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When will Lightroom 4 get an update for the new Macbook Pro with Retina Display?

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June 14, 2012
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I just ordered a new macbook pro with retina display, and I know that photoshop is already compatible with it, 90% of my work is done in Lightroom. So I was wondering when or if there will be an update for the new high resolution display?

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Eric

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Correct answer Brett N

The Lightroom 4.3 RC offers HiDPI (Retina) support in the Develop module.

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webwitty

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I know this was posted awhile ago. I just received my RMBP yesterday and loaded it with the latest releases of LR4 and PS6. PS6 interface is way worse then Lightroom. It appears to me that Adobe pushed out an update to LR4 for retina, cause the interface in LR4 is 10 times better then PS6. HOWEVER, when comparing in Mountain Lion Preview, at the same size, the image is 10 times better in Apple Preview then any Adobe product. Which makes it difficult as a photographer to see actual. Don't count being to precise in CS6 cause the pixels are off. While many lament the RMBP technology purchase, they have to consider that they bought next gen and have to have patience for software to evolve, that's just common sense. It doesn't happen over night. Enjoy your new RMBP and manage along the way with software. At least your not using PC! lol!

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jomo21

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LR4.2 RC is out.

Did anybody test it on a new Macbook Pro Retina?

Does it have Retina support , now?

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fubalumateli

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I had been meaning to get back to this post and update it. I received my MBP w/ Retina not long after my first post, and I didn't see any issues. In fact, I forgot there were supposed to be issues. Everything just seemed normal. It seems to have been a non-issue. Or else the Apple updates that had come out along the way fixed it.

If you get a MBP w/ Retina, get the additional ram and nand memory upgrades. I got the 750GB "drive" and 16GB ram. It's really sweet. Everything flies. Before things like Lightroom, Parallels and other heavy apps would bring my 13" MBP with 4GB of RAM to it's knees. Now I have everything running simultaneously and don't even think "do I need to shut something else down?" before I open one of the heavy apps.

Greg

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goodeyecss

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I've been using a free script ("Change Resolution) to run os x on the rMBP at its native 2880x1800 resolution when editing photos - LR4 is surprisingly useful, and the largest 2048px LR preview perfectly fits in the interface without scaling at this resolution. Here's a screenshot:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ue63htrwxlkjtmu/Lightroom%204%20Screenshot%20at%20Native%202880x1800%20resolution%20on%20Retina%20Macbook%20Pro.jpg

I have good eyes and I use a lot of shortcut keys when editing so I haven't had any workflow slowdowns. Plus, the out-of-box color and tonal accuracy is really quite good. It's a tad compressed in the blacks but it's the best stock screen for photo editing I've ever seen. Unless I'm writing a bunch of emails I'm keeping it at this super-high, unscaled res most of the time. Until the apps get updated for this display it's really the only useful way to use it without the interfaces and photos looking like crap.

chris

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jomo21

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I tried the high 2880x1800 resolution with the script.

The menues and adjustement tools are just too small. :-(

Adobe needs to update Lightroom and provide us at least a beta version for testing with the Retina MBP.

Please vote it on Photoshop.com ! Thanks

http://t.co/Mj0UFLkm

JO

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SteffenB1970

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Will also jump the boat soon, would be great if LR could provide a patch for its loyal and generally, happy users!

Lucas3d

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I saw this week-end the new Macbook Pro at Apple store ..

Impressive to see picture soo sharp !!!

Please vote it on Photoshop.com ! Thanks

http://t.co/Mj0UFLkm

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Mollysnoot

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Same thing's being discussed over on the PS forum, and apparently PS will also present some problems with such a high res display as well: the main issue being raised is that the user interface components will be very small. One of the engineers stated that they'll be working on it, but it won't be resolved immediately. I'm sure Adobe will soon be on top of it though. That said, they still only support a max preview size of 2048 pixels in LR, and higher res monitors have been around for some time now...

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jomo21

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Does anybody have already one of the new MacBook Pros with Retina Display and can share a screen shot and video, how LR looks like on the display?

Thanks

JO

VeloDramatic

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I took delivery of my RMBP last week on Thursday and ingested my first shoot Saturday. I can report that LR previews are significantly compromised at the moment (sorry no time to produce screenshots, others will shortly I'm sure), so much so that critical image selection is almost impossible. For comparison I purchased and installed the latest version of Aperture and the difference is enormous. Aperture shows the full potential of the new display. I can't fault Adobe for this issue, Apple's pre-launch secrecy would seem to be the culprit. I only hope Adobe produces updates for LR and Photoshop quickly to give image previews parity with Aperture. As someone who has deliberately stuck with LR3.6 pending other performance improvements in LR4, I'd say the chances of the "fix" being back ported to LR3.6 are probably slim to none. Pity.

Commentary. This is so typical for technology today, one step forward, at least one step backward. I needed to replace a four-year-old MBP and with a four-week assignment in France upcoming I pulled the trigger on the RMBP. Pluses. Thinner and lighter - any reduction is good for air travel, 16GB RAM (the old machine had 6GB), SSD drive, immediate USB 3 throughput improvement while portable Thunderbolt solutions (card readers and non-raid drive solutions) still mature AND an awesome screen. Unfortunately all negated, or at least temporarily hamstrung by the preview rendering issue. Bottom line I have a couple of days to get comfortable with Aperture for editing on the road. Hopefully by the time I'm back in August and the real editing begins there will be a patch. Then, like it or not I'll have to deal with the worklfow throughput challenges of LR4 and 25,000 images.

We really are all guinea pigs these days, nothing is fully baked anymore. We pay our money and then start our second jobs as beta testers and QA engineers.

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Lee Jay

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The most likely scenario, in my opinion, is at the next dot release. Dot releases come out roughly every three months.

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jomo21

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3 month can be long.

May be we can get a new beta version in 3-4 weeks.

JO

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