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Lightroom 4 Beta out for trial
#1
http://www.dpreview.com/articles/7481161...-whats-new



New Features in Lightroom 4 Beta



  • Highlight and shadow recovery brings out all the detail that your camera captures in dark shadows and bright highlights.

  • Photo book creation with easy-to-use elegant templates.

  • Location-based organization lets you find and group images by location, assign locations to images, and display data from GPS-enabled cameras.

  • White balance brush to refine and adjust white balance in specific areas of your images.

  • Additional local editing controls let you adjust noise reduction and remove moiré in targeted areas of your images.

  • Extended video support for organizing, viewing, and making adjustments and edits to video clips.

  • Easy video publishing lets you edit and share video clips on Facebook and Flickr®.

  • Soft proofing to preview how an image will look when printed with color-managed printers.

  • Email directly from Lightroom using the email account of your choice.

#2
No interest at all :-) ?



Looks to me it's a pretty solid release with very nice goodies. Local adjustements of white balance, noise reduction, although not major, some basic video editing..



and

soft proofing =)
#3
Well, for Aperture users, most of the feature list sounds already familiar <img src='http://forum.photozone.de/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='Wink' /> Except for the local white balance.



It seems that Adobe attempts to close the existing functionality gaps. I wish Apple would do the same regarding conversion quality <img src='http://forum.photozone.de/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/cool.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='B)' />



-- Markus
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#4
Thanks for sharing.

Nice release but personly I don't need any of this fatures.

Local white balance is available since Photoshop CS or CS2 - >open Raw file as smart object
#5
I keep looking at it every major version, but it looks like it still serves no benefit to my workflow.
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#6
[quote name='miro' timestamp='1326284173' post='14728']

Thanks for sharing.

Nice release but personly I don't need any of this fatures.

Local white balance is available since Photoshop CS or CS2 - >open Raw file as smart object

[/quote]



I don't make enough use of PS tools to justify paying the premium. so it's a welcome improvement.



Of course, I don't think there is anything in lightroom you couldn't do in PS but it's comparing apple to pears, don't you think ?
#7
[quote name='Sylvain' timestamp='1326184665' post='14635']

[url="http://www.dpreview.com/articles/7481161037/lightroom-4-public-beta-whats-new"]http://www.dpreview....-beta-whats-new[/url]



New Features in Lightroom 4 Beta
  • Highlight and shadow recovery brings out all the detail that your camera captures in dark shadows and bright highlights.
  • Photo book creation with easy-to-use elegant templates.
  • Location-based organization lets you find and group images by location, assign locations to images, and display data from GPS-enabled cameras.
  • White balance brush to refine and adjust white balance in specific areas of your images.
  • Additional local editing controls let you adjust noise reduction and remove moiré in targeted areas of your images.
  • Extended video support for organizing, viewing, and making adjustments and edits to video clips.
  • Easy video publishing lets you edit and share video clips on Facebook and Flickr®.
  • Soft proofing to preview how an image will look when printed with color-managed printers.
  • Email directly from Lightroom using the email account of your choice.
[/quote]



Hi Sylvain,

Sounds... interesting..?!

I'm just beginning to get to grips with some aspects of Lightroom PP, exploring relationship between Exposure, Recovery, Fill light, Brightness and Contrast (with Martin Evening's book as a guide <img src='http://forum.photozone.de/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='Smile' />).



One of the changes you've not highlighted is the introduction of Process version 2012 and changes to Develop module Basic tools:



"Lightroom 4 introduces Process Version (PV) 2012... The Lightroom engineers make periodic tweaks to its components to provide better image rendering and/or enable new editing functionality. While the rendering performance sees some minor changes, PV2012 stands out by introducing a redesigned and recalibrated set of the Develop module's Basic panel tools, along with more localized editing options. Simply put, PV2012 is of huge consequence for every serious Lightroom user. Its changes are significant and will have a direct effect on your editing workflow...



...should you choose to update an image to PV2012, a whole host of new functionality awaits."



Hmmm...! <img src='http://forum.photozone.de/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/unsure.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':unsure:' />
#8
Hi Ian,



I suggest you watch video #8 of the "what's new playlist" (to watch on youtube, not as embed; these videos only go over the main features, it seems there are more things, soft proofing is better covered on dpreview preview)



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v4XKYBuq...p_play_all



Indeed, they have re arranged the sliders so that they influence a narrower area of the histogram. I find this is a welcome improvement as I could relate with the effects she described (for instance, wanting to adjust fill lights and pulling too much of the mid tones in the process). So part of the things you've been reading about will soon be different & IMHO better. But the principles remain the same :-). Keep in mind that there is often many different ways to achieve very similar results in LR.



What I haven't explored yet is their notion of process. Between process 2008 & 2010 it was pretty obvious as it was mainly demozaicing improvements. Here, the notion seems to be the way you can handle the corrections but I don't know if it means that a 2010 process file will open with the old sliders. Seems a bit weird but nothing to be worried about.



I've played about with the soft proofing and it seems quite well made (but maybe not so well made we had to wait version 4 to get it...) even though some questions remain and some things could be more streamlined with the print module. It's a BETA anyway.



Looks like R4 is going to be a better upgrade than R3 was, for me. Looking forward!



Greetings,

S.
#9
[quote name='mst' timestamp='1326278037' post='14721']

Well, for Aperture users, most of the feature list sounds already familiar <img src='http://forum.photozone.de/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='Wink' /> Except for the local white balance.



It seems that Adobe attempts to close the existing functionality gaps. I wish Apple would do the same regarding conversion quality <img src='http://forum.photozone.de/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/cool.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='B)' />



-- Markus

[/quote]



What aspects of conversion quality do you mean?

-- Ralf
#10
No Windows XP support.



Maybe time to finally go Mac. <img src='http://forum.photozone.de/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='Smile' />
  


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