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Lightroom 5 beta Now Available!Posted by Sharad Mangalick on Apr 15, 2013

We’ve been working hard on the next version of Lightroom, and now we’re giving our customers achance to try out some of the new technology available with the release of Lightroom 5 beta. Since theinitial Lightroom public beta release in 2006, we’ve learned a tremendous amount through acollaborative dialogue with our customers, and I’m excited to continue that collaboration to receivefeedback on the Lightroom 5 beta.

With this release, our goal was to add some highly-desired features that allow photographers to quicklyprocess and enhance their images. We’ve added more robust healing options, the ability to create off-center vignettes, and a one-click auto perspective correction tool. We’ve also added the ability to editphotos when not connected to your original images. Each of these improvements is a result offeedback provided by the Lightroom community. Thank you.

There are a lot of new features in the Lightroom 5 beta. Here’s a brief description of some of ourfavorites:

Advanced Healing Brush: Enhancements to the Spot Removal tool allow you to heal orclone using brush strokes. A new “Visualize Spots” tool highlights sensor dust spots for easyremoval.

Lightroom 5 beta: Advanced Healing Brush

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Radial Filter: Apply any of Lightroom’s local adjustment attributes to a circular mask. Thearea of the mask can be resized, feathered or even inverted to give you maximum controlover the focus of your images.

Lightroom 5 beta: Radial Filter

Upright: Automatically level horizons, straighten buildings, and correct other askew lines.

eadwine says:Excited? Yes, Skeptical? You Betcha! After being disappointed with LR4, I’m learning to be morecautious. Speed performance issues from LR4 still not worked out and LR5 beta is out. Well doneAdobe!April 15, 2013 1:04 PM | Reply

David says:

Speed performance issues from LR4? Uh!? Are you using a 2004 computer? I have neverexperienced such thing as performance issues.

April 15, 2013 2:05 PM | Reply

Mark says:

Lightroom performance is not terrible however it is far from good. Try load a couple ofthousand pictures to your l brary and try to process them very fast. You will start tonotice significant time-frustrations which other competitor software do not seem tohave. Partial reasons is that Lightroom still does not utilize GPU-acceleration anddoes not have very-good multithreding model so I agree with eadwine that LR5 in thatperspective is disappointing. http://www.slrlounge.com/lightroom-users-dont-go-upgrading-your-hardware-quite-yet


RF says:

Condescending much?

LR4 is slow as a dog on both of my computers (an 8-core and a brand new i7 quad,both with ample RAM and SSD’s). It’s ok (but just ok, still not fast) until you use noisereduction, spot adjustments, distortion correction, or anything beyond basicadjustments.

Speed will be the #1 determining factor on if I purchase LR5.

April 16, 2013 12:00 AM | Reply

MZ says:

@ RF I have the same problem as yourself. Using brush adjustments isbrutal most times, and I’m hoping performance will be better.

April 16, 2013 8:50 AM | Reply

Ed says:Love it!April 15, 2013 1:08 PM | Reply

Tom says:What about face recognition? Will this finally be added?

TomApril 15, 2013 1:14 PM | Reply

Martin says:

Indeed i missed it too. Disappointing when you´re making photographies of lots of people …


Michael says:

I can’t believe it. STILL no face recognition? Really, Adobe? Really?!?

-m


Patrick says:

Face recognition isn’t needed for the advanced amateur or professionaluser. There is no need for this feature for the bulk of it’s users. If this is a bigdeal, I might suggest Aperture or iPhoto.

April 15, 2013 10:42 PM | Reply

Tom says:

Hi Patrick,

in that case I would recommend you ask for an increased pricefrom Adobe, so there is no confusion with “amateur tools”…

Your remark is a bit short sighted, I think in general the number ofphotos managed with LR increases exponentially, so any advancesin tagging should be welcomed by the majority of users.

