With all of the recent price reductions and sales on Lightroom 3 and discussions on changing upgrade policies for Photoshop, we shouldn't have been surprised that Adobe had something planned for CES. Adobe announced the availability of a public beta of Lightroom 4. You can download the beta here!
New Features in Lightroom 4 Beta:
Colin Smith at PhotoshopCAFE has a very nice overview here.
Terry White also has a good preview as well.
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.
Colin Smith at PhotoshopCAFE has a very nice overview here.
Terry White also has a good preview as well.
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