What new features in Lightroom 6 ?

1) Continue to improve Fuji RAW support. LR is still behind some of the other RAW converters in terms of matching the out of the camera film emulation modes and sharpening on the RAF files is not all that good.

2) Native support for Pano stitching (including support for HDR panos). That said if it's as bad as Photoshop don't bother. Why is it that my iPhone stitching app works better than photoshop?

3) Native support for HDR images

GPU acceleration

Integrated Facial recognition

Vector Scope.

Seriously. I often take a series of photos over a few hours in changing lighting conditions that need to match (like at weddings or magazine-style shoots). It would be amazing to have a vector scope so I could match skin tones and other hues through out the series, as well as keep an eye on saturation levels.

Lightroom 6 has been listed on the Amazon UK website.

Lightroom 6 EN DVD Set 65237515 (PC): Amazon.co.uk: Software

I wish some of the features in Davinci Resolve could make it into lightroom. Specifically their hue vs hue , hue vs sat, hue vs luminance, sat vs luminance curves are soooo rad. Also being able to use the qualifier in conjunction with those tools is amazing... When I use Resolve I sometimes wonder why my photo editor isn't (in some ways) as powerful as my video coloring platform...

Also, when I'm importing in LR, i like to zoom in to see individual photos to select/deselct for import. Often I hit the escape key out of habit, hoping to minimize the single image view only to find that I've exited from the import dialog completely and have to start this particular sd/cf card all over again. It's not a bug, but I wish you guys could save me from myself in that area

I don't know if anyone have suggested that.

1/ An easier way to get one album out (drag&drop or similar) and send/share it to an external retoucher. He then does what he is hired for and returns the photos. That would be nice.

-> I make 500 photos session

-> I select 300 (primary selection)

-> I drag and drop into a zip/rar automatically created file (or cloud based solution) and send/share with John

-> John, after edit in his copy of LR returns 300 slightly corrected but only 200 with his remakrs and evaluations (1-5*).

-> I make my final selection of 50.

2/ Additionally Web plugin to be embedded in regular platforms like Wordpress, joomla and other custom CMSes. Its solely purpose would be for customers to decide which photos they want to have based on customizable by the photographer thumbnails (e.g. 300x200) in order after a shooting the customer to be able to select what and how many he wants to have/to pay. This of course would be available only through a custom login for him/her. Half of the work is already developed in LR in the Publish module.

Now I know that this more like for Adobe LR 7, 8 or even 9. But I thought it worth mentioning here.

Otherwise a GPU acceleration and overall Develop module retouching tools speed improvements would be highly appreciated. Many of us are disturbed by the immensive HDD work even when the program is idle.

1/ Is LR still written in Lua? If yes why?

2/ Is LR still going to be using SQLite? If yes why?

And the big question: WHEN will be Adobe Lightroom be released? :-)

Proper network support.. ability to have a shared library on a server, NAS

right not its a pain in the butt.

A gum (eraser) like in PS or Aperture to correct imperfection like a red dot in the skin. In LR we have to use clone which is really not efficient for that when you have a gradian of light in a subject. Aperture is really doing it very well by analyzing the around pixel and creating new pixel to replace the red dot.

Apperture des have an auto horizon detection and in one clic the horizon is corrected. IN LR we have the meter with is great but it takes more time then in Aperture.

A blur / heat fog correction like in DxO.

A better "auto" system in order to correct the white balance and the tone of a picture.

Hope LR6 will be able to efficiently handle the 50mp files from the forthcoming Canon 5Ds & 5Dr.

If I was able to request just 3 new features in Lr6 they would be:

1) Layers, being able to blend and fade and mask out sections. That way I can blend exposures of various sorts.

2) GPU assisted processing.  Takes to long to export even on my Quad i7 Mac.

3) Option to have catalog backup to the creative cloud.. So incase I forget to backup my catalog again, I don't have 2k photos to eventually go back and retouch..