To give users time to prepare, Adobe has announced this week that when Lightroom 6 is released (no date yet), it will require Mac OS X 10.8 or above (Mountain Lion, Mavericks, Yosemite), or a 64 bit version of Windows 7, 8 or 8.1. According to Adobe, “Focusing our work on more modern operating systems and architectures allows us to spend more time adding functionality requested by users, including additional advanced imaging features and improving general application performance.”More information from the Adobe Lightroom Journal post:
- If your operating system is not supported, you can still use Lightroom 5 and prior versions.
- If you are running Mac OS X 10.7, Apple offers a free upgrade. For Windows users, here’s information on how to determine whether you are running a 32 or 64 bit version of Windows.
I’d love to hear what new features or improvements you are hoping Lightroom 6 brings – please leave a comment below!
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I would like to be able to use many fonts as labels in the print module. I have sent message all over the web and to Adobe support (a laugher if ever I saw one) asking how to change the font. No one knows. It cannot be done, but why not?
Hi Laura,
Seems to me that this is nothing new about the OS for PC’s. You can’t run Lightroom 5 + + + without having these operating systems. I guess if you are running a very old version of Lightroom you need to know this. Who is running something that old?
Your Reply section will not accept my email address (joe@lizjoephoto.com). So, I will try a Gmail address that I use sometimes. It says my emai is invalid. Not true.
Lightroom 6 is dropping support for 32 bit Windows systems and Mac OS 10.7, Joe. Lightroom 5 supports these.
Hi Laura,
I think the point Joe S is trying to make, Lightroom is very resource hungry and from my own experience I think 64 bit and at least 16 gb of RAM is essential, in fact I have 32 gb RAM
Hello Ron and Laura
I am trying to buy a new PC and wondered about the LR 6 requirements.
Ideally I would like to buy an ultra thin PC and they usually come with a core i7 processor, 8GB of RAM not 32, nor an dedicated graphic card.
Is that a must ? My external monitor is only a 1920 x 1810
If so I would have to get a much heavier PC. Many thanks in advance for your response.
L
Hi Laurence,
I’m not a hardware expert – I’d suggest posting on lightroomforums.net if you can’t find a post already on there on this topic.
Hi Laura
Any actual details on the new features or any word on performance improvements, GPU support etc..
I would like to see the new graduated filter feature that has been in Camera Raw for a little while, where you can selective remove the filter on certain things.
Any information would be appreciated.
Hi Adam,
There’s no official word on new features or improvements. I think it’s safe to assume that we will get the Camera Raw improvements though.
Hoping for.
1. A proper Book module that allows me to place images and text where I wish, including proper flexible templates. Extend usability beyond Blurb.
2. Performance when reviewing large volumes of images. Waiting for the thumbs to fill is so painful.
3. Lightroom should remember the last picture I was reviewing in a folder. I often need to check an image in another folder and when I want to revert back to the image I was working on I will have to find it inside a folder with maybe hundreds of other images.
4. Back and Forward tab that will allow me go back or forward to previous images edited, possibly in different folders (similar to back and forward arrows for a browser.
I’d vote for these, Matt! By the way, I found that rebuilding my catalog fixed #2. My thumbnails now load pretty much instantly. It requires selecting all your photos, saving to XMP (Cmd/Ctl-S), and then starting with a fresh catalog and importing everything again. Note that you will lose collections, virtual copies, pick and reject flags, and step-by-step Develop History – but despite this I found it was worth it. It certainly couldn’t hurt to try (just don’t delete your old catalog until you see if it resolves your issue.
Thanks for the tip, but I cannot afford to lose virtual copies. I discovered this issue with virtual images very much (ie mean really really painfully) to my cost some time ago. Now I have an export pre-set which copies an original to my existing folder. The relative times I need to do this relative to the extra space used is minor. I still have too many virtual copies to risk a rebuild. [I suspect this is also an issue when merging a field catelog into my main catelog, but not 100% sure about this.]
This problem is amplified by the fact that I cannot select images based on their virtual or real status. [There are many other key meta data items missing in the meta data selection options]
Lightroom needs a lot of love on basic usability.
Hi Matt,
You can in fact filter on and select images based on their “kind”. In the Library Filter bar, click on Attribute, and then you’ll see Kind icons, including VC status, to the right.
Super, I had forgotten those extra attributes. I have created a grid Preset for Virtual images and will slowly replace them with copies of originals. I have previously requested Adobe create a separate xml file for virtual images so they did not disappear if the catelog disappears for whatever cause. For this reason, personally, I think virtual copies are dangerous.
Thanks for the tip. I have added your paragraph re rebuilding the catelog in my file of Lightroom Gems and Gottcha’s
Matt, you might want to consider starting a new catalog for work going forward, so that you don’t have to suffer indefinitely with your grid needing to refresh. You could edit them in the new catalog, and then so that you still have a (slow) master catalog with all your photos, export the shoot as a catalog and import it into your (slow) master.
Otherwise, try posting on lightroomforums.net to see if there’s another way to fix the slow refresh issue without the need for a new catalog.
Sorry for late reply.
I have posted a query on the forum.
I do not want to work with multiple catelogs. I may use a specific catelog for extended travel, but this is exceptional and will not solve day to day performance issues.
I am hoping that Lr 6 may solve the issue. Hopefully Adobe will have architected out current gaps in both performance and resilience of the current database design. [Was hoping LR6 might arrive yesterday, but rumours obviously off the mark]
I have some confusion with the new way that Adobe wants you to pay monthly ($9.99) for lightroom 5 and photshop. I already have LR5 and would like to have photoshop too, however I am confused as to how and where my images are and if I stop the monthly deal what happens? Also, will Adobe continue to allow me to upgrade my LR5 (since I bought it outright) or do you think they will stop supporting that and force me go to the monthly option. Even it you could point me to some clear information that I can read would be great. Thanks. Phil
Sorry for the delay, Phil. If you stop subscribing, you just get locked out of making any more develop edits to your photos. You can still use Lightroom for free to manage your photos, import new photos, and to create output.
Alternatively, according to Tom Hogarty of Adobe, there will still be a stand-alone version that you will be able to upgrade to – these upgrades have cost $79 in the past.
Please please please incorporate Live View into camera tether. Also please allow additional watermarking including the file number on the image. Did I say please?
Hi Laura…thanks for all your information over the years you have really improved my usage of lightroom.
The one thing I would like to see relates to collections, I tend to use smart collections a lot and the ability to edit a smart collection to a normal collection would be great.
thanks Laura looking forward to lr6
Peter
I agree that that would be handy, Peter!
Is Lightroom 6 going to have a Lasso Tool like Photoshop has?
Sorry for the delay, George – unfortunately, if I knew, I couldn’t say.