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Jan13 Adobe Lightroom 4 Beta: First Look

Here is a movie taking a first look at Adobe’s latest Lightroom 4 beta. To get it for yourself (for FREE!), visit labs.adobe.com.

Jan10 Lightroom 4 Beta

It’s here! Anyone can now download the Lightroom 4 Beta. I have not yet played around with it at all but will be posting my comments/videos as soon as I can. Here is a couple new features that Adobe has highlighted:

  • 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.
They had Julieanne Kost do an intro video and some ‘digging deeper’ videos with some of the other features. You can find all of those on the YouTube channel by clicking here.