Updates for Photoshop Lightroom launched by Adobe
Recently, the upgrades for Photoshop Lightroom and the Photoshop Camera Raw plug-in were released by Adobe. As of now, both of these upgrades are available as free upgrades for Lightroom 2 and Photoshop CS4 users.
These releases offer added raw file support for 15 digital cameras that include names like the Nikon D90, Nikon D700, Canon EOS 50D and Canon EOS 1000D.
Other than this, the update of the Lightroom 2.1 also has improvements to Photoshop integration, Web module stability for Windows Vista 64-bit operating systems, performance with 64-bit Mac OS X 10.5 Macintosh computers, and Keyword migration from Lightroom.
To add more, Adobe has also unleashed a new set of camera profiles available on Adobe Labs, with the aim to improve Adobe's default raw processing and follow the color rendering provided by camera manufacturers.
The Leica M8, Canon EOS 50D, Canon G9, Nikon D90 and Pentax models, all would benefit from this update.
The Canon EOS 1000D, Canon EOS 50D, Fuji FinePix IS Pro, Kodak EasyShare Z1015 IS, Leaf AFi II 6, Leaf AFi II 7, Leaf Aptus II 6, Leaf Aptus II 7, Nikon D700, Nikon D90, Nikon Coolpix P6000, Olympus SP-565 UZ, Pentax K2000, Sigma DP1, and Sony A900, are included in the list of 15 latest digital cameras that are supported in Lightroom 2.1 and Camera Raw 5.1.
The users can avail the Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2.1 as a free download. If in case they want to get the Lightroom 2, they need to go to the Adobe Store. The new users will have to pay $299 and the registered users of qualifying Lightroom customers will have to pay $99 for the same. The users can get the updated camera profiles as a separate download on Adobe Labs.