Adobe has made updates to Photoshop Lightroom and the Photoshop Camera Raw plug-in available immediately for download from its website.

 

September 14, 2007: Adobe has made updates to Photoshop Lightroom and the Photoshop Camera Raw plug-in available immediately for download from its website.
The new Lightroom 1.2 and Camera Raw 4.2 plug-in support 14 additional digital cameras including the Canon EOS 40D; Fuji FinePix IS-1; Leaf Aptus 17, 54s and 75s; Olympus E-510; Panasonic DMC-FZ18; Pentax K100D Super; Phase One P 20+, P 21+, P 25+, P 30+ and P 45+; and Sony A700. Both updates also include improved noise reduction for Bayer patterned sensors, providing better image detail at default noise reduction values. The Lightroom update includes corrections to Microsoft Windows Vista grid display errors and XMP auto-write performance.
The camera raw functionality, which covers Lightroom, Photoshop CS3 and Photoshop Elements, provides fast and easy access to the raw image formats produced by many leading professional and midrange digital cameras. Lightroom and the Camera Raw plug-in also support the same functionality for TIFF and JPEG files. The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 1.2 update is available as a free download for existing customers on www.adobe.com. The Adobe Camera Raw 4.2 plug-in is available with the purchase of Photoshop CS3 and as a free download for users of Photoshop CS3, Photoshop Elements 4.0 (Macintosh) and Photoshop Elements 5.0 (Windows) by going to the Adobe Web site at www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/cameraraw.html. Adobe’s DNG Converter is available as a free download at www.adobe.com/dng.