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What new features in Lightroom 6 ?

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March 4, 2014
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With Adobe Photoshop Lightoom 6 expected to be released later this year, what new featured would you like to see in the new version ?.

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Correct answer Geoff the kiwi

Isn't it about time this thread was closed, and a new one opened for LR7?

Bob Frost

Robert Frost wrote:

Isn't it about time this thread was closed, and a new one opened for LR7?

Bob Frost

Bit hard to know what to ask for in Lightroom 7 when 6 is not out yet....

But quite happy to lock this...

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widetrack12

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Some way to attach shooting notes to a photograph. Not to be viewed by a client, just personal notes as to how the photo was shot jusr for my reference. Such as "sun low over left shoulder". As great a database as LR 5 is, it should be possible to included a section/field for shooting notes or additional info on the photo for reference instead of relying on memory or trying to coordinate another database or notes.

Allow adjustment brush to be active for HSL adjustments in addition to the standard adjustments.

Thanks

areohbee

Legend

widetrack12 wrote:
personal notes

This part is fairly easy to do now, by one of two ways:

* Borrow an existing (unused) IPTC field for your notes. (If you want to change the label in Lr, you can - via TranslatedStrings.txt).

* Use a plugin like jb's "Big Note", or my 'Custom Metadata'.

Consider jf's Metadata Viewer Preset Editor to have your notes in a tidy metadata set for viewing.

PS - Warning: a plug for plugins: so much of what people want out of Lr is already available via (cheap or free) plugins, but much of it is klunkily implemented due to SDK limitations - this being the reason I think Adobe might get more bang for their buck by simply robustening the SDK - there's a whole (small) world of plugin authors that will add the missing features, SDK-willing...

Granted many Lr users will do without desired features before stooping to a plugin - but that would change some, if plugins were slicker/better..

Rob

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KevetS

Participating Frequently

The option to purchase any additional modules the LR team may be planning would be (for me) a great feature.

I personally have no need of the map, book or web modules, so the option to purchase, or not purchase modules, would help prevent LR from becoming bloatware.

I can dream, can't I?

JP Hess

Inspiring

The Lightroom executable program is really quite small, a little over 4 MB. All of those different features are already modularized and Lightroom swaps out when using them. If you don't want to use certain modules you can uncheck them and they will be hidden from your view. And their existence Isn't really slowing Lightroom performance.

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bshamilton

Participant

It is a great tool!

Great ideas, bitm07.

Perhaps even a color range type of selection option?

bitm07Author

Inspiring

bshamilton wrote:
It is a great tool!
Great ideas, bitm07.
Perhaps even a color range type of selection option?

Any method of changing individual colours in a selection would be great two. It shouldn't be overly difficult for Adobe to implement either.

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elie-d

Participating Frequently

My no. 1 request would be for brush/filter sharpening that is independent of the global (Detail) sharpening, so I could have, for instance, global high radius - usm - edge masked sharpening and locally applied low radius Smart Sharpening for detailed areas. LR's claimed implementation of Fraser Three Stage sharpening is kind of weak in the Creative stage at present.

areohbee

Legend

* Fattened & robustened SDK.

* Bugs fixed.

* Performance improved.

FWIW, the feature set for Lr6 was probably set in stone a *long* time ago, so any suggestions will impact Lr7 or 8..., at the earliest.

PS - nothing wrong with having high hopes I guess, but I recommend maintaining low expectations - Adobe not sinking many resources into Lr these days, or so it seems from my point of view.

Cheers,

Rob

D Fosse

Community Expert

Performance actually seems to have improved dramatically since v4, but gradually and very silently. There's still some room for improvement, though. Most people would look to OpenGL as the logical next step for this, as it could take a huge load off the CPU (which certainly seems to be busy enough as it is). And Capture 1 does it.

But the engineers say it wouldn't speed anything up, so...

Personally I'd like some sort of CMYK support. And I'm sure so would all the Blurb users. But that's probably a major rewrite, so I suppose it's not going to happen.

areohbee

Legend

Thanks for the responses guy's

I'm not expecting a major upgrade either, it's already a great product that I would struggle to do without. A new feature or two and little a tweak here and there would suffice for me. Just adding White, Black, Vibrancy and Sharpening Mask sliders to the section brush and gradient tools would be enough to persuade me to upgrade.

bitm07 wrote:

A new feature or two and little a tweak here and there would suffice for me. Just adding White, Black, Vibrancy and Sharpening Mask sliders to the section brush and gradient tools would be enough to persuade me to upgrade.

bitm07,

Worth noting: current saturation brush is a "vibrance-like" saturation - Eric Chan (member of Lr dev team) declined to go into details, but he said it's not the same as global saturation - more like global vibrance only not exactly... (personally, I'd love to see HSL added to the locals).

Eric also said we may not see too many more locals added due to design / performance limitations - but maybe they'll pull a rabbit out of their hat..

I would also love to see adjustment masking improved so painted corrections aren't so painstaking - the current auto-mask feature of the brush is barely usable in my opinion.

Regarding sharpening locals - I too would love to be able to vary not only sharpening mask but radius (and detail). Speaking of which - I think sharpness falloff lens correction would be a boon to image quality - I lump those together because an increased radius sharpening applied using a radial gradient (or better: multiple overlapping) is a fair approximation to a true (e.g. profile-based) falloff correction.

Regarding whites & blacks - they can't be adjusted locally, as you know, but you can kinda get the same effect by adjusting them globally, then using highlights and/or shadows sliders locally to compensate.

PS - I will be very surprised if face recognition is not in Lr6 (since there are signs of it in Lr5).

Cheers,

Rob

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