Adobe released Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 for Mac (Click here) and Windows (Click here). We also have the new Camera Raw 8.4 and DNG Converter 8.4 that now support the A5000 and A6000. Download for Mac (Click here) or Windows (Click here). It also contains Lens Profules for many A and E-mount lenses!
But the biggest news is that the company also released the new Adobe Lightroom mobile (for Creative Cloud Subscribers). You can read more about it here: adobe.com/products/lightroom-mobile.html. Plenty of How To videos can be seen at Adobes Youtube Channel. This may the future of photo editing?
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This is what the Cloud is all about! People can moan about the subscription prices, but the future is all about not being tied to one copy of software on one device.
The Cloud is all about money. By charging a subscription it guarantees a continuous revenue stream from users who would usually have not upgraded their version for several years.
Take away the discounts for upgrading and force people into a subscription based model. Then increase the subscription on an annual basis.
Bang!
When Lr switches to subscription based “ownership” (you’ll never own it, face it) I will switch to Capture One or DxO Optics. Mac users can use Irident.
One should, like a camera, be able to keep their tools and not just rent them.
The CC model is amazing for small and mid size business… the best customers for Adobe.
Given the huge (HUGE) number of individual enthusiasts who simply pirate their software, I don’t blame the company for moving to a subscription licence model.
I empathize with the need to reduce the piracy opportunities that plague companies like Adobe, but subscription based licensing is not the answer. Why? because CC has already been pirated. So, well done Adobe. Pirated copies are still pirated copies. The ones that are getting shafted are the original, genuine license holders.
Microsoft knows that software piracy of Windows and Office are endemic. However, they appear (from what I read on news outlets for a few years already) to mostly prosecute those who directly profit or want to profit from selling pirated copies of their software rather than shafting the average joe that managed to install a pirated copy of Windows or Office in their computers. As we learn today, it may actually be beneficial for Microsoft to have a larger user base of pirated current Windows OSs rather than the users who are still lingering in Windows XP.
I do not advocate for piracy, mind you. I am saying that subscription based licensing is not the solution.
Well, my one little vote is that they don’t take CC away. My business would never have been able to make the large capital investment required to purchase the whole master collection for 4 employees if it wasn’t for this model.
I can see the value there, when you need a number of licenses but now you have one volume license for your small business. Independents, however, are not so well served in the long run.
Well, Adobe itself is the reason for all the piracy. Because of their idiotic price policy, because of their apartheid when it comes to prices comparison between EU and other part of the world. And because you can get a full valid version of the Adobe suite for approx 1/3 of the ordinary price if you use the idiotic price policy of Adobe to its intent. And you can still buy the suite for approx 1/10 of the ordinary price if you buy – legally – in specific places. No wonder why people say “stuff it” and do the piracy. Noone wants to be fooled.
And secondly, all the codes/licenseproblems that comes along Adobe products. The biggest concern and troublesome in my work on work PC is related to the foul license management of Adobe, which often don’t work and gives you no access to the bought software and documents.
Third, Adobe is the main problem delivery software house on my mac !!!
Have a look at Australian vs US pricing??? Ridiculous and found to be so recently in a court of law!!
Someone who also gets it’s it! It offers good value.
They still pirate the software just as easily as they did before. I think they just use that as a excuse. I don’t really care one way or the other cause I am fine using something else if it comes down to it. If you use it all the time then it is worth it. If you don’t it may still be worth it because nothing would suck more than spending hundreds on a software you end up only using a few times.
So which part of Adobe saying they will always offer a purchase version of Lightroom rather than just subscription did you not quite understand? I thought it was a rather easy statement to understand
Rubbish. As soon as a new version of Lightroom comes out, Raw support for new cameras is dropped for the old version. So unless you do not intend updating your camera for years your old version of Lightroom will not support your new camera. So you have a choose, update your version of Lightroom, go subscription or keep your new camera in its box.
Sorry, but you are wrong, because Adobe’s DNG converter makes any current camera’s files work with most versions of Ps or all versions of Lr thanks to the DNG files it creates. You DO NOT NEED a new Lr version if you buy a new camera.
