Lightroom 5.7 and Camera Raw 8.7 are now available as a final releases on Adobe.com and through the update mechanism in Lightroom 5 and Photoshop CC respectively. The goal of each release is to provide support for additional camera raw support, lens profile support and address bugs that were introduced in previous releases of Lightroom and Camera Raw.
Features in Lightroom 5.7
Updates to Synced Collections:
- Synced collections now show a more prominent share button at the top of the Toolbar. This allows you to quickly share your synced collection with friends, family, and clients using Lightroom web (http://lightroom.adobe.com).
- Comments and likes left on Lightroom web now sync to the Lightroom desktop catalog. Comments and Likes will be shown in the “Comment” panel for synced collections.
- Images with comments and likes will display a badge indicating that there are comments and a coloured badge to indicate that there are unread comments.
Integrated a utility to import images from Apple Aperture and Apple iPhoto libraries into Lightroom:
- Previously available as a separate and downloadable plug-in, this utility has now been integrated into Lightroom 5.7
Selection of New Camera Support in Lightroom 5.7 and Camera Raw 8.7
- Canon EOS 7D Mark II (Hooray!)
- Canon PowerShot G7 X
- Canon PowerShot SX60 HS
- Fujifilm X30
- Fujifilm X100T
- Fujifilm X-T1 Graphite Silver
- Nikon D750
Newly supported cameras for Tethered Capture in Lightroom 5.7
- Nikon D4S
- Nikon D810
Adobe have also added a number of new lens profiles for Canon, Fuji, Leica, Nikon and Sony.
Bugs Corrected in Lightroom 5.7
- The crop overlay displayed an intermediate step when progressing through images in the filmstrip with overlay displayed.
- The lens profile for the Canon EF 16-35mm f/4 would not auto-select when using Lens Profile Corrections.
- ICC profiles resulted in incorrectly clipped shadows and blacks in Lightroom. Note that this is related to the issue identified here and only occurs on Mac OSX 10.9 and later.
- Fixed crash when rapidly adding corrections with the Spot Removal tool.
- Fixed bug that prevented the Filter Brush cursor from displaying while changing brush size when the Graduated and Radial Filter overlay is turned off.
- Improved quality of Camera Matching colour profiles for the Nikon D810. Fixes visible banding issues with the Camera Standard, Camera Vivid, Camera Landscape, and Camera Monochrome profiles.
- (http://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/lightroom_5_icc_profiles_clipped_shadows_under_osx)
- Context menu (right click on PC or control+click on Mac) was disabled for images contained in Lightroom mobile collections.
- Fixed issue that prevented Lightroom 5 from reading Photoshop Elements 13 libraries.
- Cover images set by Lightroom mobile were sometimes incorrectly reset by Lightroom desktop.
- Sync with Lightroom mobile sometimes stalled when asset is added to same album on both LrM and LrD and later deleted.
- Resolved issue that caused Lightroom to crash when creating a Print and saving it to a mounted DVD directly inside Lightroom.
- Publishing images to Behance using the Behance Publish Service has been restored.
Features in Camera Raw 8.7
ACR 8.7 now supports HiDPI displays on Windows. Please use the following steps to enabled HiDPI on Windows:
- Go to Photoshop -> Preferences -> Experimental Features
- Click on “Scaled UI 200% for high-density displays”
Camera Raw 8.7 Bug Fixes:
- Fixed crash when rapidly adding corrections with the Spot Removal tool.
- Fixed bug that prevented the Filter Brush cursor from displaying while changing brush size when the Graduated and Radial Filter overlay is turned off.
- Improved quality of Camera Matching color profiles for the Nikon D810. Fixes visible banding issues with the Camera Standard, Camera Vivid, Camera Landscape, and Camera Monochrome profiles.