Lightroom 4 public beta released - free download

Okay - so the new 2012 process developing tools are MUCH improved. I'm rather excited by this. The additional black/white and shadow/highlight adjustment range is SO good. I was able to best my previous development settings in 5 minutes on some old street shots with the x100. Bravo Adobe!
 
Thanks for the heads up, Lynn. My first impression is that the new brush options alone might be worth the upgrade. Just played around with the shadow brush a bit and it is fantastic. A brush for localized noise reduction? awesome! Great news for my high iso M8 files. I really look forward to playing with LR4 today to see what's new and improved.

My only quibble so far is its size. It's massive at 965.8 mb compared to LR3 at 108.4 mb. Take a look at them both sitting idle, LR4 on top:

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Why so huge? It may be all the new social sharing and book creation stuff that has been added? Don't know...

Not a big deal on my iMac, but my poor aging '07 macbook may have trouble with it.

UPDATE: Old macbook is running it fine, a little slow here and there but not bad.
 
Thank you, Lynn.

What a great opportunity to try this program for free...

Always wondered if I would like using it - now I can find out.

Rick... trying to learn to speak digitally.
 
mto'brien said:
My only quibble so far is its size. It's massive at 965.8 mb compared to LR3 at 108.4 mb. Take a look at them both sitting idle, LR4 on top:

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Why so huge? It may be all the new social sharing and book creation stuff that has been added? Don't know...
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My guess would be that the Beta release contains a lot of debugging and diagnostic information compiled into it that bloats the size of the executable files. I'd expect this will be slimmed down and optimized considerably when the GA release goes out.
::Ari
 
kermaier said:
My guess would be that the Beta release contains a lot of debugging and diagnostic information compiled into it that bloats the size of the executable files. I'd expect this will be slimmed down and optimized considerably when the GA release goes out.
::Ari
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I sincerely hope so. But Adobe adding video editing capabilities looks rather as if at least part of that bloat will be permanent...
 
shadowfox said:
Of course.
But unless I am severely confused, you don't get B&W prints that you can frame and hang out of Lightroom either. :confused:
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Uh, why not? Lightroom is part of the development process... you can print out of and manipulate in Lightroom.
 
Hugely fat if that size carries through to the release version. Perhaps they would consider a modular approach that would allow selective loading -- or else improve Elements into a Lightroom Lite.
 
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