Yes but the majority do upgrade as it saves time which saves money.
Which majority? from where? I too have a handkerchief for your froth!
Most people don’t change camera every year and keep their existing LR for years, they then UPGRADE it.
If you can actually re-read my comment through the frothing of your mouth, you’ll note that I said companies first take away the discount for UPGRADING.
This forces you to buy a new version at full price to “encourage” you onto a subscription based model instead and then they remove the retail product completely. They then increase prices on a annual basis.
Only the terminally stupid can’t see what is happening. It has been happening with my Microsoft corporate licenses for years now and believe me, it isn’t getting cheaper.
But you have no idea is that will happen do you. It’s just a guess. It amazes me the amount of whining people do over software costs when they spend $/£1000’s on cameras and lenses, upgrading and switching brands and then cannot be bothered to spend a fraction of that on software. Especially when the software can make a huge difference to the end result.
Here’s a handkerchief to wipe the froth away.
not lightroom mobile, lightroom i-blah only
More like iLightroom…..
Personally I gave up on a android tablets and bought a windows 8.1 tablet – doesn’t have any problems working with sd cards and happily runs the full fat version of lightroom.
And today a 64gb microsd costs as little as £30-40GBP (easily good for a stills only week job with the pertinent Lr catalog inside it)
For Creative Cloud users its better update via the Creative Cloud app or I can just download on the website?
Better. Worse. It’s an update. Do what you want.
Excuse my ignorance, but how does one copy RAW files to an iPad and where would they be stored?
Apparently only works with catalogs you already have in your computer, first, and then syncs the smart previews with your ipad. Then, once you are done pissing about with your photos on your ipad (to whatever extent that is possible) then you can re-sync your new .lrcat file with your computer and see the changes of what was done.
Buy a Surface or anything running full Windows 8.1 and run Lr or Ps freely in all their glory.
So I can’t go on holiday and periodically copy my RAW files to my iPad?
You are not copying RAW files, only whatever smart previes are (DNG?) and not full sized either (in case you want review noise, sharpening or lens aberration that are best seen at 1:1)
See my response above.
No, it uses the catalog file’s smart preview data. Basically one edits proxy files of the raw images. When it syncs back to the host computer it then applies the changes to the actual raw files.
Of course you can. I imported my photos from SD-card to iPad, then i just imported my raw and jpeg photos from my iPad to aperture. No problemo 🙂
Yep me too very easy to do. Excited this exists now. Can just carry iPad and not laptop on hols
Does this mean that the FE24-70 will now be supported if you have lightroom 5?
They added the FE 24-70 and the FE 70-200 lens profile in the last update.
Apple – Are you paying attention? I understand you are strapped for cash (:-) – but could you PLEASE give us an upgrade to Aperture………………..? Nice job Adobe!!!!
Yes, amen to that!
I truly think Aperture is dead. I think they will incorporate the editing capabilities into their new “Photos” app they showed off today. I’m finally, after waiting years making the switch to Lightroom. It’s sad but I can’t wait any longer.
Is it me, or is the A77 still not supported in camera profiles? I cannot find a list on the Adobe website of which cameras are supported, but from the files installed by 5.4, it looks to me like the A99 is the only SLT model included.
The excellent news is how many new Sony lenses are supported:
Sony 20mm F2.8
Sony 24mm F2 ZA SSM
Sony 35mm F1.4 G
Sony 35mm F1.4 G
Sony 50mm F1.4
Sony 50mm F1.4 ZA
Sony 50mm F2.8 Macro
Sony 85mm F1.4 ZA
Sony 85mm F2.8 SAM
Sony 135mm F1.8 ZA
Sony DT 11-18mm F4.5-5.6
Sony DT 16-50mm F2.8 SSM
Sony DT 16-80mm F3.5-4.5 ZA
Sony DT 18-55mm F3.5-5.6 SAM II
Sony DT 18-135mm F3.5-5.6 SAM
Sony DT 30mm F2.8 Macro SAM
Sony 50mm F1.8 SAM
Sony DT 55-200mm F4-5.6 SAM
Sony DT 55-300mm F4.5-5.6 SAM