Adobe announced both the cloud and standalone version of the new Lightroom 6! Here are the preorder links (only Adorama now working):
Lightroom CC at Adobe (Click here).
Lightroom 6 at Adobe (Click here), Adorama (Click here), BHphoto (Click here).
New features:
Facial Recognition, new panorama, new brushes for graduated and radial filters, more slideshow options, HDR (high dynamic range), as well as significant speedups (up to 1000% faster!). Also the mobile APP of Lightroom got improved with segmented view, easier rating method, improved crop and copy and paste modus. Lightroom CC will be available as part of the Adobe Creative Cloud Photography subscription ($9.99 per month) or as a standalone for $149.
Video of the Facial Recognition in Lightroom CC:
via 43rumors:
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None of the links work or show anything about either Lightroom CC or Lightroom 6. Is this another “psych” from Adobe?
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Adobe Adobe Lightroom 6 for Mac/Windows DVD
SKU: AB65237578 MFR: 65237578
Since it is a digital download, is it available today? all I see now is good ol’ 5?
sounds amazing
Lightroom Mobile app was updated.
http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop-lightroom/versions.html
And there you have it!
and Apple Watch !
Faces? What is it, Photos? LOL
Saw the Lightroom CC update in the Application Manager, after trying to install it failed at 42%, now it’s gone… Lightroom 5 is still there. I’m on a Mac, latest OS.
Same happened to me. Log out of the CC app and back in. LR CC should reappear and install properly. Worked for me.
On phone with Adobe now… Trying to upgrade to LR6 CC from LR5 (stand alone version)…
3 IMPORTANT THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW:
1) ADOBE HAS A TECH ISSUE WITH GETTING THE UPGRADE / UPDATE SYSTEM WORKING PROPERLY. THEY ESTIMATE THAT IT SHOULD BE FIXED BY 10:00 A.M. PACIFIC TIME
2) IF YOU OWN A STANDALONE VERSION OF LR5 AND HAVE ANY PS CC PLAN (i.e.:CREATIVE CLOUD PHOTOGRAPHY PLAN / $9.99/ MONTH) YOU GET LIGHTROOM 6 CC FREE WITH EXISTING PLAN.
3) ADOBE TECH SUPPORT HAS NOT PUBLISHED ANY INFO YET ON HOW TO TRANSFER OLD LR CATALOGS TO NEW CC VERSION YET. THE TECH I AM WORKING WITH IS TRYING TO VERIFY WHAT THE RECOMMENDED STEPS ARE TO MAKE SURE OLD CATALOGS ARE PROPERLY LINKED TO YOUR LR6 CC CATALOG WITHOUT DUPLICATING YOUR WHOLE LIBRARY ON YOUR COMPUTER. HE SAID IT SHOULD DO THIS ‘AUTOMATICALLY’ BUT HE IS ALSO A PHOTOGRAPHER AND TYRING TO VERIFY RECOMMENDED STEP TO CONVERT LR5 CATALOGS / LIBRARY TO LR6 CC CATALOGS.
WILL UPDATE HERE WITH ANY NEW INFO I RECEIVE FROM ADOBE…
Thanks! found only the V.5.
CC app picked it up, downloaded and installed without issue. Catalog updated without issue too. Si
WE ARE WAY PAST ADOBE’s SCHEDULED TIME TO FIX THIS PROBLEM.
IT LOOKS LIKE WE HAVE TO WAIT SOME MORE. ADOBE HAS MY MONEY FOR A STANDALONE LIGHTROOM 6, AND I HAVE A SERIAL NUMBER. THEY JUST CAN’T DELIVER THE DOWNLOAD YET.
Shame on you Adobe. Few new features and you are calling it version 6? This should be free dot update. As someone said: Lightroom is just GUI for Adobe camera RAW created by engineers not artist. Modules – really? Facial recognition – wow, never been so excited. You Sony guys just try Capture One – it blows Lightroom out of the water in every aspect.
No, it doesn’t. As someone who owns both Capture One Pro and Lightroom, Capture One Pro still falls short in some areas where Lightroom still holds the title. When it comes to image quality, Capture One is excellent. But if you plan to use it as a DAM, despite its improvements it still doesn’t hold a candle to Lightroom. Also, Lightroom’s workflow is still superior. Capture One has gotten better and does allow the ability to customize the layout, but it still has some work to do to pass Lightroom. Lightroom has a better print interface. Lastly, Lightroom has much better support for plug-ins and works very seamlessly with Photoshop. Capture One recently introduced an improvement with working with Photoshop, but I still prefer how Lightroom works in this regard.
Now don’t take it as a complete diss on Capture One, I really enjoy using their product. But because of its shortcomings, I still can’t convince myself to use it as my everyday editor. For that, I still rely on Lightroom. But when I run across a photo I want to get a little more out of, I will take that and pull it into Capture One.
As for this release not deserving a full version release, I find that a bit short sighted. At first glance it may not look much different, but if its workflow and appearance still work then why change that. Instead, most of the changes were done under the hood. GPU acceleration (which along with that, being 64-bit only now), panorama, HDR, pet eyes, face detection, etc. along with the several other improvements/fixes. Granted some of those features are a long time coming, but I also don’t see them as being something that can be added via an incremental update.
