New tools to enhance and share your digital photograph library
Welcome to the Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom® 4 public beta. We're excited about the new features and advancements in the new Lightroom 4 beta and we hope you will be, too. This page includes information about Lightroom, details about the beta release of Lightroom 4, and access to Lightroom 4 beta software.
Lightroom Overview
Lightroom software provides a comprehensive set of digital photography tools, from powerfully simple one-click adjustments and features to cutting edge advanced controls. With Lightroom, you can organize, enhance, and showcase your images all from one fast and nimble application that's available on Macintosh and Windows® platforms.
- Get the highest possible quality from every pixel in your images using state-of-the-art editing tools.
- Easily showcase your work to friends, family, and clients. Craft elegant photo books and share your photographs on social networks or in web galleries, slideshows, prints, and more.
- Manage your entire photo collection in a visual library that makes it quick and easy to organize, find, and select your images.
Introducing Lightroom 4 Beta
Lightroom 4 beta builds on the vision of the very first Lightroom beta. From day 1, Lightroom was designed for photographers and by photographers to help them focus on what they love—the art and craft of photography. Lightroom provides photographers with an elegant and efficient way to work with their growing digital image collections, bring out the best in their images, and make an impact from raw capture to creative output, all while maintaining the highest possible quality each step of the way.
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Review Lightroom 4For the development of this latest release, we've focused on further maximizing image quality and expanding output options. New tools let you extract more detail from highlights and shadows, make a wider range of targeted adjustments, and easily share your images and video clips on social media and photo sharing sites.
New Features in Lightroom 4 Beta
- Highlight and shadow recovery brings out all the detail that your camera captures in dark shadows and bright highlights.
- Photo book creation with easy-to-use elegant templates.
- Location-based organization lets you find and group images by location, assign locations to images, and display data from GPS-enabled cameras.
- White balance brush to refine and adjust white balance in specific areas of your images.
- Additional local editing controls let you adjust noise reduction and remove moiré in targeted areas of your images.
- Extended video support for organizing, viewing, and making adjustments and edits to video clips.
- Easy video publishing lets you edit and share video clips on Facebook and Flickr®.
- Soft proofing to preview how an image will look when printed with color-managed printers.
- Email directly from Lightroom using the email account of your choice.
Watch the What's New in Lightroom 4 beta tutorial videos for additional details
The Lightroom 4 beta program is available to the public. Anyone with an Internet connection can download it and start putting it to the test. You do not need to own (or have tried) a previous version of Lightroom. You can download the beta and use it until the product expires on March 31, 2012.
Getting Started
Follow these steps to get started with Lightroom 4 beta:
- Watch the What's New in Lightroom 4 beta tutorial videos for additional details
- Read the Lightroom 4 beta release notes on the Lightroom team blog
- Download and install Lightroom 4 beta
- Ask questions and share your feedback in the Lightroom 4 beta forum
- Leave your review of the Lightroom 4 beta
Please note that your submission of comments, ideas, feature requests and techniques on this and other Adobe maintained forums, as well as Adobe's right to use such materials, is governed by the Adobe.com Terms of Use.
Community
Here are helpful links to great ways to participate in the Lightroom community. We encourage you to make sure to visit these sites so you can get the most out of using the Lightroom 4 beta.
Online Forum
Ask questions, share your opinions, and discuss ideas with other Lightroom 4 beta users and photographers in the discussion forum.
Please note that your submission of comments, ideas, feature requests and techniques on this and other Adobe maintained forums, as well as Adobe's right to use such materials, is governed by the Adobe.com Terms of Use.
Blogs
Stay up to date with announcements and news from the Lightroom team through the team blog.
Social Media
Connect with Lightroom users.
Training
Get up to speed quickly with loads of free training resources.
- View online training of the new Lightroom 4 beta features on AdobeTV or YouTube
- View training videos and read about useful tips from experts on the NAPP Lightroom 4 Beta Resource Center
Resources
If you want to learn more about releases on Labs as well as other Adobe technologies, visiting a user group or connecting with an Adobe Community Professional is a great place to start.
Product Details
Frequently Asked Questions
- When will Lightroom 4 be available?
- Adobe does not preannounce products. However, the team is working on the next version and we'll be sure to keep you updated. Stay tuned, and in the meantime, we invite you to enjoy the Lightroom 4 beta and send us your feedback.
- Who can participate in the beta program?
- Anyone can download the Lightroom 4 beta regardless of whether you own (or have tried) previous versions of Lightroom. Keep in mind that as with any beta release, using this product carries more risk than using a shipping product. For critical work, please use your current version. If you do not currently own Lightroom, we recommend trying and/or buying Lightroom 3.
- When will the beta expire?
- The Lightroom 4 beta will expire on March 31, 2012.
- Will the feedback that customers provide be incorporated into the full version of the software?
- The Lightroom team is always incorporating feedback from customers into each product update.
System Requirements
The minimum system requirements for Lightroom 4 beta are as follows:
Windows
- Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon® 64 processor
- Microsoft® Windows Vista® with Service Pack 2 or Windows 7 with Service Pack 1
- 2GB of RAM
- 1GB of available hard-disk space
- 1024x768 display
- DVD-ROM drive
- Internet connection required for Internet-based services*
Mac OS
- Multicore Intel processor with 64-bit support
- Mac OS X v10.6.8 or v10.7
- 2GB of RAM
- 1GB of available hard-disk space
- 1024x768 display
- DVD-ROM drive
- Internet connection required for Internet-based services*
* Adobe online services and other third-party online services are available only to users 13 and older and require agreement to additional terms and/or Adobe's online privacy policy (available at www.adobe.com/go/terms). Online services are not available in all countries or languages, may require user registration and may be subject to change or discontinuation without notice. Additional fees or subscription charges may apply.
Release Notes
The software available in this public beta is not a final release. The product quality and the features are still being developed and completed. As with any beta release, using this product carries more risk than using a shipping product. We've tested the product thoroughly and do not anticipate serious issues but for critical work, you should rely on the shipping version. If you do not currently use Lightroom and you'd prefer to use Lightroom 3, visit the Lightroom 3 page on Adobe.com for information about Lightroom 3 and links to where you can try it and purchase it. Because of the unfinished nature of the software, this public beta will not upgrade or import previous Lightroom catalogs.
