a couple of other photographers. They send me the raws and I develop them. My favourite tool to do this is Lightroom, especially since the quality improvement in version 3.
However, I often work on architecture shots that were done with a digital back on a technical camera (TC), mainly PhaseOne and Hasselblad backs. All these backs suffer heavily from colour casts when used with wide-angle lenses on TC's, due to the strong inclination of the lightrays on the sensor.
These images have to be developed in the raw software of the respective brand, CaptureOne for the Phase backs, and Phocus for the Hasselblads.
Both have a special function to analyse the cast of a separate image which has to be shot each time with a translucent white cap on the lens.
These casts are then perfectly filtered out, and one can carry on with the rest of the development of the raw file. But this has to be done within Capture1 or Phocus, 'cause you can't export a DNG with the lens cast corrected. You can of course export a Tiff to Lightroom, but then you loose the whole dynamic range of the raw.
It's this feature that I'm really missing in Lightroom. I prefer using Lightroom, because I use the local adjustment (gradients and brushes) all the time.
None of this is possible in CaptureOne or Phocus, a shame really. I wrote to the developers of CaptureOne to ask for local adjustments and it took me 6 mails before the good man understood what I was talking about. Don't they look at Lightroom?
So Adobe developers, if you could add Lens Cast Correction (or Scene Calibration as it is called in Hasselblad's Phocus), you have the best RAW program in the world, and I can finally dish all these other brand-infected stuff from my hard disk.
Steven

Pixelbound, Adobe, Rob & Ssprengel
What about this
Scenario
Take 2 images, from as close a standpoint, ie with camera on the tripod etc.
1 is the original image,
2 is the one through the white lens cap.
You now have the colour cast from centre to corners in the capped image as a reference to work from.
All that needs to be done - I guess in photoshop - is to remove the colour as referenced by the capped image from the shot.
Simple in photoshop - like everything is - a plugin / mask / reverse biased logarithmic flip flop or what ever.
The process in lightroom would most definitely be a develop setting - where one image would be the reference and this could then be applied to one or a selection or all the images.
As Ssprengel remarked, this is specalised and probably many people would not need it. Then many people did not want the lens correction, and the number of posts and discussions about that are rising most days.
Rob, one for your sleepless nights
subtracting R,G,B on a pixel by pixel basis from an image, very very simple to do surely.... I'm sure Pixelbound would be impressed, and another notch on your bedpost of plugins for lightroom.

How can I update the preview images in Lightroom 5?

Imported pictures from Nikon D800 and reworked before ore later in Capture NX2 are shown in LR 5, but without the results of the reworking in Capture NX2

JimHess wrote:
CaptureNX has access to Nikon proprietary data that Lightroom doesn't have access to.
Despite what many people will have you believe, it's not an access problem, it's an interpretation issue - Lr doesn't speak NX2.
It is ENTIRELY POSSIBLE to write a partial converter which converts (some) NX2 (or Aperture, or CaptureOne, or camera, or..) settings to Lightroom "equivalents".
I say partial and "some" because a perfect conversion would be impossible, and a near-perfect conversion would be a LOT of work - there are no real "equivalents" for any settings, more less all settings.
Currently, there is (plugin-powered) support for translating camera profile, but not cropping/rotation, not basic settings, and certainly not the more esoteric adjustments, locals, ...
Maybe some day there will be better support for adjustment translation, but that day is not today...
If you just want to see what was done in NX2 for comparison etc.., I recommend using a plugin like 'RawPlusJpeg' which has embedded preview extraction features, or save a jpeg in NX2 and import it. And as has already been mentioned by Jim Hess, if you want to continue editing in Lr where you left off in NX2, then you have to import an NX2-saved tiff (or jpeg) file, and edit that instead of the raw.
Cheers,
Rob

Import iCloud Photo Stream into Lightroom

Hi.
Like many here, I am always getting the latest LR plugins, etc. Recently OnOne updated their "Perfect" Suite, and I upgraded my apps. One of the apps in this suite is a stand alone browser, called Perfect PhotoSuite 9. Nice for browsing files, etc - pretty much what I use LR for before doing most of my editing in Photoshop.
Well, one unheralded and perhaps largely unnoticed feature of the standalone browser is that it provides a direct import for my iPhone, from iCloud PhotoStream. It just shows up as another folder, and all the photos in your PhotoStream are accessible! The obvious question is: why can't I do this with Lightroom, or Bridge? (Or, for that matter, CaptureOne or DXO Optics Pro? Or PhotoMechanic or ACDSEE?)
Any thoughts?

You don't need a cloud account or any third party software or plugins.
Just plug your iPhone into the computer>Launch Lightroom> choose Import Photos and Video from the File menu. Your iPhone will be listed under devices on top left of import window. Select the iPhone and the content window will populate with the photos captured by iPhone. Along the top of the import window yo'll see import options > choose Copy. The panels on right expand to show the structure of hard disk(s). On right side panels pick a location to copy the photos to then hit Import button on bottom right corner.

