Updates for Adobe Camera RAW CS6 and CC and for Lightroom 5

On Friday 8th November 2013 Adobe released new candidates of their Adobe Camera RAW and Lightroom products.

Included in these updates is, as you might expect, a swathe of new camera and lens support for Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm and many others. A list of all the updates can be found on the respective details pages

 

Camera Raw CS6 Update Details

Camera Raw CC Update Details

Lightroom 5 Update Details

The software engine for ACR CC has a few nice updates including;

• Whites and Blacks now support Auto Levels-like functionality via shift-double-click on the sliders.
• Separate Auto Temperature and Auto Tint feature. Shift-double-click to invoke “auto temperature” and “auto tint” separately.
• Ability to option-click shortcut in Synchronize, New Preset, Save Settings, and Copy/Paste (Bridge) dialog boxes. Option-click a checkbox to check that box exclusively. Option-click again to toggle previous checkbox state.
• Set the background color of the work area. Context-click outside the image in the work area to select a background color from a popup menu

And for Lightroom 5;

• Issues when upgrading catalog from previous versions of Lightroom.
• Incorrect photos are displayed after switching away from a Publish Collection.
• Catalog optimization did not finish, and was not optimizing the catalog
• Feather of clone spots is set to 0 after upgrading catalog to Lightroom 5.
• Auto White Balance settings are not saved to Snapshots.
• Sony 18-55mm lens is detected as the Hasselblad 18-55mm lens for lens correction.
• Increased Update Spot Removal history steps when in Before and After view.
• Slideshows start playing automatically even when the Manual Slideshow option is enabled.
• Video playback stops when dragging on the scrubber.
• Errors when publishing photos to Flickr through the Publish Service.
• Option + drag on Edit Pin behavior is functioning incorrectly.
• Black border appears around the exported slideshow video.
• Catalog containing images processed with PV2003 were adding a post-crop vignette when catalog upgraded to Lightroom 5.
• Pressing the “Reset” button while holding down the Shift key caused Lightroom to exit abruptly.
• Output Sharpening and Noise Reduction were not applied to exported images that were resized to less than 1/3 of the original image size.
• The Esc key did not exit the slideshow after right clicking screen with mouse during slideshow playing.
• Import dialog remained blank for folders that contain PNG files with XMP sidecars.
• Metadata panel displayed incorrect information after modifying published photo.  Please note that this only occurred when metadata was changed after the photo was published.