Lightroom CC 2017 and Lightroom 7 October release rumors

F.McLion wrote There are other options as well. Here's one: https://www.proloststore.com/products/dehaze

This is the option i'd take, although i'd also consider the next version of Lighroom if (as rumored) it is announced at Adobe Max on Wednesday. We already know that Adobe will be announcing a new generation of Creative Cloud apps in their keynote speech, which is likely to be accompanied by a new perpetually licensed version of Lightroom (7 or possibly 2018)

Interesting to hear your views Nic , I would rather upgrade To LR7 from 5.7 than CC.

Thanks.

If that's true you will be put out of our misery soon and can focus again on helping people...

The build up to a full version release is the fun part for me, after it's been released you are hit with the realisation that at best you are going to get a trickle of new product development, until the next full version is released.

The Final Build of the New Adobe Lightroom Released to testers.

http://www.canonrumors.com/the-final-build-of-the-new-adobe-lightroom-released-to-testers/

http://www.canonrumors.com/the-final-build-of-the-new-adobe-lightroom-released-to-testers/

Adobe confirm that Lightroom 7 will be released this year tweet.

https://photorumors.com/2017/09/30/this-is-the-deleted-tweet-where-adobe-confirmed-that-lightroom-7-will-be-announced-this-year/

Maybe if there is a 7 they might get around to fixing some of the bugs that have been outstanding for years and years and years,....

Such as sorting out the mess thats Capture Date

They clearing aren't doing this as part of the 'maintenance' process

I haven't intensively tested Affinity Photo (dubbed the Photoshop Killer) yet, but inital impressions, it's similar spec and interface, plus the reviews I have read suggest that it's the perpetually licenced PS alternative I've been waiting for the cost of just £80 ($100)

Abambo  wrote It's ok, if you want returning to a perpetual license. You will loose access to Ps which is in my eyes the most useful add to Lr and makes the difference between Lr CC and Lr 6. The rest are useful add-ons that I take with me.

Losing access to PS and other add on's wouldn't be a major loss for me, as the perpetually licenced Affinity Photo more than covers my editor needs.

My renewal date is in November as well, which should give us the option of either LR7 (if released) or a Black Friday Photography Plan deal from Adobe.

Amambo  wrote Personally, I think the dehaze function is not the greatest achievement. I did a kind of dehaze long before the function. It was only more complicated to do.

I find the dehaze feature useful for boosting contrast and colour saturation in lacklustre skies, although obviously this can be achieved in other ways.   I was all set to purchase Lightroom 6, until Adobe introduced dehaze in Lightroom CC 2015.1.  I'm planning to return to the perpetual version of Lightroom (if Lightoom 7 is released), but fear that Adobe may throw another curve ball in my direction via the first dot release of the next version of Lightroom CC, before going quiet again on the desktop/laptop new feature front.