Lightroom CC 2015.4 / 6.4 And Camera Raw 9.4 Now Available

Lightroom CC 2015.4 and Lightroom 6.4 are now available on Adobe.com.  The goal of this release is to provide additional camera raw support, lens profile support and address bugs that were introduced in previous releases of Lightroom.  This release also includes a new Boundary Warp feature for Creative Cloud members.

Camera Raw 9.4 is now available through the update mechanism in Photoshop CC and the Creative Cloud application. Camera Raw 9.4 is only available in Photoshop CC or later.  Customers using older versions of Photoshop can utilize the DNG Converter for continued camera support.

Introducing Boundary Warp

Stitched panoramas often have non-rectangular boundaries. There are several ways to handle irregular boundaries. The most common approach is to apply a rectangular crop. This is straightforward, but important image details near the boundary may be lost due to cropping. Another approach is to use Content Aware Fill (in Photoshop) to fill in the transparent areas outside the boundary. This can be effective, but may require multiple attempts to obtain a satisfying (smooth, artifact-free) result. It can also be expensive and requires rendering out the panorama to an output-referred (non-raw) format. Boundary Warp is a feature that provides another approach to handling the irregular boundary of panoramas. The feature analyzes the boundary and warps the image so that its edges fit a rectangular frame.  Here’s a visual example of the feature:



New Camera Support in Lightroom CC 2015.4 / 6.4

• Fujifilm X70
• Fujifilm X-E2S
• Fujifilm X-Pro2
• Leica M (Typ 262)
• Leica X-U (Typ 113)
• Panasonic DMC-ZS60 (DMC-TZ80, DMC-TZ81, DMC-TZ85)
• Phase One IQ150
• Sony ILCA-68 (A68)

Additional Updates in Lightroom CC 2015.4 / 6.4

• Nikon 1 J4 Camera Matching Profile added
• The panorama merging process should complete roughly twice as fast as Lightroom 6.3
• Improved quality when applying Auto Straighten and Upright “Level” mode
• A preference was added to the Mac to prevent accidental “speed swiping”
• Metadata is added to merged panoramas to support Photoshop’s Adaptive Wide Angle filter
• Customers can now set the location of where photos are stored when downloaded from Lightroom mobile or Lightroom web in the preference panel or contextually in the folder panel
• Thumbnails update much quicker when copying and pasting settings in the grid view
• Images load faster in the Library module when you are zoomed in and navigating images
• Tethered support added for the Nikon D5500 and Nikon D7200