What new features in Lightroom 6 ?

A way to access the EXIF info via mouseover (ala Aperture) instead of having to go back to the library module.

Even better: Combine the Library and Develop modules. It's stupid that they are separate. Just combine them (and their tabs) and make all the closed tabs smaller to make more room. They are stupidly cartoon-large as it is.

Also… improve the print module. Study the one in Aperture. Notice the intelligence displayed in autosizing things based on paper size without having to make print profiles for every damn time you want to change paper, orientation or borders.

Lastly: Dear GOD fix the Web panel. Get rid of the Flash and replace with HTML5 please. Wake up and smell the 2014 already. No one uses it because it's rubbish. How many websites have YOU seen made from the Web panel? Thought so.

Please improve the slideshow part! multiple songs! some effects ect. this part is where i show off and sell to my customers!

The multiple monitor support could use some developer TLC. Currently LR only supports one additional monitor. I have an iMac with 2x 27" NEC's outboard, I could definitely use a Loupe monitor in both portrait and landscape on color calibrated displays while the main interface ran on the iMac screen. And LR5 is incapable of recognizing my current 27" NEC in portrait orientation as a legitimate display for the second monitor. Every time LR5 launches I get the second display window on top of the main interface on the iMac screen. I have to move it over to the portrait monitor, and resize it every time. If I make the mistake of selecting Window/Secondary Display/Show, LR unhelpfully puts the secondary display fullscreen on the landscape NEC, exactly where I don't want it. Talk about frustrating.

I have asked for better multiple monitor support since before LR3 came out, along with several other users. I guess feature requests sometimes get acknowledged and other times do not.

I will be really disappointed if there isn't

* some kind of laptop mode. I shouldn't have to use an iPhone or iPad to do PC work with Lightroom.

* Facial recognition. It is embarassing that LR still doesn't have this.

It looks like we are going to have to wait until Lightoom 6 for the "Modify Graduated and Radial Filter masks with a brush"  that are included the Adobe Photoshop Camera RAW 8.5 plug-in for CC .  For landscape Photographers like myself who utilize the Graduated filter on a regular basis these are likely to warrant the upgrade costs alone.

Features: Modify Graduated and Radial Filter masks with a brush: After adding or selecting a Graduated or Radial Filter instance, click the new ‘Brush’ mode (next to existing ‘New’ and ‘Edit’ mode buttons) to reveal brush controls that allow you to modify the selected mask. Use the ‘Brush +’ and ‘Brush -’ icon buttons in the brush controls pane to add to or erase from the selected mask. Press the ‘Clear’ button to remove all brush modifications from the currently selected mask. When a Graduated or Radial Filter instance is selected, Shift-K can be used to enter and leave brush modification mode. For more information, check out this video here Mask visualization is now available for the Graduated and Radial Filters. Use the Mask checkbox at the bottom of the Local Corrections pane or press ‘Y’ to toggle the mask overlay. Added Per-Panel Preview default toggle button If the current panel’s settings are not the ACR defaults, clicking the new Per-panel Toggle Button will reset the panel to the ACR defaults. Clicking the button again will restore the previous settings. This is a standalone feature, separate from the new Preview controls. The changes are applied to the main view; if you have both the Before and After panes visible, changes will appear in the After panel.

Can adobe please build a Lightroom 6 capable of maximizing the power of the New mac Pro? i.e. Using all the cores?!?!  Every bench test seems to have the MacPro performing either no better or in many cases worse than the iMac due to it's lack of multi-core threading. Please build a version to fix this! I just bought a Mac Pro

If I remember correctly, Eric Chan (of Adobe) said recently that Lr5.5 would be out soon - in the feedback forum.

It makes sense: ACR 8.5 was released recently.

If no Lr5.5 to match, it would be a first - right?

Anyway, we'll all see very shortly, so hardly seems worth speculating about to me - whatever...

~R.

For a Pro editing tool we need:

- Color ranges

- Adjustment Layers

- Film glow, diffusion effect

- More Clarity options

- Better grain engine

- Better sharpness engine

- Better Auto Mask

- Content Aware engine

- Color filters (warm-cool, etc.)

- Speed issues fix

I would like to have a Face Recognition system added - a good one.

I like that LR5 has a Book module, but I wish it was at the same level as the other book module offered by so many companies. I can think of two major pain points for now:

- Need to be able to create different types of borders around pictures

- Need to be able to move cells around; even create a new template from scratch

Software vouchers have posted the following statement on their website.  It pretty much sums up my suspicions and fears regarding Lightroom 6

With the surprising lack of the Lightroom 5.5 release candidate that we were all expecting to be released with the Camera Raw 8.5 from a few days ago, we have a strong suspicion that Lightroom 6 will be released at Adobe’s Creative Cloud relaunch/refresh launch event on June 16th (no LR beta expected this time as we have typically seen in previous releases!). Lightroom has become an important part of CC and the popular Photoshop+Lightroom subscription plan. However, based on what we’ve heard from several sources close to Adobe, we have a strong feeling, to our disappointment, that Lightroom 6 will be subscription-only. So if this is true, no upgrade will be available to version 6 unless you decide to pay a monthly fee for it. Adobe’s betting big on subscriptions and investors seem to like it (as seen in the stock price the two years). The new Lightroom for iPad app is also for CC subscribers only so this is probably just a prelude of what’s to come. Lightoom’s competition has dwindled as it appears that their largest competitor to Lightroom, Aperture, won’t be releasing any new versions anytime soon.