For Lightroom 4...

The place you should be posting to is the Lightroom 4 Beta Forum...

Hey guys, I need some help.  I just bought a 2008 Imac 24" with a core 2 duo, 2gb ram.  It had a blown hard drive so I placed a 500Gb in it.  I have not had a Mac since 97.  I downloaded LR 4 to try both of them out, but it won't allow me to install it for some reason.  Would any of you guys know why?

It would be great to lose the barrier between the modules. But both ways please. Being able to see metadata in develop mode and applying relative adjustments like Quick Develop does (try raising Exposure by 10 to several photos in Develop mode) would be nice.

In the end making the UI way more customizable (see most other Adobe programs, Photshop, InDesign, you name it and also Phase One's Capture One) and adding keyboard shortcuts for everything would be a sensible evolution.

Lastly again Capture One is also a good example for exhaustive brush capabilities.

I'm not terribly bothered by the modality of LR. Maybe if I used Aperture I'd feel differently, but moving back and forth doesn't really bother me, especially since in the Libray I can type many edit shortcuts (e.g., 'R' for cropping) and go directly to the edit module. Auto sync works fine for me if I want to adjust a batch of images, which I rarely do.

I would like to see more powerful local edit capabilities, but I'm not sure Adobe will ever threaten PS by incorporating too many of it's capabilities into LR. But I'd like to see all the edit controls available as local edits. I'd like to be able to adjust the sensitivity of the Auto-mask feature, and I'd like to be able to reverse the selection (i.e., select an area, apply some edits, then de-select that and automatially select all the rest of the image to apply other edits.)

All I want, more than anything else, is the ability to set keyboard shortcuts for things like white balance, exposure etc (even better if I can adjust these accurately within the library interface).  I know there are third party products that will let me do this, but they cost 3 times what I paid for LR in the first place!!

if i may add... hope LR4 would have a simple LIQUIFY TOOL... c",)

Gaspyy wrote: I'd love being able to get into Compare/Survey and still have full control over processing.

I've always wanted to be able to edit a photo in the Develop module while keeping an eye on another photo I've worked on, as a reference and an aid to keep the feel of a body of work cohesive: in many cases, the original photos have slightly different qualities so that synchronizing the settings between photographs doesn't necessarily give you the result you want on all of the photos. Keeping an eye on another photo (or more than one, if a small lightbox panel can be viewed) would be a great help.

Another function that is needed, is the ability to apply develop presets and various settings with a compounding effect, as far as the limits would allow: again, many times, there have been times where various photos have been worked on in different ways to achieve a general balance and feel (some having cooler white balance applied, some warmed up, some darkened in one way, others darkened with more complex curves and some brightened, but all achieving a certain goal). When a preset is applied across the board, to achieve a desired body of work, all of the previous balancing acts will be lost, as the presets will reset certain settings to achieve their look - then the arduous task of going through all of the photos and re-working them all to match begins, negating any benefit the preset functionality ever gives us.

On an unrelated note: it is getting rather tedious, being out of sync between Lightroom's and Photoshop's Camera Raw versions, each time one or the other upgrades their product.

We shouldn't have to make an expensive (and sometimes un-necessary) upgrade of entire suite, such as the design suite I have just because I've made a relatively inexpensive and necessary upgrade to Lightroom.

I'm stuck with warnings telling me that the editing of the raw files, sent by Lightroom to Photoshop are mis-matched and the results could be inconsistent. Upgrading the Camera Raw in Photoshop isn't a workable option, but it should be: We should be allowed to synchronize our Camera Raw across the board without huge expense.

Lightroom has changed the way I process photos.

It's almost a one-stop tool, with only minor or more specific edits afterward in PS.

Since switching to RAW files a year ago however, my workflow has ground to a crawl.

Editing and exporting jpgs is a joy.

However edting my Nikon RAW files, especially following use of the brush tool, has been annoying.

It is impossible to export the images to 16bit TIF/Prophoto without closing and reopening the program due to memory issues.

This is definitely a memory leak associated with brush-editing Nikon Raw files (much less of an issue with Canon RAW but still there).

I would be happy if Lightroom 4 just fixed the memory issues which are filling blogs with no resolution.

Of course, the WB brush and negative selection areas are great ideas to add in too!

any idea when Lightroom 4 will be released?

I could use an improvement in the export page. I always have to export at least 3 versions of my finished work, each with different sizes, resolution, sharpening, etc. It would be great if I could set up all the exports I need from a catalog, and then walk away (or sleep overnight) while the different versions are generated in sequence.