Adobe releases Lightroom 5.2

Together with the Camera Raw update, Adobe also updated Lightroom.

Lightroom 5.2 contains the following enhancements and bug fixes.

New Features in Lightroom 5.2

• A Smoothness adjustment slider has been added to the Detail Panel under Color Noise Reduction. This helps to reduce low-frequency color mottling artifacts
• Refinements to the Spot Healing Tool:
  • New Feather control
  • Auto find source method now works better for images with textured areas like rocks, bark, and foliage
  • Auto find source method now prefers source areas within the crop rectangle
• Auto Exposure has been improved to be more consistent across images and across different image sizes.
• Smart Preview size has been updated to 2560 pixels on the long edge.
• Refinements to the Local Adjustment Brush:
  • Right Click (PC) / Control-click (Mac) on a brush adjustment pin to bring up a context menu to duplicate or delete
  • Control+Alt+Drag (PC) / Command+Option+Drag (Mac) on a brush adjustment pin to clone (duplicate) that adjustment

Newly added support for Tethered Capture in Lightroom 5.2

• Canon EOS 6D
• Canon EOS Rebel T5i / EOS 700D / EOS Kiss X7i
• Canon EOS Rebel SL1 / EOS 100D / EOS Kiss X7
• Nikon D7100

New Camera Support in Lightroom 5.2

• Canon EOS 70D
• Canon PowerShot G16
• Canon PowerShot S120*
• Casio Exilim EX-ZR800
• Fujifilm FinePix HS22EXR
• Fujifilm FinePix HS35EXR
• Fujifilm FinePix S205EXR
• Fujifilm X-A1
• Fujifilm X-M1
• Leica C (Typ 112)
• Olympus OM-D E-M1*
• Panasonic Lumix DMC-GX7
• Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ70
• Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ72
• Pentax Q7
• Pentax K-50
• Pentax K-500
• Sony DSC-RX100 II
• Sony A3000 (ILCE-3000)
• Sony NEX-5T

* denotes preliminary support

New Lens Profile Support in Lightroom 5.2

Mount	Name
Sony	Sony E 35mm F1.8 OSS
Hasselblad	Hasselblad LF16mm F2.8
Hasselblad	Hasselblad LF18-55mm F3.5-5.6 OSS
Hasselblad	Hasselblad LF18-200mm F3.5-6.3 OSS
GoPro	GoPro Hero 3 Black Edition
GoPro	GoPro Hero 3 Silver Edition
GoPro	GoPro Hero 3 White Edition
Leica	Leica TRI-ELMAR-M 16-18-21 mm f/4 ASPH.
Canon	SIGMA 18-35mm F1.8 DC HSM A013
Canon, Nikon, Sigma	SIGMA 120-300mm F2.8 DG OS HSM S013
Nikon	SIGMA 30mm F1.4 DC HSM A013
Olympus, Sony	SIGMA 60mm F2.8 DN A013
Pentax, Sony	SIGMA 17-70mm F2.8-4 DC MACRO OS HSM C013
Pentax, Sony	SIGMA 35mm F1.4 DG HSM A012
Nikon	Nikon 1 NIKKOR 32mm f/1.2
Sony	Sony DSC-RX1R

Bugs Corrected in Lightroom 5.2

• Output Sharpening and Noise Reduction were not applied to exported images that were resized to less than 1/3 of the original image size.
• Slideshow Exporting process fails for time-lapse sequences.
• Unable to export a Book.  This only occurred after a customer deleted a background photo.
• Catalog containing images processed with PV2003 were adding a post-crop vignette when catalog upgraded to Lightroom 5.
• JPEG decoding produced a red colorcast.
• Unable to scroll through photos when in Full screen mode. This only occurs when more than 1 photo is selected.
• “Store presets with this catalog” preference is not preserved when upgrading catalog from previous versions of Lightroom.
• Crash when scrubbing Size slider with existing spot selected.
• Landscape crop not maintained on portrait oriented photos
• Pressing the Reset button while holding the Shift key results in an internal error.
• Crash when attempting to move brush spots.
• Gray area is shown when zooming in/out after cropping image.
• A row of vertical artifacts appears along bottom edge of photo when applying Grain.
• Defringe Color Sampler is inaccurate on photos that have Upright applied.
• All of the images on a Compact Flash card did not appear in the Import Dialogue.
• Metadata panel displayed incorrect information after modifying published photo. Please note that this only occurred when metadata was changed after the photo was published.
• Soundtrack does not fade at the end of a slideshow.
• The Esc key did not exit the slideshow after right clicking screen with mouse during slideshow playing.
• Import dialog remained blank for folders that contain PNG files with XMP sidecars.

Installation

Either use Lightroom's own update mechanism or download directly from Adobe: Windows | Mac.

Software developers can download the Lightroom 5.2 SDK from Adobe as well: SDK