Update to LR CC 2015

Release Notes
New Features – Lightroom desktop
Dehaze as a Local Adjustment*
We added Dehaze as a global adjustment in the Lightroom CC 2015.1 release and are excited to see the widespread interest in the feature. We wanted to extend the functionality, and I’m happy to announce that you can now apply Dehaze as a Local Adjustment. This means that you can use Dehaze with the Radial Filter, Graduated Filter and Local Adjustment Brush.
* Please note that this feature is not available in the standalone version of Lightroom 6
Revamped Import
We redesigned the Import experience to make finding and importing your photos easier and more visual. The redesign was driven by our desire to make the import workflow more explicit and clear. The workflow is 1. Select a source, 2. Select images 3. Choose any import settings (optional) and 4. Import.
The revamped Import experience is based on customer feedback and we’re excited to hear what you think.
Select a Source: There is a new “Add Photos” screen which scans to identify the potential locations for photos on your hard drive. You can also easily select from a folder, a connected camera (via USB cable), a memory card, external hard drive, or Photoshop Elements catalog.
Select images: The Import Dialog has been redesigned. Your source will already be selected (you choose it in step 1) so you can specify which images to import. We recommend importing all.
Choose any import settings (optional): While there isn’t a need to change the default settings, you can open the gear icon (on the top right) to adjust and change import settings.
Hit the import button.
Improvements to “Import from Photoshop Elements” feature
In addition to Import, we’ve revamped the Import from Photoshop Elements experience. Now you can migrate the images from your Photoshop Elements catalog into Lightroom easily. To do so, click on the Photoshop Elements icon in the “Add Photos” screen (step 1 from above). Select the Elements catalog and click the Import button. Lightroom will handle the rest for you automatically.
New Features – Lr mobile 1.3 (Android)
Total color control. Refine the individual colors in your photos with the new Color / B&W adjustment tool.
Just the right tone. Precisely control the tone of your photo with the new Tone Curve adjustment tool.
Stand out. Bring out the best in your photos with adjustable vignettes.
Find your photos faster. The new ‘Lightroom Photos’ collection displays your Camera Roll photos and videos by date, so you can find them faster.
Your photo at its best. Crop the perfect photo with a redesigned experience that enables you to quickly adjust, align and auto-straighten.
TIFF Filetype Support
Download the updates from the Google Play store here
New Features – Lr mobile 2.o (iOS)
Free Lightroom! Unleash your creativity with free access to Lightroom for as long as you’d like on your smartphone or tablet.
Better photos in a snap. Capture amazing moments with the in-app Adobe camera, streamlining shoot to share.
Cut through the haze. Control the amount of atmospheric haze in your photos to recover color and contrast, or to create artistic effects, with the Dehaze adjustment tool.
Make photo magic, faster. Seamlessly access Photoshop Fix to retouch your photos.
Complete color control. Tune the colors in specific areas of your photos using the Targeted Adjustment tool, a new Color/B&W editing option.
“Lights, camera, action.” Craft amazing video stories from your Lightroom photos— synced to the beat of your favorite music, with one-tap access to Premiere Clip.
Find your photos faster. The new ‘Lightroom Photos’ collection displays your Camera Roll photos and videos by date, so you can find them faster.
Download the updates from the iOS App Store here (iPad | iPhone)
New Camera Support in Lightroom 6.2
DxO ONE
Leica S (Typ 007)
Olympus E-M10 Mark II
Sony A7SM2 (ILCE-7SM2)
* Please note that SuperRAW files from the DxO ONE are not supported.
New Tethered Camera Support in Lightroom 6.2
Leica M Monochrom
Bug Fixes:
When migrating from Photoshop Elements, Lightroom included face regions which were previously either rejected or deleted in Elements.
The Eye dropper won’t sample color from image. Please note that this occurred when GPU enabled on Windows only.
A range of AMD cards appear as unsupported on Windows. Please note that this was resolved with the AMD 15.8 beta driver release, which is available here
The color matching camera profiles for the Olympus Style 1 and Stylus 1S disappeared after installing the Olympus 2.0 firmware upgrade.
JPGs exported from Lightroom CC can be incompatible with some other applications due to a non standard header.
Map, Book, publish, sync are not working for Creative Cloud Enterprise customers on Mac OSX 10.10.
The Flickr Publish Service includes people keywords when it shouldn’t.
All exported JPEGs in Slideshows have the same slide text.
Images rendered as swapped blocks within the Slideshow module. Please note that this occurred only on Windows machines with AMD graphics cards.
Lightroom CC Slideshow Module takes over selected display monitor until LR is closed. Please note that this occurred only on Windows machines with AMD graphics cards.

Very happy with the new import module. Works almost the way I would have designed it myself. It will irritate some people, but from a workflow standpoint it makes so much more sense and a much needed and most welcome change.

Hilarious, they've now "fixed" the system info where it was saying that instead of Windows 10, that it was Windows 8.1 Home Edition

And yeah, the new import features looks good as well

Well, I will say to Adobe's credit, that in addition to introducing some cool improvements and new features, they also do work on "bug fixing". I've seen this especially with Camera Raw and Lightroom, since Raw processing is my first and almost always only stop, but Photoshop has seen good stuff as well, like I said not just in new and improved features, but also in bug fixes...

banquetbear wrote in post #17734411
Very happy with the new import module. Works almost the way I would have designed it myself. It will irritate some people, but from a workflow standpoint it makes so much more sense and a much needed and most welcome change.

Thousands of users who have commented on numerous Adobe Community boards disagree quite strongly. Adobe did not just redesign the UI, they removed the ability to view the destination folder structure, so you can verify where the images are being imported to. In fact, the default destination is your "my pictures" folder.

