What new features in Lightroom 6 ?

Open as LINKED Smart Object in Photoshop command for RAWfiles, please...

2 major things I'd love to see: one easy and one not so -

1) Modifier on paste so that you can select which process items get pasted (rather than just on copy) because sometimes you have something in your clipboard that works for everything but you may want to eg preserve white balance on a particular shot

1.5) On that not a quick clipboard or scrapbook allowing you to hold a couple of recent copies to hand.

1.5a) I'd like to be able to have tool presets - because I often want the same brush with each pick and the same grad but necessarily the same preset for brush AND grad

2)The fun one:  I'd like to be able to apply 2 develop presets to an image.  How many times have you applied a develop preset and thought - thats good but a theres just a bit too much of it.  Easy to fix in photoshop - you just adjust the opacity of an effect (adjustment layer or group).  It should be possible to do the same in LR without creating pixel outputs and adding over the top.

DIrect import of Nikon raw NEF files from the Nikon D810  (without requiring any DNF conversion of the raw files)

I would like to see:

1) the Crop overlays available also as Loupe overlays (without the cropping functionality)

2) separate fields to store when an image was rated and when an image flagged (with this I mean different from the Edit Date)

3) the ability to create smart collections on the any type of adjustment made to a file

4) a clearer and linked way of separating files created for reproduction

I would like some new features in the Book module which I find very useful but lacking some 'essentials':

Spell check

Text flow page-to-page

Ability to move template layers backwards and forwards for easier access

Adjustable gutter width for double spreads

A user guide to making complex templates

I would really like to see something the same a Natural Clarity in Capture One 8. I have just tried the trial version and the Natural Clarity tool is a stand out. It's amazing. I prefer to use Lightroom though I think it has a nice flow....maybe I am just used to it...but that would make it one the best I think...I don't really want to go over and learn and use Ps ....I like Lightroom...I just can't get my images as sharp and clear as that Natural Clarity tool can. Also cmyk support for proofing. I also love Topaz Labs plugin for Lightroom called Detail. I found this was great a tool, would love to see something the same added.

The ability to share/sync a photo database on a network share across multiple computers!  Many of us have multiple computers or share with our family members.  It's annoying that all the photos are up on the NAS, but the databases are all separate.  One person imports photos on their computer to the NAS and the other person doesn't know they exist because they are on a different computer.

Hi, totally agree on the point that performances improvement is the most important need.

But I'd like to suggest a little improvement to the interface.

In a constant search for the optimization of the space occupied by the interface of different software in the last years (for example the great job of google with chrome that has no menu bars and has tabs titles integrates in the top bar), I find really ridiculous that in Lightroom you have that totally useless 2cm-thick bar for the choice of the module.

That's a total waste of space! I always work with that bar hidden and choose the modules by the keyboard shortcuts, but I'm sure Adobe can do better with that

Will there be an easy way to do tethered shooting with a canon 70d and other new camera in  lr6?  There has been various workarounds in various forums etc.

2 Items that will hugely help:

PLEASE work on the performance - lightroom has gotten progressively slower since LR3 and I now have to use photomechanic as a pre-curser to LR.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE make adjustments to the auto-tone feature.  This could be one of the most powerful and time saving features if it worked well.  Potentially allowing users to customize some of the defaults for how it autotones would be great (i.e. face recognition and auto-exposure on faces)