Some of you may have noticed that it’s been rather hard to get my attention for the last 4 months. I’m sorry about that. Here’s the reason:

The Touch is a new way for Mac users to work with Lightroom using either a trackpad or an iPad. At the heart of The Touch is its ability to allow you to develop your images without having look away from your work. A set of simple and intuitive gestures allow you to instantly grab the correct slider or puck and move it with precision without having to spend you time finding these elements on the user interface. Even if the slider in question isn’t visible on the interface The Touch will scroll straight to it.

It really is a totally different experience to be able to develop your images while never taking your eyes off your work – I urge you to give it a go!

Additionally, The Touch also provides support for a whole host of other functions for navigation control, rating and flagging images, switching quickly from the Library to the Develop module, seeing your images in full screen, etc. It’s quite possible to return from a shoot and do an initial edit using just The Touch.

Never before have I worked so hard on a new project. I’ve quite literally been working from 9am to 2am most days since the end of November! I’m personally a little bit tired now, but I hope you enjoy the result!

We have some great news to start the new year off: Sean McCormack is now distributing his popular Lightroom galleries via the Photographer’s Toolbox. Welcome aboard Sean!

This distance-related problem also manifests itself when asking the Enfuse plugin to download our copy of the Enfuse binary application.

To solve these problems we’ve now experimenting with an infrastructure change that should provide you all with more reliable plugin updates. As we move forwards plugins will be stored on a global “Content Delivery Network” hosted by Amazon, which is a fancy way of saying that the files in question will be stored much closer to your physical location, and should thus be much quicker – and more reliable – to download.

Since this represents a major change for us we’ll be rolling out the changes slowly. We’re going to start with LR/Enfuse to ensure that all’s well, and new versions of our other plugins will be updated over time.

We’d love to hear from users of LR/Enfuse who had experienced these problems before to know if this solves the issue for them….

I’ve just released ListView 1.60 with a series of significant changes and improvements:

• Easier to change data displayed
  • Click the triangle in the column header
  • A new dialog box replaces the previous long drop down lists
• Display and output Develop fields
  • Slows down performance (there’s no batch access)
  • Freely mix Develop data with
  • Sort by Develop data
  • Save sorted items to a collection (the sort is in the “user order”)
• Display and output various other fields
  • Video
  • Folder paths
  • Pick flags
  • Edit count and time
• Completely new floating “File Info” panel (shown right)
  • Only available in Lightroom 4
  • Displays info about same 10 fields as List View
  • Floats, so you can move from file to file in grid view or the filmstrip
  • Display more EXIF info while you’re working in Develop
  • Put it on a second monitor
• Two additional panels for Metadata
  • A File Info panel including folders, file size
  • One bringing together copyright and other minimal data entry
• Save export data to location other than the desktop
  • It’s a preference in Plug-In Manager
• A lot more logging
  • So much more that it really slows things down
  • Switch it on when (if) you need it

]]> http://photographers-toolbox.com/blog/2012/06/list-view-1-60/feed/ 0 http://photographers-toolbox.com/blog/2012/04/keyboard-tamer-a-great-tool-for-mac-users/ http://photographers-toolbox.com/blog/2012/04/keyboard-tamer-a-great-tool-for-mac-users/#comments Thu, 26 Apr 2012 12:04:12 +0000 Timothy Armes http://photographers-toolbox.com/blog/?p=1685 Continue reading →]]> Hot on the heals of version 2.00 of Keyboard Tamer I’ve just released version 2.11 which adds support for adjusting the development sliders for images under Process Version 2012.

I have to thank Peter Karlsson from Svarteld for driving the recent updates to Keyboard Tamer, and this screenshot is a reminder as to why this is such a useful plugin, not only for users of non-US keyboards, but also for all Mac users, as we’ll see below….

Lightroom doesn’t provide any keyboard shortcuts for the development sliders, and so Keyboard Tamer does something slightly tricky to solve this issue. By creating menu items to adjust the various development sliders Mac users can use the System Preferences to assign keyboard shortcuts!

However, that’s not the best of it. The really great thing is that these shortcuts work everywhere – from every module. No more switching to the Develop module to make a quick change to an image!

Thanks for that inspiring screenshot Peter!

