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bitm07
bitm07
Inspiring
March 4, 2014
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What new features in Lightroom 6 ?

  • 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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      Mr Tone1000
      Participant
      January 26, 2015

      Most of the photo club competition software in the market is clanky, and not available on a Mac platform! 

      I'm on the committee of Wallingford Photographic Club in UK and probably 70% of members use Lightroom - partially due to me - as I give local tutorials on LR.

      What I would really like to see in LR6 is with the Slideshow Module there an optional 2 digit field where a score could be entered.  This field would probably sit in one corner of the screen.  Most clubs - certainly in the UK score images from 0 to 20.  At the end of the scoring, the audience would be given a showing of images scoring 18, 19 and 20, hence a simple filter is required. There is also the requirement to hold back an image(s) where the judge has not quite decided on the score and needs a little more time.  So an "H" or "X" whatever for an additional filter would be required.....

      Tony

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      fredrickabloggs
      Participant
      January 23, 2015

      the most important ones are performance and robustness, the rest are frills

        Keith Reeder
        Keith Reeder
        Participating Frequently
        January 23, 2015

        Must agree, Fredrick - God forbid that Adobe succumbs to the pressure of the requests for some of the bells and whistles on this thread that have no place in a Raw converter, especially when they're functions which are readily available in dedicated (and therefore much better at it than Lr would be) software...

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          caseyo72360053
          Participant
          January 23, 2015

          I would love to see HDR proccessing for bracketed photos in lightroom itself. No more exporting to photomatix or hd pro or any other softwares. This would be a massive improvement for landscape photographers. I make 32 bit files when merging bracketed shots and it is a pain to wait for photoshop to merge the 32 bit file and then re-open it in lightroom

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            Yonathan_Russak
            Participant
            January 22, 2015

            HDR feature inside lightroom!

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            KevetS
            Participating Frequently
            January 22, 2015

            Seems those using 32bit systems won't benefit from any new LR 6 features. It doesn't really surprise me: Since upgrading to a D610, 32bit LR has been unable to cope with the significantly larger files. Seems, where LR is concerned, 64bit's where it's at!

            areohbee
            areohbee
            Legend
            January 22, 2015

            KevetS wrote:

            Seems those using 32bit systems won't benefit from any new LR 6 features.

            That may not be entirely true.

            KevetS wrote:

            Seems, where LR is concerned, 64bit's where it's at!

            No argument.

            Rob

            areohbee
            areohbee
            Legend
            January 22, 2015

            Rob Cole wrote:

            KevetS wrote:

            Seems those using 32bit systems won't benefit from any new LR 6 features.

            That may not be entirely true.

            How so?

            For those that haven't seen (Adobe does seem to like hiding stuff):

            Update on OS Support for Next Version of Lightroom

            We are hard at work on the next major release of Lightroom, and wanted to share some information on operating system requirements in order to give everyone time to prepare for the release.

            In order to leverage the latest operating system features and technologies, Lightroom 6 will require Mac OS X 10.8 or above, or a 64 bit version of Windows 7, 8 or 8.1. Focusing our work on more modern operating systems and architectures allows us to spend more time adding functionality requested by users, including additional advanced imaging features and improving general application performance.

            If you are on Mac OS X 10.7, or a 32 bit version of Windows, you will continue to be able to install and run Lightroom 5 and use Lightroom mobile. However, you will not be able to install Lightroom 6 until you upgrade to a supported operating system.

            If you are currently running Mac OS X 10.7, Apple offers a free upgrade (here) to a more current operating system. For Windows users, Microsoft has a how-to reference (here) to help you determine whether you are running a 32 or 64 bit version of Windows.


            I didn't realize Adobe was withdrawing 32-bit support and misunderstood your post - please disregard my last post.

            Thanks for the clarification.

            ~R.

            jonathanb60200537
            jonathanb60200537
            Participant
            January 22, 2015

            I would like to sort my photos by "crop". I would like to select all verticals or horizontals or square for example.

            areohbee
            areohbee
            Legend
            January 22, 2015

            jonathanb60200537 wrote:

            I would like to sort my photos by "crop". I would like to select all verticals or horizontals or square for example.

            Lr (natively) supports sorting and filtering by aspect ratio - is that not what you want?

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            getho
            Inspiring
            January 22, 2015

            I'd like them to train their basic lens adjustment algorithms on some interior images. Or offer us a tool similar to the straighten tool that lets you draw 2 lines on edges that should be straight and parrallel and bobs your uncle.

            Arguably quicker than clicking on auto, vertical, clicking off, going to the manual pallette farting around with fiddly sliders

            (I do a lot of straightening interior shots. Can you tell?)

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            TallButHappy
            Participant
            January 22, 2015

            Reset having is currently only "reset all", so it would be nice to have "reset some", similar to the +preset/copy popups.

            areohbee
            areohbee
            Legend
            January 22, 2015

            Hi TallButHappy,

            You may enjoy a script I wrote called "Reset Everything Except..." - free, here:

            robcole.com - MiscLrScripts

            Rob

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              TallButHappy
              Participant
              January 22, 2015

              Nice one mate, thanks. Glad to see I'm not alone in wanting this. Hope we get to see it in a future version.

              loredini
              loredini
              Participant
              January 20, 2015

              Face Recognition, please.

              Webman06
              Webman06
              Participant
              January 22, 2015

              Personally, i would like it to detect focus point, Aperture does it already since version 2 i believe.... come on Adobe, catch up !!!

              and most important, to be able to have it in regular version and not cloud. I do not think that all users, like me, want to pay forever !

              On the contrary, i would accept a slight raise in price to have it "regular" !!!

              Cheers

              areohbee
              areohbee
              Legend
              January 22, 2015

              There's an excellent plugin for viewing focus points (http://www.lightroomfocuspointsplugin.com/), if you own a compatible camera, and Lr6 will almost certainly be available stand-alone.

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                TallButHappy
                Participant
                January 16, 2015

                I would like to see cross catalog searching.

                I'm getting into the hundreds of thousand of images, 10 years of shooting weddings, years of traveling, events, family, hobbies etc. As I searched for suggestions to solve the bogging down issue I'm experiencing, I saw a suggestion to make a catalog for each main subject, which makes sense. I can make a wedding cat, a travel cat etc but however I split it up there is likely to be some keyword crossover. I envisage a master search that stores the necessary metadata to find an image, in a "search only" cat that each individual catalog writes keyword/rating info into. If it was simply keywords that would be good. Keywords and ratings would be ideal. Once the image is found the master search cat can open the correct catalog. The search can be saved, so say there are 300 images over 3 catalogs found. You can have the option to open the images found in the first cat, work on them, then return to the search result to get the images from the second cat, etc. I know opening a catalog closes the program but it would only need to store and pass the master search results between each cat to persist.

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