And if you are CC subscriber, it makes no difference since you are not paying extra for it.
Can download, can install, but CC will not start. Seems more ppl have this issue. Oh well, gonna have to wait a little while longer before I can try our those new features I guess.
Quite agree, Capture One gives far better results, I still have Lightroom as I need Photoshop but it’s not in the same league.
You’re correct; Capture One is not in the same league as Lightroom and Photoshop. By comparison it’s junk.
I just bought Lightroom 6! Downloading now! 🙂
Use this link to buy the standalone perpetual license version:
https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/store/handlers/elicensing/trialconversion.cfm?productId=160&platform=Mac/Win&locale=en_us&marketSegment=com&skuType=FULL
I get a dialog telling me to click ‘download’. That brings me to a webpage that tells me to open the Adobe CC app and click on the “‘install’ button next to Lightroom 5 (sic!).” Of course LR5 has already been installed, so there’s no prompt to install anything when opening the CC app…
Wow, those HDR images are NOISY!
how many pcs we can install the stand alone version?
Quite agree, Capture One gives far better results. I still have Lightroom as I need Photoshop for my work but Lightroom isn’t in the same league as Capture One.
Lightroom is not needed with Photoshop, it uses Adobe Camera Raw which has most if not all of the development tools.
is there a free upgrade for folks (me) who purchased LR 5? Doesn’t appear so. That would really be wrong.
depends when you bought it, otherwise $79 as usual for upgrade
this is not a $2 brain fart mobile app so the update to be free but a serious product, updating which is a serious effort. is you car updated for free? should be happy that it will be less expensive to update.
I’m running it now, it’s much faster thanks to GPU utilization. That alone is worth it to me.
It is going to need improved speed to deal with the influx of 50mp sensors hitting the market this year…
My observations:
1) you need to log out and back into the CC app for it to notice the available update;
2) interface is very much the same, so there is zero learning curve;
3) editing is much faster, especially local adjustments and gradients, and it does use GPU – 56% was maximum recorded load on my GTX970 card. Perhaps that card is overkill for typical LR use;
4) efficient culling still requires pre-built 1:1 previews, as loading images without them still takes a while, even with plenty of RAM and cache/catalog/image files locate on separate SSDs;
5) JPEG export seems to be a little bit faster, it used all available 4 cores to the 100% (so did LR5), but did not touch GPU at all, which is a shame;
6) HDR merge is nice, but only advantage it has over Photoshop is that you can do 32bit merge without leaving LR and can use DNG instead of TIFF;
7) Slideshow creation is still joke compared to specialized software;
8) There is still no built-in way to customize keyboard shortcuts!
You also need to log out and back in if Lightroom won’t launch… (Only took 4 reinstall for me to figure that one out)
CaptureOne is way to go if you like to get the best out of your images …
Personally I prefer dxo but ymmv. Will it let you export to Lightroom as dng?
Photoshop CC updated to camera raw 9.0 with the enhanced feature set it shares with Lightroom 6. Adobe keeps putting the competition to shame by pulling further and further ahead. And it’s driving the trolls crazy. 🙂
It’s the bee’s knees!!!
Anyone actually find a working link to a downloadable upgrade? I went in circles on Adobe’s site for about 15 minutes.
As a cloud subscriber I updated via the cloud app on my MBP, and it took just some minutes (admittedly by using an insanely fast connection).
In CR they have added the new FE lenses (Distagon, 24240, Macro and 28 including the adapter options – as well as the 28135)
During the next weekend I will check whether they kept the promis of quicker processing or not.
Acceleration isn’t a feature, but needs a lot of work to implement. I appreciate those efforts and be willingly to pay for.
Definitely missing it now the latest nvidia driver booked opencl in dxo…
Has anyone tested it on lower end hardware? It flies on my desktop (but it should – 4770k and sli gtx 780s). Haven’t tried it on my tablet yet (i5 4300y).
Adobe is happy to sell you the Lightroom CC in the cloud. However, Adobe is unable to deliver the standalone Lightroom 6. I have purchased it and paid for it but Adobe can not give me a download link. Adobe tells me to wait for a resolution.
Anyone had problems with the update?
I’m using the CC update and it stuck at 43%. I’ll reboot and try again but this is the first update problem I’ve had since signing for CC, right at its launch.
Adobe fails to deliver again. Their testing team is just shit. “Graphics processor acceleration has been disabled due to errors” Check OpenGL support: Failed. A lot of people have this issue. Some might not but not aware of it. Check your settings at LR6 and go to the Performance Tab and check the status there.
Quite correct, but it is part of the Photoshop CC package.
I performed some testing of JPG export times of edited photos. LR6 is Significally !!! slower than LR5, and GPU acceleration even slows it little more. LR5 5:43, LR6 CPU 6:34, LR6 GPU (NV 860M) 7:03. What a big disappointment for me, as I don’t need any new features, only improvement of export times as I export hundreds of photos per week. I hope they will improve it
is it just me or is the first release crashing quite frequently