My most important initial reaction is that it seems to run leaner than LR3.

My 4gb iMac does not seem to die a death so much with this beta. But then if it were to become to system hungry, a lot of upgraders would have been priced out due to the need to buy a new computer!

Pic4 wrote:

 

My most important initial reaction is that it seems to run leaner than LR3.

 

My 4gb iMac does not seem to die a death so much with this beta. But then if it were to become to system hungry, a lot of upgraders would have been priced out due to the need to buy a new computer!

The disparity in system performance among users of the beta and LR3 really blows my mind.

Excellent initial reaction. I particularly like brushes and grad for colour temp and sharpening. These are going to be a great tool.

I need to use it in anger to find bugs.

Monty Rakusen

MadMan:

Thanks for the comment.

I was not precise enough and was loosely equating the OS Primary and Secondary monitors with LR's "Main" and "Secondary Window" (aka 1 and 2). I always have had my Secondary Window on the OS Secondary monitor for the reasons I explained earlier. Since it was never previously necessary to move the Main window to the Secondary monitor, I am glad you reminded me of that possibility.

So, it is possible to move the Soft Proof over to my high quality Secondary monitor and get a nice Soft Proofing display there. But it requires multiple steps: 1. Change Main from Full Screen to Normal Screen Mode; 2. Move Main to Secondary monitor; 3. Make Main full screen; 4. Close panels and top bar. 5. Look at soft proof in loupe or before/after mode. 6. Open adjustment panel and make adjustment; 7. Close adjustment panel ...

This assumes you want to look at the soft proof on an uncluttered full screen. I (and many others who try to make high quality prints) would strongly argue that if you are trying to get the colors right in a print you need to get rid of all optical clutter. And you would like to do it without having to open and close a panel. This is (one of) the main reasons for having 2 monitors -- so you can have your adjustment panel away from the image you are looking at for small changes. Soft proofing is a prime example of where this is necessary.

So,it would be really nice (just short of essential) to allow the soft proof image to be in the the Secondary Window in both Loupe and Compare (before/after) mode.

.. and one more comment. I see why you have changed the background color for Soft Proof to white to make it clear it is a proof. But this is also a visual problem for those of us who use a middle grey as a background. You need to allow a choice for the background color with Soft Proofing on and allow the background color to remain unchanged.

Thanks for listening.

Edit: Seems I have 2 accounts. Thomas Nash and Tom Nash of the initial post on this thread, are both me.

Thomas, Klsteven, Agree with both of you looking for better multi-monitor support in LR. I'll take it one step further... I already have a 3-monitor desktop, two of the monitors are calibrated, and one of them  is pivoted into portrait orientation. I have LR configured to use the pivoted monitor as my secondary window. This gives me a much larger view of my vertical images, and saves quite a bit of the zooming in and out that you have to do when viewing verticals on a monitor that's in conventional landscape orientation. Shooting sports at least half of my stuff are verticals, the pivoted screen is a game changer.

In my ultimate LR productivity scenario. I'd have modular control of panels and be able to add keywording from the Library to Develop (I hate the Library, Quick Develop is useless) and put those panels anywhere on my multi-screen desktop, probably on the uncalibrated monitor 3.

Being able to customize the LR workspace on multiple screens goes to the heart of what a workflow app should be all about. I'm annoyed we still don't have this, don't tell me abut LR5,  I might be dead from lack of sleep by then.