What new features in Lightroom 6 ?

I love Lightroom 5 to pieces and would never consider replacing it with Photoshop. However, I do find myself yurning for more of the less involved Photoshop features which have everything to do with photos. I'm talking mainly about HDR and Panorama (Photomontage) tools. I feel these features are the most common features of Photoshop which photographers will want to use/have access to and I don't see any reason why these shouldn't be a part of Lightroom. I am not willing to take out a CC subscription or buy Photoshop purely for use of these two features (I also don't believe these features being included with Lightroom would take away any sales from Photoshop). It would be great if I could import my photos to Lightroom, as I always do, and then be able to quickly and easily create a photomontage or HDR image from my imported photographs right inside of Lightroom.

In short, HDR and Photomontage should be features of Lightroom.

Ps. Some sort of graphical optomisation or other would be great too. I get far more lag than I'm comfortable with on my 15" Retina MacBook Pro where I really shouldn't be experiencing lag at all. There are also odd graphical glitches I've noticed too with photos not rendering right and ending up as a mess of pixels and also sliders not having an effect when moved in small increments (I got all the way to the extreme end of one slider by moving it very small amounts at a time, with no effect on the photo - this can't be right).

The best new feature for me in LR6 would be some kind of automatic keyboard shortcut lock. So for example when working in the metadata panel adding captions, you can’t accidentally trigger other functions.

No question about my most desired feature.... 100% GPU Acceleration. Zero/Minimal image processing on the CPU.

Hello,

I'd really like to see some added features to the slideshow; at the bare minimum add a Ken Burns effect and best case add some additional transition features. Its an area where most people are going somewhere else to make slide shows; I'd love to do it all in LR.

Also, I'd like to ability to copy and paste a radial filter; so that I have 2 radial filters with the same exact size. For instance, sometimes I want to lighten a face, but cool shadows else where; if I could easily copy and paste a radial filter, than I can stack them on top of eachother and have one inverted to lighten and the other cooling shadows.

And if I'm getting picky; the ability to import photos to different desitnations, apply different key words etc from the same import screen. I might do a newborn shoot that also has other family memebers in it. So being able to import all and have separate key words would be helpful. Or if I had a couple different shoots on one card, it would be convenient.

Thanks for asking!

Definitely camera shake reduction and smart sharpening from photoshop CC.

Hello,

I use LR since 4.x, now with the latest 5.3 version. But I am also working with onOne Perfect Photo Suite. And while I can understand LR does not have true layers, I would definitely welcome improvement in the presets area, as I can find recent presets being almost useless:

1) Allow us to set the opacity/strength for the development preset. It can be done, as there is an external plugin, which does so.

2) I want to go even further - recently, development presets can be used only upon the whole image. I would welcome one special Brush, which would allow you to paint-in/out the desired preset in certain areas. This feature would take the LR to the different level. You simply can't compare here to the capabilities of OnOne PPS.

3) Make presets interfaces more consistent! When you compare development presets, brush presets and crop presets, those use different interface and also different underlying logic. E.g. crop presets are not editable, you can add only 3 of them IIRC, and those are stored in a database of catalog, not an editable external file. There is definitely room for an improvement ...

As for me, I use only Library and Develop modules, just recently started to use Print module. But - OnOne PPS added the Browse module and they seem to be working on rating/flagging stuff. Once delivered, there is one less reason to use LR, as development capabilities in regards to weak presets, can't simply stand a comparison ...

Cheers,

Petr

I was helping someone a while back set Photoshop interface to the Russian language, but to my surprise I do not see Russian as an option in LR's preferences.

So LR needs to expand from the 12 packs already in there.

I'd like to see either or both: a much easier way to move libraries between computers, as well as access a library located on a server.

1. Gotta have Network intelligence and be able to store images on a Network or External Drive.  Proxy thumnail images should be used for editting with final changes on 'real' image.  This of course should be a User choice.
2. Use 64 bit operating systems and GPU acceleration.
3. Font size in panels should be resizable - thought everyone in the world had done this to enable Users?
4. Should integrate smoothly and correctly (very buggy at the moment) with Photoshop (all versions) not just CC
5. Should be independant of Creative Cloud (I KNOW this will NEVER happen!!!) if the User chooses.
6. Should background synchronize and optimise catalogs (databases) in the BACKGROUND!
7. Should support 16 bit images and processing
8. Look as sweet as Elements 12 - certainly NOT essential
9. include sophiosticated batch conversion and resizing particularly for Digital Projection - Currently 1400 x 1050 sRGB in UK Club community
10. Better plugin integration - its clumsy in Lightroom - see Photoshop for HOW TO DO IT.
11. Most important - support new cameras for up to 5 years post relaese instead of abandoning the CUSTOMER and hard marketing Creative Cloud which is great for Companies
12. I could continue but I will not as LR6 BETA is imminent (or should be) I doubt any of my suggested changes that are not already implemented will be?

Long live Lightroom and Photoshop Wither and Die Creative Cloud!

1) Layer Support -> But just on a very small scale. Brushes somewhat accomplish this, but I would love to be able to apply a setting (say Sharpening with Radius XX) and then apply another sharpening (Radius YY).

2) Built-in HDR support

3) Photomerge

4) Combining images into a single image. 4 back to back photos merged into 1 photo like a photobooth style strip. Vertical and horizontal support.