Email directly from Lightroom using the email account of your choice.

Soft proofing to preview how an image will look when printed with color-managed printers.

Easy video publishing lets you edit and share video clips on Facebook and Flickr®.

Extended video support for organizing, viewing, and making adjustments and edits to video clips.

Additional local editing controls let you adjust noise reduction and remove moiré in targeted areas of your images.

White balance brush to refine and adjust white balance in specific areas of your images.

Location-based organization lets you find and group images by location, assign locations to images, and display data from GPS-enabled cameras.

Photo book creation with easy-to-use elegant templates.

Highlight and shadow recovery brings out all the detail that your camera captures in dark shadows and bright highlights.

All of the Basic sliders, except for White Balance, are zeroed-out in the center of the scale. However, “additional photography solutions” are being developed for the app prompted Adobe to re-brand it as the Carousel name becomes “ less narrowly descriptive of the current product features”. In Lightroom 4, Adobe revisited the interface for these controls. The company explained that “We originally chose the name Adobe Carousel because it was descriptive of core functionality in the product, in that photographs were viewed in a circular manner, like a carousel”. The app will gain additional features over time, Adobe said, and Lightroom 4 will feature an Adobe Revel export option. The full list of new features and a video demonstration are right after the break (release notes here).Īdditionally, Adobe’s free Carousel tablet app, basically the Lightroom for iPad, will be known henceforth as Adobe Revel. The company will announce availability and price points of the final version in due time. Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 Beta can be downloaded free of charge at (it expires on March 31, 2012).

Other features include minor drawing tool tweaks, the ability to recover blown-out highlights and shadow detail, support for built-in Blurb book publishing, soft proofing and more. Geotags are automatically imported from photograph Meta data, but they can be applied manually as well. The latter allows you to pinpoint the exact geographical location of your photographs on a Google map. The software highlights several new features and enhancements over the previous version, most notably support for video and geotags. Adobe Systems Incorporated, the maker of the popular photo-editing application Photoshop, announced today that a free beta version of Photoshop Lightroom 4 is now available for download.

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