Adobe Lightroom 4 Beta

Its that time again - I can't believe it is more than 2 years since the Lightroom 3 Beta and exactly 6 since the very first Lightroom beta!

Rather than repeat myself and others, here are some of my favourite resources:

My first thoughts are here: http://www.wildphotoforum.com/blog/2/entry-8-adobe-lightroom-4-beta/

Adobe's Tom Hogarty announced it here: http://blogs.adobe.com/lightroomjournal/2012/01/lr4betanowavailable.html

You can get the beta from here: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/lightroom4/

I'll be mainly discussing the beta on this Wildphotoforum thread: http://www.wildphotoforum.com/topic/1269-lightroom-4-beta-announced/

Victoria Brampton has a new version of her excellent keyboard shortcuts here:

http://www.lightroomqueen.com/keyboard-shortcuts/

Adobe have posted a list of resources here:http://blogs.adobe.com/lightroomjournal/2012/01/lightroom-4-beta-resources.html

Its early here in the UK, so I'm going back to bed!

Enjoy :-)

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Dust bunnies

Working up an image this evening and decided it was time to clean the sensor on my trusty old Canon 1D mkIIN.

All those white circles are the 'worst' dust bunnies (spots)...there are still a few left...

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Adobe Lightroom 3 performance tips

Adobe have posted some official words on how you can get the best performance with Lightroom based upon your computer specifications and set-up.

See http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/400/kb400808.html

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Keyboard shortcuts for cropping with Lightroom 3

As much as I dislike composing after the fact (i.e. cropping in post-processing), it can be difficult to resist the temptation to tinker…so here are the finger dances I use most with the cropping tool:

Click to read more ...

Lightroom 3.4.1 and ACR 6.4.1

I know, this is late news - Adobe released these fix versions whilst I was away.

These are minor updates, adding recent camera support and fixing some issue, including possibility of JPEG file corruption.

You can get the updates through the normal application updates or download them from Adobe.

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