Monthly Archives: April 2013

Lightroom 4.4 now available

Per the Lightroom Journal:

Lightroom 4.4 is now available as a final release on Adobe.com and through the update mechanism in Lightroom 4.  The goal of this release is to provide additional camera raw support, lens profile support and address bugs that were introduced in previous releases of Lightroom.

New cameras supported:

  • Canon EOS 1D C
  • Canon EOS 100D (Digital Rebel SL1 / EOS Kiss Digital X7)
  • Canon EOS 700D (Digital Rebel T5i / EOS Kiss Digital X7i)
  • Casio Exilim EX-ZR700
  • Casio Exilim EX-ZR710
  • Casio Exilim EX-ZR750
  • Fujifilm FinePix F900EXR
  • Fujifilm FinePix HS50EXR
  • Fujifilm FinePix SL1000
  • Fujifilm X100s
  • Fujifilm X20
  • Hasselblad H5D-40
  • Hasselblad H5D-50
  • Hasselblad Lunar
  • LEICA M (Typ 240)
  • Nikon 1 J3
  • Nikon 1 S1
  • Nikon D7100
  • Nikon Coolpix A
  • Nikon Coolpix P330 (preliminary support)
  • Olympus XZ-10
  • Pentax MX-1
  • Samsung NX300
  • Sony Alpha NEX-3N
  • Sony Alpha SLT-A58

In addition, the new release improves demosaic* support for a range of Fujifilm cameras, adjust the white balance for a number of Nikons, and squashes a variety of bugs. See the LR Journal post for complete details.

*Not “demoniac,” but thanks for the suggestion, Mac autocorrect!

Sneak peek: Dreamweaver.next

Check out the new CSS Designer:

The CSS Designer delivers cutting-edge CSS features in a new visual interface that works with CSS properties — gradients, box shadows, and media queries. It also gives you the ability to visually apply and set different media queries for web content to be presented in different sized media!

Photoshop is yours to download & keep, for free

Completely legal! April Fool’s? Not so much.

  • The good news: It runs great in just 2MB of memory on an 8MHz machine.
  • The bad news: The version is 23 years old & requires use of a compiler.

According to CNET,

The Computer History Museum has made the source code for Photoshop 1.0.1 into an exhibit that lets the public, or at least programmers, appreciate the inner workings of the historic software.

The museum also published the Photoshop 1.0 user guide and tutorial documentation.

Enjoy!