Adobe Camera Raw 19.0 Is Here
Adobe Camera Raw 19.0 is here, adding several new features and a few changes to how you can edit and organise your RAW files. One of the updates concerns the Glow effect, which was introduced a few months ago and now comes with two additional styles, Motion and Streak. Both give you more control over the effect, with adjustments for length, direction, colour and softness. Another addition is Virtual Copies, something Lightroom users have had for quite a while. Basically, this lets you create several different edits of the same RAW photo without having to duplicate the original file. Each version keeps its own adjustments, and those edits are also saved between sessions, so you can come back to them later.
There are also some changes to Generative Remove, which can now be used across multiple selected photos at once. For example, if you have taken several photos with the same distracting object in the background, you can select and remove it from one shot and then apply that selection to the others. That means you no longer have to manually select the same object in every single photo. Adobe also added photo stacking directly inside Camera Raw, so you can now group related photos together instead of having everything spread across the filmstrip. Stacks can be created manually or automatically using capture metadata, although the automatic option currently only works with certain recent Canon and Nikon cameras that support the required DNG metadata. There is also a new option to temporarily hide photos or show only selected shots, which should make larger editing sessions a little easier to manage.
Finally, Camera Raw 19.0 adds support for a few new cameras and lenses. On the camera side, the list is pretty short, with support for the two cameras on Apple's new iPhone Duo. There are more additions when it comes to lenses, including Sony's FE 8–14mm f/3.5 Fisheye G, FE 400mm f/4.5 GM and FE 600mm f/6.3 GM, along with new zoom lenses from Sigma and Tamron. Adobe has also added profiles for the Laowa 50mm f/2.8 2x Ultra-Macro APO across several mounts. Adobe Camera Raw 19.0 is available now through Adobe Creative Cloud.
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