The lighter Lightroom, built around a simple folder view and a full raw editor with AI masking, for people who want to edit a shoot rather than run a library.
This is the streamlined Lightroom rather than the catalogue driven Classic application, and the difference is the whole point. There is no import dialogue with a dozen decisions, no catalogue file to back up, and no separate modules to move between. You point it at your photos, they appear, and you edit them. Everything happens in one window with one panel of controls on the right.
The editing engine underneath is the same one Classic uses, which is why the simplification does not cost anything where it matters. Full raw development with exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows, whites, blacks, texture, clarity, dehaze, vibrance and saturation, the full tone curve, a colour mixer per hue, colour grading with separate shadow, midtone and highlight control, detail and noise reduction, lens correction, geometry and effects. Profiles from the camera manufacturer and Adobe's own set are all available in the browser.
AI masking is the feature that changed how most people edit. It picks out the subject, the sky, the background, individual people, and within a person the skin, eyes, hair, lips, clothing and facial hair, each as its own mask with the complete slider set attached. Brush, linear and radial masks combine with them through intersect and subtract, which covers essentially any local adjustment you would otherwise have taken into a pixel editor for.
Organisation is deliberately light. Albums and folders, star ratings and flags, keywords, and a search that understands what is in the picture rather than only what you typed about it. Edits are non destructive, presets can be created and applied on import, and export handles sizing, format, colour space, sharpening and watermarking with reusable settings.
Read the whole list before you start. Most of the reports that come into the desk about this title turn out to be a step taken out of order.
| Processor | Intel or AMD, 64 bit, 2 GHz or faster with SSE 4.2 |
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| Memory | 8 GB minimum, 16 GB recommended |
| Graphics | 2 GB VRAM minimum, 4 GB for Denoise and AI masking |
| Storage | 6 GB for the install plus room for previews |
| Display | 1920 by 1080, calibrated if colour accuracy matters |
Cloud synchronisation is switched off in this build. Keep your photos on local drives and back them up yourself.
This and the Classic application can coexist on one machine, but they do not share edits. Pick one for a given project and stay in it.
| Title | Adobe Photoshop Lightroom |
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| Developer | Adobe |
| Version | 6.5.0 |
| Category | Photo & Graphics |
| Release type | Full version |
| Operating system | Windows 11, Windows 10 (64 bit) |
| Architecture | x64 |
| Interface language | Multilingual |
| Archive size | 1.24 GB |
| File name | adobe_photoshop_lightroom_6.5.0_x64.rar |
| Shelf updated | 6 days ago |
| Total downloads | 555,689 |
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