April 16, 2013 6:48 AM |

loki says:

Patrick, I have to disagree – there are very applicable uses of facerecognition for a professional photographer. It all comes down towhat you shoot – if you just do studio work, then you probablyaren’t concerned, as you can easily keep track of whom you shoot;but if you do event photography, especially when the eventscommonly have the same people, it can make life much, mucheasier. I imagine the same could be said for news/crowd/editorialphotography.

I primarily do performance photography, and a common request Ihear from performs is “I want a copy of all pictures of myself” –facial recognition, and dedicated people tagging features, make itthat much easier to satisfy such requests.

April 16, 2013 7 31 AM |

Nik says:

+1

With a medium-to-large photo collection, tagging and meta-data is everything. Tagging byperson takes forever in my 150k photo set. Using face recognition would help improve on this.I get regularly asked by local musicians for pictures from them in concert, and now I have toask them for concert dates. I’d love to just being able to find them.


Xubayr Mayo says:finally some good advancements, downloading the beta version.April 15, 2013 1:15 PM | Reply

Royi says:Great News!Could you add JPEG-XR support.Microsoft released optimized source code:

http://hdview.wordpress.com/2013/04/11/jpegxr-photoshop-plugin-and-source-code/

Thanks.April 15, 2013 1:16 PM | Reply

Colin carter says:And still no sign of a proper backup system.

For a program claiming to be a digital asset management program, this is becoming a glaring error byadobe.

Apple aperture has had it’s superb vault system from day one.

Yes you can buy third party program’s that do this but it should be built in.

I l ke to keep 3 external drives in sync with my master photo library and Lightroom should be able toaccomplish this.

Come on adobe.April 15, 2013 1:16 PM | Reply

Chris says:

+1 for Colin’s comment. A built-in backup system seems like a no-brainer for a product aimedat professional photographers. Yes, there are a thousand options for that sort of thing outsideLR, but it’d be nice to see LR have a built-in connection to Amazon S3 or something else likethat.


Bob says:

Surely everyone will have a backup system installed to ensure backup of all vital files on thecomputer, so why would we need an extra backup system within Lighhtroom?

April 16, 2013 12:12 AM | Reply

Mark says:

My definition for “backup” as pertains to LightRoom is to have the ability to have a masterstorage for my images while providing a mechanism for initial capture / remote editing usingportable laptops or other devices.

I back up my master volume using dedicated backup software. What I need is a way tomanage the image library between my various devices in a seamless and trackable manner.

So, the definition of “backup” for me is more akin to a l brary manager that provides the toolsto ensure I have an up-to-date master library while providing editing-on-the-go capabilities.


Andresevan says:Good, I would l ke to test it!April 15, 2013 1:20 PM | Reply

Joe Schwartz says:Any improvements in the performance of the Develop module? Each new release seems to add moreediting features at the expense of editing performance. I don’t need any new features, I need LR5 torun at the speed of LR3.April 15, 2013 1:27 PM | Reply

Sean says:

I’m noticing it’s faster, and especially faster if you choose to use Smart Previews.


Sean says:

Way faster exports. Wow.


Jochen says:Will LR finally offer multiuser functionally? My usage pattern is to load pictures to LR on my smallnotebook. Once at home, I would l ke to transfer these pictures to a common, shared repository in myLAN. This transfer should be handled by LR.

From a storage management point of view, LR feels l ke a leftover from the 80s or early 90s.April 15, 2013 1:48 PM | Reply

Mark says:

Agreed. I replied to a comment on “backup” with this sentiment.

There are so many challenges to managing photos, including tagging, editing, and librarymanagement. Having to manage those manually has resulted in lost metadata and edits forme.

I’m hoping LR closes these small-yet-significant holes soon.