RawShooter lovers check out Phase One's CaptureOne beta 4

I'm not sure whether Adobe is secure enough to let this message appear. Pixmantec let us compare RawShooter with other programs on their forum site.
If this message does survive, I'd suggest that RawShooter lovers check out the new Phase One CaptureOne 4 beta. The GUI and the workflow resemble what many of us cherished in RS. While I own C1 version 3.x, the new beta is very different.
Vaughn

Luminous Landscapes wrote recently about Capture One 4 Beta "too late too little." Far from being Lightroom's Best Friend, I tend to agree. Lightroom provides a set of well chosen functions in its developer module, foremost the speckles removal, lens correction, so why someone would be paying so much more for a tool not providing these at all?
I think and aside of owners of MF digital backs and commercial photographers, who would be profiting from camera color profiles for uncompromising color fidelity, Capture One V4 will not find any wider user base... Not anymore.
With every new release Lightroom resolves another portion of its infancy issues. Numerous books and web zines teach how to use it, its open plugin and preset interface will provide over time wide assortment of 3rd party add'ons. Regardless the start issues, every other raw converter will have now difficult time to challenge Lightroom.

Lightroom for capture????

I have not tried lightroom as of yet. Only looked at the tutorials. I am looking to streamline my workflow and shoot tethered to my laptop from time to time. I am entertaining captureone as an upgrade for my capture software. But I really like the versatility of LR. Can I shoot straight to LR or do I need a different capture software like Captureone. Would it be a good workflow to have both and how would they work together. Right now I shoot more to the card and then download, but see myself migrating to more tethered work and want to establish a workflow for that. thanks.
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Matt,
Lightroom 1.0 turns out to be a great tethered capture solution! Here's how I have it set up (both on a set-side G5 in my shooting studio, and on my MacBook Pro):
First I used the preference settings of Image Capture.app (part of OS X) to have EOS Utility open when a camera is detected.
Next, I set preferences in EOS Utility 1.1 (the latest version, I believe) to show the Camera Settings/Remote Shooting screen on startup, and set a dedicated "tethered capture" folder as EOS Utility's destination folder.
Next, in Lightroom, under Auto Import Settings, I set the Tethered Capture folder as my Watched Folder, set up a destination folder, and set Enable Auto Import on.
Now, when I plug in my camera and power it on, EOS Utility launches automatically and displays the small camera control window.
Then I launch Lightroom, point the library to the Auto Import destination folder and set the viewing mode to Loupe with no images selected.
Then I shoot. In about 5 seconds (1Ds2/Firewire/G5 2x2Ghz) an image is captured, auto imported and selected in Loupe view. Perfect! Even works in lights out mode.
Tim

CaptureOne-Pro 6.0

PhaseOne just released CaptureOne-Pro 6.0.
Worth mention:
- Local adjustments on layers (parametric/non-destructive).
In my opinion, CaptureOne-5.5 had three major drawbacks compared to Lightroom-3:
1. Subpar noise reduction.
2. No locals.
3. Incomplete support for non-PhaseOne backs (cameras) (e.g. no tethering & no SDK).
Now, there is only two (IMO)
Anybody tried it?
Rob

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Runtime error in starting Lightroom

I receive the following message when I try to start Lightroom:
Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library
Runtime Error!
Program:...Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 1.2\lightroom.exe
This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way.
Please contact the application's support team for more information.
Lightroom ran well for several days and then failed to open with the above message.
I have tried everything I know to do (uninstalled and reinstalled the application, restored the computer to a restore point before Lightroom was originally installed, etc.) and do not know were to go from here. Suggestions would be appreciated.
I am using Windows XP sp2 and have 4 GB of ram and 250 GB of hard disk space.
Thanks,
Cliff Culp

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Lightroom imports photos to wrong folder

I've been importing lots of photos from my hard drive into lightroom and been moving/renaming them in the process. I only got lightroom a few weeks ago.
This has worked fine but i've recently imported a few hundred photos off my iphone and doing the same thing - move and rename. The trouble is, these photos keep going into the 2009 folder, instead of the 2012 or 2013 folders that they should be. When i look at the photos, they have the correct name, and the capture date seems to be correct, its just lightroom keeps wanting to put them in the wrong folder by year. Does anyone understand why this might be happening?
naturally I want all my photos sorted into the right date folders as this is the way ive decided to organise my photos...

hmm so still not making sense. it keeps wanting to import my photos into the wrong destination. have removed all the photo from lightroom. how do i change it so it automatically puts the photos into the corresponding year/month they were taken..
I understand its something in the import settings/destination but cant seem to change this. not sure what parts of the import box your wanting to see Dj.
the structure now is my pictures/2009/21-7-09 then its creating new year folders and sorting them within this 21-7-9 folder..
can't see to change this?

I am trying to import developed images from LightRoom 5 in o Photoshop 6. I am receiving this message and the images will not open.....'Could not open scratch file because the file is locked, you do not have necessary access permissions or another progra

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When I try to open my Lightroom 5 program it comes up with this message, "Lightroom encountered an error when reading from its preview cache and needs to quit." How do I fix this?

Can someone please let me know how I can fix this error and open my Lightroom? Thanks.

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Within the catalog folder, delete the FOLDER called Catalog-Name Previews.lrdata
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