Download Adobe Lightroom 2.2

Adobe has released a new version of Lightroom. The update has been given version number 2.2 and can be Windows and Mac OS X be downloaded. New in Lightroom 2.2 is support for the Canon EOS 5D Mark II, the Canon Powershot G10 and the Panasonic Dmc-lx3. Furthermore, a number of bugs have been removed from the program, but Adobe has not disclosed which exactly they are. Lightroom is an image manager with which digital photos can be edited, sorted and processed in various ways. For example, it is not only possible to arrange photos per photo session, but also to attach keywords to photos and to search for certain terms to show the desired and/or relevant photos. It is also possible to make a slideshow and web album of a photo shoot via Lightroom. The release notes of version 2.2 look like this:

The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2.2 update includes these enhancements:

• Additional camera support for the Canon EOS 5D Mark II, Canon PowerShot G10, Panasonic DMC-LX3 and more**
• Includes several corrections for issues introduced by the Lightroom 2.0 release

**With the release of Lightroom 2.2, there is an important exception in our DNG file handling for the Panasonic DMC LX3, Panasonic DMC FX150, Panasonic DMC FZ28, Panasonic DMC-G1 and Leica D-LUX 4. In this release the native, proprietary files from these cameras can only be converted to linear DNG files. A linear DNG file has gone through a demosaic process that converts a single mosaic layer of red, green and blue channel information into three distinct layers , one for each channel. The resulting linear DNG file is approximately three times the size of a mosaic DNG file or the original proprietary file format.

This exception is a temporary solution to ensure that Panasonic and Leica’s intended image rendering from their proprietary raw file format is applied to an image when converted DNG files are viewed in third party software titles. The same image rendering process is applied automatically in Camera Raw 5.2 and in Lightroon 2.2 when viewing the original proprietary raw file format.

In a future release Adobe plans to update the DNG specification to include an option to embed metadata-based representations of the lens compensations in the DNG file, allowing a mosaic DNG conversion. In the interim Adobe recommends only converting these files to DNG to allow compatibility with third party raw converters, previous versions of the Camera Raw plug-in or previous versions of Lightroom.