3scape Photos says:Looking forward to playing with these great new features. Also hoping that LR5 is a little faster thanLR4. And +1 for face recognition!April 15, 2013 1:56 PM | Reply

mike says:I wish LR had a selection tool like PS, would allow for more accurate adjustments instead of relying onbrush strokes!Facial recognition & vault backup l ke mentioned above would also be amazing features!April 15, 2013 1:57 PM | Reply

DaveL says:If your worried about good backup tools invest in a network raid system, it’s the only secure way toprotect your images.April 15, 2013 2:31 PM | Reply

Chris says:

Yes, if your NAS also has the ability to backup to different physical location. NAS is a goodidea, but they’re rubbish over a wireless connection (which many don’t support anyway) andit’s no more secure than a USB drive if your house burns down.


Colin carter says:

I’ve already got on site and offsite backup systems in place that’s not the problem, I just wantLightroom to be able to synchronise my onside backup drives with my master l brary, so whenI delete or add photos from my Lightroom master library, Lightroom goes ahead and does thesame to my backups.

At the moment I use carbon copy cloner which works great but a similar system built intoLightroom would be superb. Look at apertures vault system if you want an example of what Imean.

This must be so easy to implement, maybe even a backup tab on the top line at the end afterWEB?

Backing up should be encouraged so an inbuilt system that’s easy to use would make theprogram almost complete.

The system that Lightroom uses at the moment is totally useless, what’s the point in making abackup at the time of import if you are then forced to manually delete the images from thebackup which you have deleted from your master catalogue? I can’t see the point in keepingfiles backed up that you don’t want.

April 15, 2013 11 57 PM | Reply

Herwig says:

Repeat at least 100 times: A RAID is NOT a backup. NEVER.


Jak says:

How about RAID 6 with 2 parity drives? And a hot spare? Much safer than a singledrive and fast depending on number of drives. Eg a Pegasus 6 or 8 bay enclosurewith 3 TB drives–eg. 8 bay w 2 parity and 1 hot spare = 5 for data capacity x 3TB =15TB and 1 or even 2 drives can fail. And Hot spare is rebuilt upon 1st failure.Expensive but good for working drive with huge libraries l ke 500,000 plus images.Get another for 1st line backup and maybe single drives for archived subset catalogsfor 3rd backups.


Leif says:I wish there would be a switch/checkbox to work on the smaller smart preview dng and sync it once it’sdone to the large raw file. This could help pretty much on older slower machines.April 15, 2013 2:38 PM | Reply

sgt Halo says:hey! R you guys aware how awsome Julieanne Kost is in her explanation of subjects!April 15, 2013 2:51 PM | Reply

John MacLean Photography says:The Advanced Healing Brush and Upright look l ke 2 sweet features. Now I just need to upgrade my os

to 10.7!April 15, 2013 2:55 PM | Reply

Oliver says:Auto cloning source for healing brush seems to be pain in the neck, any chance to add options on/offoptions? The way its automatically picking area to clone or heal make my hand flying all over thepictures – not very ergonomic if you do lots of healing.

Apart that great job. Very useful brush strokes option – love it. Well done!April 15, 2013 2:56 PM | Reply

Jak says:

I believe all you have to do is drag right away and it’s not automatic. So simple. It’s been thatway in LR4 — just drag and it is not auto, just click and it’s auto. Julianne was just showing itsa little better in auto than before.


Bernice says:I spent quite a bit of time downloading and unzipping the files for Lightroom5 Beta and when I went toopen it up it said the program had stopped working. Also I cannot use any of my catalogues fromLightroom 4.4. I won’t be commenting on how it works if I can’t even use it.April 15, 2013 3:02 PM | Reply

Jak says:

You can’t upgrade an existing catalog because it’s beta. Julianne mentions that in video. Youmust use beta on copies to be safe– create a new catalog of copies. You will be able toupgrade existing catalogs when final version is released (both LR4 and your experimental LR5catalogs.


ed says:How about Photomerge? We shouldn’t have to use Photoshop to stitch photos to create a pano.April 15, 2013 3:15 PM | Reply

Image Pro says:

EXACTLY.

The only 3 features they talk about are quite boring. Well, we’ll see how well ‘straighten’ worksin the real world… with people in the shot.


