With either Photoshop or Microsoft ICE the end result is a very useable TIF file, but still not quite the same as a RAW. One thing right off I hope will make a big difference is the resulting file from the merge.

In the past I have had to use Photoshop or the free (and still experimental) ICE program from Microsoft, but this is now supported in Lightroom and I am excited to see how it all compares. Maybe I am compensating for gear since I am using a crop sensor body and cheap(er) lenses, but it is really fun to take a 208 megapixel shot using 28 different shots and merging them together. PanoramaĪs I have talked about on the Improve Photography Roundtable podcast, I love taking panorama shots. That's right, not one at 0EV, and not 3, 5, or 7 bracketed shots. Different from other HDR software however, the algorithms in Lightroom CC 2015 (or version 6 in the non-subscription version) are very carefully designed to work with only two shots: one at -2EV and another at +2EV. There is a simple process to merge multiple photos into a single HDR (high dynamic range) photo. I can't wait to try this feature out and compare it with the other HDR work I have done on my landscapes. If none of the other features in this release get you excited, the speed improvements alone will be make updating to the latest version of the software well worth your time and money (if you aren't already a subscriber). From faster import, to using the GPU (graphics card) to make the develop module faster (supposedly up to 1000x faster in some uses), to improved previews (new “auto” previews know how they should be sized based on the resolution of your screen), to faster exports. Note: This article was updated a few days after release to correct information about features in Lightroom 5 having been exclusive to Creative Cloud subscribers.Īlready very popular in the photography community, Adobe has added a few notable features in the latest release of Lightroom that I am excited to try out: Speed, Speed, SpeedĪdobe has put a huge emphasis in this update on the speed of Lightroom.

Sure to be a frequent topic here at, Adobe today () released a new version of Lightroom, their popular photo management and editing application and here are the notable things included in the update.

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