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I'd like to be able to enter custom ratios as well. Lightroom now has selectable crop aspect ratio overlays, which is nice. That's about right, as its capabilities fall in the middle of the pack as well.

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The full retail price is a bit higher than some competitors like Apple Aperture ($79.99) and Corel AfterShot Pro ($49.99), but not as high as DxO Optics Pro Elite Edition ($299, though currently $199) or Phase One Capture One Pro ($299, with a special offer of $249).

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Lightroom 5 is available for free with a Creative Cloud membership full single-copy price is $149 and upgrades are $79, the same as the previous version. What's not here: still no face recognition or tagging, HDR editing, panorama stitching, or expansion of the video capabilities. Plus, there are the usual myriad small updates. Other highlights include an overdue distortion and perspective correction tool, Upright reusable custom page layouts and page-numbering tweaks in the Book module a radial filter the expansion of the spot healing/clone tool into a full-blown healing brush and the option to insert playable videos into slideshows. The biggest news: support for proxy editing of disconnected images, a feature dubbed Smart Preview. The latest iteration of Adobe's raw-editing and management software, Adobe Lightroom 5, offers a modest set of enhancements that will make some photographers very happy but will probably make a large number of others shrug and choose to skip it.

A Radial Gradient tool enhances the basic vignette tools that were available in previous versions, allowing you to throw an ellipse around the subject of your photo and use the regular adjustment sliders (exposure, contrast, saturation and so on) to darken the rest of the photo.Editors' note: This is an updated and rated version of the First Take published on April 15, 2013, based on subsequent testing of the final software. The Upright tool provides automatic straightening of images, and worked well on almost all of our test shots вЂ“ even on horribly wonky horizons, and images where the horizon was mostly obscured. ItвЂ™s a great deal more flexible than the circular Healing Brush in Lightroom 4, but itвЂ™s erratic. This allows you to brush around irregular shapes, such as dog walkers ruining a landscape, and clone them out. The biggest improvement comes in the form of the Advanced Healing Brush, a near replica of PhotoshopвЂ™s Content Aware Fill tool. The only time we felt nervous about Smart Preview edits was when trying to fudge the effect of sharpening and noise reduction on high-ISO images, where there were more visible differences between the previews and the full-resolution images.ДЄdobe has once again beefed up the photo-editing tools in Lightroom. The DNG copies are of sufficiently high resolution to apply the vast majority of edits with confidence you have to zoom in to 100% before you begin to notice the difference between Smart Previews and full-resolution files. This synchronisation worked flawlessly in our tests, not only with raw files stored on external hard disks, but also on NAS drives (as long as you use network drive mapping). When youвЂ™re sitting at your desk with the disk drive connected, any edits will be made on the original, full-resolution file take the laptop out and you can perform edits on the Smart Previews, which are synced with the original files the next time you re-attach the external disk drive.

You can set Lightroom to automatically create Smart Previews of every photo imported into its catalogue, or create them on demand for each batch of photos imported. Typically, they consume less than 1MB of disk space each, a tiny fraction of the 25MB or more raw files swallow up. These are high-resolution copies (up to 2,540 pixels on the longest edge) of raw or JPEG files, stored in AdobeвЂ™s DNG format.

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