Adobe Lightroom 4

[Tucson T4R]

Here's another example. Horseshoe Bend on the Colorado river South of Page, AZ. This was taken before sunrise so the canyon was very dark. In the past, the only way I was able to get a decent image was multiple exposure HDR.

This one is a single image, processed with LR4.

 

[smslavin]

Thanks Slavin. I'm looking forward to see what you think of it.

All I have to say is wow. What a fantastic upgrade. The new controls are the shiznit! Healing brush seems to have gotten faster. Colors seem to pop more. Only negative so far is that it looks like some of my presets broke. I never upgraded to 3 so this was direct from version 2 to 4. Best $80 I've spent in awhile.

 

[john101477]

I am getting a kick out of LR4 as well even though I will admit to being a PS guy. MY only grip with LR4 and I have been told adobe is aware of the problem and is attempting to fix it, is that if you look at the size of the catologs they are huge. Mine used 19GB of space for a catalog and that not copies or anything of that nature. I am also excited to link my Nik plug ins to LR.
Great work Brad!

 

[Tucson T4R]

All I have to say is wow. What a fantastic upgrade. The new controls are the shiznit! Healing brush seems to have gotten faster. Colors seem to pop more. Only negative so far is that it looks like some of my presets broke. I never upgraded to 3 so this was direct from version 2 to 4. Best $80 I've spent in awhile.

I agree. For $80 the significant improvements were well worth it. Yep, I had some presets from my previous L3 version get stepped on but with minimal effort I was able to improve on my previous settings anyway.

 

[Tucson T4R]

I am getting a kick out of LR4 as well even though I will admit to being a PS guy. MY only grip with LR4 and I have been told adobe is aware of the problem and is attempting to fix it, is that if you look at the size of the catologs they are huge. Mine used 19GB of space for a catalog and that not copies or anything of that nature. I am also excited to link my Nik plug ins to LR.
Great work Brad!

Thank you sir. I haven't checked out the size of anything yet. I have a crazy amount of storage and processing power so I have seen no negative impact s far.

 

[nwoods]

Brad, v2.0 of the canyon with the new and improved clouds is definately better.

 

[john101477]

Thank you sir. I haven't checked out the size of anything yet. I have a crazy amount of storage and processing power so I have seen no negative impact s far.

Yeah the memory it uses is pretty harsh. while I do have 1 tb of memory for backup, I only have 600GB of internal memory. you would not think that to be so bad but oddly when you have 252gb of space left and then do a catalog, it drops clear down to 233... thats a very very large file.

Anyone know why it does not seem to support 16bit Tiff files or why nik HDR efex does not want to show with in the catalog? everything else seems to work, just not HDR Efex for some reason.

 

[taco2go]

My first few frames run through LR4. I'm liking it so far....In LR3 I pretty much worked off of the Camera Faithful profile, as the others seemed too garish- but in LR4, I notice the default Adobe Standard and Camera Landscape profiles have been toned down to where they seem more usable.

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Edit: to include Originals:
The first two were intentionally overexposed. Global WB and Clarity adjustment, saturation reduced a smidgen and cropped for taste

The next two were intentionally underexposed. Global and local WB adjustment (top half) in the grass pic. Truck pic had a vignette added and cropped. sharpened all pictures.

BTW how are folks exporting to Smugmug from within LR4?

 

[nwoods]

Joash, those look great. Can you post the originals?

 

[taco2go]

Thanks Nate- I added to them to my post. I like the local WB adjustment feature, I like the shadows and Highlights sliders better. I typically don't do a ton of post process. Too lazy.

 

[nwoods]

Anyone else going to the LR4 training in LA on April 26th?
http://kelbytraining.com/tours/adobe-photoshop-lightroom-4-live

 

[john101477]

BTW how are folks exporting to Smugmug from within LR4?

I downloaded a smugmug uploader and it failed horribly so I have been having to export to a seperate folder and then upload.
On the flip side I have been doing a lot with LR4 and while I find some things much easier in PS there is no doubt about the speed you can flow through images. My only issue is that I like to adjust one image at a time instead of global adjustments to a bunch...
Adobe Labs has a update candidate they are working on and it will fix some of the bugs that we are seeing now.

 

[Clark White]

I upgraded about 5 days ago, and haven't had any trouble exporting straight to FaceBook, other then that it doesn't like to recognize my existing galleries.

Clark

 

[arlon]

I just got a copy a few weeks ago myself but coming a life of photoshop, the filing system is just killing me. I was ready to just forget it but these shots have re inspired me to try and figure it out. Thanks for posting them. They sure make a good argument for shooting in RAW too.

 

[Tucson T4R]

The filing system just takes getting used to. It is just a reflection of how your files are organized on your system. As long as you are happy with how you organize your files on the puter then you should see the same thing in Lightroom.

Here's another example:

JPG from the unprocessed RAW file:

Final JPG from the the LR4 processed image: