Brief Hands-On Report--Adobe Lightroom 1.3 Update is Out

Adobe released Lightroom 1.3 and it is available automatically from within the application or by clicking "Check for Updates" under the Help menu or from this Adobe Web page.

Lightroom 1.3 includes corrections for the following issues:

• Writing XMP metadata automatically has been corrected for performance issues
  
• Printing with the native resolution option enabled no longer sets the wrong dimension for portrait oriented images
  
• Prior to Camera Raw 4.3 there was the possibility that artifacts in edge transitions could be introduced through the
  Bayer demosaic and luminance noise reductions algorithms. This has been corrected.
  
• The Canon sRAW format and the Fuji compressed RAF formats are now supported.

Lightroom 1.3 includes the following enhancements:

• The import dialog now offers the option to render 1:1 previews as part of the import process
  
• The export dialog layout has been enhanced
  
• A Lightroom Preview Export SDK is available for developers to create and distribute Export Plug-ins.

We downloaded and installed Lightroom 1.3. In brief use examining our photos and using the tools we encountered no problems. [Bill Fox]