Digital BW, The Print

Most of these seem like editing functions rather than "better RAW conversion" for a ACR that has been calibrated to a specific camera. Has Adobe ever before released a version of its RAW conversion software in Lightroom without also updating ACR? 


On 15 Jan 2012, at 18:43, Bob Frost wrote:

> 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 
> 
> 



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