Lightroom beta 2 has a Secondary Display mode, which as you would expect, allows you to use two displays - note Lightroom 1.4 does not support dual displays.

I have been playing with the Secondary DIsplay option and have found a really useful configuration for working with Lightroom image Stacks.

Open Lightroom in Library Module mode and bring up a screen full of thumbnails which includes some Stacks.

Set the Secondary Display mode to Survey as shown below.

As long as you are in the Survey Mode you will get a secondary display window which shows all the images in the Stack. This is a fully working Survey window which you use as normal - clicking the X in the bottom right to reject an image. Here is how make this work.

If you click on a Stack thumbnail you will get a single large version of the image which is at the top of the Stack.
Now, click the numbered Stack Icon in the top left of the thumbnail. All the images in the Stack will now be shown on the Secondary Display view.

This setup at last makes Stacks work well in Lightroom.

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Lightroom beta 2.0 has an excellent Selective Correction brush tool. This allows very precise corrections to made.

I recently had a problem using this tool in that I could not see the effect of the edits or where they had been made. My mistake. I found that I had accidently turned off the Tool Overlay!
So turn the Tool Overlay back on via the View menu.

You can select Auto Show, Always Show, or as I had Never Show. I find Auto Show to be the most useful as the edit points will be hidden when the cursor is moved away from the image area.

Now you can see the pin makers which show where your edits have taken place. If you now hover you cursor over one of the edit pins the area that has been affected by the correction brush will be shown outlined in white. See below.

Finally, to remove an edit, position your cursor over the pin mark and press the delete key. The edit will be removed along with a nice animated effect.
I hope this help you.

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The new Lightroom beta 2 has a long awaited Secondary Display option. A really useful way to use this is in Live Loupe mode.

There are lots of options for Secondary Display menu. When you select Live Loupe you get the one shown below.

With Live Loupe as your selection, change to 1:1 mode. You will then see a magnified version of the main image which will update in real time as you move your cursor over the main image. The magnification of the Live image can be changed by choosing a value from the bottom right of the secondary viewer window.

Note that Live mode works in the Library, Develop and Slideshow modules. It will also show the detail of the thumbnails in the film strip or the Library viewer - much like the loupe functionality of Apples' Aperture.

The Secondary Display option works in a windowed or full screen mode and you can have multiple windows open as well.

A good use of the Live mode is to quickly scan around an image whilst looking for dust spots. To be able to just move the cursor around the main image whilst viewing the live version at 1:1 allows you to quickly find any spots or areas that need to be spotted.

Hope this helps.

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Lightroom has many new features in the Export dialog box.

The beta 2 export now has a new option for Output Sharpening as well as a lot of changes to the previously available export options.

New Output Sharpening allows you to select the amount to apply, as well as the target for the sharpening. Matt or Glossy paper as well as for screen use.

Export Location has a new Add the Exported Photo to the Lightroom Catalog which is great if you want to automatically have your exported images appear back in the catalog with the export options applied.

It just saves time. You can also choose to stack them with the originals.

Files Settings now allows you to select the Color Space.

Image Settings has a new Add Copyright Watermark as well as allowing you to select the bit depth of the exported Image.

The Post-Processing section has a new Open in Another Application after export and allows you to select the application which will then open the exported images.

Much has changed. What I like best are the targeted Output sharpening and the ability to automate adding the exported images back into the catalog.

Overall a significant improvement.

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The new Lightroom beta 2 has lots of useful new features. Here is one I am excited about.

The ability to print to a JPEG file directly from the Print Module.

This new feature allows you to add identity plates, star ratings and other text decorations. It is then possible to save your print session as a composite JPEG file which includes all of the additions you have made to the image.

This is cool but what is really powerful is that you can also select Photo Info from the Overlays panel and print out a version which includes details of your print settings - Including sharpening.

The above shows how the saved jpeg image has been stamped with the print session details.

Nice one ...

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Lightroom beta 2 brings considerable improvements to filtering and and image searching.

To bring up the Filter options from the Library Module select Show Filter View from Lightrooms' View menu or press the ' \ ' shortcut key.

You will then see a resizable Filter selection menu. The results of any of the filters which follow will depend on what you have selected as your starting point in the Library Module side panels. i.e selecting All Photographs in the Catalog Panel will obviously allow you to filter on the whole catalog.

The basic operation is simple and easy to use.
There are three filter modes.

The first, Text, allows you to enter a text search term.

The second, Refine, will allow you to further target your search by using combinations of the familiar flag, star ratings, color flags etc.

Finally Metadata, allows you to set a Metadata filter on any one of four displayed columns. Images are filtered according to your column heading choices. You can turn them all off, if you want, or select None to use less than the full four column filters. You can further target the metadata search by adding the Text and Refine options as above.

Simple to use and very powerful. I look forward to using this capability in the final version.
Download the new beta at Lightroom 2 public beta.

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