Lightroom Mobile Updates

Adobe Announces versions 2.3 (Android) and 2.7 (iOS)

This release includes HDR capture for compatible cameras. Subscribers to Creative Cloud or Photography Plan have access to the selective adjustment tools and it’s cool to be able to switch between linear and radial filters using a single icon.Once a selective adjustment has been added to an image, I like the ability to click the edit pin to quickly duplicate or tweak the effect on another area of the image; simply by dragging.

Summary of Enhancements

Android

HDR Capture

Local Adjustments

Speed and stability improvements

iOS

HDR Capture

Export Original

Speed Flagging (the improvement/reintroduction of)

Prevent from sleeping while on power

Better sync

Improvements to capture UI

General UI improvements across the app

Bug fixes and speed improvements

Full Details at Lightroom Journal

Companion Apps For Mobile Devices

Lightroom Mobile continues to evolve in the right direction and the latest enhancements to the built-in Adobe Camera app compliment the Professional Mode and DNG capture capability with compatible cameras on devices such as some iPhone 6 & 7 models, Samsung Galaxy S7 and iPad Pro 9.7. The video below demonstrates the benefits of DNG capture and how to shoot in the raw format.

It should be noted that capturing in the High Dynamic Range DNG format will result in larger files requiring future devices with more storage and sufficient RAM for processing. 

I have not been able to test this new feature as my older Galaxy Note does not have a 12mp supported camera, however the ability to shoot HDR images in DNG format is unlike any other camera app.

 

Lightroom Update

Along with the updates to Lightroom Mobile, Adobe has released the latest update to Lightroom for the desktop; LR 6.9/CC 2015.9 together with Camera Raw 9.9

New camera support is added for the following camera models:

Canon PowerShot G9 X Mark II

Fujifilm GFX 50S

Fujifilm X100F

Fujifilm X-A10

Fujifilm X-T20

Leica M10

Olympus E-M1 Mark II

Panasonic DC-FZ80 (DC-FZ82, DC-FZ85)

Panasonic DC-GF9 (DC-GX850, DC-GX800)

Panasonic DC-GH5

Panasonic DMC-TZ82

Phase One IQ3 100MP

The LR 6.9/ CC 2015.9 release does not add any new features but addresses mainly bug fixes including the false error message for catalogs under 4gb in size, when backing up.

Lens profiles are included for many new lenses including Canon’s latest pro L series lenses:

Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L III USM

Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS II USM

Tethered support for the Canon 5D mark iv was already available but has been updated in LR 6.9/CC 2015.9 as Canon have released a new SDK.

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Student Creativity with Chromebook

The popularity of Chromebooks in the classroom has exploded, and Adobe has announced that in the coming weeks, six updated Android applications will be optimized for Chromebooks.

Users with Chromebooks that support Play Store apps will be able to download these apps from the Google Play Store as part of the beta that Google just released. These Creative Cloud apps will be free to download and use.

The apps available in the coming weeks are:

Photoshop Mix

Lightroom Mobile

Illustrator Draw

Photoshop Sketch

Adobe Comp CC

Creative Cloud Mobile

Optimizations to these apps to take advantage of Chromebooks’ unique benefits, including: faster load time, optimizing the apps for Chromebook screen size, enabling the Escape key and the Back button, Chromebook camera support, and adding selected keyboard shortcuts.

More information at Adobe Conversations

Photoshop Elements 15 – Open Recently Edited File

In practice the cache should store up to 100 recent files and we would normally expect the 20 newest files to show in the list with the oldest files automatically dropping out of the cache.

In some versions of PSE15 this does not appear to be working but it is possible to manually clear the pref settings by navigating to the Editor folder and deleting the file named MachinePrefs - see image below.

Windows

See my file path below for the correct location – substitute your own user name

C:\Users\99jon\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Photoshop Elements\15.0\Editor

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Start by quitting Elements.

AppData is often a hidden system folder but you can get to it quickly by launching the Run dialog – hold down the Windows key and press R

Type: %appdata% and click OK

That will take you directly to AppData >> Roaming. From there you can double-click on the Adobe folder and follow the path to the Editor folder. Open the Editor folder to find MachinePrefs

After deleting MachinePrefs re-launch the Elements Editor. When you click File >> Open you will see that Open Recently Edited File is grayed out but as you work on new files and save them, the list will start to be populated afresh.

Mac OS

Quit Elements

Launch Finder

Navigate to your user Library – hold down the Optn key whilst clicking “Go” on the top menu and you can choose Library. Then find:

Library/Preferences/Adobe Photoshop Elements 15 Paths

Library/Preferences/Adobe Photoshop Elements 15 Settings

Highlight the two pref files – see image below and right-click (control-click) and choose Move to Trash.

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Re-launch the Elements Editor.

N.B. Apple hides the user library by default but holding the Optn (Alt) key makes it appear for selection under the Go menu.