Lightroom Classic 8.0 can read that depth data in formats that support it (such as the HEIF files captured by the iPhone XS and a few other models). Using dual cameras (or a single camera in some models), the phone uses that depth information to simulate the blurred background effect found when shooting with traditional cameras at wide-open apertures. One of the more interesting developments in the smartphone camera arms race is generating depth masks to identify foreground and background objects. More after the jump! Continue reading below↓įree and Premium members see fewer ads! Sign up and log-in today. It removes some control from making the HDR images, aligning and de-ghosting the shots, but you can always make the HDRs separately as you could before this release. Select a range of bracketed exposures that make up the panorama and choose Photo > PhotoMerge > HDR Panorama. In Lightroom Classic 8.0, there’s now a quick, automated way to accomplish that. You need to make HDR images from the bracketed photos, and then merge the HDRs into a panorama. It can result in great photos, but that process is labor intensive.

It’s possible to combine both techniques: set your camera to shoot brackets at different exposures, take a shot, pan the lens and take another bracketed shot, and so on until you’ve covered the width of a scene. Lightroom Classic includes straightforward PhotoMerge tools for combining multiple images into an HDR image (high dynamic range, where several photos of the same scene are captured at different exposures to broaden the tonal range) or a panorama. Here’s an overview of the spotlight features in this release. It’s the choice for photographers who aren’t interested in syncing their entire libraries with other devices via Creative Cloud, or who need features such as HDR or panorama merging, printing, creating books or slideshows, and more advanced organizing and metadata wrangling. With this week’s release of version 8.0, it’s clear there’s still plenty of life in Lightroom Classic CC. Would Lightroom Classic CC be the last hurrah for a photo editing and organizing application that had outmaneuvered Apple’s Aperture and held off several up-and-comers? Adobe even swiped Lightroom’s previous name in the transition, saddling the original with the “Classic” moniker. But that was overshadowed by a sprightly newcomer, Lightroom CC 1.0. For several years, Lightroom users had been screaming for better performance, and version 7.0 delivered speed improvements. The venerable Lightroom application got a bit roughed up last year.

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