I noticed the Spot Removal feature was also tweaked to help those with slower machines. Now, the image pops up very quickly and while it finishes loading, edits can be started more quickly than in version 3. In the past the whole file had to be loaded before you could start playing in the Develop module. A step back…Adobe adjusted how they create the DNG files upon important to allow the vital image information to load first. The improvements in Spot Removal mimic the improvements they made in the DNG fast loading technique. I hope that make that adjustment in the final release. It works, but I’d love to be able to set a shadow to 7500K rather than slide around trying to find the right sport. My beef with the current setup is the slider allows for color temperature control, but not as an absolute degrees Kelvin, only relative scale from yellow/orange to blue.
This is great when shooting in two different light sources or with heavy shadows (and white snow). It now can control Noise and Moire, but most useful for me is the ability to change the white balance of a particular area. The Adjustment Brush gets some more adjustments. This is a feature I’m happy to see added. I really like this as a starting point now. Now things like the Tone Curve are left at “Linear” instead of “Medium Contrast”, something I often backed out. In the past, Lightroom jacked up some settings on import and, while I could make a Preset to counter this, it was annoying at time. To me, this feature is icing on the cake, not a reason to upgrade.Īhhhh, just my photos without Lightroom’s choice of enhancements when importing. I’d love this to go a step further and be able to send a text to someone’s phone, but I’m crazy like that. Overlooked in the past maybe? We share images via email all the time. For those who want to create their own books, it IS nice to have everything in one location, as in iPhoto, to create a book, rather than exporting to a folder, uploading to a site, etc… If you plan on making many scrapbooks or print books, this will certainly rate “Hell Yeah!” for you from the ease of use. I won’t be using it a lot and that is part of my rating. The book module gets a “meh” rating in my opinion. So far, I enjoy the feature that lets me pull up a map via Google and drag and drop images, one at a time or in groups.
#LIGHTROOM 4 UPDATE SOFTWARE#
Hell Yeah! It was nice that version 3 had a spot for GPS data but reliance on third party software seemed odd, especially when something like Flickr made it relatively easy to stamp images after the fact. Now it will put a black space holder there and continue to show the picture previews, which saves time. What I mean by this is, when a bunch of images are loaded in and I view them in grid mode of the Library, it used to hold up on the videos, using another process to render a preview image for that thumbnail, before showing me all the other previews on the screen. I also like that the rendering of the preview seems to not hold up the rest of the thumbnail creation any more. I have other software that can really handle video well and this subset is perfect for quick edits I might want to do on the road or with non-production pieces. It’s little stuff and I hope Adobe keeps it that way to not bloat the software.
What is nice is to have the ability to adjust exposure, blacks, whites, contrast and vibrance. It’s a nice touch to be able to watch video inside of Lightroom. Adobe has also added in Whites alongside Blacks (both of which can now also be increased or decreased instead of just increased as in version 3). I see more solid colors in the shadows when the slider as used as compared to the Fill Light option. Also an improvement is the ability to go up or down (actually left or right) with both of these sliders. Nice improvement in what each can do compared to the older Highlight Recovery and Fill Light.
#LIGHTROOM 4 UPDATE UPGRADE#
I’m a constant Lightroom upgrader, starting with version 1, and this post will be a quick look at whether or not this upgrade makes sense from a cost/benefit point of view. Currently in beta release, meaning it’s not finished but ready for real world testing, I eagerly downloaded a copy of Lightroom 4 Beta and have been playing with it for a week now. It’s here! The latest version of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom.