On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote:
> There was a huge difference in performance (noise reduction etc.) between LR2 > and LR3. > What are the "must have" differences between LR3 and LR4? It's got a whole new process version (PV2012). Even the basic controls are different than PV2010. Brightness is gone, with Exposure mostly taking its place; Fill Light is replaced by Blacks and Shadows controls, etc. You are directed to work from the top down, starting with Exposure. Each control is designed so that moving right (+) makes things brighter, and left (-) makes things darker. With it being quite a large overhaul, it's hard to briefly summarize how it's changed. Generally it's better at doing highlight recovery without turning the whole picture into a gray mess. Clarity can be used at stronger levels with less haloing. See this thread for an information-dense dump on PV2012 editing: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/968940?tstart=0 Color temperature adjustments can be made in the gradient and local adjustment tools for fixing up mixed lighting. Relevant cat picture: http://flic.kr/p/biCHoH It has some degree of video support, which I haven't tried. It has native geocoding support with a map module. I've been using Jeffrey's Geoencoding Plugin, so I'm not sure what I'll gain, but the LR4 additions at least expose better APIs for his plugin to use (so the "Shadow GPS" metadata will be gone, and he can work with the real GPS metadata directly.) There's a Book module that's integrated with Blurb. There's soft-proofing. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
