Adobe’s Lightroom 5 was released this week with a number of new features including an advanced Healing Brush for removing unwanted objects (or people) from your photos, Upright corrections for fixing skewed images, Radial Gradients for creating off-center effects, plus Behance integration, and improvements to preview, slideshow, and photo book creation features. Lightroom 5 is available as part of a Creative Cloud subscription, and also as a perpetual license product for $149 (upgrades are $79). To learn more about Lightroom 5, check out the following resources.
The Lightroom 5 page at Adobe.com has full descriptions and video demos of the new features (which you can also check out on YouTube), including the following video overview.
Peachpit.com has tutorials on Enhanced Spot Removal in Lightroom 5 and Creating Effects with the Radial Filter Tool in Lightroom 5.
Adobe TV has a series of 14 videos by Julieanne Kost, Getting Started with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5, including this one on how to create a photo book:
The Adobe blog Lightroom Journal has a summary of bugs and other hot issues that have been identified since the product launch.
And lynda.com offers over three and a half hours of videos in Up and Running with Lightroom 5 with Jan Kabili, including free videos on several new features like this one on the new Upright corrections.
This article was last modified on July 20, 2021
This article was first published on June 14, 2013
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