v6.0 [Jun 9, 2014]
HDR images made easy
- Create natural-looking or surreal images from extremely high-contrast scenes. Using HDR Merge, you can easily combine multiple shots taken with different exposure settings into a single high dynamic range image.
Stunning panoramas
- Capture superwide fields of view and amazing detail. Photomerge technology lets you stitch together multiple images, including raw files, to create seamless panoramas.
Faster performance
- 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.
Facial recognition
- Quickly find images of family and friends, even without metadata tags. 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.
Advanced video slide shows
- Create beautiful, polished slide shows using still images, video and music along with professional effects like pan and zoom.
Improved web galleries
- Showcase your work in more elegant, engaging and interactive web galleries. New HTML5-compatible gallery templates work with the widest range of desktop and mobile browsers.
Better control of filters
- Precisely control which parts of your image are affected by the Graduated or Radial filters. Now you can use a brush to edit the filter’s mask, adding or subtracting filter effects wherever you want.
Easy photo sharing
- Publish web galleries with Lightroom. Get feedback on your photos, start discussions and more — all from Lightroom on your mobile device or desktop.
Support for more devices
- Lightroom is now on Android devices. And just like on iPad and iPhone, all your edits sync back to your computer.
Visual storytelling
- Pull images from Lightroom into Adobe Voice and Slate on your iPad or iPhone to craft visual stories and animated videos.
Copy-paste enhancements
- On your iPad or iPhone, you can quickly copy adjustments from one photo and paste them onto another for ultra-fast processing.
Perfect presentations
- Use the Presentation mode on your iPad or iPhone to show off photos without accidentally adjusting or editing them.
Fast photo searching
- The Segmented view on your iPad or iPhone helps you find favorite photos faster than ever.
Quick composition adjustment
- A redesigned cropping experience on iPad and iPhone lets you quickly adjust, align and auto-straighten your photos.
v5.7 [Nov 19, 2014]
- Fix for bugs related to camera support on the Samsung NX1 camera.
- Camera support for additional new lenses and cameras.
v5.6 [Jul 31, 2014]
- Fix image flaws and seamlessly remove just about any object with a single stroke.
- Advanced Healing Brush.
- Sync with Lightroom mobile.
- Improved photo book creation.
- Highlight and shadow recovery.
- Advanced black-and-white conversion.
- Enhanced online sharing integration.
v5.0 [Apr 19, 2013]
1. Advanced Healing Brush
Don't let dust spots, splotches, or other distractions and flaws get in the way of a great shot. With the Advanced Healing Brush in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5, you can not only change the brush size but also move it in precise paths. Unwanted scene elements — even those with irregular shapes such as threads — just disappear.
2. Upright
Straighten tilted images with a single click. The new Upright tool analyzes images and detects skewed horizontal and vertical lines, even straightening shots where the horizon is hidden.
3. Radial Gradient
Emphasize important parts of your image with more flexibility and control. The Radial Gradient tool lets you create off-center vignette effects, or multiple vignetted areas within a single image.
4. Smart Previews
Easily work with images without bringing your entire library with you. Just generate smaller stand-in files of your full-size images. Any adjustments or metadata additions you make to these files will automatically be applied to the originals.
5. Video slide shows
Easily share your work in elegant video slide shows. Combine still images, video clips, and music in creative HD videos that can be viewed on almost any computer or device.
6. Improved photo book creation
Create beautiful photo books from your images. Lightroom 5 includes a variety of easy-to-use book templates, and now you can edit them to create a customized look. Upload your book for printing with just a few clicks. Receive 25% off from Blurb on your first book created using Lightroom 5.
v3.6 [Dec 13, 2011]
Accelerated performance
Support for DSLR video files
Image watermarking
Easy image importing
Perspective correction
More flexible print packages
Lens correction
Online sharing integration
Easy-to-share slide show videos with music
Tethered shooting
Film grain simulation
Adobe Photoshop Album Starter Edition - find, share, CD, email, calendars, etc.