I’ve also improved things for Windows users. By default those menu items will no longer be visible in the menu, so you won’t have to be bothered be something that serves you much less purpose that it would to a Mac user…

I’ve just released an update to address LR 4 compatibility. Notice that you’ll now either be asked for your admin password (on Mac) or else be asked to run as an administrator (on Windows). There’s no need to panic, it’s just that Keyboard Tamer works by making changes to some of Lightroom’s own files (after backing up the originals), and under Lightroom 4 access to these files is now protected by default.

Have fun with your own shortcuts!

All of our plugins should continue to work perfectly under LR4. If you discover any issues that we missed then please let us know and we’ll address them as quickly as possible.

Happy snapping!

Of course, there was no chance that I was ever going to leave you in the lurch before the final release of LR4! Today I’ve posted updates for the following galleries:

• Impact
• Impact WSPP
• Filmstrip WSPP
• Jigasawrus
• Elegance

Note that along with adding LR4 support the update to Elegance also fixes a compatibility issue with Internet Explorer 9.

Now, I know you’re all just dying to know why it’s taken a few weeks to deliver updates following the release of the LR4 beta. The reasons is that I’ve been working non-stop on a beautiful new iPhone/iPad app and I wanted to get that released so that I could then focus clearly on plugin updates.

And to that end I’d urge to to take a look at this gorgeous app:

http://www.artogramapp.com/

• If only one item selected, you are now prompted to add all other visible items
• New commands to copy the filename to the title – with and without file extensions
• Parse and Audit now adds columns in the Library filter panel listing all the values in the “copy from” and “copy to” fields – handy when you’re checking what’s in those fields
• The keyword counter now goes much higher
• Improved error reporting through log file
• Corrected some translation errors
• Search Replace Transfer dialog box opens at last-used tab
• Fixed Lightroom 2 bug upon startup

Beautiful site and magnificent photography – bravo Franck!

The upgrade is free to registered users, and we’ve reworked the web site (and Lightroom’s Help menu) to explain all of the new features. Enjoy!

Okay, I’ll admit that the link to photographic tools may be tenuous, but Perfect Timers is my first iOS application and I need some coverage!

Besides, it really is nice app….

I was frustrated when looking for a good timer app for his iPad – the applications Ifound were either lacking in the functionality I needed (multiple timers, overrun timing and the ability to easily add minutes to a running count down) or else unbearably ugly. Eventually I took it upon myself to help all those timer-less iPad-owning aesthetically-demanding souls out there, and thus Perfect Timers was born!

LR/Blog now lets you upload to, and create blog posts on your TypePad account. With this addition LR/Blog now officially supports:

• TypePad
• Blogger
• WordPress
• The NextGEN gallery for WordPress

and many other MetaWebLog compatible blogs too.

The upgrade is free to registered users, and I’ve also completely reworked the web site documentation to make things a little clearer, so get blogging!

Fortunately we hadn’t made a big song and dance about this, because unfortunately we had an error in the generator that meant that the invoices had the wrong invoice number.

If you had downloaded an invoice before today then please download it again.  We’re really sorry about this inconvenience.

NextGEN Gallery gives WordPress users much greater flexibility when presenting images on a blog.  Thanks to the new integration with LR/Blog you can now upload your images directly to a new or existing gallery, and then create a post that will directly insert the images into the post.

I’d love to hear your feedback on this new feature and also any other requests you have for LR/Blog.

These landscape images are spectacular and we’re only too happy to share them with you. Click the images to see them bigger.

I’ve finally had a change to make good on that promise; version 1.70 of Impact offers the same annotation feature as Impact WSPP.

Have fun with it!

Other things you can do with List View:

• Change the information in any column
• Save columns as presets
• Sort by any column
• Export metadata to a browser
• Export metadata directly to Excel
• Edit metadata in a File Info panel

Hopefully you will never have to find out, but just in case Matt Dawson has released the TPG LR Backup plugin to simplify backing up your Lightroom environment. It does this by adding the ability to backup Lightroom’s configuration files, and compress Lightroom’s catalog backups, from within Lightroom itself. These tasks can occur automatically as the program starts or manually as required. Setup the automated backups to save onto a second disk and that hard drive crash would be much less painful to recover from than it could otherwise have been.

You can check TPG LR Backup out on the plugin’s main page.

For the curious English speakers:

Jean Claude Vallot has created a series of video tutorials, in French, on the use of our WSPP plugins (such as Impact and Filmstrip).  It’s an impressive amount of work that’ll be very useful to French speakers.

Perhaps the most important plugin that I offer to professional photographers who license their images is PLUS for Lightroom.

