![]() Alas, Dehaze is restricted currently to CC subscribers owners of the standalone edition won’t get to play with it until they pay to upgrade to the next version, or take out a Creative Cloud subscription.Īlso new in Lightroom 6 is GPU acceleration, and with our Intel HD Graphics 4400 GPU the Develop stage certainly felt more responsive than in the previous edition. ![]() ![]() It works pretty well in most circumstances if used carefully, but unwanted effects can occur in some circumstances, such as smudgy, unnatural-looking clouds. Again, the output is a DNG, so you can use Lightroom’s processing tools to non-destructively punch up the resulting image.ĭehaze, introduced in the 2015 update to Creative Cloud, is another new feature, adding a way to reduce the haze or fogging that shooting into the sun or a bright light can add to photographs. Thankfully, our results proved impressively consistent, with even quite widely spaced shots stitching seamlessly together: only in one case did we need to export the image into Photoshop to tidy up a glitch. You can’t even zoom into the preview to check for boundary mismatches – although that’s perhaps academic, as there are no tools for fixing them anyway. On opening the preview window you’ll see very few options: just three different projections and an auto-crop tool. It’s a similar story with the panorama feature. It’s just a shame that the merge module can only produce 8-bit DNGs: a 16-bit option, as found in Photoshop, would have left you more subtle tonal detail to work with. Of course, this is Lightroom, so if the combined image doesn’t have the desired HDR glow, you can always apply non-destructive processing to perfect it after the fact. Where Photoshop’s HDR Pro module gives you extensive control over the tone of your merged image, here you get only a few tickboxes and a choice of four deghosting levels. It does however open up new creative options, not least with a new pair of photomerge tools that let you stack and blend images into HDR and panoramic scenes.Īt first glance, these look pretty basic. The underlying image-processing engine hasn’t changed, so if you’re happy with Lightroom 5, the new version won’t make your photos look any better. Whether the upgrade is worthwhile depends on your ambitions. You can buy it outright on Amazon UK for £109 (or Amazon US for $143). As with previous versions, Lightroom 6 is available under a ‘perpetual license’, with a standalone edition offered as a very affordable £59 upgrade for existing users, or as part of a Creative Cloud license, under the name Photoshop Lightroom CC. It was a long time coming, but nearly two years after the release of Lightroom 5, Adobe has rolled out a major new update to its photographic workhorse.
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