Re: OT: Lightroom 5 public beta available

2013-04-15 Thread David J Brooks
On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 3:41 PM, Matthew Hunt wrote: > The public beta of Lightroom 5 is available for download: > > http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/lightroom5/ > > New Features in Lightroom 5 Beta > > Advanced Healing Brush – Easily remove objects and fix defects—even > those with irregular sh

Re: OT: Lightroom 5 public beta available

2013-04-15 Thread Matthew Hunt
The most detailed change list I've seen so far is from Victoria Bampton (The Lightroom Queen): http://www.lightroomqueen.com/2013/04/15/whats-new-in-lightroom-5-0-beta/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, ple

Re: OT: Lightroom 5 public beta available

2013-04-16 Thread Bruce Walker
I'm getting an error page when I try to download this by the supplied link. Is this what you guys are seeing too? https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=labs_lightroom5 "We're sorry, we encountered an error processing your request." On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 3:41 PM, Matthew Hunt w

Re: OT: Lightroom 5 public beta available

2013-04-16 Thread Charles Robinson
On Apr 16, 2013, at 15:05 , Bruce Walker wrote: > I'm getting an error page when I try to download this by the supplied > link. Is this what you guys are seeing too? > > https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=labs_lightroom5 > > "We're sorry, we encountered an error processing yo

Re: OT: Lightroom 5 public beta available

2013-04-16 Thread Bruce Walker
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 4:20 PM, Charles Robinson wrote: > On Apr 16, 2013, at 15:05 , Bruce Walker wrote: > >> I'm getting an error page when I try to download this by the supplied >> link. Is this what you guys are seeing too? >> >> https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=labs_lig

Re: OT: Lightroom 5 public beta available

2013-04-16 Thread Bruce Walker
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 4:46 PM, Bruce Walker wrote: > On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 4:20 PM, Charles Robinson wrote: >> On Apr 16, 2013, at 15:05 , Bruce Walker wrote: >> >>> I'm getting an error page when I try to download this by the supplied >>> link. Is this what you guys are seeing too? >>> >>>

Re: OT: Lightroom 5 public beta available

2013-04-16 Thread Eactivist
I'm still on 2.X something. Maybe it's time to upgrade. M aka D :-) In a message dated 4/15/2013 2:51:48 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, m...@pobox.com writes: The most detailed change list I've seen so far is from Victoria Bampton (The Lightroom Queen): http://www.lightroomqueen.com/2013/04/15

Re: OT: Lightroom 5 public beta available

2013-04-16 Thread David J Brooks
Yes Dave On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 5:24 PM, wrote: > I'm still on 2.X something. Maybe it's time to upgrade. > > M aka D :-) > > In a message dated 4/15/2013 2:51:48 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, > m...@pobox.com writes: > The most detailed change list I've seen so far is from Victoria > Bampton

Re: OT: Lightroom 5 public beta available

2013-04-16 Thread Bruce Walker
+1 On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 6:21 PM, David J Brooks wrote: > Yes > > Dave > > On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 5:24 PM, wrote: >> I'm still on 2.X something. Maybe it's time to upgrade. >> >> M aka D :-) >> >> In a message dated 4/15/2013 2:51:48 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, >> m...@pobox.com writes: >>

Re: OT: Lightroom 5 public beta available

2013-04-16 Thread Christine Aguila
Wow, these updates look fun. Looking forward to the upgrade. Cheers, Christine On Apr 15, 2013, at 2:41 PM, Matthew Hunt wrote: > The public beta of Lightroom 5 is available for download: > > http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/lightroom5/ > > New Features in Lightroom 5 Beta > > Advanced

Re: OT: Lightroom 5 public beta available

2013-04-16 Thread Bruce Walker
Damn. Note for Mac users that Mac OS X 10.7.0 or later is required. That rules out folks like me who are still on 10.6.8 for various reasons. Grumble. (Getting harder and harder to avoid an annoying upgrade, and I used to look forward to new Mac OS X upgrades.) On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 3:41 PM, Mat

Re: OT: Lightroom 5 public beta available

2013-04-17 Thread Charles Robinson
On Apr 16, 2013, at 17:48 , Christine Aguila wrote: > Wow, these updates look fun. Looking forward to the upgrade. Cheers, > Christine > I just played a bit with "upright" and it's startlingly good and fast at squaring-up shots of buildings. Neato. Original, untouched image in LR5: http:

Re: OT: Lightroom 5 public beta available

2013-04-17 Thread Zos Xavius
Charles, that is fantastic!! I am sold! Charles Robinson wrote: >On Apr 16, 2013, at 17:48 , Christine Aguila >wrote: > >> Wow, these updates look fun. Looking forward to the upgrade. Cheers, >Christine >> > >I just played a bit with "upright" and it's startlingly good and fast >at squarin

Re: OT: Lightroom 5 public beta available

2013-04-17 Thread Bruce Walker
So I'm presently downloading Mac OS X Mountain Lion ... and reading mail ... and getting coffee ... and refreshing the mail ... While it's nice to be able to click Buy and get a copy of software, I could have driven over to the Apple store to buy this stuff (on DVD or a USB stick or whatever) abou

Re: OT: Lightroom 5 public beta available

2013-04-17 Thread steve harley
on 2013-04-17 13:07 Bruce Walker wrote While it's nice to be able to click Buy and get a copy of software, I could have driven over to the Apple store to buy this stuff (on DVD or a USB stick or whatever) about 6 times in the 4 hours that this download is taking. Holy moly. be glad you are not

Re: OT: Lightroom 5 public beta available

2013-04-17 Thread Bruce Walker
Thanks, Steve. That's an improved article over the older one I had. I'm certainly going to do that as I'll need to upgrade my wife's iMac eventually. On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 4:01 PM, steve harley wrote: > on 2013-04-17 13:07 Bruce Walker wrote > >> While it's nice to be able to click Buy and get

Re: OT: Lightroom 5 public beta available

2013-04-17 Thread Christine Aguila
Very cool, Charles! Cheers, Christine On Apr 17, 2013, at 10:36 AM, Charles Robinson wrote: > On Apr 16, 2013, at 17:48 , Christine Aguila wrote: > >> Wow, these updates look fun. Looking forward to the upgrade. Cheers, >> Christine > > I just played a bit with "upright" and it's startl

Re: OT: Lightroom 5 public beta available

2013-04-17 Thread steve harley
on 2013-04-17 9:36 Charles Robinson wrote I just played a bit with "upright" and it's startlingly good and fast at squaring-up shots of buildings. Neato. Original, untouched image in LR5: http://charles.robinsontwins.org/photos/2013/lr5/IMGP5318.jpg After hitting the "FULL" button in the "Up

Re: OT: Lightroom 5 public beta available

2013-04-18 Thread David J Brooks
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 7:34 PM, Bruce Walker wrote: > Damn. Note for Mac users that Mac OS X 10.7.0 or later is required. > That rules out folks like me who are still on 10.6.8 for various > reasons. Grumble. (Getting harder and harder to avoid an annoying > upgrade, and I used to look forward to

Re: OT: Lightroom 5 public beta available

2013-04-18 Thread Bruce Walker
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 1:42 PM, David J Brooks wrote: > On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 7:34 PM, Bruce Walker wrote: >> Damn. Note for Mac users that Mac OS X 10.7.0 or later is required. >> That rules out folks like me who are still on 10.6.8 for various >> reasons. Grumble. (Getting harder and harder

Re: OT: Lightroom 5 public beta available

2013-04-18 Thread Larry Colen
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 02:32:09PM -0400, Bruce Walker wrote: > On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 1:42 PM, David J Brooks wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 7:34 PM, Bruce Walker > > wrote: > I still have to find replacements for a couple of PowerPC apps that I > used to calculate mat dimensions when fram

Re: OT: Lightroom 5 public beta available

2013-04-18 Thread Bruce Walker
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 2:43 PM, Larry Colen wrote: > On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 02:32:09PM -0400, Bruce Walker wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 1:42 PM, David J Brooks wrote: >> > On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 7:34 PM, Bruce Walker >> > wrote: >> I still have to find replacements for a couple of Power

Re: OT: Lightroom 5 public beta available

2013-04-18 Thread Paul Stenquist
I've been running Mountain Lion for quite a while now on my Macbook and iMac. No complaints If there were inconveniences at first I've long ago forgotten them. Paul On Apr 18, 2013, at 2:32 PM, Bruce Walker wrote: > On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 1:42 PM, David J Brooks wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 16, 20

RE: OT: Lightroom 5 public beta available

2013-04-18 Thread Gerrit Visser
] On Behalf Of Bruce Walker Sent: April 18, 2013 2:32 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: OT: Lightroom 5 public beta available Well Dave, I bit the bullet and installed Mac OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.3) yesterday. $19.99 in the App Store. Took all afternoon to download, but so far -- touch

Re: OT: Lightroom 5 public beta available

2013-04-18 Thread Bruce Walker
ces a better result for my photos or not. Maybe > I will only tweak those that go into the slide shows. > > Gerrit > > > -Original Message- > From: PDML [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of Bruce Walker > Sent: April 18, 2013 2:32 PM > To: Pentax-Discuss

RE: OT: Lightroom 5 public beta available

2013-04-18 Thread Gerrit Visser
Sent: April 18, 2013 3:56 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: OT: Lightroom 5 public beta available On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 3:43 PM, Gerrit Visser wrote: > What, the Mac world is not perfect? What a shock. :-) Perfection is relative. :-) > Next time that you need to do a large dow

Re: OT: Lightroom 5 public beta available

2013-04-20 Thread Boris Liberman
Marnie, each major upgrade (2.x to 3.x, and 3.x to 4.x) seems to have introduced new rendering engine while preserving the older ones. I should say that the LR 4.4 that I'm using now is giving me great deal more in terms of image manipulations that I could perform on my photographs. So not tak