Adobe releases Lightroom 5.3 with holiday discount, updates Camera Raw 8.3
Adobe late Wednesday announced availability of its latest Lightroom 5.3 and Adobe Camera Raw 8.3 updates, adding support for cameras and lenses that went to market since the last software versions were released, including the iPhone 5s.
The two software updates come after more than a month of community beta testing, and bring compatibility for new cameras and lens profiles to Lightroom and ACR. Additionally, Lightroom 5.3 is on sale for a limited time through Adobe's website.
Adobe's Lightroom 5.3 photo import, management and editing tool adds over 20 new models to its list of supported cameras and 19 new lens profiles, including one for Apple's iPhone 5s. The update also addresses a number of reported issues found in the previous version.
From the release notes for Lightroom 5.3:
Newly added support for Tethered Capture in Lightroom 5.3
New features in ACR 8.3 for Photoshop CC:
The Camera Raw 8.3 plug-in update for both Photoshop CC and Photoshop CS6 versions is free and can be downloaded via Adobe's updater tool.
The two software updates come after more than a month of community beta testing, and bring compatibility for new cameras and lens profiles to Lightroom and ACR. Additionally, Lightroom 5.3 is on sale for a limited time through Adobe's website.
Adobe's Lightroom 5.3 photo import, management and editing tool adds over 20 new models to its list of supported cameras and 19 new lens profiles, including one for Apple's iPhone 5s. The update also addresses a number of reported issues found in the previous version.
From the release notes for Lightroom 5.3:
Newly added support for Tethered Capture in Lightroom 5.3
- Canon EOS Rebel T4i / EOS 650D / EOS Kiss X6i
- Canon EOS M2
- Canon PowerShot S120
- Casio EX-10
- Fujifilm XQ1
- Fujifilm X-E2
- Nikon 1 AW1
- Nikon Coolpix P7800
- Nikon Df
- Nikon D610
- Nikon D5300
- Nokia Lumia 1020
- Olympus OM-D E-M1
- Olympus STYLUS 1
- Panasonic DMC-GM1
- Pentax K-3
- Phase One IQ260
- Phase One IQ280
- Sony A7 (ILCE-7)
- Sony A7R (ILCE-7R)
- Sony DSC-RX10
New features in ACR 8.3 for Photoshop CC:
- Auto straighten: You can automatically straighten a picture in three ways: (1) double-click on the Straighten Tool button icon in the toolbar, (2) with the Straighten Tool selected, double-click anywhere within the preview image, and (3) with the Crop Tool selected, press the usual command key (on Mac) or control key (on Windows) to temporarily switch to the Straighten Tool, and double-click anywhere within the preview image.
- Whites and Blacks now support Auto Levels-like functionality via shift-double-click on the sliders.
- Added separate Auto Temperature and Auto Tint feature. Shift-double-click to invoke "auto temperature" and "auto tint" separately.
- Added feature to set the background color of the work area and toggle the visibility of the hairline frame around the image. Context-click outside the image in the work area to select an option from a popup menu.
- Added option-click shortcut in Synchronize, New Preset, Save Settings, and Copy/Paste (Bridge) dialog boxes. Option-click a checkbox to check that box exclusively. Option-click again to toggle previous checkbox state.
The Camera Raw 8.3 plug-in update for both Photoshop CC and Photoshop CS6 versions is free and can be downloaded via Adobe's updater tool.
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And yeah, Apple needs to do something with Aperture. Seems to be just an iPhoto on roids these days rather than a worthy competitor to Lightroom.
Oh oh. Here come the naysayers wanting Aperture 4. Oh well, I agree that it could use some additional features in a dreamed up new version, but I love the free point release updates.
And yeah, Apple needs to do something with Aperture. Seems to be just an iPhoto on roids these days rather than a worthy competitor to Lightroom.
Count me in as one of those naysayers. I've been using Aperture since v1 and prefer its free-flowing workflow over Lightroom's more constrained environment. Give Aperture geometric correction tools and, unless I'm missing some major features in Lightroom that I'm unaware of, it'll have everything I need in a post-production tool.
Quadra, how is Aperture not a worthy competitor? I'm not asking to be snarky, I'm serious - I keep hearing that Aperture needs to catch up to Lightroom, but I fail to see a lot of real-world differences when I look at the features side-by-side.
You too, since v1? It always has gotten better and better. Perhaps taking away the colours in the sidebar icons wasn't all that nice, but the writing was on the wall when they pulled it from iTunes. I simply love Aperture, use it almost daily.
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Count me in as one of those naysayers. I've been using Aperture since v1 and prefer its free-flowing workflow over Lightroom's more constrained environment. Give Aperture geometric correction tools and, unless I'm missing some major features in Lightroom that I'm unaware of, it'll have everything I need in a post-production tool.
Aperture's noise reduction is something of a joke these days. Catapult makes it easy to use DxO as a plug-in for images that need geometric correction and noise reduction. Aperture does a fine job on raw conversion of clean images, but DxO wins by a mile on anything tricky.
I've been running Aperture since v1.5 having fiddled with the pre-v1 LR betas prior to that. The problems with LR today are the same as back then.