PLUS refers to both an XMP-based metadata standard for embedding licensing information directly into images, and to the large international consortium of companies that form the standard’s governing body.

The PLUS standard is very well designed, being both flexible enough to meet virtually any licensing requirements, and concise enough to be clear and unambiguous in its use.Metadata embedded into images can be read by a variety of tools; for example there are now PLUS panels built into directly into CS5.

Lightroom 3 now includes built-in support for a small but useful number of PLUS fields, such as model release identifiers, licensor information, etc. The fields that are available are those that also happen to be part of the IPTC Extension schema (the two standards bodies work together to avoid creating duplicate metadata fields where their needs overlap).

The PLUS for Lightroom plugin provides photographers with access to all the PLUS fields, and until now it has ignored the presence of the built-in ones, continuing to offer its own variants that were in place since its release (well before Lightroom 3 came to market). This has meant that for Lightroom 3 users there have been two distinct and unconnected fields into which the user could enter the same PLUS image licensing information. With the new release of PLUS for Lightroom I now offer full integration with the fields that are now provided natively by Lightroom 3. Any PLUS metadata that you had previously entered into the fields provided by the plugin itself can be migrated automatically to Lightroom’s built-in ones, resulting in a much more integrated experience¹.

This improved integration aside, the plugin continues to offer its impressive feature set – access to the full range of PLUS fields and the ability to easily define licensing requirements and to embed these into your images during export.

If you’re licensing images as a commercial, editorial or stock photographer and you’re not yet up to speed with PLUS then we’d recommend that you take a look at what it can offer you, and then take a look at the plugin – we believe that PLUS for Lightroom offers the best PLUS license creation experience found on any asset management tool.

If you’d like to learn more you can also download the user manual.

1. Note that the new version will continue to work under Lightroom 2, and that the plugin’s own versions of these fields will continue to be available to Lightroom 2 users.

ShutterSnitch allows users to rate their images on the iPad, and our Snitch Sync plug-in will allow you to synchronise this information with your RAW images in Lightroom.

The workflow is as follows:

1. In the field, you shoot RAW images to your card and send small JPEGs wirelessly to the iPad (using ShutterSnitch) for quick review. Only small JPEGs are sent to reduce the transmission time.
2. After the shoot you can rate your images on the iPad using ShutterSnitch.
3. Back at the studio you import your RAW images into Lightroom.
4. From ShutterSnitch you send yourself your Selection List by email.
5. Using SnitchSync you copy and paste the contents of your email into the field provided. The plugin will read the data, match the JPEG filenames with the RAW images, then update the ratings.

You can check it out on the plugin’s main page.

• To copy IPTC location fields to the corrsponding IPTC-Extension’s fields
• To integrate the IPTC location fields with keywords
  • Copy from IPTC fields to the keywords
  • Copy from keywords to the IPTC fields – which means you can apply locations by dragging and dropping just like in iView or Expression Media

Read more here

It’s a great design and really shows off what can be done with a little thought.

We’d love to see examples of other site produced using our WSPP plugins – let us know…

With Capture Time to Exif you can:

• Update the Date Time Original EXIF field of scanned images. Lightroom’s filter panel and smart collections can then find the images by searching for when the pictures were originally taken rather than when they were digitised.



• Write other EXIF and IPTC information such as the camera model and maker. You can enter whatever Exiftool command line arguments you choose.
• Store frequently-used command line arguments as presets.
• Write directly to TIF, PSD, JPEG, and DNG file formats
  • Writing to proprietary raw formats is disabled.
• Generate a log file which can be run as a batch file in Shell/Terminal
  • Use this method if you really want to write to proprietary raw formats.

• The Bad News: The promotional offer period is now over.
• The Good News: The price is only going up by £5 to £25, so the WSPP plugins still represent exceptional value for money compared to the nearest equivalent¹ (although really, there is no true equivalent to WSPP’s unique approache to web site creation).
• The Fabulous News: You now get a contact sheet view too….

The Contact Sheet view

The new contact sheet view

Until now the WSPP series has been fine tuned to display your portfolio images in their best light thanks to a beautiful presentation.

With the latest release we starting to address the needs of your clients.  The new contact sheet view can be applied on a per gallery basis, and is designed to be used on the galleries in your client area.  The images are displayed in a very nice grid view, and there are options to allow the user to download images and to display geographical information via Google Maps.

