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If you download the latest  Lightroom Release Candidate 2 from the Adobe labs site  you will notice that you can now export JPEG files from the book module!

Tom Hogarty posted information about the  Lightroom 4.1 Release Candidate 2 on the Lightroom Journal including corrected bugs and new camera support. Download the Lightroom 4.1 Release Candidate here.

Be sure to check out the new Color Fringe Correction Controls and please provide feedback on your experience with Lightroom 4.1 Release Candidate in our Feedback Portal.

If you’ve noticed a difference in the range of values that appear to the right of the Temperature and Tint sliders in the Basic panel in Lightroom’s Develop module, it’s probably due to the fact that when working with Raw files, Lightroom displays values of  2000-50000 Kelvin  for Temperature, and -150 – +150 for Tint. When working with JPEG, both Temperature and Tint sliders display numeric values from -100 to +100.

When saving a Develop preset to enable lens correction check the “Lens Profile Corrections” option in the New Develop Preset dialog.  To remove Chromatic Aberration, check that option as well. The other options (Transform and Lens Vignetting) refer to the options in the Manual area of the panel and are, as a general rule, more likely to be applied on a per image basis and not as part of a Lens Correction preset (of course there are exceptions).

Here is a great article on How to Optimize Lightroom’s Performance.

If you’ve ever tried to find 25 images out of hundreds then you know that it can be tedious to search for each one individually. If this is something that you do on a regular basis (to fulfill orders for example) you will definitely want to check out  Jeffrey Friedl’s “Extended Search” Lightroom plug-in. It will allow you to copy and paste multiple file names and find them all at once (plus a whole lot more!).

While you’re on Jeffrey’s site, be sure to also check out his other plug-ins such as Metadata Wrangler, Tree Publisher and many others!

Just a reminder that I will be at the InterContinental Hotel and Conference Center in Dallas TX on Saturday April 28, 2012 from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM. From 10am – 1:00pm we’ll talk about how to “Revitalize your workflow with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4”, and from 2:00 – 5:00 we’ll cover Photoshop Techniques for Photographers.

This seminar is open to the public for $97 . If you’re already registered for Texas School then you can attend the seminar for only $47! Click here for the Texas School schedule to find out more information as well as see the list of incredible photography instructors  that will be training all week. I hope to see you there!

We have increased the number of pages a book can contain to 240 (this in an increase over the Lightroom 4 Beta).

If you skip ahead in this video to @ 4:38 (Questions about Lightroom and Photo Management), I talk about how to archive or move your images from your internal drive to an external one. As you will see, it is easiest to move the files to the new drive from within Lightroom.

When you upgrade from Lightroom to Lightroom 4, be sure to upgrade your catalog. The first 2 minutes of this video will show you how.

This is a question that I have been hearing a lot lately and thankfully Jeff Tranberry, Product Manager in Digital Imaging focusing on Customer Advocacy, has posted the excellent information here.

If you are looking specifically for support fort the Canon EOS 5D Mk III you can download the Lightroom 4.1 Release Candidate from Adobe Labs.  

In this video (Share Images Online) you will learn to use the Web module to publish to the popular online photo sharing sites with Lightroom’s new Publish Services option in the Library module.

In this video tutorial (Print the Perfect Image), you will learn how to use the Print module to bring your images into the spotlight and share with clients, friends or family. Also, see the new tools for making custom contact sheets and print packages.

In this video tutorial (Publish a Slideshow),  you will learn how to create, render and publish a slideshow with music by sequencing your images to tell the perfect story.

In the first tutorial of a three-part series (Book Module Basics), I’ll provide a complete overview of the bookmaking process using the new Lightroom 4 Book module.

Click here for Part 2 – Modifying Book Layouts in Lightroom 4

Click here for Part 3 – Advanced Book Features in Lightroom 4