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Lightroom 6.2 and Camera RAW 9.2 are now available for CC users

By Marcus Wong - on 6 Oct 2015, 3:13pm

Lightroom 6.2 and Camera RAW 9.2 are now available for CC users

Adobe has just released version 6.2 of Lightroom, and the new release brings support for the DxO ONE, the Leica S (Typ 007), the Olympus E-M10 Mark II, and the Sony A7S II (ILCE-7SM2), via Camera RAW 9.2 (though SuperRAW files from the DxO ONE are still not supported).

Lightroom 6.2 will also now offer tethering support for the Leica M Monochrom, and offers new lens profiles for the following Canon lenses:

  • Canon EF Canon EF 600mm f/4L IS II USM
  • Canon EF Canon EF 800mm f/5.6L IS USM
  • Canon EF SIGMA 24-35mm F2 DG HSM A015
  • Canon EF TAMRON 18-200mm F/3.5-6.3 DiII VC B018E
  • Canon EF TAMRON SP 35mm F/1.8 Di VC USD F012E
  • Canon EF TAMRON SP 45mm F/1.8 Di VC USD F013E
  • Canon FD Canon FD 28mm F2.8
  • Canon FD Canon FD 50mm F1.4
  • Canon FD Canon FD 135mm F2.5 S.C.

Here are some of the new features available:

Dehaze as a Local Adjustment

Dehaze can now be applied as a Local Adjustment, so you can use the Radial Filter, Graduated Filter and Local Adjustment Brush to control just how much and where the Dehaze adjustment is applied to your images.

Birds Eye View

This is a new way to navigate across the image quickly (especially when zoomed in).

Here’s how it's used:

 

  1. Press and hold H.
  2. Click and drag to set the position of the zoom rectangle as desired. The zoom rectangle is shown as an outline around the cursor.
  3. Release the mouse. The image zooms to the area chosen in the previous step. The selected tool remains unchanged.
  4. If you start in Fit View mode or smaller, the zoom rectangle will represent 100% pixel view (1:1). This is a quick way to zoom to 1:1 at a specific part of the image (such as a person’s face, or other area of interest).
  5. If you start zoomed in, then after you release the mouse you’ll return to the same zoom level. For example, if you start at 200%, then after releasing the mouse you’ll be back at 200%.
  6. Birds Eye View is only available when GPU is enabled.

 

Usability improvements to modal tools

  • Modal tools include Spot removal, red eye correction, local adjustment brush, graduated filter and radial filter.
  • The return and escape buttons now behave differently when using a modal tool. In the past, they would dismiss the modal tool. The new behavior is:
  • If there is an active correction typing return or escape will deselect that correction.
  • In the case of the three local correction tools (brush, graduated filter, radial filter), the radio button at the top of the panel will get set to “New” so that the next click will create a new correction. This saves a bit of cursor movement; you no longer need to move over to the panel in order to start work on a new correction.
    If there is no active correction, the Zoom tool becomes selected. This matches the behavior of the Crop tool.

 

Bug fixes:

  • Improved alignment results for HDR and Panorama merges. Note that this improved alignment technique may produce different results from merges in earlier Camera Raw versions, even for merges that had acceptable alignment.
  • Improved image quality for Sony A7R II for raw files captured using long exposures.
  • Fixed missing Camera Matching Profiles for Olympus Stylus 1 and 1s
  • Improve quality of display color management in GPU mode. Color and tone gradations are now smoother.
  • Improve quality of image while using Scrubby Zoom.
  • Fixed intermittent crash when using Red Eye tool.

Sadly though, this also marks the end of official support of Camera Raw for older versions of Photoshop or Lightroom as Camera Raw 9.2 is available only in Photoshop CC or later.Customers using older versions of Photoshop are advised to use the DNG Converter for continued camera support.

 

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