Now that would be a step in the right direction! I find Bridge rather constraining but liked the feel of Lightroom beta trial.
OK after a quick muck around with the new beta I have to say .... hmmmmm looks like a step backwards - the interface is getting more cluttered, less intuitive and less clean which was the nice thing about the whole app- though apparently you can customise the interface quite a bit so I'll look in to that later....
and who ever came up with the idea for all the bloody art deco scroll work motif should be taken out, put up against the wall and shot ... twice, just to make sure. I bet it was a wedding photographer - the kind that thinks blue lace and little teddy bears stuck to a photo album looks "absolutely fabulous".
Seems to support multiple libraries now - which was a pain with the old versions - you had to manually get it to "forget" on library then locate the "new" library you wanted to work with
I don't know if they officially say that - can't see it in the release, and the preference only shows single library location but it certainly, without any intervention from me, picked up two old libraries.
New curve tool is a step backwards and going more towards Photoshop's confusing, but powerful, curve's tool - and over featured for 95% of images - I always fount the 5% of images that needed that extra curve tweeking were the kind of images I'd import in to Photoshop anyway because they always seemed to need spot and masking operations done anyway.
still can't see support for photoshop plugins that Adobe quite explicitly said it would support so it's still a case of exporting to photoshop for anything like a global smart blur or smart sharpen and - no - I don't expect it will ever support masking & selections unless it merges with photoshop as a single "pro" product.
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