Matt says:download link not workingApril 15, 2013 3:21 PM | Reply

Oliver says:Many people is trying to download it now. A little bit of patience is required.April 15, 2013 3:25 PM | Reply

Unknown face says:+1 Why, why, why no FACIAL RECOGNITION.. come on, free software can do it, Mac software can doit, why not the most expensive option.April 15, 2013 3:32 PM | Reply

Oliver Photography says:

Its about the photography not a social networks:) On the serious note, it was slowing down mysystem when use with Aperture, don’t like it and don’t use it.


Max Black says:

Completely agree, don’t want such a feature slowing down my workflow, would much

prefer that adobe concentrate on improving performance than adding alot of featuresavailable in free programs.


Tim says:What about tethering to a Nikon D600?April 15, 2013 3:42 PM | Reply

Eric says:Still no masks for gradient filter?April 15, 2013 3:55 PM | Reply

Image Pro says:For users who have downloaded…

Does LR5 still have the same horr ble performance issues in LR4? This was a major problem for pros,even on high end machines.April 15, 2013 4:03 PM | Reply

James says:If it hasn’t been done: Can Adobe please make the the book module allow for customizable sizes.April 15, 2013 4:21 PM | Reply

Matt Damon says:Does Lightroom 5 have race recognition? If I am doing an image for golf digest it is important that Iremove any brown people.April 15, 2013 4:27 PM | Reply

Clone Douche says:Having a healing brush that isn’t based on content aware fill is about as useful as something that is notat all useful. If you have repeating textures in your image from a clone tool, you have a failed image.April 15, 2013 4:30 PM | Reply

Clone Douche says:Is it just me or are there literally no useful upgrades being proposed for the new lightroom. The dbagsat adobe probably need another bonus so they slap another number on their software (not just anApple trick) and tell us there is something useful in there somewhere.April 15, 2013 4:34 PM | Reply

Image Pro says:

It is true, all these “new” features provide functions that could have been accomplished in LR4.

Heal brush: better, but still not a clone stamp. You are just replacing the previous circularselection with a polygon.

Radial filter: I just painted adjustments before which is actually more flexible and accurate thanthis new filter.

Upright: distortion controls mostly accomplish the same thing.

Boring update, the only thing I can hope for is for them to fix the clarity slider and fixperformance issues with LR4. I am not optimistic…


Clone Douche says:A clone brush tool? Im on board! I would love to spend an hour trying to find an area of the image thatcould fill the area of a barn and not have it look like I just started taking pictures last week. There is aninnovation limit to all technologies before they need to start passing off something different as better.April 15, 2013 4:38 PM | Reply

Image Pro says:Has the clarity slider been fixed? LR4 turned it into a very heavy handed, mostly useless tool. It wasgreat in prior versions…April 15, 2013 4:46 PM | Reply

Oliver Photography says:The book module is really poor compare to Aperture one, no custom layouts. Could be more advanced.April 15, 2013 4:52 PM | Reply

Clone Douche says:Lightroom’s speed on my fast computer is currently at 5%. Is lightroom five going to better than horriblein this respect?April 15, 2013 4:53 PM | Reply

Catchatori Chicken says:I used to have major issues with performance with my 2007 Mac.Just got a new Mac about a month ago and the performance difference is amazing.Use a new(er) computer with LOADS of RAM if you want lightroom to perform l ke a champ!April 15, 2013 5:09 PM | Reply

Clone Douche says:

I7 processor, 16 gigs of ram. Maybe my big boy files are the issue.


leejokyu says:Is a cool feature!But I want to change the function of the slide show to show to customers.Slide show that changes between scenes and scenes of more effective, I hope the additional features.April 15, 2013 5:27 PM | Reply

David Woolf says:The new whistles and bells are cool, but nothing is more important than getting the speed back that welost going from v3 to v4. So far, I’ve seen little in the blogs to indicate that that performance hasimproved and I truly hope that’s at the top of Adobe’s JDI list.April 15, 2013 5:29 PM | Reply

