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Adobe Lightroom 4 beta available
Dan Marsh
posted this on Jan 15 21:04
The beta version is free to use.
Download it here:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=labs_lightroom4
Information here:
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/lightroom4/
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.
Comments
Thanks Dan for the news!
I'm a big fan of Lightroom and have been using it for all my postprocessing work for more than 2 years now. However, be careful that Lightroom 4 is still in Beta mode and it is not recommended to migrate your Version 3 catalogs for the time being, as stated in this post: http://photofocus.com/2012/01/11/adobe-lightroom-4-beta-first-thoughts/
But for those of you who aren't familiar with this software, don't hesitate to download it and discover all the wonderful features it offers! ;o)
The full retail version is on sale now, and at a low price.
Yes, the new version is half the price of Lightroom 3, a great bargain for photographers willing to manage their entire photographic workflow in one single software.
Adobe made also some great tutorials on Youtube to learn how to use the new features of Lightroom 4 : http://www.youtube.com/user/AdobeLightroom