Digital BW, The Print

From: Paul
> I'm a big fan of Adobe raw processing.  Is there any word on whether this 
> new module will be available in PS?  What specific advances do you see 
> over what was in CS5/LR3?


From the article in Lightroom Journal - 
http://blogs.adobe.com/lightroomjournal/


"Develop Module (Updated 2012 Process Version)

Ever wonder why there was both an Exposure control and a Brightness control 
in Lightroom's Develop module? Why the Black setting defaulted to 5 and 
Brightness/Contrast to 50 and 25 respectively? When the Camera Raw plug-in 
was introduced in 2003 these concepts weren't overwhelming for those 
intrepid photographers willing to switch their camera's capture format to 
"RAW." (It's not an acronym so I have no idea why folks continue to 
capitalize that word.) When Lightroom and the Camera Raw plug-in started 
supporting JPEG and TIFF files, the visual appearance of the settings and 
preset behavior was never truly optimized for the additional formats. 
Lightroom 4 rationalizes the controls and addresses a fundamental 
photographic problem of balancing highlight and shadow detail. Please give 
the new tone controls a try on your most challenging images as well as the 
additional controls listed below:

Simplified controls in the Basic panel
Exposure, Contrast, Highlights, Shadows, Whites, Blacks
Powerful, content aware, shadow and highlight controls to extract all of the 
dynamic range in a single capture
Updated Clarity adjustment for superior results without the artifacts
Updated Chromatic Aberration correction solution

New local adjustment parameters
Noise Reduction
Temperature and Tint
Shadows
Highlights
Moire

Per channel curves adjustments

Soft proofing
Paper and ink simulation
Choose between perceptual and relative intent

Intuitive virtual copy creation for profile-specific adjustments

Profile and Monitor gamut warnings

Print module brightness/contrast option to address differences between 
monitor and paper characteristics "


Bob Frost