By default the shape of the grid changes dynamically to fit the window size whilst still remaining centered for the best aesthetics – this was technically very challenging and to the best of our knowledge this is the first time this has been achieved successfully across different browsers.

We’ve updated our client area demonstration gallery to use the new contact sheet view. Visit the client gallery to see it in action (username and password are both “client1″.

This release is a free upgrade for existing users.

1. Which I calculate to be £80 by the time you’ve bought all the different components!!

We’re starting the new year with some small but nice updates to our WSPP plugins:

• You can now choose to use the main gallery index page as the starting page for your site.
• There are now various options for positionning the thumbnails on the gallery index pages.
• Adding a border around the gallery index boxes when they are touching now looks correct (no more doubled up borders).  Lots of you have been asking for this.
• The number of options displayed in one go when designing your page has been significantly reduced. Instead, options for many pages types (gallery index, contact page, gallery…) are only displayed when viewing the page in question. This makes it a lot easier find the option your looking for, and paves the way for upcoming features that would have otherwise overwhelmed the panal rail.
• Menu options can now have separators between them when the menu is horizontal.
• All the tick boxes for adding outlines to various elements have been removed – instead you should now set the border width to zero.  You may need to update your user templates to removed unexpected borders – sorry about that.

Have fun!

With Impact WSPP 1.20 you can now overlay captions onto your images.  You can also specify a fixed size “matting” to go around the image.  If you wish you can use this area to hold the navigation bar, the descriptions and the position dots so that they don’t overlap your images.

Once these features have settled in and we’ve had your feedback we’ll be porting them over to the standard version of Impact too.

There are other changes too, such as a back button to take you to the parent level, and the ability to put links into your gallery descriptions.

One noteworthy change – the text size of the descriptions on the gallery index pages is now fixed in pixels rather than points.  This will give better consistency across browsers, but you’ll need to tweak the size of your text in any existing templates you’ve made.

Passwords can be added to either individual galleries or to entire sets.  Multiple username-password combinations are supported, so you can manage access to galleries with  a lot of finesse.

Both galleries and sets can now be hidden from the main gallery index too.  Used in combination with the password control, this can be used to provide you with a private client area.

The system is very flexible and can be moulded to meet just about any need. Here’s an example that may be suitable for a wedding photographer, and here’s another that’s more suited to a commercial photographer.

Your web host needs to offer PHP support for the password protection to work.  As you would expect the plugin handles everything for you, there’s no need to modify any files by hand or otherwise get your hands dirty

You can read more about the privacy settings in the manual.

What’s the surprise?

You’ll notice that there’s now an extra tick box next to the list of options for selecting the image from a gallery to use on the index page.

This box tells the plugin not to use the image in the gallery itself – but to use it only for the index page.  This is great if you wish to create a cropped virtual copy of an image to use on the index but to then show the entire image in the gallery.

Of particular interest to us was the large number of people requesting a WSPP plugin based on a horizontal scrolling gallery.  Not wishing to disappoint, we temporarily put aside the development of the galleries that we were working on and starting working on a solution.

The result is Filmstrip WSPP.  We’ve really taken into account your requests and comments, and we’re exceptionally happy with the result. We’ve worked hard to try to produce something unique, and we’ve created a feature set is way beyond a typical gallery of this type. Here are the highlights:

• Impressive and memorable viewing experience thanks to scaled-to-browser-height images.
• Images are preloaded and faded in as they become available.
• Multiple image resolutions are exported and the most appropriate resolution is used when displaying the images. This ensures fast loading on mobile devices without penalising the image quality on desktop machines.
• Very configurable interface. The “filmstrip” can be displayed in many ways thanks to the ability to add spacing and borders.
• Optional fixed size header and footer areas give you space to put menus and controls that won’t interfere with the images.
• Individual annotations can be displayed on the images. Annotations can include image metadata and may be formatted with Markdown.
• The display of annotations can be turned on and off by the viewer.
• Custom pinch gestures for iOS devices such as the iPhone and iPad allow visitor to change the height of the strip.
• Pure HTML/Javascript – no Flash.

Our Web Site Publisher Pro plugins are very different from traditional Lightroom Web Engines. Rather than creating a single gallery in the web module you instead design the look and feel of your entire site from there, and then create a Publish Service in the library module with which to upload your site. By adding collections and collection sets to the publish service you can create a complete web presence that includes a structured hierarchy of galleries along with other pages such as the home page, a contact page, a links pages, etc.

