Hi world, Hoping someone can help me here. I just used my Lightroom 4 desktop app for the first time after upgrading my OS to Mac High Sierra 10.13.1. Top reasons to buy adobe photoshop lightroom 4 See the top reasons why Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 software is ideal for professional and amateur photographers who want to organize, perfect, and share amazing images. How to buy or upgrade to Photoshop Lightroom 6 (standalone, not CC) (Updated August 2018) Lightroom is my go-to application for editing my event and wedding photography (although I actually recommend Photo Mechanic for culling ) and for now at least I’m very happy with Photoshop Lightroom 6 on a perpetual licence rather than the subscription.

For me at least, I prefer to buy a copy of the software straight from them. I may be crazy, paranoid, whatever but that’s just the way I do it. That said, if I can’t buy it directly from the developer, then I have no problem buying something through the App store. It’s just not my first choice. And remember, Adobe’s just trying to create another channel for which to buy Lightroom (if you owned a product you’d make sure you’d get it out there in as many stores as you could right?).

On the Windows side, support for Windows XP has been dropped. Lightroom now requires a version of Windows Vista or Windows 7. Develop module Lightroom 4 introduces Process Version (PV) 2012. What's a process version and why should you care? Well, it's the image processing engine behind Lightroom (and Photoshop's Adobe Camera Raw plug-in).

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Develop Presets Save time by instantly applying favorite looks to your images. Just save Develop settings as a preset and apply it to your other photos at any time with one click. Lightroom includes dozens of built-in presets and thousands more are available from third parties. Facial Recognition Quickly find images of family and friends, even without metadata tags. You select a face in one photo, and Lightroom searches for that person in all your other images. Categorize and group your photos based on faces.

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Adobe doesn’t want that to happen, so it gives you partial access to Lightroom even if you cancel your Creative Cloud subscription. You have full access to the Library, Book, Print, Slideshow and Web modules. The Develop module is severely restricted (you can’t make any adjustments using the right-hand panels) and there is no access to the Map module. Your Catalog remains intact, including any Collections you’re created and any changes to metadata, including ratings and keywords. So does your post-processing, and the ability to make basic edits to photo files using the Quick Develop panel. You can also export your photos any time you want.

Therefore, you’d need a serial number for your copy. It may be that the bundle terms Adobe provided to Leica didn’t include a unique serial number per Leica customer; the upgrade pricing may be reserved for purchases directly from Adobe. Owenb August 6, 2015, Actually LR releases don’t really follow a pattern. I suppose it sort of roughly-ish averages out to about 18-24 months apart, but that doesn’t sound so pithy.;) I take it LR5 didn’t receive any updates adding raw tethering for your camera when LR6 came out?

If you don’t mind waiting, you can to see if there are any good offers. Another option is if you’re a student or a teacher (check eligibility ). If eligible, you can save up to 67% on Creative Cloud products using. Finally it’s worth mentioning that you can download a free trial of any of the Adobe products.

Overall, I find Lightroom 4 an excellent program for my needs and lots more still to discover. Well worth purchasing and for what it can do, low in price. I've been using Adobe Photoshop Elements v9 to edit my photos and it has covered most of my needs. However, I knew that many serious amateurs and professionals preferred Lightroom so I thought I should give it a trial. There are some things that I will still need Elements for but for most occasions, Lightroom will fit the bill perfectly.

When I first ran Lightroom, a ball icon bounced over to the software nameplate, showing that clicking on it opened a three-choice dropdown menu. This is where you turn on and off photo syncing with Lightroom mobile, address lookup for GPS coordinates, and face detection. Interface, Import, and Organize Unlike Corel and Lightroom CC, Lightroom uses separate modes for organizing (Library), adjusting (Develop), and other program functions. You can turn the mode entries on and off at top left (and even change their font). By default, modes now include Library, Develop, Map, Book, Slideshow, Print, and Web. A nameplate appears at top left when you sign in for syncing your photos with Lightroom Mobile and Lightroom.com.

I put this to the test by importing 100 photos from my Canon 6D, each about 13MB in file size. I used Core i7 PC with 16GB DDR4 RAM and an Nvidia GTX 745 graphics card. The previous Lightroom version took 1 minute and 25 seconds for the import. The same import in Classic took 1:17. That sounds like a small improvement, but if you're regularly importing hundreds or even thousands of images, the difference could add up to something significant.

Process versions are still supported back to 2003. I tested the beta on some old images and the Basic panel adjusts to represent the earlier tool set when the version is set to 2003 or 2010. There is no need to update your old images unless you want to take advantage of the new process tools. If your pictures are fine the way they are, leave them alone.

Using HDR Merge, you can easily combine multiple shots taken with different exposure settings into a single high dynamic range image. Panorama Merge Capture superwide fields of view and amazing detail. Photomerge technology lets you stitch together multiple images, including raw files, to create stunning panorama shots. Performance improvements Import and perfect your photos faster than ever. Lightroom takes advantage of compatible graphics processors to boost its overall speed, especially when you’re enhancing images in the Develop module.

I cannot find the new features such as HDR, panorama merge, face recognition, etc that are supposedly in LR6, so what I have I got for my money? I feel somewhat cheated as Adobe do not make clear that the upgrade version does not include the features found on LR CC, which I do not want. Can you shed any light on this please? Owen Billcliffe February 12, 2016, Hi Val, first of all, are you absolutely sure you’re running LR6 and not LR5? When you launch the app, if it’s LR6 you’ve launched it should say Lightroom 6 on the splash screen, if you have the screen enabled.

The software features new and improved auto adjustments to dynamically set values for exposure and contrast, and additional local adjustment controls including Noise Reduction, Moire and White Balance. Lightroom 4 provides photographers the tools to create beautiful photo books with text controls and a variety of easy-to-use templates, as well as a direct link for photo book creation from within the new Book module. A new intuitive Map module displays images already assigned a location, provides location tagging and reverse geo-tagging controls and saved locations for easy assignment of a photographer’s common locations. Now, native video support gives photographers the capability to play, trim and extract frames from video clips shot on DSLRs, point-and-shoot cameras and smartphones. Video-specific presets and many standard Lightroom image adjustment controls can be applied to video clips, and adjusted videos can be exported as a H.264 file or published directly to Facebook or Flickr. In the Develop module, presets fully utilize new processing technology and the addition of soft proofing helps photographers tune images in a destination color space to ensure content looks its best.