Lightroom 5 Beta accidentally announced

[BackdoorArts]

Saw this on Nikon Rumors. If you haven't bit the bullet yet on Lightroom 4, you may want to wait. Not a lot of new information to go on but what's here sounds cool.

Adobe Lightroom 5 public beta coming soon with some new features | Photo Rumors

 

[carguy]

Just received my 4.4 update a week or so back.

Tap'n on the Galaxy S3

 

[Dave_W]

Given that I'm only using LR as a cataloging program, I doubt I'll be spending any money on the newer version. But I said this same thing when CS6 came out, so who know....

 

[RockyNH_RIP]

Saw this on Nikon Rumors. If you haven't bit the bullet yet on Lightroom 4, you may want to wait. Not a lot of new information to go on but what's here sounds cool.

Adobe Lightroom 5 public beta coming soon with some new features | Photo Rumors

It did sound decent, at least the few tidbits released... I will likely be doig an upgrade..

Pat in NH

 

[Mike150]

Since I'm still using LR-2 I'll probably bite the budget for this one.

 

[Sambr]

I will most likey be purchasing it, I use Lightroom for 90% of my processing at present

 

[carguy]

Here you go

http://blogs.adobe.com/photoshopdotcom/2013/04/lightroom-5-beta-now-available.html

Tap'n on the Galaxy S3

 

[BackdoorArts]

OK, now it's official.

Lightroom 5 beta Now Available! | PHOTOSHOP.COM BLOG

 

[Dave_W]

Nice! Downloading just for the heck of it

 

[RockyNH_RIP]

I will be downloading it too! Thanks for the link..

Pat in NH

 

[BackdoorArts]

Me three. Figure I'll give it a once over, but like Dave I'll probably forgo upgrading unless I find I can do it for a song and the add'l features are things I can't live without.

 

[WhiteLight]

Me three. Figure I'll give it a once over, but like Dave I'll probably forgo upgrading unless I find I can do it for a song and the add'l features are things I can't live without.

I think the upgrades are quite significant..
The healing brush now need not be circular... Any shape and size..
Straightening a photo to make it look upright will definitely help.
The radial filter to induce darkness to make the subject prominent is something all of us would've wanted to do at some point or other...
And a full screen mode - finally!
Very interesting

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[BackdoorArts]

Not sure if it's available to anyone or just members, but the folks at NAPP have some videos describing what's new in LR5 Beta.

Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom® 5 Beta Launch Center | NAPP

 

[Eduard]

Lightroom is such a fundamental tool that I can't imagine NOT upgrading. Since LR and PS share Camera RAW we should also be expecting an upgrade to Photoshop.

 

[BackdoorArts]

Actually, we got the RAW 7.4 upgrade just a couple weeks ago. It was included in Lightroom 4.4

 

[Eduard]

Actually, we got the RAW 7.4 upgrade just a couple weeks ago. It was included in Lightroom 4.4

Right! And historically a new version of RAW is simultaneously released with a major release of LR and corresponding PS. So I would expect Camera RAW 8 to be in LR5/PS CS7.

 

[GeeAirMo]

Soooo Glad that I made the switch to lightroom 2 weeks ago! I also just paid for my full version as the trial version had me sold. Now after playing around with the LR5 Beta this evening, I am really liking it! I like how the repair brush works like the one in Apple's Aperture did!

The Radial filter looks nice and I see myself playing around with that tool.

These few videos are good to explain that:
Lightroom 5 beta Now Available! | PHOTOSHOP.COM BLOG

I really hope they make it easy and affordable to make the upgrade for those of us that just upgraded to LR4 recently.

 

[Mfrankfort]

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5 hits public beta, adds Smart Previews and Advanced Healing Brush

Engadgets take.

 

[Lurch]

*Downloading....*
I was just about to pull the trigger on LR4 too...

 

[BackdoorArts]

*Downloading....*
I was just about to pull the trigger on LR4 too...

Well, you've got this to use for free until June!!