Operation Manual

What's new

Last updated 11/30/2015

Support for touch-enabled computers

New in this release of Lightroom

Lightroom now offers a touch workspace experience. You can s

witch to the touch workspace from anywhere in the app

by clicking the Touch icon available only on touch-enabled devices, such as the Microsoft Surface Pro 3.

Once you've switched to the touch workspace, you have access to the controls available in Lightroom for mobile and

re. Among other things, you can do the following in the touch workspace:

• Scroll through panels and filmstrips

• Add flags

• Zoom in/out in the Loupe and Grid views

• Access your user-created presets and local corrections

Other enhancements

Library module

• New 250% option in the Windows UI scaling preference.

• Now you can filter the Collection list in much the same way as the Keyword list. Click + in the Collections

panel and then enable Show Collection Filter.

• A new preview size called Auto is now available. Auto automatically builds previews at your monitor's

resolution.

• Flag and Rating categories are now available as part of Metadata filters.

Book module

• Photo text-metadata settings are now saved with custom pages.

Slideshow module

• You can now preview slideshows at your screen aspect ratio or at your intended output aspect ratio (16x9 or

4x3).

Develop module

• New Auto option added to the Crop tool enables you to apply an adjustment similar to the Level Upright

option in the Crop panel.

• Now you can reposition Adjustment Brush strokes by selecting and dragging Edit pins.

• Mask overlays for the Gradient and Radial filters are now accessible using the same menu commands and

keyboard shortcuts that display the mask overlay for the local adjustment brush.

• New keyboard shortcut to cycle through Upright modes: Control+/Ctrl+Tab. You can preserve your crop

using the keyboard combination Option+Control+Tab (Mac).

• CMYK support while soft-proofing.

What's changed

• The Email Photo keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+/Control+M) has been reassigned for initiating a Panorama Merge

eration.