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Hi Just signed on and wondered if anyone here uses Lightroom 5?
I have just ordered it so thought I'd search around for some info. I have done a search on here, but nothing came up, unless I'm doing something wrong ( highly likely...:D)
 
Hi

Welcome to TP.

Yes a lot of people here LR5. I use LR4 at present.
 
Hi Robert and welcome to TP. Many on here use it, I am a CS5 man myself:thumbs: and find the best way to learn a new program is to watch some of the tutorials on Youtube.:thumbs:
 
Hi, Check out http://www.lightroomforums.net/forum.php
Also there are many FREE tutorials all over the net on Lightroom versions, just type something like Lightroom Tutorials and see what comes up.
I use L/R 5 more now than I use Photoshop CS 6 to be honest IMO if you want it just for the hobbyist side of things you made a good choice, however as you get more into editing you may wish to consider something like the OneOne suite or Photoshop Elements to work along side of Lightroom 5.
Russ
 
Has LR5 solved the problem with lagging that 4 had? I've gone back to 3.6 as even my 16gig quad core machine was slow with LR4.
 
The23rdman said:
Has LR5 solved the problem with lagging that 4 had? I've gone back to 3.6 as even my 16gig quad core machine was slow with LR4.
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Hi, I changed my HD to a 60GB SSD and use the old 350GB SATA drive to import and also as the store for my photos rather than the OS H/D.
I have the OS WIN 7, L/R 5, P/S CS 6, OnOne Photo suite (both the 7.5 and the BETA 8 for testing) Photomatix and some other photo editing softwares installed on the 60GB SSD, 8 Gigs RAM, and my computer loads up everything in about a minute or less.
I have no speed issues with any of the software or OS.
The computer is not used for anything else but photography needs. I use a separate one for Internet etc even as far as downloading any software I may buy and transfer it to the Photo computer only time it goes on-line is to register or update software.
Russ
 
As above, adding a ssd has improved LR4 on my core2duo PC with 8gb ram. I believe LR is cpu hungry as opposed to RAM.
 
As I said, I have a quad core so plenty CPU power. An SSD is the next upgrade.
 
I found LR5 a touch laggy at first, but it seems to run a whole load better since upgrading to OSX Mavericks.
As above, plenty of tutorials on the web, but generally I think the develop module is pretty intuitive and easy to get your head around for a first time user
 
The23rdman said:
Has LR5 solved the problem with lagging that 4 had? I've gone back to 3.6 as even my 16gig quad core machine was slow with LR4.
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Not for me & I am seriously thinking of going back to LR4 :(

But my Lappy is a pretty basic set up but LR4 seemed fine on it.
 
Mmmm, that's not encouraging.
 
LR5 is great as long as you have a reasonably fast computer to run it on. Since LR4 I've hardly used Photoshop at all and rather than get into the cost of CC I now find I never need anything other than LR5 and PSE 12.

Lots of great tutorials on Youtube. Search for Julianne Kost and Lightroom killer tips
 
Welcome, I'm still on LR4 and think its great. I found the Scott Kelby book very useful in making the most of it.
It's also worth noting that you need to get yourself organised before you start in terms of where you are going to import your photos to and how you are going to organise them so you don't get in a mess!
 
I have a 16 gig ram, i7 2600k PC and find LR5 not that much faster than version 4. I think version 3 was by far the most stable they released, for some reason they can't seem to get version 4 or 5 optimised for high spec PC's.

I have a feeling Adobe optimise their software for Mac OS and not Windows OS because I've seen it running much faster on a much lower spec mac, I don't understand why it can't work fast on a normal hard disk when most programs do, I even have a Sata iii 6gbps HD and it's still slow. lol
 
I have LR5.2 & it works fine here.:):thumbs:
 
Downloaded LR5 as a trial....can't see me doing much in elements now, takes a bit of getting used to but just give everything a try, you can always go back in History to previous adjustments, only thing missing is it ability to make a cup of tea :)
 
Maybe it would be best to wait until v5.3 is released. There's at least one major bug in 5.2 that should never have made it into the full release.

There are plenty of people moaning about Lightroom on the internet but what percentage of actual users that is I don't know. Until recently I was a big fan of LR but I sometimes wonder now if they're trying to cram too much functionality into it.
 
There's always people moaning on the internet. There's nothing wrong with 5.2.
 
Pookeyhead said:
There's always people moaning on the internet. There's nothing wrong with 5.2.
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Talk about a red rag to a bull.........

Try this:

Go back to an image you have cloned (spot removal tool) in a previous version of LR.

Look at the cloned areas; don't they look terrible? Hard edges everywhere.

When they introduced the feathering slider in "Spot Removal" in 5.2, I think, they changed the pre-set feathering value (75 apparently) to 0 on old images.

It's fixed in 5.3 apparently. But what a schoolboy error!
 
DayDreamer said:
Not for me & I am seriously thinking of going back to LR4 :(

But my Lappy is a pretty basic set up but LR4 seemed fine on it.
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In the end I upgraded my RAM from the 4gb installed to 8gb & wow what a difference so LR5 is now great as is the general improvement in speed with my Lappy :)
 
I'm using RC5.3, it's definitely slower than 4. Also has a tendency to display a random picture in the navigator panel instead of the one I'm working on. Don't even think of applying a grad filter with noise reduction in it, kiss goodbye to doing anything for half an hour whilst it sorts itself out. Still acts like a massive memory sponge, gradually the whole machine slows up with every file exported from LR till it gets to the point you have to reboot and start again! I am using a very old and slow machine by comparison to you lot though. (Athlon X2 M300 2.0Ghz CPU and a mere 3Gb RAM!).
 
The23rdman said:
Has LR5 solved the problem with lagging that 4 had? I've gone back to 3.6 as even my 16gig quad core machine was slow with LR4.
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LR5 is dramatically faster than 4 on my setup - 64-bit Windows 8, 3.2GHz i5 (3540, I think), 8GB RAM, 2GB NVidia 660GTX GPU.
 
So is it worth d/loading the 5.3 update?:)
 
If you have many earlier images on which you had used the clone tool, and you need them now, it probably is. I had to put together a slide talk recently and there was no way I was going to re-process each one before showing them!

But if you don't, it's probably best to wait until the actual v5.3 release appears. It will save time uninstalling v5.3 Release Candidate and installing actual v5.3.
 
Yep,your right.:thumbs:
 
pwhysall said:
LR5 is dramatically faster than 4 on my setup - 64-bit Windows 8, 3.2GHz i5 (3540, I think), 8GB RAM, 2GB NVidia 660GTX GPU.
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I downloaded the trial and it is a massive improvement. Enough to warrant purchase.
 
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