What's New in Lightroom 4 Overview

January 10, 2012
Adobe has just announced the release ofLightroom 4. Actually its full name (love the way those corporate types think) isAdobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 Public Beta. Let's just call in LR4, shall we?
But,what's a public beta, you ask? It's very clever actually. What it means is that anyone candownloadLR4 for the next while (maybe a couple of months). No cost, no need to have owned a previous version of Lightroom. Then, when the commercial version of LR4 ships yourpublic betaversion will cease to function. You'll have two choices at that point. You can purchase or upgrade and then have a full perpetual working copy, or simply walk away sayingno thanks.
The system does provide Adobe with a vast number of people to find small last minute bugs (it is a very complex program, with support for hundreds of different cameras, and numerous platforms), but more importantly it seeds the program into the marketplace for tens of thousands of new users, curious as to what it is and how ...