As usual there are plenty of options for laying out your site, changing the colour scheme, and so forth.  Here’s an example:

It’s really never been so easy to create a web site from within Lightroom, it’s never before been possible to create a gallery hierarchy using collections and sets, and no other web engines allow you to incrementally upload just your changes to the site.

To really demonstrate just how flexible the layout options are we asked photographer Peter Karlsson at Svarteld if he would create a site to show off the plugin.  We’re not sure what’s impressed us most, the fact that Peter willingly put aside his day to come up with something great, or the fact that the plugin was powerful enough to allow Peter to come up with something this great in just one day!

In any case, the result is spectacular – just like his photography:

Thanks Peter!

We’re starting to roll out this series with a WSPP version of our popular Impact gallery, and versions for Jigasawrus and Elegance will soon follow.

The Elemental plugin integrates Photoshop Elements (PSE) with Lightroom, enabling external editing of images using a workflow similar to Lightroom’s native integration with Photoshop.  It allows images to be PhotoMerged, Opened as Layers or Smart Objects, and more in the Photoshop Elements Editor directly from Lightroom.

Well, we’ve listened, and version 1.10 now adds these layout options.  Compared the the existing options which try to optimize the layout of the images to make best use of the space available, the new layout options have will maintain the order of the images (either from left to right for a fixed width storybaoard, or from top to bottom when the height is fixed).

We’d love to show some of your storyboards on this blog – let us know if you have any that you’d like to share.

The plugin will automatically export your images at the correct size, create thumbnails and the upload everything to the right place on the FTP server.

Users of Lightroom 3 will also be able to create a Publish service and organise galleries and categories directly from within Lightroom, publishing any changes whenever they’re ready.

Categories and Galleries in the LR/RedCart Publish Services

This plugin had been a long time in the making – it’s taken 4 months to find a show-stopping bug!  We extend our thanks to the RedCart developers for their relentless support.

Update:  Version 1.10 has just been released, and offers the option of uploading the Zip archive to an FTP server.

This plugin allows you to create a Zip archive of images and videos using Lightroom’s export feature. You may encrypt the archive using a password for extra security.

The plugin is released as donationware.

Version 1.60 addresses this request, and it’s probably most useful when the items are stacked vertically which causes the bar to be very tall.

There are loads of options for controlling the layout and colours – there are more examples in the quick guide.

Give it a go, and if you create any great storyboards then let us know so that we can post them here!

When you add metadata like the title or keywords to a stack, Lightroom only updates the picture on the top of the stack – items lower down the stack are not updated. So if you do want all members of the stack to share similar metadata, you first have to expand the stack and select all the items. Then after adding the metadata, you would collapse the stack again. For some users, that is OK because they will only keep the best image and don’t want to annotate the rejects. But for others it’s pretty inefficient, for instance stock photographers or those who use stacks to gather frames intended for panorama stitching. For them the stacks-metadata problem is often a reason for not using the stacking feature.

Sync Stacks is intended to overcome that problem. It adds a menu command and:

1. Loops through the selected pictures
2. Finds images that are at the top of their stacks
3. Copies their metadata to the rest of the stack

Prerequisites

• Lightroom 3 on a Mac.
• Our Keyboard Tamer plugin.
• The Keymote application installed on the iPhone.
• A WiFi connection between the Mac and the iPhone.

How to do it:

1. Install Keyboard Tamer and define 16 keyboard shortcuts for the sliders that you wish to control.
2. Start the Keymote application, create a new keyset and call it “Lightroom”. Tom uses the following:
3. Add the 16 keyboard shortcuts to the keyset and name them according to their function (e.g. Blacks +5).
4. On the Mac download and run the Keymote receiver.
5. On the iPhone, go to Keymote’s settings and setup a new connection with your Mac.

Congratulations – you are now ready to control Lightroom’s development sliders with the iPhone!!!!

PhotoDeck is a fanstastic image hosting service that allows independent photographers to create a full e-commerce platform.  In contrast to stock agencies and portals that sell contributed images for a hefty commission, PhotoDeck empowers a photographer to create his or her own online store to sell his work directly to photobuyers, keeping the relationship with the client. PhotoDeck takes no commission on sales that originate from the website.

With LR/PhotoDeck you can now upload directly to collections and galleries on your PhotoDeck account.  The plugin even keeps track of which images have already been uploaded so that you don’t inadvertently end up with multiple versions of an image on the server.

