*Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Beta 4* is the official public release of the next
generation of Adobe's famous Lightroom photo processing suite. *What is
Lightroom?* If you're not familiar with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, it's a
photo processing app that's designed to be used by professional photographers
for the post-production of batches of photos, and it's often used in
conjunction with Adobe's seminal app, Photoshop. *The new interface* This
latest version of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom looks great. It's divided into 7
sections - *Library, Develop, Map, Book, Slideshow, Print* and *Web *- which
let you easily flit between different stages of management, processing and
presentation. There's also some awesomely configurable options, running from
how the app looks to how it acts, before and after processing. There's only
one thing - the Adobe Photoshop Lightroom interface is vast, and to get the
most from it, you'll need a large screen. *Photo management* The upside to
using a dedicated photo processing app is the ease with which it allows you
to see, categorize and manage your photos. Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is no
exception, with a great import features and options, and, new to this
version, location-based organization. You'll find the tools to manage this
function under *Map*. *Photo processing* In this version of Adobe Photoshop
Lightroom, Adobe's self-stated aim has been to /"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"/. It certainly provides some interesting options to do this, including
highlight and shadow recovery, white balance features and local noise/moiré
tools. This is in addition to all the usual editing tools, which are present
and easy to apply. *Presentation options* Adobe Photoshop Lightroom really
excels when it comes to presenting your photos and passing them on. You can
email directly from this new version, as well as sharing with a variety of
social networks and photo sharing sites. The *Book* feature is also new,
allowing you to create a variety of beautiful photo books from templates.
This complements the *Slideshow* option, giving you even more scope for
creating en eye-catching and imaginative end product. *Video management* In
this version, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom really ramps up *video support*,
further increasing its versatility. This means that you can make even more
complex edits to video clips, as well as easier video publishing.
*Conclusion* Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Beta 4 is an exceedingly promising
piece of software. It can look complicated - and even overcrowded - on first
glance, but once you become more familiar with app, you'll see everything
adds up to offering you one of the most comprehensive photo processing apps
around.Download *Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Beta 4.0 (64 bits)* in Softonic
