Adobe announced Lightroom 5’s beta a while back, and today they’re officially announcing the final product. The latest version of the software includes new changes such as a new advanced healing brush (finally), radial gradient for a strange creative effect, the upright tool to help get your photos perfectly straight, and much more such as smart previews.
The full version will retail at $149 while the upgrade will cost you $79. Members of the creative cloud will get Lightroom for free. It’s available now for purchase and download. More specs and details are after the jump.
Editor’s Note: Adobe Lightroom 5 can be (pre)ordered now
What’s New
Lightroom 5 offers photographers and enthusiasts many new features including:
- Advanced Healing Brush allows customers to heal imperfections and remove distracting elements
- Upright tool analyzes an image to automatically level horizons and straighten objects like buildings to correct a keystone effect
- Radial Gradient tool creates off-center or multiple vignette effects
- Smart Previews allow customers to edit images without needing the original raw file
- Video slideshow enables customers to combine still images, video clips and music in a creative HD slideshow
- Upgrades to the Book module enhancing the ability to create, customize and order elegant photo books using a variety of tailored templates
Features
Edit
- • LAB color readout
- • Keyboard shortcut to toggle between clone andheal modes
- • Duplicate local adjustments
- • Duplicate linear gradients
- • Aspect slider added to Manual Lens Corrections
- • Persistent clipping indicators between Lightroomsessions
- • Crop overlay aspect ratios
Share
- • Behance Publish Plugin
- • Visual indicator of Favorite book pages
- • Improved visualization of select book elements
- • Transparent buttons for improved Text creationin Books
- • More page text metadata options
Manage
- • PNG file support
- • True full Screen Mode
- • Configurable grid overlays
- • Windows HiDPI
- • Additional criteria for filters and smart collection
- • Lock zoom position preference settings
- • Keyboard shortcut to trigger tethered capture
- • Direction field in the EXIF metadata panel.
- • Persistent place in Collections
- • “Set as Target Collection” checkbox in CreateCollection dialogue
- • Drag photo directly to a Saved Location in theMap Module
- • Drag Saved Location to a photo in the MapModule
- • Integrity verification of DNG Files
Minimum Specs
Apple
- Multicore Intel® processor with 64-bit support
- Mac OS X v10.7 (Lion) or v10.8 (Mountain Lion)
- 2GB of RAM (4GB recommended)
- 2GB of available hard-disk space
- 1024×768 display
- DVD-ROM drive
- Internet connection required for Internet-based services
Windows
- Intel® Pentium® or AMD® Athlon® with 64-bit support
- Microsoft® Windows 7 with Service Pack 1 or Windows 8
- 2GB of RAM (4GB recommended)
- 2GB of available hard-disk space
- 1024×768 display
- DVD-ROM drive
- Internet connection required for Internet-based services
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