The first official Update for Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 has been released! This free update fixes some irritating bugs and adds support for raw files for a host of new digital camera bodies but what excites me the most about Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4.1 are the understated words “now able to work with 32-bit HDR files.” In geek-speak, this means that Photoshop Lightroom can now work with 32-bit Tif HDR images. In plain English, this means that we can now polish up our high-bit High Dynamic Range images using all of Lightroom’s powerful and efficient Develop Module tools. As a professional landscape photographer I have dabbled with exposure blending techniques for many years. Over the years, I have tried to master at least four different HDR image compositing programs but none of them ever felt fluid for me. I still need an additional program to merge my bracketed exposures together but now I can 99% of the work with tools that I already know and love. Thanks to this new feature in Lightroom 4.1 I can now go from Photoshop Lightroom 4.1 to Photoshop CS6’s to create my 32-bit High Dynamic Range Tif file and back to Lightroom for further image refinement in almost no time. I am so pleased with this new routine that I made this video tutorial just to demonstrate this techniques speed and simplicity. For more info on some of the other improvements in the Adobe Photoshop Lightroom update see thelightroomlab.com