bitm07 wrote: No public Beta bothers me as well, but it wouldn't surprise me. The public beta didn't help much in Lr5.  The last beta was pretty good but than Lr 5.0 thru a couple more updates had some severe bugs that were not in the beta. A beta would still be a good idea but the decision is probably with the bean counters at Adobe. ... View more

Lightroom 5.2 was the first dot release of Lightroom 5 as there was no 5.1 so it follows Goeff's premise of first dot release enhancements. The Lr Mobile support added in 5.4 and 5.5 is not useful except to Creative Cloud customers. The Apple Import in 5.7 is a plugin.  I didn't know about the web support but it is probably Creative Cloud only too. ... View more

Thanks for the info.On my MAC it is ALWAYS a hand and not an arrow when I select the word "Filter".  Glad you got it working anyway.  BTW, great photos on your web site. ... View more

Thanks John,  I do recall this working at one time on my MAC but it isn't now.  I upgraded to Yosemite 10.10.2 (I was on Mountain Lion) so maybe it broke it as OS X upgrades seem to be breaking a lot of things lately.  I'll "fiddle" with it a bit to see if I can make it work but I can't imagine why I would want to hide some of the filters ... View more

Can you drag the word filter with the hand as John suggests,  It does't work like this on my MAC. ... View more

John I was wondering why the cursor changes to a HAND on the word filter but on OS X I can't drag it left and right using a click or right click.   As soon as I click it just opens and closes.    All the rest of the behavior is as you describe.  It appears the OP is on Windows so maybe this works on windows and not on MAC.  Are you on windows also? ... View more

Not sure which color labels you are talking about so here are two clips. Check if they are turned on with the filmstrip dropdown at the right end. If thats not what you want than click the word "Filter" and the filter bar will expand and contract. ... View more

Probably because they want you to buy the rental version.  I can't see any other logical conclusion.  I don't question Adobe marketing.  A quick google search of "buy lightroom 5" brings up all kind of vendors so buyers, even new users, shouldn't have a hard time finding it.  Its even available off the shelf at the local Best Buy and Office Depot so it is not that hard to find. ... View more

Its just as easy to buy it from Amazon, B&H or a local vendor if you need it right away.  I don't understand why people think they have to buy the standalone from Adobe. ... View more

josephp87120098 wrote: Is there any chance of adding a tool/paint brush that you could eliminate or enhance colors. A really good example of this would be nice to have a paintbrush that I could use on a face to be able to adjust the redness is someone face without effecting the reds in the rest of the image. Sent from my iPhone +1 on this.  I think having the HSL panel sliders included in the Local Adjustment tools would a great addition.  I could see this as a must upgrade feature for Lr6 although I will upgrade anyway no matter what they include or not. ... View more

getho wrote: tool presets as in presets that not only specify the develop preset but which tool they apply to. I imagine a llittle pallette where you can drop a brush of a certain size that's set to a specific preset and set to auto mask. You can do individual tool brush presets now although the size, flow and mask are not stored.  I could see where if you had a toggle when saving the tool you could specify if you want the size, flow and mask settings also stored.  These are easy to change and can be changed during use of the brush so I am not sure how handy this would be. As far as your adjusting the amount of ALL the sliders at once I gave you a workaround using the graduated filter  and amount slider in my post #376. You could probably use a couple of the graduated filters in this way and do blending.   I know its not blending layers in Photoshop but Lightroom was never intended to be Photoshop and I hope they keep Lightroom a lean and mean raw editor and leave this kind of stuff to Photoshop. ... View more

Thanks, I see what getho is talking about now.  One problem is how do you account for applying a little bit less of split toning, graduated filters, post crop vignette, and all the lens corrections that may be included in the develop preset. for getho's case you could just apply a graduated filter over the WHOLE photo with the lines outside the photo so the graduated filter affects the whole photo and then use the "amount" slider for the graduated filter to do the "fade" effect you want.  You could even create a preset with this graduated filter. ... View more

getho wrote: 1.5a) I'd like to be able to have tool presets - because I often want the same brush with each pick and the same grad but necessarily the same preset for brush AND grad 2)The fun one:  I'd like to be able to apply 2 develop presets to an image.  How many times have you applied a develop preset and thought - thats good but a theres just a bit too much of it.  Easy to fix in photoshop - you just adjust the opacity of an effect (adjustment layer or group).  It should be possible to do the same in LR without creating pixel outputs and adding over the top. For 1.5a there are already tool presets. For 2   Create a virtual copy or two and apply different develop presets to them.  You do know that if you hover over a develop preset the little navigator thumbnail changes to the preset so you can see what it will look like. ... View more

Why should Lightroom that is still available emulate the design of a discontinued program. ... View more

I would like to see a way to remove some of the DEFAULT develop presets and the containing folders.  Most of them are probably worthless for most people.  I know this has be requested in the Feedback forums and Adobes OFFICIAL reply is essentially "thats the way it is" ... View more