New post Update visit: New Light­room 4 is Here! Learn it All!

Adobe has just announced its release of Adobe Pho­to­shop Light­room 4 beta. I am really excited about the new fea­tures in this ver­sion of Light­room. I would like to also intro­duce Chris Orwig pho­tog­ra­phy instruc­tor. Chris has just released his free new 2 hour train­ing video on Pho­to­shop Light­room 4 Beta at Lynda.com. Adobe Pho­to­shop Light­room is an ele­gant pow­er­ful photo orga­niz­ing and edit­ing tool that will improve your work­flow. It is for both pro­fes­sional and advanced ama­teur photographers.

Light­room 4 Beta

First, we’ll start with some of the new fea­tures on Adobe Pho­to­shop Light­room 4 Beta.

• High­light and shadow recov­ery — Bring out the detail in the shad­ows and high­lights more efficiently.
• New Tab — Cre­ate photo books — Eas­ily cre­ate photo books with easy-to-use tem­plates and then pub­lish right from Light­room to blurb or a PDF file.
• New Tab location-based orga­ni­za­tion — You can now orga­nize your pho­tos by GPS loca­tions with GPS enabled cam­eras and dis­play them in Light­room on Google maps within the program.
• White bal­ance brush — With the new white bal­ance brush. You can now adjust the white bal­ance of a spe­cific area of your photograph.
• Local edit­ing con­trols — You can now reduce noise to a tar­geted area of your pho­to­graph with­out affect­ing the rest of the photograph.
• New Tab expanded video sup­port — eas­ier orga­niz­ing and view­ing of videos plus adjust­ing expo­sure and trim­ming of video clips right within Lightroom.
• Soft proof­ing — Eas­ily pre­view your images before they are printed.
• E-mail directly from Light­room — You can now e-mail your pho­tos directly from light­room using the e-mail account of your choice.

With these new fea­tures Light­room 4 will be an excit­ing new upgrade that is going to come out some­time in March 2012. But you don’t have to wait to try out Light­room 4.  You can Click Here to down­load the beta ver­sion of Light­room 4 right now or you can Click Here to try out the cur­rent ver­sion of Light­room 3.6

learn Adobe Pho­to­shop Light­room 4 with Chris Orwig

Chris Orwig one of my favorite authors at Lynda.com and has just released a new two-hour train­ing video on Light­room 4 beta.  You can view the entire video tuto­r­ial series for free. Just Click Here to view the entire course or watch 2 intro­duc­tory video bel­low. Either way, this is a great way to try out Lynda.com for free and see why Chris Orwig is such a great instruc­tor. Chris Orwig is a pho­tog­ra­pher and  a teacher at the Brooks Insti­tute of pho­tog­ra­phy in Santa Bar­bara, Cal­i­for­nia and has also pro­duced 33 courses at Lynda.com. There are over 1000 courses at Lynda.com and a good major­ity of the courses our on pho­tog­ra­phy, video edit­ing, graphic design and many other busi­ness soft­ware titles.

The New Book Cre­ation Tab

The New Video Tab