Latest info on OM Workspace

 OM Workspace is the rebranded software formerly known as Olympus Workspace (Viewer). OMDS have added new features to support the new OMDS OM-1 camera. The Instruction Manual in PDF format does not seem to be ready so I retrieved the old Olympus Workspace manual. This and previous info is here:
https://sites.google.com/site/olycameras/olympus-om-d/adobe-lightroom-and-photoshop/olympus-workspace

Enjoy!

Quick Insight: Olympus Workspace - Raw Editing

Unlike third party software product like Adobe Lightroom and others, Olympus Workspace often suffers from a lack of detailed explanation of how it works, what it does and how do you know what is happening on screen. Here's a quick tip on what Olympus Workspace displays on the screen when you start to edit a raw file.

When choose the thumbnail, the in-camera settings like Picture Mode are already pre-selected and the thumbnail of the raw shows the look straight out of camera (this could be read from the embedded jpeg inside each raw file). Note that Picture Mode is not ticked which means I have not yet made any edit choices on the computer

The thumbnail shows the text RAW on the top right. Olympus Workspace can stack the same numbered raw and jpeg to avoid clutter of the screen. In that case if there are two files, the text will be R+J

This thumbnail shows the Pencil icon on the top left corner - this means I have chosen to adjust something on the computer. My adjustments are stored as metadata in the central Olympus Workspace database on this computer. If I take the raw file to another computer, my adjustments will not be carried with it.

If I right click on the thumbnail, I am given the choice to "Revert To Original" - this is because adjustments to the raw file are not merged into the file, they remain separate as metadata and can be further adjusted or removed completely

Olympus Viewer 3 retired, now use Olympus Workspace

Olympus just made Olympus Workspace available in 32 bit, 64 bit and MacOS versions. There is a file named OV4.ini in the folder with the executable so maybe it was going to be called Olympus Viewer 4 but they decided to make the name change so that we would take notice. Also, 4 isn't a greatly favoured number in Japan and China.

You'll want some manual or documentation. When you first install Workspace, the documentation is not supplied. You need to run Workspace, choose Help > Update Software to display the following dialog

to get the Adobe Acrobat format file in

C:\Program Files (x86)\OLYMPUS\Olympus Workspace