I bought Lightroom 6 two years ago. I downloaded it and logged in with my account perfectly fine and began to use it, thinking because I logged in with my account I assumed Adobe would then automatically register my account. But they didn't. I have recently bought a large amount of presets and when I went to download them it asked for my serial number. Well I threw away the box thinking Adobe would have registered me and it would be as simple as going to my account to find the serial number...
Suggestion: from now on, you need to store ALL of your serial number (not just Lightroom) in a location that you know you can find at a later time. What I do is I create text file on my computer that is named serial_numbers.txt, and place all of your serial numbers into this file; and I make backups to another disk and to "the cloud", so even if my house burns down, I still have access to all of my serial numbers.
By the way, for anyone reading this far, you should never be in the situation where you can't find your serial number (for Lightroom, or for any other software). You need to find a way to store your serial numbers someplace you can find them again. I have a text file, which is backed up to the cloud, for my serial numbers, with the easy to find file name of "serial numbers.txt".
Apparently Canon only started including an "internal" lens serial number field in the EXIF info when they started including the ability for cameras with AFMA (Autofocus Micro Adjustment) to discriminate between two copies of the same lens model.
When using Adobe products (such as Lightroom or ACR), the field is never included in the EXIF info displayed by the application. Canon's own 'Digital Photo Professional' does not display the lens ID number, either. Using other third party applications, such as 'Irfanview', does show the lens ID number included in the EXIF info for cameras with AFMA that can discriminate between two copies of the same lens model.
The screenshot above was taken from an image captured with a Canon EOS 7D Mark II using an EF 70-200mm f/2.8 L IS II lens manufactured in 2010. The 5D Mark III I use regularly also includes the internal lens serial number in the EXIF info. My older Canon EOS 7D and Canon EOS 5D Mark II do not include the field, even when the same lenses are used on both sets of cameras. When an older lens model that does not communicate an internal lens ID to the camera is used on one of the newer cameras, the field is reported as '0000000000' (ten consecutive "zeros"). This is even the case with a newly made copy of an older lens design. The EF 135mm f/2 L is a lens model first released in 1996. My current copy was manufactured in September 2016. The Canon EOS 5D Mark III reports the internal 'Lens serial number' as '0000000000'.
This "internal" serial number is a different number from the external serial number printed on the lens barrel or flange mounting ring, even when the internal number that appears to be at least partially in hex format is converted to decimal. It is presumed by many to be a number that is uniquely assigned to only one lens ever made by Canon. At the very least, it is almost certainly a number that is unique for all copies of that particular lens model. Canon probably uses a separate "internal" serial number in order to standardize the format for all of their various lens lines, which can vary significantly in terms of the number of digits included in the external lens serial number. There also seems to be at least some cases where the same external serial numbers have been used for two different lenses in two different model lines.
P.S. And one clarification, this is NOT the serial number of my lens (as I can read it on the lens itself). So seems like camera do not include it (on correct way). When I check with other (again Canon camera with Canon lens) I do not see at all lens serial number in LR. But in XNview I see the correct serial number of lens.
When I got my m240 years ago I never used my code to get my free copy of lightroom as I already had it from my m9. I've been running classic LR for years now (v 5.7.1)- and I am wondering if I can still use that TAN number to upgrade to a newer version? I am having issue with LR where I cannot open Silver Efex Pro 2 anymore- very annoying. Not sure if this is the right place to ask?
As you can see from the screen shot, this image has between 31-40 keywords, has a title and a description. I can easily step through my images in the Library Module, looking to make sure that each one has a title, description and the number of keywords is less than 50.
I noticed that in lightroom (and maybe photoshop too), the white balance/temperature dial shows the cool temperatures with low numbers and warm temperatures with the higher number where from what I've seen everywhere it's the other way around ie. 2500 would be a warm color and 7000 would be a very cool color. Can anybody explain the logic of why lightroom would be the other way around? are these in Kelvin even or a different scale?
8:53PM, 21 December 2008 PST(permalink)
OK, so I haven't had breakfast yet but you've got me puzzling over this.
Both jrowland96 and jaovandelagemaat have confirmed what we know - that colour temperature is measured in Kelvin units and the higher the temp (bigger numbers) the bluer the light. Easy to remember as I think of bunsen burners back in my science class many decades ago.
But Houston Cougars is right. Lightroom temp slider shows a smaller number for bluer treatment, larger number towards yellow.
If anyone can explain this I might be able to stop worrying, walk away from the computer and start the cooking and cleaning for the impending Christmas visit by the in-laws.
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I guess what worries me the most is that now I can't trust the numbers on the color slider and just have to go by my eye if say I wanted a day time colored temperature of 5500. hah maybe I should subtract 5500 from the highest going right to left to get it right...
ages ago(permalink)
I think the numbers are accurate, as long as your illumination is reasonably close to a black body - otherwise that's what the tint slider is for (though that's not perfect). Basically, unless you have a spectrometer and the ability to completely adjust the colour profile, you can't get it spot-on for non-black-body sources.
Does it really matter, though?
ages ago(permalink)
ok i think we have a disconnect since most people are correcting me for being off by 200k here or there. I know what the different color temperatures mean and look like so I'm not asking specific color the temperature of say day time vs. early afternoon is exactly, that's not my point.
My point is that every color scale I have looked at associate the warm colors (ie. early daylight, candle, halogen, etc) with lower numbers like 2200, 2600, 3000 etc, and the cooler colors with higher numbers like 6000, 7000, etc. In Lightroom however it's backwards and cooler temperatures have the low number and warmer temperatures have the higher number and I'm wondering why this is.
If what Ben Cooper said is true in that this is a balance scale so it counters the existing temperature then it makes sense(even though i need to think about it some time to really think about it), but if it's showing the actual temperature then it looks backwards to me because of the above...
lol and i guess it doesn't really matter...I just thought this was something obvious that everybody knew and had noticed or something. carry on.
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Below this are the tokens, split into sections of similar information. Image name has two options, Filename and Filename number suffix. The latter refers to the string of numbers at the end of the current filename (not necessarily the original file numbers). Note: When you use Edit in the Library version of renaming, you also get Folder Name as an option.
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