It’s not obtrusive for those who don’t need or want it, but it’s easily accessed for those who do. That being said, there is a lot of room for this to grow, and I’m glad to see the backend being bolted into place at such a deep level. This is great for… well, I’m still looking for who the hell would really need this, as every pro photog that would need to edit on the go has a laptop, and the iPhone/iPad ( and finally, Android!) versions of LR are still a long way from being prime-time usable. The other core improvement is that LR6/CC has its support for the Lightroom mobile clients “baked in” instead of tacked on. It’s certainly enough to feel snappier, especially compared to the bloat of LR5, so I won’t complain. All of the press documentation talks about it being “up to 10x faster,” and maybe SOME part of the software runs that much better, but overall I’d say it’s more like 2-3x. I’ve noted that each revision gets a little more “bloated” and slower at doing the same task versus its previous generation – Adobe apparently took the complaints from LR5 to heart and worked on some very sorely needed optimization. The first of these is an overall speedup of the software, which was sorely needed. You can now mask out parts of images when applying gradients! A Core Workoutīefore we get deep into the touchy-feely features, let’s talk about a couple substantial improvements in the core of the software itself. It doesn’t deserve a group of its own below (and is the only real tweak to the develop module I could find) but it deserves a shout-out. One additional feature that hasn’t really been talked about but is well worth an honorable mention is that there is FINALLY a masking option for gradients! This comes in through the “Filter” brush, which can be used to exclude areas from color gradients and washes. Now you can bore your family to the beat of up to 10 songs (that is wayyyyy too long) with pictures changing in time with the music. Sorry, guys, I do not think it possible for me to care less about this, as video slideshows are of the devil to begin with and only used to subject poor family members to the torture of vacation pictures. The “WTF?” moment rounds out our major improvements with new and improved video slideshows. The improvement for the Facebook-loving masses (or just those with huge image catalogs) is facial recognition (again, discussed in detail in this review). This time, the photographers get photograph merging for HDR and panoramas, which we’ll look at in detail (it’s probably the core reason a pro or prosumer would upgrade). Some of these features are ones that photographers have been clamoring for, for ages a couple of them are more for the masses and there is the always-present Adobe trumpeting of a “WTF?” improvement cooked up for nobody really knows who. The upgrade touts an impressive new feature list. To eliminate any confusion, LR6 is the standalone version of Lightroom Creative Cloud… essentially the same product. As with looks at the software’s previous updates, I will not head into a full review of Lightroom’s capabilities (instead, if you need to familiarize yourself with the basic premise, I urge you to read my original treatise from a few versions back here), but instead give some insight into its newest changes. Just last week, Adobe dropped the curtain on the official release of Lightroom 6/CC, putting the final master into our hands to play around with.
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