Adobe Releases August Updates to Lightroom and ACR

From Adobe:

Improvements to Lightroom Classic & ACR

Updates are available today for Lightroom Classic and Adobe Camera Raw, our two desktop-centric photography applications. These updates focus on performance and improving your workflow.

GPU Accelerated Editing

Lightroom Classic and Camera Raw

Lightroom Classic and Camera Raw take advantage of the more powerful graphics cards (GPUs) while editing, providing a smoother and more responsive experience. GPU acceleration is more pronounced with larger resolution monitors (4k and above) as well as with more powerful GPUs.

PNG export support

Lightroom Classic and Camera Raw

The PNG file format is a popular uncompressed file format often used on the web. Lightroom and Camera Raw have supported importing and opening PNG-based files for some time, and now you can export your photos as PNGs.

Library Module Improvements

Lightroom Classic

As part of our on-going effort to improve speed and performance in Lightroom Classic, significant improvements were made to the Library module while browsing folders.

Color Labels for Collections

Lightroom Classic

Color labels have long been used in Lightroom Classic as a way to quickly visualize different groups of photos and recently we made it possible to add color labels to folders. In this update, we added the ability to also add color labels to Collections. Find what you’re looking for faster by adding color labels to collections, collection sets, and smart collections.

Batch Merge for HDR, Panoramas, and HDR Panoramas

Lightroom Classic

Batch processing is a great way to speed up your workflow by helping you gang up processor-intensive efforts and letting your computer do the heavy lifting without having to wait for each task to be done. The August release of Lightroom Classic makes it possible to batch process HDR and panorama merges. To batch merge, first make a stack of each HDR or pano that you want to merge (make sure that you’re selecting like stacks, all HDR or all pano merges, without mixing up the two types). Then, select each stack you want to merge and select the appropriate option from the Photo > Photo Merge menu.

New Features Throughout the Lightroom Ecosystem

The August releases for Lightroom, our cloud-centric photography ecosystem, include the ability to recover deleted photos, improvements to the in-app educational tools released in May, as well as improvements to search.

Recover Deleted Photos

Lightroom for Mac, Windows, iOS, Android, ChromeOS, and lightroom.adobe.com

Discover posts were introduced in the May 2019 release and allow you to see the edit process applied to a photo. Now you can turn those edits into a preset that you can apply to any of your photos. Tap to open a Discover post and then tap on the three-dot menu at the top-right and select Download as Preset. You’ll be able to find that new preset named after the Discover post within your preset library.

Improved Search Options

Lightroom for iOS, Android, and ChromeOS

Three new auto-complete search tools were added to Lightroom for iOS, Android, and ChromeOS (these tools were already available in Lightroom for Windows and Mac) making it easier than ever to find the exact photo you’re looking for. You can now search for photos shot with a specific focal length, for raw, HDR, or pano photo types, and for images that include a depth map. To use, start typing “focal length:”, “type:”, or “depth map:” and the search auto-complete will let you pick from the available options in your catalog.

Batch Metadata

Lightroom for Android and ChromeOS

In addition to being able to copy and paste edits to a series of photos, you can now select a range of photos and adjust the metadata of all of the selected photos. You can change the title, caption, copyright, star rating, and flag status for all selected photos at once. This functionality is being worked on for iOS and will be made available as soon as possible.

Adobe Camera Raw 11.4

The August 2019 release of Adobe Camera Raw (version 11.4) rolls out new features - enhanced GPU support to accelerate editing of images and edge-aware editing in 360-degree panoramas. This release also adds support for new cameras and lenses and fixes several issues.

Latest cameras added in August 2019

  • Canon PowerShot G5 X Mark II
  • Canon PowerShot G7 X Mark III
  • Hasselblad X1D II 50C
  • Leica V-LUX 5
  • Panasonic LUMIX DC-GX880
  • Sony A7R IV (ILCE-7RM4)*
  • Sony RX100 VII (DSC-RX100M7)*

*Denotes preliminary support

Latest lenses added in August 2019

ManufacturerLensLens mountMin ACR plug-in version requiredMin LR version requiredMin LR Classic version required
CanonCanon RF 24-240mm F4-6.3 IS USMCanon RF11.42.48.4
CanonCanon RF 28-70mm F2 L USMCanon RF11.42.48.4
CanonCanon RF 35mm F1.8 MACRO IS STMCanon RF11.42.48.4
CanonCanon RF 50mm F1.2 L USMCanon RF11.42.48.4
CanonCanon RF 85mm F1.2 L USMCanon RF11.42.48.4
NikonNikon NIKKOR 28mm f/2.8 AISNikon F11.42.48.4
SigmaSIGMA 35mm F1.2 DG DN A019Sony FE11.42.48.4
SigmaSIGMA 45mm F2.8 DG DN C019Sony FE11.42.48.4
SonySony FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSSSony FE11.42.48.4
SonySony FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS + 1.4X TeleconverterSony FE11.42.48.4
SonySony FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS + 2X TeleconverterSony FE11.42.48.4
SonySony FE 600mm F4 GM OSSSony FE11.42.48.4
SonySony FE 600mm F4 GM OSS + 1.4X TeleconverterSony FE11.42.48.4
SonySony FE 600mm F4 GM OSS + 2X TeleconverterSony FE11.42.48.4
TamronTAMRON SP 35mm F1.4 Di USD F045Canon EF11.42.48.4
TamronTAMRON 35-150mm F2.8-4 Di VC OSD A043Canon EF11.42.48.4
TamronTAMRON SP 35mm F1.4 Di USD F045NNikon F11.42.48.4
TamronTAMRON 35-150mm F2.8-4 Di VC OSD A043NNikon F11.42.48.4
TokinaTokina FíRIN 100mm F2.8 FE AF MACROSony FE11.42.48.4
ZeissZeiss Otus 1.4/100 ZECanon EF11.42.48.4
ZeissZeiss Otus 1.4/100 ZF.2Nikon F11.42.48.4

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Posted: 8/14/2019 5:10:47 AM ET   Posted By: Sean
Posted to: Canon News, Sony News    Category: Adobe News
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