The Australian Store Tlconline.com.au leaked the pricing and shipping info of the new Adobe Lightroom 6. It will be released on March 25 and cost $205 AUD (Australian Dollars). That’s about $155 USD or 148 Euro. The specs are:
- Windows Compatibility: Windows 7, 8, 8.1
- Mac OS Compatibility: Mac OS X v10.8, v10.9 or v10.10
- Designed for both amateur photographers and professionals
- Merge to HDR
- Fusion panoramas
- Performance gains
- Facial recognition
- Sophisticated video slideshows
- Optimized web galleries
- Filter brush
found via Fujirumors.
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Who needs that!? My Oly OOC Jpegs are already fantastic!
But i heard Canikon users have to tweak every photo for hours to get acceptable results, so it should find their audience.
You have no idea what you’re talking about!
No! You!
Ivan you are not getting the best out of your Olymus camera if you are using Jpeg. I have been using Lightroom since it was a beta program with Olympus Raw files. Yes Olympus jpegs are good but they are not that good. Processed Raw files if handled correctly are better.
I shoot raw+jpeg with Oly’s jpeg embedded profile to Raw. Usually ooc jpegs are perfectly fine for my taste, colors are great, sharpness/ contrast is good, wb & exposure spot on.
If you love unreal looks bumping shadow / highlights for extra DR pop, playing with presets, go for it.
Actually I second that. I really like the Olympus jpeg engine and the more natural look. I also really hate all these over processed pics you see these days…
I tried for hours to make lightroom processed oly raw files look like the olympus ones, but still it was lacking something…
Now I only use Lightroom to recreate the Olympus look on my LX100 files and its not 100% working.
Since when does the Oly JPEG engine have a natural look? Have they changed their approach? Last I saw, they were pretty saturated with fairly high contrast. I’m not saying they looked bad… For OOC JPEGs they were decent, but they certainly didn’t look “natural”
Maybe thats why I have saturation and contrast -1 🙂
I much rather spend a few hours configuring a Lightroom custom profile to my taste. Meh… make that 10-15 minutes actually. Once it’s all set and done, it’s an automated process by default and then you get all the extra flexibility of RAW files by default.
Ivan Raw has a lot more to it than that. If you know how to process the files correctly then the results are better than the jpegs. They only look unreal if you do not know what you are doing or you want that effect. Olympus apply far to much sharpening in camera and far to much noise reduction. The end result is you lose fine detail.
Ivan, so move along, nothing for you to see here. Why bother writing comments about something you don’t have any interest in? Narcissism gone crazy!
Sounds terrific since I’m currently a bit stuck with my E-M5 II. The source is a bit confusing though, as it says March 25 but the provided screen capture says March 15!?
I must also say that, while I’d really love for this to be true, there are two reasons I remain skeptical:
1. These dates are often pushed back and doesn’t Adobe usually announce their major releases a while ahead of actual availability…?
2. One of the Camera RAW engineers has officially replied that support for the new E-M5 won’t be available for “a while”, which to me sounds like more than a week or two. But then again, that might either be for an 6.0.1 update (sounds unlikely) or the release of the new ACR for/and Ps CC 2015. If so, I would think that Adobe would sync these releases and that Lr 6 would be delayed.
Face recognition is interesting too me. If it works well, finding shots of persons in a large arcive can sometimes take a while.
People? What are those things?
And, hey, it only took them, oh, five years to copy that from Aperture. Way to “innovate”, Adobe!
So they rolled back on their efforts to only do subscription-based lightroom after version 5?
I’m trying to avoid buying any adobe products at the moment to not support the idiotic subscription based system.
Actually you’d be boycotting their subscription system even more by buying the standalone version. Show them there’s money to be made by selling, not renting, their software.
fair point
There was never any talk of making it sub only, they said in several interviews it’d remain as it was “for the foreseeable future”… Of course people were skeptical, with good reason.
I’m pretty sure I read that they wanted to make all their products submission-based and not ship “normal” versions anymore when LR5 was released.
If I could rent it minute wise and it would be cheaper for me – I would rent it.
But that is not what they want. They want to earn more money subscription-based and/or by cloudbased technologies.
Same for me.
I would switch to a different product if they made it subscription-based only.
I personally don’t want subscription, but I can understand how it can be practical. From any computer with enough horse power, anywhere with internet having enough bandwidth, you just log in and you get your tools, your configuration and some of your files. Your macbook gets destroyed like it happened to me 5 years ago, fine, you get your new computer and move on…
There is a flip side to those recurring fees.
Hope they’ve fixed the LX100 Raw-processing pink color cast problem!
Does anyone know what the upgrade cost would be from LR5, or will this have to be a straight outright full purchase?
I think the upgrade was $80 from Lightroom 4 to 5.
It was, indeed. Well, OK, $79.
Are free upgrades only available when going from, say, 5.3 to 5.4, but not when jumping whole generations, like 5 to 6?
In the meantime I tried capture one Pro 8, because I feared a subscription model from Adobe for this new lightroom 6.
Why the hell are these tiffs created with Capture One visible much sharper?! But I hated the oldfashioned UI of capture one.
So now I will need both – post processing with capture one Pro 8 – afterwords post post processing with Lightroom 6. 🙁
Panoramas… Just when I was getting used to exporting files, stitching with Huggin, cleaning up the files. oh and then opening with GIMP for rescaling to canvas ratio 😀
OK, I want it.
The level of sharpening does not make the photo. Crap photo is still a crap photo if its soft or sharp.
I’m looking at the same two-step, except with Lr for DAM and selective and DxO for RAW global. Looks to me like Capture One could replace Lr. But, particularly with noisy images, DxO’s noise reduction and detail recovery look better than C1P’s on all the images I’ve tried.