What new features in Lightroom 6 ?

[bitm07]

With Adobe Photoshop Lightoom 6 expected to be released later this year, what new featured would you like to see in the new version ?.

[john beardsworth]

No ambiguity intended. I just meant you should take this LR6 rumour with a bucketfull of salt rather than a pinch.

[bitm07]

Point taken

Not long to await now, less than 20 minutes to the Creative Cloud 2014 announcement (if time difference calculations are correct).  Hopefully we will receive some definitive answers regarding Lightroom 6

[Hal P Anderson]

I think you're a couple of days early:

Hal

[bitm07]

Hal P Anderson wrote:

I think you're a couple of days early:

Thanks

There's not that much time difference !!!

[99jon]

Sneak Peek - Photoshop CC

Photoshop CC Sneak Peek: Focus Masks - YouTube

[PGMaxx79]

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

[eliano35]

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

[Keith Reeder]

Adobe already provides a "pro editing tool" - Photoshop.

That's not what Lightroom is about, and the kinds of gimmicky filter options you aspire to have no place in a Raw converter.

"We" do not need most of that in Lightroom...

[markalanthomas]

Lightroom has never been, nor was it intended to be, a mere “raw converter.” You're using the wrong software. Oops.

[Keith Reeder]

markalanthomas wrote:

Lightroom has never been, nor was it intended to be, a mere “raw converter.” You're using the wrong software. Oops.

It's certainly never been intended as an "editor".

[markalanthomas]

I'm saying Adobe is being deliberately vague, Lightroom is an editor, and your personality is gimmicky.

[Todd Shaner]

markalanthomas wrote:

I'm saying Adobe is being deliberately vague

Agreed. Tom Hogarty said" Future versions of Lightroom will be made available via traditional perpetual licenses indefinitely." Since LR6 is the first future version then "legally" Adobe must offer a traditional license LR product. Beyond LR6 (i.e. LR7, LR8, etc.) Adobe can "legally" do as they please. In addition Tom's statement does not prevent Adobe from "legally" continuing to offer LR on perpetual license, but offer a more feature rich version of LR via CC subscription only. I think anyone in the legal profession would agree with this analysis.....as vague as the terms may be!

markalanthomas wrote:

and your personality is gimmicky.

Keith_Reeder is entitled to his opinion and in fact I agree with his position that many of the requested features don't belong in LR. This is another reason why LR may eventually be offered as a perpetual license "Elements" product integrated with PSE, and a full-featured LR version for people using PS on CC subscription only. The feature requests in this post appear to fall into these two user groups.

[Pbeck1]

Lightroom has never been, nor was it intended to be, a mere “raw converter.” You're using the wrong software. Oops

vs

That's not what Lightroom is about, and the kinds of gimmicky filter options you aspire to have no place in a Raw converter.

Hmm, well the way I've always seen Lightroom is this:

It's for people that don't want to rely on the camera giving them a correct image in Jpeg form that can't be easily corrected later, i.e white balance, exposure, highlight recovery, colour problems etc etc. Therefore you would shoot in both Jpeg and Raw at the same time, and if you are not happy with the Jpeg version (more often than not), bin it, take the RAW version into Lightroom and develop it yourself (using Lightroom's RAW development engine). Then once you have an image that you are happy with you would export it (Jpeg or Tiff). This then replaces the faulty Jpeg from the Camera, and then if needed you would further edit it in a purpose made and advanced editor like Photoshop. So i do see Lightroom just as a Raw development software but with some basic editing tools too, and then if needed you would then go on to use a pro editor like Photoshop. I actually never feel the need for Photoshop. I manage to do everything i need in Lightroom itself because Adobe have given some essential, basic editing tools too, like red-eye removal, cropping etc etc. So i suppose it is a basic editor too. Lightroom is also a great cataloging system too, and so in those respects it is more than just RAW development software.

[eliano35]

Really? Every software trying to recreate the benefits of film in digital photography. Why? cause it's cult?

Is film grain a gimmicky filter? I don't think so. And if it is that you may say, let's remove to from lightroom. So the Vignette effect. Let's not use third parties presets like Vsco which trying to make the digital photography more warm and sweet.

Nope. Digital photography needs the analog feeling. In photoshop you can do a photo like that. There're many options. But I do like to use only one software to do that and. Edit raw and grading. And that is Lightroom.

[TheDigitalDog]

elian35 wrote:

Is film grain a gimmicky filter?    

My goodness yes. It doesn't mimic any actual film grain (show me a visual match of this and a scan), and it's hilarious after years of photographers attempting to diminish grain (Tech Pan anyone), now they want it back.

[eliano35]

I think you misundedstood me.

In my "new features" I wrote "better grain engine" so I know that lightroon grain engine is bad.

I just said that Lightroom's grain as an option isn't a gimmicky-toy filter. It's a basic must module for adding texture and analog feeling to images

[areohbee]

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.

[stewartrshields]

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

[AnOpticalView]

stewartrshields wrote:

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

Criket Stewart you might have opened a bag of worms there.  Many of us want this and GPU acceleration but the LR developers seem unable or unwilling to do this ..... apparently it is fast enough already ...... Lol

[Dave Rosser]

i am surprised that Lightroom is not using all the cores on a Mac Pro.  The Windows version is definitely multi-threaded (more than 50 threads reported by resource monitor) and all 8 cores of my i7 (4 real and 4 psudo) showing as being used when I do anything intensive.

[bitm07]

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.

[99jon]

Yes it’s a nice feature for landscape photographers. I do have the Photography Plan and can use the plus and minus brushes with the filters but it’s obviously a more complicated workflow. I think all the emphasis in LR5.5 has been on mobile. In fact at the presentation in New York yesterday, the point was made that iPhone images on Flickr outnumber all digital cameras combined.

So it looks like we have a period to wait for full integration between the two apps which should be the main selling point for the Photography Plan. I really want to do all raw editing in LR and only go into Photoshop for pixel editing, layers masks etc.

[BKKDon]

Modify Graduated and Radial Filter masks with a brush:

That doesn't seem to be that much of a big deal as CaptureOne Pro 7 has had it for Graduated Filters for a while.

[SeanPT]

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.

[bitm07]

seanpt wrote:

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.

Lightroom 5 is compatible with Windows 7 and 8 based Laptops