PixelSexer says:Lightroom 4 just f^&ing came out! If adding compatibility for the d600 is the only thing you need to dothen you might want to wait a year to justify a new release.April 15, 2013 5:36 PM | Reply

PixelSexer says:Why does it feel like they are turning lightroom into a $200 instagram app.April 15, 2013 5:37 PM | Reply

Matt says:Hoping the awful performance issues in LR4 are solved in this version of Lightroom. I, amongst others,crave the speed of LR5. Also, why no option to control the opacity of the off centre vignette?April 15, 2013 6:21 PM | Reply

Matt says:

I meant LR3 speed, not LR5


Jak says:

Rather than control opacity (overall strength would be better term), you can control strength ofeach component adjustment. I find in practice that is more the common need.


Mark Johnson says:I’m a huge fan of Lightroom and your new features for LR5 sound great. However, I would urge you tohave all or most features work within LR, so we won’t have to open Photoshop for things like makingpanoramas and HDR images. The fewer times we have to switch between programs, the faster ourworkflow will be. (Don’t worry, most of us will continue to buy PS for other more complicated tasks).And a built in backup program sounds like a good idea too. Thanks for your hard work on such a greatprogram.


Bryan says:I’m concerned beta 5 is so scaled back we don’t really get a true sense of it’s final performance. I’mrunning a beast of a CAD machine w/32GB RAM and sometimes experience latency using LR4′s tools.LR3 and beta 5 both run incredibly smooth and fast on the same machine. Detailed tasks are still bestcompleted in Photoshop when accuracy is paramount.April 15, 2013 7:16 PM | Reply

loki says:Looking through the beta package, a FaceDetection.agtoolkit module exists, with Lua files for facerecognition (AgFaceDetection.lua). Looking closer, it seems like it will be using Cognitec for the facialrecognition engine. Oh, hell yes – thanks Adobe!April 15, 2013 7:53 PM | Reply

kadajawi says:

Oh I hope you’re not messing with us… that would be awesome.

April 15, 2013 11:48 PM | Reply

loki says:

I’m not – on a Mac, check out /Applications/Adobe Photoshop Lightroom5.app/Contents/Frameworks/FaceDetection.agtoolkit/Contents/Resources/AgFaceRecognition.lua(if you can read compiled Lua)


rgeorge says:Whaaaat?? Still no HDR?? The improvements look good, but the lack of HDR built into the app is a bigmiss IMO. Please fix!!April 15, 2013 9:46 PM | Reply

Patrick says:

Merge HDR is in Photoshop. HDR in Lightroom is useless.

April 15, 2013 10:45 PM | Reply

kadajawi says:

There are plenty of excellent tools for stuff like panoramas (PTGui…) or HDR (Photomatix),besides what Photoshop offers. These specialized tools do a great job, probably _at least_ onpar with Photoshop (which costs more if you only need one or two of these features). Nowwould it be nice if LR offered these features? Sure. But it would have to be really good, andquite frankly there are other things that seem more important (even if it’s just because there isno alternative, or at least none that makes sense).

Also, being able to do off centered vignettes is amazing. Upright is awesome too if it works(there is a wonderful and free tool called ShiftN, but being able to do it from withinLightroom…). Hopefully it is possible to select the lines that are used to calculate what has tobe straight and what not. Will have to have a look at the beta…

April 15, 2013 11 53 PM | Reply

Jan Bleil says:Is it possible to save the the cataloge on a NAS and work in a group in a network?Is it possible to synchronise a cataloge on a NAS and a mobile computer?April 15, 2013 9:51 PM | Reply

Randy Chiu says:Performance feels much better than LR4!April 15, 2013 10:31 PM | Reply

Rene says:Will LR5 have a real plug-in-interface? I mean, a plug-in-interface like B….. had.April 15, 2013 11:01 PM | Reply

Oğuz Demirkapı says:LR page and download links are dead. FYI.April 15, 2013 11:21 PM | Reply