They also removed the option to safely eject memory cards after import.

They changed the display of photos selected for import so that the ones that are selected are dimmed, with a HUGE check mark on them, while the unselected are bright and unobscured. Since all the photos it finds are selected by default, you can't easily see your photos to decide which to keep!

And then they removed the ability to zoom in on the photos during the import process to examine them more closely.

Further, the new "Add Photos" function automatically scans your devices for any and all images and selects them for import. If you tell it that you want to import from a drive, I hope you have a book to read while it finds all the images you had no intention of importing.

Yeah, this was a great improvement.

tonylong wrote in post #17739371
Well, I will say to Adobe's credit, that in addition to introducing some cool improvements and new features, they also do work on "bug fixing". I've seen this especially with Camera Raw and Lightroom, since Raw processing is my first and almost always only stop, but Photoshop has seen good stuff as well, like I said not just in new and improved features, but also in bug fixes...

Latest reports are that the CC 2015.2.1/6.2.1 fixes actually did little to fix the bugs introduced with 6.2. Mac users are especially affected. And I am not talking about the import redesign here, but known bugs that were released in CC 2015.2/6.2 that cause the program to crash with impunity.

Apparently Adobe dumbed down the import process because selecting the source folder from the left-hand side of the screen and then selecting the destination folder on the right-hand side of the screen was far to difficult for some people.

From the "If it ain't broke break it" department:

From:

http://blogs.adobe.com …e-update-and-apology.html

Some of these are deal killers for me. I need to be able to view destination folders as I separate parent folders by camera brand and by some types of post processing (example-HDR, IR or panos). Removing the auto eject just seems dumb. If I want to add photos, I am perfectly capable of selecting the correct folder.

pknight wrote in post #17742137
they removed the ability to view the destination folder structure, so you can verify where the images are being imported to. In fact, the default destination is your "my pictures" folder.

They also removed the option to safely eject memory cards after import.


Further, the new "Add Photos" function automatically scans your devices for any and all images and selects them for import. If you tell it that you want to import from a drive, I hope you have a book to read while it finds all the images you had no intention of importing.

Yeah, this was a great improvement.

pknight wrote in post #17742137
Thousands of users who have commented on numerous Adobe Community boards disagree quite strongly. Adobe did not just redesign the UI, they removed the ability to view the destination folder structure, so you can verify where the images are being imported to. In fact, the default destination is your "my pictures" folder.

They also removed the option to safely eject memory cards after import.

They changed the display of photos selected for import so that the ones that are selected are dimmed, with a HUGE check mark on them, while this unselected are bright and unobscured. Since all the photos it finds are selected by default, you can't easily see your photos to decide which to keep!

And then they removed the ability to zoom in on the photos during the import process to examine them more closely.

Further, the new "Add Photos" function automatically scans your devices for any and all images and selects them for import. If you tell it that you want to import from a drive, I hope you have a book to read while it finds all the images you had no intention of importing.

Yeah, this was a great improvement.

:: shrugs ::

...from a UI point of view it is a great improvement. The import dialogue has been a mess for a very long time and it was time that it had an overhaul. Yes, it is missing features and it wouldn't surprise me if most, if not all of the missing features were put back in some shape or form. But I vastly prefer the more structured import flow of the new import screen. I had actually stopped using Lightroom to import (choosing to use Bridge instead) but the change in UI has shifted me back.

So I genuinely feel sorry for these thousands of users who have commented on numerous Adobe Community boards who happen to disagree quite strongly with me. But what the heck do you want me to do about that?

banquetbear wrote in post #17742736
:: shrugs ::

...from a UI point of view it is a great improvement. The import dialogue has been a mess for a very long time and it was time that it had an overhaul. Yes, it is missing features and it wouldn't surprise me if most, if not all of the missing features were put back in some shape or form. But I vastly prefer the more structured import flow of the new import screen. I had actually stopped using Lightroom to import (choosing to use Bridge instead) but the change in UI has shifted me back.

How does Bridge import images into your LR catalog? I had no idea it could do that. Tell us more.

The look and feel of the UI is not what has people upset for the most part (although many think that the "Add Photos" screen looks like something from an iPhone app). It is that Adobe removed functionality that people had integrated into their workflow. Now the "apology" says that these changes were not communicated well, but does not say that Adobe has any intention to consider replacing them. Those who need the features that were removed would like the option to still use them. If you don't need these features, fine, but many do, and now they can't. How is that an "upgrade"?

Well, from the videos I have seen of the import screen it looks like it was designed by a 5 year old in a Fisher Price toy factory.

For those who haven't been following this, what Adobe did was bring in some people who had never used Lightroom and discovered that the Import process confused them. Search for Sharad Mangalick's post in Adobe's Lightroom Journal describing this process. This is sort of like finding that people who had never seen a spreadsheet are baffled by Excel. Based on this they changed the Import process, including the removal of functionality.

If Lightroom's Import is too hard for the customers Adobe is trying to attract to learn, what will they make of most of the Develop module? Will they be able to make sense of curves adjustments, split toning, setting white and black points, etc., etc., etc.? And if noobs can't figure these out quickly and without instruction, will these functions (and others) be the next to go?

One thing that LR users are asking for is a statement explaining Adobe's intentions regarding the future of LR. Is it going to be "optimized" for camera-phone users posting to their Facebook pages, or will it remain a powerful, flexible tool for serious photographers?

Someone should make some tutorials on how to use Lightroom, including the DAM and import process, and make them available on the internet. Someone could probably make a living doing something like that.

kirk

kirkt wrote in post #17743625
Someone should make some tutorials on how to use Lightroom, including the DAM and import process, and make them available on the internet. Someone could probably make a living doing something like that.

kirk

I take it that you are being sarcastic.