Lightroom 4 Beta: Soft Proofing and DNG Enhancements

Learn some of the great ways the new Lightroom 4 Beta allows you to soft proof your images. Also in this episode, Julieanne covers improvements to the way Lightroom handles the Digital Negative Format.

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[AloraRPhotography]

Is there a faster way to sum this all up?

[ashkibala1]

do you recommend importing all my photos into one catalog or create a separate catalog for each photoshoot? i create one catalog for every photoshoot/occasion/event so i dont have all of my photos in one catalog and i have to open/close catalogs. but i'm thinking about importing all into one catalog. do you recommend that? which one do you think is better? thanks

[rossdillon17]

First time I really understood the need for soft proofing. Thanks!

[peturstefansson]

This is exciting!

[theslayerizer]

wow! fantastic..

[steinoboy]

Will there ever be a soft proofing in the print module where you can see your image as it will looks like the final image before you print ? Similar feature as is in CS5 ??

[DrZylvon]

The Paper White background doesn't seem to be following the selected proofing profile.

Is it so ?

[DrZylvon]

The video doesn't really show how good this looks, if I may, I recommend watchers to have a look at dpreview's preview of that feature.

That being said, it's a little disappointing that the print module doesn't offer a preview of the quick brightness & contrast adjustment. I assume it could be just a dumbed down soft proofing with the same ability to compare.

[ejkosz]

Thank you! You answered my questions perfectly. So Lightroom gets the color information from the OS. (Although as I heard ambient light also has an effect on your colors, but there's hardware and software for that :P)

[brightboxstudio]

@ejkosz Lightroom uses the color management profile set for your monitor in the Displays preference in your Mac or Windows operating system. Which means the accuracy of the colors you see depends on how accurate your monitor profile is. You will get more accurate results if you used good color calibration hardware to generate a custom profile for your specific monitor. If you don't know what I'm talking about, that means you're using the generic factory color profile your computer came with.