Lightroom CC

[K12beano]

Digitalize said:

It's not too bad, dial back the saturation/vibrance a bit, mask the gradient off the towers and you'd be there.

Yup. You've got it.
That was just a quick familiarisation with what the new feature will do. As I commented - it needs a good understanding of masking on the gradient tool. Because it has so much more detail the adjustment tools can push a lot further than on a single shot. So my normal levels of shadow and vibrance, plus a dash of clarity does pump it up more than I would normally go - and actually on a Mac 5K screen it starts to do your head in!!

Problem is, any HDR is - by definition - going to take those usual shadows and draw out details to the point that it starts to look surreal and make your eyes bleed! (My normal HDR use is not quite so flagrant!)

But I stand by how easy LR CC is!

[Digitalize]

Hopefully the gradient brush adjustment will mean there are less images I have to take in to Photoshop to adjust. Anything that can save me time and make my job easier is welcomed.

Might try a few HDRs over the weekend, if the conditions call for it, never shot them before.

[Craikeybaby]

I'm now torn between upgrading Lightroom 6 or moving to Lightroom CC. Now that Lightroom can do the panoramas that was 90% of what I went in to Photoshop for anyway.

How does the iPad Lightroom compare to Photosmith? Has anyone used both? I'm more interested in sorting and metadata on my iPad, rather than processing.

[budfox]

Excellent stuff, two glaring omissions added. Time to have a play.

[ian in lancs]

ian in lancs said:

Ooh! Fantastic something to look forward to when I get back! 5 is running slow on my win7 machine but flys on the MacBook with the ssd can't decide if the culprit is the daft d800 files!

Edited by ian in lancs on Wednesday 22 April 07:32

Hmmm! I think Adobe and I have different opinions on what the word faster means! Or. It could just mean an i7 processor and 8Gb and win7 and D800 raw files isn't a marriage made in heaven! God help those who buy the new canon monster!

[RobDickinson]

I stitched 24 files into a pano tried to add gradients then use the new eraser brush on them.

OMG painful. Sooo slow. screen blackouts, whiteouts, massive lag. Nasty.

[ian in lancs]

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RobDickinson said:

I stitched 24 files into a pano tried to add gradients then use the new eraser brush on them.

OMG painful. Sooo slow. screen blackouts, whiteouts, massive lag. Nasty.

Haha! That's abuse!

[Colin RedGriff]

The speed improvements in the develop module are also dependent on hardware/software compatability

https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom/kb/lightroom-gpu...

[nick heppinstall]

Is it worth the update from 5 just for the performance ? I would probably not use the other new features. Running an i5 @ 4.7Ghz with a GTX 970.

[Colin RedGriff]

I guess it depends whether you will use the other new features or not. Photomerge for HDR and Panoramas a well as face recognition are the big ones but there are quite a lot of other tweaks.

Good summary here

http://www.lightroomqueen.com/whats-new-lightroom-...

[ian in lancs]

Tinkering based on these pages seemed to have speeded things up

https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom/kb/performance-h...

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/optimize-perf...

[budfox]

I had a quick go with it and was impressed. Only a couple of images stitched together but it's a massively useful tool.

[Digitalize]

If you have a decent GPU it's worth it IMO.

But then it was effectively free for me as I'm on CC.

[K12beano]

Well - after all my lavish praise, it's let me down on panorama!

Interesting - I have taken a series of nine, all nicely overlapping by about ⅓ of the frame, of bluebell woods and Adobe can't cope! It either a) churns away and effectively gives back one frame or b) tells me there are not ENOUGH frames.

Haven't fathomed what it's doing yet. Anyone had similar?

[brman]

those thinking of upgrading from LR5 to 6/CC procede with caution. There appear to be a significant number of users who are seeing big slowdowns in the library module (ie should not be affected by the GPU usage in the develop module).

I am not saying don't upgrade, just don't do as I did and remove LR5 first before checking LR CC is working ok. Especially if you are on CC and can't downgrade again when you hit problems.

There is a thread on talkphotography on this subject if you are interested.....

[ian in lancs]

The CC/6 update of lightroom seems to have reset the colour management profiles for all my print templates to 'managed by printer'. Thanks Adobe! Worth checking yours!

Edited by ian in lancs on Monday 27th April 08:17

[K12beano]

ian in lancs said:

....reset the colour management profiles ....

Whoa!

That's a bv$$3r!

Another black mark Adobe!

[ian in lancs]

There's an update for LR CC/6 already....

[peter tdci]

ian in lancs said:

There's an update for LR CC/6 already....

Yes. Some people (including me) found that when you tried to open it, nothing happened! Logging out of my Adobe CC account and then back in fixed for me, but the solution was more fiddly for others. Seemed like a pretty basic flaw in the initial release.

[ian in lancs]

yep kept hanging on opening for me too