Very helpful review. I welcome the Book module and I'm really glad for the video handling. Having the LR interface for both is a great way to streamline workflow and save some time. I will upgrade from LR3. Great review that covers all the additions. Very good real world examples. I will be upgrading to Lr4. All color labels I used for classifying pictures in LR3 have disappeared in catalogues updated to LR4. Is this normal? Does anyone know a way to keep color labels in updated catalogues?
With regards to the soft proofing, I don't understand why software shouldn't automatically match the proof to the original. Given that the system is able to predict how each will compare, it seems like a case of a simple objective function to be optimized. I'm tempted to make a plugin to do this, but in practice there aren't enough hours in the day for me How would that be different from what LR4 has now?
Once you have the monitor calibrated and choose the correct printer profile, it is, as you say, automatically matched. You can't skip those earlier steps because you have to know what the exact variables are. For the G3 the new raw processing is worth close to a full stop in high ISO noise.
Even is nice for 8x10's and I find myself wishing the G3 had a setting. It is a good upgrade, many improvements, this way LightRoom continue to be the best, in my opinion Capture One the second and the third is the very good RawTherapy for FREE on windows also, and the fourth is Bibble Pro.
RawTherapee is very good, but I would give Photivo a try. Photivo is free and a very powerful RAW editor with lots and lots of filters. Just bought it at euros in France! Great price move, I won't use my hacked version of lightroom 3 anymore I mastered the previous versions well enough as to make an expeditious work flow for my LR Raw conversions.
Now they decided not only to change the Process Version PV but actually to also change controls that do different things. This means that I will now have to 1 re-train from scratch on how to use the software and 2 intensively re-work all my current catalog on previous processed images Even if I skip the reprocessing now, this is something that will inevitably be a problem in the future as I don't see Adobe indefinitely carrying PVs from versions to versions..
I mean, only 5 years have past and they are already in their 3rd PV, so sooner or later this problem will arise. Stay with PV if you prefer that which will also leave the control sliders as you know them. Also, don't assume they will stop supporting old PV, unless they say so. You are mistaken. In fact Adobe has gone to considerable effort to not disrupt your workflow.
Process versions are still supported back to I tested the beta on some old images and the Basic panel adjusts to represent the earlier tool set when the version is set to or There is no need to update your old images unless you want to take advantage of the new process tools.
If your pictures are fine the way they are, leave them alone. You could even, gasp, set the process version back on new images if you want to preserve your old workflow, which seems to be important to you.
Even better, you can create a preset using an earlier process version, selecting the Calibration checkbox in the process creation dialog, based on an image with the version set to , and apply that preset to any new file imports where you want to maintain the LR 3 settings.
You could also just not upgrade, depending on how important you think the other new features of Lightroom 4 will be to you. My biggest grudge with LR3, how one could adjust sliders only to find they jumped back to where they were seems to have been sorted out. I have many photos to reprocess, but that will be enjoyable, and I might take the opportunity to reinterpret pictures I've pretty much left the way they were since LR2.
In conclusion: I like it. Good going, Adobe, and again I feel it's worth every penny to upgrade. Any comparison to Bibble? I always liked Bibble, but now I somehow lost confidence once they were bought by Corel I use Bibble pro and like it a lot. I started looking for an alternative since Bibble will not open large scans of medium format film due to file size limitations.
They compare favorably, but I think Bibble is faster and the controls are laid out a little better -- overall the UI in Bibble is better. I think it is easier to make simple corrections in LR and easier to make more complex corrections in Bibble. I like the integration of Noise Ninja in Bibble. Bibble also support a simple layer-like edit capability but I have always found that a little cumbersome to use. I like Bibble better but it doesn't meet all of my needs. Still looking for other options to handle large files.
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We'll take a look at the following features: Develop module part 1 Develop module part 2 Book module Map module Soft proofing Video support Changes for public beta users System requirements Before we get started it's important to note that the minimum system requirements for Lightroom have changed.
Basic panel Select any image in the Develop module that was imported in Lightroom 3 or earlier and you'll notice a warning icon in the lower right shown below , indicating the image has not been updated to PV A warning icon appears at the bottom of the Develop module when an image processed via PV or earlier circled in red is displayed. Many of the Basic panel controls in Lightroom 3 shown above The loupe window of the WB selector indicates the sampling area on which the WB calculation will be made.
Setting the Scale slider to the lowest possible magnification results in a wider area of pixels from which to sample. Tags: review , adobe , lightroom , photoshop. Next page. View Comments Comments All Ray Kroll I have LR 4. Phill P Using 4. Timothy Phelan I really haven't seen any answer to why they charge more in some countries than in others, except that they can.
RawBob There are quite a few comments related to performance here, and I must admit some of them are justified. More in the next post Pa4k I can not agree with author in this: "Develop module, for instance, and after processing dozens of images in PV, I find I am consistently getting pleasing results in fewer discrete steps.
Very impressed. Hansvdv I bought LR4 in February - was very excited to start using it - installed it on both my i5 and i7 Macs. If v4. Phodigraphy Except of some pretty bad stability issues that don't allow a consistent workflow, the interface and results I get from LR are great. Paul North The system itself will run 64bit, there are some programs that run at 64bit and 32bit, the mac itself is 64 bit. Jihn Just an update - 4 weeks ago Adobe released a 4.
Have you sent a bug report to Adobe? Bob Blount Dropping XP excludes lots of potential sales. Hansvdv I agree with Paul on the LR being super-sluggish.
Vitruvius Could be a GPU issue since Adobe is offloading much of the high needs video processing in other softwate to the GPU since it can do it much better. BruceNorton LR3: Greatness he just dont like change. SpazzWI This is the most amazing photo editing software package. Zensphere For those who say it's slow, I don't see it.
Jihn I was really interested in LR4 because of some of the new features in the develop mode. Rainerfirst Been using Lightroom 3 for many months now. More like a traditional Adobe product. Watch list is full. Located in:.
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