Scott Kelby’s new Lightroom Seminar had Tom Hogarty (Lightroom Product Manager) as a guest. He showed the audience some new features that will be coming in the upgrade.

Here is what Scott Kelby had to say:

“Here’s a quick rundown of what Tom showed the crowd:

He showed how you can now easily export one library of photos (now called “catalogs”) and import that catalog into an existing library (perfect for people who work on a laptop on location, then need to merge these photos with their desktop studio machine).

The “Keyword Stamper” has evolved into a much more useful tool, which now lets “Spray” (rather than individually stamping, so it’s much faster), anything from keywords to Develop settings, or rotation settings. This totally wow’d everybody when they saw it in action.

Version 1.1 brings order to your presets and templates as these sections now have folders, so you can easily separate your custom presets and imported presets and templates from the default sets.
But the big, big hit of his presentation was definitely the new Sharpening panel, which pretty much blew everybody away, especially when used with the new Clarity control. This brought cheers from the crowd, which were only matched by Tom’s announcement that Adobe was making this update available for free!!! (we don’t have an official release date, other than “it’s coming soon). “

Credit: (Kelby, Scott http://www.scottkelby.com/blog/)

So as you can see we are all in for a great treat when the upgrade is released. Oh, and the upgrade is FREE… so that’s going to be great.

Read the full story on Scott Kelby’s Blog.

Read more about the Lightroom Seminar here.

Until Next Time,

Jarrod Michael