Syncomatic’s original purpose was to tidy up metadata when you are faced with sets of pictures whose names match but whose metadata is out of sync. For instance you may have lots of TIFs or JPEGs which have been output from your raw files, but you then added keywords to the raw files. How do you then make 1234-edit.tif have the same keywords and other metadata as the original 1234.nef, make 1235-edit.tif the same as 1235.nef and so on? Syncomatic does that job.

It now does the same with adjustments.

Why would one want to do that? Well, for example, I was contacted by someone who had taken 15,000 pictures in a very short period, and sheer pressure of work had led him to switch his camera to Raw+JPEG and import only the JPEGs. He’d then added ratings, captioned and keyworded the JPEGs, done some quick adjustments, and submitted modified JPEGs to his clients. Now he was home and wanted to import his raw files and prepare stock and portfolio quality images from them. That was where he hit a wall. He could restore the raw files into the same folder as the JPEGs, and then synchronise the Lightroom folder – but Lightroom hides the JPEG and brings in the raw files without any IPTC metadata or adjustments. Even if one had saved the metadata back to the JPEGs, it wouldn’t really treat them like sidecars. The other approach for RAW+JPEG is to change the catalogue option so it imports separate files, but then there was the problem of copying the metadata and adjustments from each JPEG to its corresponding raw file. That’s why I updated Syncomatic.

Another possible application is when you have a new camera which has a raw file type which Lightroom doesn’t yet support. What you might do – after filing a complaint with the camera maker and demanding they offer a DNG option – is shoot Raw+JPEG, import the JPEG files, and add your metadata and adjustments. When Lightroom is updated, you can import the raw files and use Syncomatic to update them. I’m not sure if that will work in practice, but I suspect so.

Now, there are some limitations – but not many. Essentially I’m using the develop preset mechanism, so Syncomatic can only apply adjustments that you can save in a preset. Above all, that means cropping can’t be synchronised. But it does pretty well everything else, which isn’t too shabby.

Great to have to you on board Matt!

The most important one is that the all important alt text for images can now be specified.  This allows you to optimise your galleries for search engine indexing.

Also, the auto starting of the slideshow was broken in the previous release.  This has been fixed, but it’s also been enhanced so that it will start automatically when visiting the main URL, however it’ll be paused if the URL contains a direct reference to an image.  This allows the user to return to a bookmarked image without the page changing unexpectedly.

Finally, for those that don’t like the bookmarkable URLs, this dynamic changing of the URL is now optional.

You can read more about these options in the quick guide.

Elegance now reacts to key presses in Safari and IE.

Until now Impact has used Javascript to handle the image transitions (either slides or fades), however the performance can be a little jerky on slower machines, especially if there are a large number of images.

The latest version of Impact makes use of an emerging technology – CSS Animations – to provide hardware accelerated transitions on recent versions of WebKit browsers such as Chrome and Safari (including the iPhone and iPad).  When a user is using one of these browsers he or she is now treated to silky smooth scrolls and fades.

Other browsers fall back to the previous method, and you can now choose to fall back to an even simpler transition in this case.  We’ll be updating Impact to support other browsers as they implement the required features.

To get full star trail images the exposure needs to be extremely long, however each individual shot is usually limited to a shorter time (5 – 30 minutes or so) so as not to overexpose the moonlit foreground.   The solution is to take many shorter exposures and blend them together at the end.

Here are two examples provided by Scott.  You can read more about the making of these images in Lance Keimig and Scott Martin’s new Night Photography book. Scott and Lance also teach star trail image stacking technique with LR/Enfuse at their week-long night photography workshops.

This plugin can be used to blend multiple exposures of a scene in order to create an image with greater apparent dynamic range.  Exposure blending is similar to HDR, but the results are most often far more natural.

Here are the highlights:

• LR/Enfuse now uses (and requires) Enfuse version 4.  This is the latest version of Enfuse and offers niceties such as multi-processor support for improved performance.
• The installation procedure has been greatly simplified.  Users no longer need to download and install the third party applications themselves, the plugin can do this for them.
• LR/Enfuse now supports blending of focus stacks!

If you upgrade then be aware that you’ll need to have the plugin reinstall Enfuse for you.

Have fun!

• The originals are 100703_0123 Jones wedding.nef…
• Photoshop layered files are 100703_0123 Jones wedding Layered.nef …
• Black and white JPEG versions are 100703_0123 Jones wedding BW.jpg …