Lightroom
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5 is an older version of Adobe's photo management and editing software, designed for photographers to import, organize, edit and export digital images. It offers non-destructive editing tools including exposure, white balance, clarity and saturation adjustments, along with powerful library management features like collections, smart collections, and metadata tagging. Lightroom 5 was superseded by newer versions and is no longer supported or updated by Adobe.
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1 suggestionLightroom 5 is an older, discontinued version of Adobe's photography software and does not have a native Apple Silicon build. Adobe has not shipped native or Universal Binary versions for Lightroom 5, and the product is no longer under active development or support. The Intel-only build will continue to run under Rosetta 2 today, but Apple is removing Rosetta 2 in macOS 28 (September 2028), meaning Lightroom 5 will no longer launch on Macs running that release or later. If you rely on Lightroom for photo management and editing, upgrade to Adobe Lightroom Classic (the modern successor to Lightroom 5) or Adobe Lightroom (the cloud-based version), both of which ship as native Universal Binaries on Apple Silicon Macs. You can migrate your Lightroom 5 catalog to either modern version using Adobe's built-in import tools. If you prefer to stick with a standalone, non-subscription photo editor, consider Capture One or Darktable as native alternatives, though neither offers an exact feature-for-feature match to Lightroom.
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