Inman says:Looks so great. Looking forward to it so much.April 15, 2013 11:43 PM | Reply

Mazhar Hasan says:Would LR5 be able to load “As-shot” picture settings for RAW image edits (.nef for the case of Nikon).In LR4, this is the biggest frustration from my point of view. Whenever you load a RAW image for edit, itdisplays the preview of “As-Shot” image for momentarily. However, just after that it only displays a dullimage with no proper light setting and expects User to perform the settings from scratch. LR should atleast load those settings by-default, which was shot on camera and if user wants more enhancements,LR can do the rest.

Please add this “must-have” feature.

ThanksApril 15, 2013 11:47 PM | Reply

Jak says:

What you are seeing for a flash is display of a jpeg camera preview. Although it may appear tolook nicer because it was created with your camera jpeg settings like saturation, contrast andsharpness, your camera applied this to an 8 bit jpeg preview.

It disappears as Lightroom creates a proper preview of the RAW file. You’ll find you’ll want toapply different amounts of these adjustments in LR because the RAW file has soooo muchmore data as a 16 bit file with wider gamut and tonal range (actually may be a 12 or 14 bit fiein a 16 bit (2 bytes) container).


Jak says:

Don’t miss the drop down menu for camera l ke adjustments. These can come close,but if you want the same adjustments yet camera made to the jpeg, you should useyour camera’s proprietary software, since only the camera manufacturer knows theexact transforms applied in camera and duplicated in their software. Lightroom doesa good job of respecting the white balance the camera applied.


Olafs Osh says:I dislike it soooooo much?

What exactly, you ask?

That small white explosion animation on deletion process.April 16, 2013 12:07 AM | Reply

Mike Reed says:I am running I Mac 10.6.8 and am told there is no further upgrade available. Why then do Adobe say Ineed Mac ox 10.7 or greater?April 16, 2013 1:10 AM | Reply

Stewart Tansley says:Is color management for the otherwise-nice integration between LR and Blurb fixed, i.e. being able touse the Blurb ICC profile please?

Ref: http://forums.blurb.com/forums/5/topics/12961April 16, 2013 2:04 AM | Reply

diễn đàn seo says:Looks so great. Looking forward to it so much. !!!April 16, 2013 2:22 AM | Reply

Sebastian says:In Lightroom 4 you instantly see if a lens profile is selected or not. Not so in Lightroom 5 Beta. So if

Lightroom can’t detect the lens used and therefore isn’t able to apply the correction the features shownin Upright don’t work a 100%. So the checked “Enabele Profile Correction” can be a bit misleading ifyou don’t see / know that there is no profile selected.

Otherwise the new features look great.April 16, 2013 3:33 AM | Reply

Sam Agnew says:Film shooters of the world, rejoice!! At last I can remove defects that are not round without jumpingthrough a million hoops!

SamApril 16, 2013 3:39 AM | Reply

Andrew Agerbak says:The download link is currently failing with “We’re sorry, we encountered an error processing yourrequest” – both from this page and from the Lightroom product page.April 16, 2013 4:05 AM | Reply

Andrew Agerbak says:

OK, tried again from Internet Explorer, and it worked fine. Problem seems to be specific toChrome


Steven says:Speed is the most important thing to concentrate on. LR4 is dire in this respect. I have tried everythingon my Quad-Core 16Gb RAM machine. System booted from SSD. Catalogs and previews on SSD.Cache on SSD. Even the images themselves. Nothing has sped up preview rendering in developmodule.

Its painful to flick between images because LR has to re-render the preview every time, regardless ofwhether adjustments have been made or if an image was cached previously. LR5 seems just as bad,with one notable improvement. Smart previews. These do speed up the time to render previews indevelop, but they’re still not fast and seem a bit like a workaround to a fundamental problem thatshould be addressed first.April 16, 2013 5:14 AM | Reply

Jak says:

I only get a slowdown if I’ve used local adjustment tools on a lot images. I suspect to str ke abalance, these complex computations with their feathered edges are updated on the fly andheld in the cache for speed as you start to use these tools.

