As promised last week, Adobe today released Lightroom 6.13 - a free update to the perpetual-license (non-subscription) Lightroom 6 product. The update contains one bug fix, support for several new cameras, and many new lens profiles. For Creative Cloud subscribers still using the CC 2015 product who don't want to upgrade to the newer Classic [...]
In a post on the Adobe Lightroom Journal blog, Tom Hogarty, Senior Product Manager for photography products, apologized on Friday for the quality of Monday’s Lightroom 6.2 and CC 2015.2 releases. He acknowledges first that it was a mistake to ship the product before resolving the crash bug. In terms of why they made the Import redesign [...]
As I mentioned in my last post on Adobe's Photography Creative Cloud announcement, at Photoshop World last week Adobe Product Manager Tom Hogarty demonstrated Lightroom Mobile, an exciting solution now in development that will allow us to seamlessly review and make at least basic adjustments to photos in our Desktop Lightroom catalogs using our iPads or [...]
Adobe's new version of Photoshop, Photoshop CC, is now available for download through its Creative Cloud subscription service. New features for photographers include a camera-shake-reduction filter, and improved Smart Sharpen and upsampling algorithms. Adobe announced last month that new versions of Photoshop and other Creative Suite software would only be available via a Creative Cloud subscription. [...]
The Adobe Kuler iPhone app is available starting today. Kuler is a cloud-based application for making and exploring color themes using an iPhone or your browser. Kuler now gives you multiple options to capture inspiring color themes whenever and wherever you come across them; capturing color inspiration on your iPhone, syncing colors in Illustrator, Photoshop, and [...]
I would recommend that anyone who is at all frustrated with Lightroom 4 running too slowly check out this very useful new page from Adobe on steps you can take to improve performance. Some relate to upgrading your hardware (such as 16 GB of RAM and moving your catalog to a solid state drive), but others [...]
Mac Retina Display Support Adobe announced this past week that within the next few months they will provide a free update to Lightroom and Photoshop (and some other programs) that will include MacBook Pro Retina Display support (i.e. high pixel density display support). Until they are redesigned in these updates, certain elements of the software interface [...]
As is often the case in advance of an official release, Adobe tonight has made available a “release candidate” of Lightroom 4.2, available for download from Adobe Labs. The release candidate has been tested by Adobe testers, but they are now seeking broader user experience and feedback before finalizing 4.2. This RC contains several bug fixes, [...]
Adobe today announced the release of Photoshop Touch for iPad 2 and Android tablets, available for $9.99. According to Adobe, the new app "lets you quickly combine images, apply professional effects, share the results with friends and family through social networking sites like Facebook, and more." According to the Adobe site, You can easily browse and select photos [...]
Ever loved a photo you took, but threw it away because it was blurry due to camera shake? Well, stop doing that!! Adobe demonstrated its new Photoshop technology for removing camera-shake blur from photos at Adobe Max 2011. Will this make it into Photoshop CS6? I have absolutely no idea. They even qualify this by saying [...]
Adobe has announced that the release candidates for Lightroom 3.5 and Camera Raw 6.5 are available. Release candidates are one stage away from official release — Adobe uses the release candidate to get test results from a wider group of users. I wouldn’t hesitate to download the release candidate if I needed a specific feature; [...]
Adobe announced today that on April 12 it will reveal in a live online event what is new in Photoshop CS5. You can register for the event HERE. They have not announced an actual release date for the software yet. Since I am more focused on Lightroom these days, my initial reaction is "already"? CS4 is [...]
