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January 10 embargo
Tom Hogarty
New map module (needs to be online for google maps) for geolocating your images. drag and drop or pulling from your camera's geodata. saved locations for frequently used area. New metadata handling removes location data if you're worried about privacy. Also track log support -- eg an app on your phone that tracks where you are and aligns location with time stamp of image. data will be written into the image if you so desire. may end up with metadata fields IPTC fields populated -- not for sure.
Better video support -- lightroom 3 maintains a record of the video locations, but doesn't really do anything with it. L4 improves overall video support, treating it much like your camera and phone do -- as just another image. Under the hood it uses high quality video playback features pulled from Preiemer
Frame editing, drag and drop film strip, pull out still frames, set poster frame.
Video quick develop applies some of the develop module controls (still can't load video in develop module proper) white balance, white clipping, Saturation, Exposure, Vibrance
Great camera support AVCHD etc
Book- Basic layout tools like what you'll find in iPhoto, but then really detailed text controls, kerning, leading etc Also presets, uses blurb.com
It's archaic but lightroom finally has an email photo feature.
== Develop module ==
brightness is gone, covered the same ground as exposure, reordered as well
highlights and shows balance highlights and shadows also white and black sliders
No more recovery and fill light, instead there's highlight and shadows. similar, btu not replacesments highlights is like recovery, but more powerful, shadows in like fill light but more restrained.
Graduated filters can now do noise reduction and moire (or brush to brush in noise reduction) ditto of everything else, better local adjustments that is applying things to select parts of images -- highlights and shadows can be applied locally as well
Chromatic abberation is now a single click -- image analysis based rather than profile based as in LR3.
== Printing ==
Soft proofing -- make adjustments on a soft proof copy, automatically creates image copy.
New print adjustment features -- to pump up the brightness and contrast before it's sent on to the printer (adjustments not shown on screen).
== DNG format now allows lossy compression -- 7D 24MB file reduced down to 5MB file almost 25% (not enabled)
== DNG embed fast load data -- Adobe apps can show things faster without waiting for the entire data to load, adobe claims that images load 8X faster. (enabled by default)
== Revel (nee Carosel) ==
New export option to login to Revel and upload images
Beta time will likely be shorter than with the major rearch that happened in LR3.
==Follow Up==
Possible to use a pre-public build?
With the new fast load data embedded into DNG:
does that increase the file size of the image compared to older version of DNG or the RAW format used by your camera? If so, is it significant? Do you have an average percentage?
Is there a way to upgrade older files? Is that something LR4 will do automatically on the first run? Is it part of the "upgrading library" message that sometimes happens when upgrading to a new release or is it amnual process?
Is the new DNG format backwards compatible with older version of lightroom? What about other software that uses the DNG format?
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