Lightroom 4 Beta is out and available free for testing, and this video shows some of the advances in the develop module. Not sure how many LR users we have here, but as a Lightroom and Nik person, I'm excited about a few of these changes. The adjustment brush will now allow selective noise reduction and temperature shifts. How cool is that?\
Posted by Ned Fenimore on February 3, 2012 at 11:26 AM
I use it and that will be very cool!
Posted by Jack Garrett on February 3, 2012 at 12:51 PM
Marylynne, I've used it on several images in the past few weeks and I can't believe the improvements. The sliders are so much more sensitive and ways in which you can control selective adjustments are vastly improved...I'll be doing the upgrade for sure when it's released. I don't know that the maps tab is a great add-on but we'll see.
Yeah, I'm not interested in the maps or book layout tools, but all the develop module changes look great. I'll wait until it is released, since I get funny about multiple catalogs during the betas. I'm hoping it's released soon.
Posted by Joe Becker on February 3, 2012 at 3:32 PM
I use LR for about 80 to 90% of my post-processing and still on using version 2. Though I haven't downloaded the beta version, from what I've seen and read, it looks great. I'm looking forward to it.
I've been running client restoration work through LR4 beta to force myself to learn how to use it quickly. The improvements compared with V3 are very worthwhile; compared with v2 the word exponential comes to mind--especially with NR and sharpening.
For pure processing work (leaving out video and book making additions) the most challenging change has been the transformation of recovery and fill light to highlight, shadow, and related controls. Collectively they work better, but it's still a change from a very convenient and effective approach. The improvement in the clarity control is much appreciated, and NR/Sharpening appears to be improved again.
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For pure processing work (leaving out video and book making additions) the most challenging change has been the transformation of recovery and fill light to highlight, shadow, and related controls. Collectively they work better, but it's still a change from a very convenient and effective approach. The improvement in the clarity control is much appreciated, and NR/Sharpening appears to be improved again.
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