Adobe Lightroom 4 Beta Now Available for Download

Adobe has announced that a beta of Lightroom 4 is now available to download.

The Lightroom team is proud to introduce the fourth major version of the product designed for and by photographers. It was 6 years ago today when we introduced the very first public beta of Lightroom at MacWorld on January 9, 2006. (Yes, it was Mac only, smaller in footprint than most raw files and didn't have a crop tool!) Since 2006 we've been hard at work improving an application that's intended to be as easy to use as it is powerful. This release builds on the fundamental performance architecture and image quality improvements in Lightroom 3 to provide a truly complete workflow solution. I kept hearing from customers that they love Lightroom but needed to leave the Lightroom to complete X, Y or Z. Lightroom 4 tackles those issues with improvements to image organization, adjustment tools and comprehensive publishing options.

New Features in Lightroom 4 Beta
● 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.


Check out the video below for more information about new features in the beta. You can download the beta at the link below.

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