If I have 500 images from a sports event and I apply a lot of local adjustments and thepreviews slow down, I quit and restart Lightroom and I get lickety-split speed back. I’mguessing that’s clearing the cache and forcing the previews to be consolidated and written todisk. When I reopen, it’s faster even with the empty cache. And as long as the cache hasroom, it speeds up just a bit as the cache holds and returns previews on a fast machine with 1TB SSD and 16GB RAM.

I’m looking forward to see what smart previews strengths and weaknesses offer.


Lorenzo Piano says:It seems it has some great new features. I avoided the 4, but I guess I’ll update to 5 as soon at it willbecome available (hope they keep the discount).But, man, it’s still lacking the focus check tool (focus mask) as available in Capture One.Several years ago I had to choose between these two softwares, knowing both because of the studios Iwas working in. I opted for Lightroom hoping for this great functionality to become available soon, butstill no good news.Adobe, any chance?April 16, 2013 5:18 AM | Reply

Ira Weinschel says:Is Lightroom 5 going to introduce proper support for aspect-ratios in the Olympus OM-D EM-5 or is itgoing to remain crippled as it is now? Currently, the cropping is baked into the raw file and you have noway to access the full raw file without duplicating it to a DNG.

If you don’t fix this, don’t expect another dime out of me.April 16, 2013 5:21 AM | Reply

Jak says:

That’ an Olympus problem not Adobe. LR can’t covert Olympus proprietary crop to LR crop. Itcould eliminate the crop, but the folks would complain even more that the in camera crop wasnot respected. Putting in a feature just for Olympus opens a can of worms.DNG files require some computing time and will remove the crop as conversion involveslinearizing ALL the data irrespective of in-camera crop. but it’s not a bad way to go.


Marco says:Nice features, but photo stitching for panoramas and HDR/DRI would have been also important.There are so many freeware tools and libraries which already do a good job.The acceptance for this update will depend on the pricing.April 16, 2013 5:51 AM | Reply

Tiago Valente says:These changes look awsome and finally a proper healing brush!

I just needed one other feature to work 100% with LR. I need the pages for printing books could becustomizable and we can create and save templates with the dimensions we want. The templates LRoffer are too restrict and do not allow to create a professional looking album.

Maybe next time you can add this feature, it would make a big difference in wedding photographerswork.

Thanks by the new features, hope to work with LR5 asap!!TiagoApril 16, 2013 7:30 AM | Reply

Egal says:Download does not work and contacting Adobe (“Broken Link?Send us an e-mail.” doesn’t either. #fail.April 16, 2013 8:07 AM | Reply

Daniel thomassin says:Bonjour Merci beaucoup et vais tester: PS pourriez vous me faire parvenir un formulaire comme je suisdébutant pour donner mes commentaires et s’il y a des test a effectuer !!Je vous remercie beaucoup bon journée.

DanApril 16, 2013 9:43 AM | Reply

Gabriel says:Book module is Lame lame lame. What happened to Jpeg as an export option? I don’t care aboutpreferred vendor. This is an easy one AdobeApril 16, 2013 10:19 AM | Reply

Tiago Valente says:

Couldn’t agree more Gabriel, you said it all! We NEED the book module to be customizable.Only people who doesn’t know how to make a book uses blurb and all the other online crap,there are tons of other companies doing professional books and albums, why can’t we use thebook module to do it? As Gabriel says, that’s an easy one to you LR guys!

April 16, 2013 10 39 AM | Reply

sesa says:Hi, here crash averytime, no lightroom 4 catalog compatible.. why crash ? I installed LR4 and beta5together maibe thats why ?April 16, 2013 11:35 AM | Reply

Oliver Photography says:Are you ok, a? If so, I you sure?April 15, 2013 3:32 PM | Reply

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