LR 4 beta is out and, yes, Aperture users can rejoice … or pick some fun a Lightroom users like me.
You see, when I switched from AP to LR, I did so for very simple reasons: better noise reduction built-in, greater speed but most importantly better industry support including by great photographers like David duChemin.
But I did miss out on important features that are present in Aperture like geotagging, book making, localized adjustments and, yes, email sending.
I am happy to see that LR 4 will include all this plus some interesting video editing features as well as Adobe Carousel, er, Adobe Revel integration.
I just wish that it would have included auto-publishing and collections within projects, a la Aperture.
All in all, a worthy upgrade for sure.
Lightroom 4 beta now available « Lightroom Journal.
Facial recognition would be nice too. I haven’t made the switch yet, but i am annoyed at the way Aperture uses the version name as the caption when you export to Facebook. Hopefully LR uses the caption as the caption.
AJ, I have found that Aperture face tagging made me “lazy”, i.e. I would rely too much on it and Aperture would miss some unbeknown to me.
Read this post of mine:
https://maximegousse.wordpress.com/2011/08/09/lightroom-keyword-tagging-vs-aperture-face-tagging/
Thanks for the insight. I agree about the accuracy of face recognition. I tend to do the auto detect and then double check manually.