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.
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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.
Introducing: Bri’s Quick Tips
Ladies and gentleman, I bring you: Bri’s Quick Tips! I’ve been working hush hush on this little gem for some time now and am excited to announce the public beta launch! Bri’s Quick Tips is a new video training portal where I’ll be regularly posting topic-driven short tutorials based in Adobe’s two most popular photography tools: Lightroom and Photoshop.
I find that many online training websites are either too confusing, too in-depth and detailed, or just aren’t being taught by true working professionals in the field who use these tools every day. I have started with a small library but will continue to build it over time. Not only can you search keywords of topics you’re looking for and download bonus material for select videos, but you can rate the videos and even share them with your friends–as every video is on YouTube. Most importantly, this free service has a suggestion box (pops out from the right) where you can suggest topics you’d like to see covered in upcoming videos–even with a file uploader if the suggestion is image specific.
I’ll be making some minor improvements to the system in the very near future to hopefully remove the ‘beta’ tag. In the meantime, I’m always open to feedback and please, share with anyone you know who you think might benefit from this: www.briantetrault.com/quicktips.
Today’s Tip: Lightroom tethering
Did you know… in the newest release of Adobe Lightroom, you can now tether your digital camera directly to the software instead having to use another piece of software and ‘watched’ folders, etc. No need for Nikon’s Camera Control Pro or Canon’s EOS Utility anymore. Here’s a couple of quick screen shots for a little preview!
Images courtesy Jeff Revell
Here is also the complete list of supported cameras straight from Adobe’s website. I’m positive more will come available with subsequent free updates (v3.1, v3.2, etc).
The direct Adobe link is here.




