{"id":11218,"date":"2006-09-25T08:08:19","date_gmt":"2006-09-25T08:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2006\/09\/lightroom-beta-4-has-arrived.html"},"modified":"2006-09-25T08:08:19","modified_gmt":"2006-09-25T08:08:19","slug":"lightroom_beta_4_has_arrived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/25\/lightroom_beta_4_has_arrived\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightroom Beta 4 has arrived"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beta 4 of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom (note the new name) has <a href=\"http:\/\/labs.adobe.com\/technologies\/lightroom\/\" \/>arrived on Adobe Labs<\/a>.  This release incorporates a great deal of user feedback<sup>*<\/sup> and is the first to offer feature parity between Mac (Universal since day 1) and Windows.  Important changes include the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Groundbreaking changes in the way tone curve adjustments are made and displayed, giving you the highest quality results in an interface that&#8217;s easier to use than ever before.  (See Martin Evening&#8217;s excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/photoshopnews.com\/2006\/09\/24\/lightroom-beta-4-the-develop-module\/\" \/>overview of the Develop module<\/a> for more details.)\n<li>More streamlined and elegant user interface &#8211; We&#8217;ve made several changes to the look and feel based on your feedback in the earlier beta releases.\n<li>Customizable interface &#8211; You can now display only the controls you want to be visible.\n<li>Precision white balance selection tool\n<li>Facility to easily rename and convert files to DNG after they&#8217;ve been imported to the Lightroom library\n<li>Increased interaction between Lightroom library organizational structure and the underlying file system\n<li>Filter and search presets to more quickly find the photographs you want\n<li>Better performance and improved interface for the Web module features\n<li>Support for the Nikon D2Xs and Sony A100, as well as preliminary support for the Canon Digital Rebel XTi (400D) and Nikon D80\n<li>Develop control improvements based on community feedback, including comments from the Pixmantec user community (welcome!)\n<\/ul>\n<p>PhotoshopNews carries a more detailed list of <a href=\"http:\/\/photoshopnews.com\/2006\/09\/25\/lightroom-beta-4-new-features-and-known-issues\/\" \/>new features and known issues<\/a> as well as the <a href=\"http:\/\/photoshopnews.com\/2006\/09\/24\/adobe-releases-adobe-lightroom-beta-4\/\" \/>the press release<\/a>, and the Labs site hosts <a href=\"http:\/\/labs.adobe.com\/technologies\/lightroom\/gallery\/\" \/>galleries from Lightroom users<\/a>.  Let us know what you think!<br \/>\n<sup>*<\/sup> <i>325,000 downloaders &amp; 3,400 participants in the Lightroom forum have provided a wealth of good info.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beta 4 of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom (note the new name) has arrived on Adobe Labs. This release incorporates a great deal of user feedback* and is the first to offer feature parity between Mac (Universal since day 1) and Windows. Important changes include the following: Groundbreaking changes in the way tone curve adjustments are made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[40],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11218"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}