Luminous Landscapes - Tonal Adjustments in LR4

[Hamish Gill]

I've noticed a big improvement in LR4, I think I have mentioned it a few times ... Unfortunately I have no idea of the technical stuff behind the scenes or really how to articulate my findings. As is the wonder of the internet I have found (in the same place I usually find) someone more clever than me to do the job for me!
Charles Cramer has written a very interesting article for luminous landscapes that might not be full of pictures of graphs etc, but is well worth getting stuck into!

Tonal Adjustments in the Age of Lightroom 4

 

[Pete Askew]

You beat me to it Hamish!!

 

[alfie Wright]

This is quite interesting. After your tutorial on my pic, Hamish. I've been trying to acheive something similar with the blacks & fill light & tone curve in LR 2 & it just doesn't work the same at all. Blacks & fill light in 2 seem to work against each other & cancel each other out. Looks like they work far better together in LR 4. LR 4 is on my "wants" list just need to build a new PC first.

 

[Hamish Gill]

For £99 it a no brainer really ... I'd guess you can get it at te upgrade cost too but you would have to check that
Is your copy registered with adobe?
Its the best way to get it via logging in and just downloading, that way you can easily tell if the discount is possible...

 

[alfie Wright]

Yes, my copy is registerd with adobe & £99 is great. The problem is my old desktop PC runs XP & struggles with LR2 at times, so I need to build a new PC first. I could run it on the Laptop, mnd. Hmmm...

 

[Hamish Gill]

What's the laptop spec?
I run mine on a laptop even for work and it's pretty good

 

[Allan Batchelor]

mines runs on my macbook pretty well.........and thanks for the linky Hamish that will be interesting to have a wee play about with

 

[Pete Askew]

Same here and even on the 5 year old one with a gallery containing 3500 images.

 

[alfie Wright]

It's a fairly cheap 15" W7 Acer, CPU is a i3-380M @ 2.53GHz, 4Gb DDR3 Ram, 750GB HDD (All files would be kept on my NAS & backed up on a seperate HDD), GPU is just on the mobo though. It's not bad & was only bought for surfing the net & a try out as a music server into my DAC, but prefer the ease of use of my SBT. Would probably be OK until I build a new desktop.

 

[Hamish Gill]

I think LR is pretty easy going unless you import hundreds of files at a time ...

 

[Dave Green]

LR4 certainly works faster for mr than 3 did!