It’s worth it for all of us to take advantage of these updates. Lightroom empowers you in your photography, helping you to capture. But the makers of Lightroom do a good job of keeping hardware support up to date and working out flaws in their product. Re: Lightroom 5. Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is a free, yet powerful and intuitive photo editor and camera app. I admit that I tend to ignore these updates until the pop up messages announcing them drive me crazy. There were also bugs in the Publish to Flickr service, for those of you who use Flickr. However, none of these bugs were huge, to me anyway. The goal of this release is to provide additional camera raw support, lens profile support and address bugs that were introduced in previous releases of Lightroom.
LIGHTROOM 5.3 UPDATE
There are a couple of changes that might be noticed by Auto White Balance users – the Auto White Balance didn’t always carry over correctly to Snapshots or synchronized photos. Lightroom 5.3 is now available as a final release on and through the update mechanism in Lightroom 5.
LIGHTROOM 5.3 WINDOWS
This release also clears up a laundry list of minor bugs from prior versions. Adobe Lightroom Windows 5. Using these profiles helps you get your Raw photo a little closer to the appearance of the JPG you see on the back of your camera. I love that little camera! It’s Vivid profile is great with skies and isn’t too saturated for most photos. Something else I’m excited about is that 5.3 includes Camera Profiles specific to my Olympus OMD EM-5. I apply these Lens Corrections to all of my images. One more note with the workspace setup is that I will use the Develop panels in Solo Mode, so only the one I am working on will. The lens support is important because Lightroom can correct the distortion and vignetting that is associated with most lenses. Upgrading to Lightroom 5 from 4 will give you the Radial Filter, Smart Previews, and Upright, which straightens slanted photos.Īside from the usual addition of support for newer cameras and lenses, this version also has some fixes for bugs in prior versions. It’s available at no cost to anyone who purchased Lightroom 5.Īnd if you didn’t purchase Lightroom 5, the price on Amazon isn’t bad right now: $107 as of Friday morning, January 9. Lightroom users, Adobe released the newest update to Lightroom 5 back in December.