

To learn about more technical updates to this release, visit the Lightroom Journal blog. Edits made to the smart preview will automatically apply to the original once reconnected to Lightroom.ĭownload the free Lightroom 5 beta here. Smart Preview: Lightroom allows you to edit offline images by storing a smaller version of the original image, called a smart preview. Upright: Automatically level horizons, straighten buildings, and correct other askew lines. The area of the mask can be resized, feathered or even inverted to give you maximum control over the focus of your images.

Radial Filter: Apply any of Lightroom’s local adjustment attributes to a circular mask.

A new “Visualize Spots” tool highlights sensor dust spots for easy removal. Advanced Healing Brush: Enhancements to the Spot Removal tool allow you to heal or clone using brush strokes. What’s the catch? It’s a public beta-which means it’s not the finished product but you can check it out and buy the real thing when it is finally released. You can have the product and not pay for it. It is very economically priced and Adobe also has excellent student+academic pricing making it a must-have for any enthusiast or professional.īut here’s the awesome-sauce for the day, for a limited time only, Adobe is giving away this product totes free! Basic image edits such as curves or levels adjustments, tonality, color-grading etc can be done very easily and completely non-destructively.

We’re massive fans of Adobe Lightroom, or as it is increasingly being referred to “Adobe Photoshop Lightroom”-we’ll just call it LightRoom (or LR).įor those who’ve never heard of LightRoom, it’s the digital equivalent of the dark-room… and allows image-makers to quickly make very powerful edits to images without having to fire-up (or invest in!!) the almighty Photoshop.
