New interface for ACR
This, was for me, quite a shock. Might be useful if it had come a little earlier in Lockdown - more time to explore and begin to understand it. But being faced with a very new interface, although I think there are some impressive changes which may bring some very useful additions. Time will show, but it will need some time before I feel as though I am really comfortable with it. Anyone else had any feelings as to yay or nay?
I was not aware that there is a new interface. I normally use Lightroom anyway but just opened a Raw file on PS ACR and it did not seem much different to last time I saw it. I did notice that it did not automatically pick up the calibrated profile for my camera which LR does. What are the changes that you see and what version were you previously using?
It is now 12.3 - I think (but can't be sure) it was 11.9 before. There were updates for PS, Lightroom, Ligtroom Classic, Bridge and ACR this morning, and the new ACR is the new face of 'Develop' in Lightroom.
This is what the new face looks like. All the tools are on the right and they all work from there - i.e. no clicking on an icon and it goes to a new page.
Quote:I was not aware that there is a new interface. I normally use Lightroom anyway but just opened a Raw file on PS ACR and it did not seem much different to last time I saw it.
Came today to my mac - I have Adobe set to automatically update PS/LR/ACR/Bridge, so it is presumably only been released today
I just happened to check it today - and there it was. But guessed as it was such a different set-up I thought it must be fairly new as I had seen nothing about it.
Yes, a useful tip so I have upgraded my Adobe products now. I will have a further play tomorrow but it still looks very similar to me. However, I am greatly concerned that it is no longer automatically applying my bespoke camera profiles in LR or ACR. I will have to google tomorrow and find a solution for this or even contact Adobe. It annoys me when an upgrade actually take you backward. My Adobe will no lonber automatically upgrade because Adobe Creative App always crashes on Boot up.
Dave
Dave
I have now resolved my issue with the Adobe upgrade. Eventually, I found a ink to a video from the Adobe LR forum. My imported files are tagged with my bespoke profiles again along with a couple of other adjustments. I processed several Raw files with LR this morning and did not notice any other obvious changes though I know even more features are available for the brush tool. So I purposely opened one file in ACR and the layout is quite poor compared to LR. However, operationally, once I located the right panel, the adjustments seemed much the same as LR. Probably back to the fact that LR was designed for photographers but PS was not.
On the Adobe forum the fuss is all about the issue I raised to do with camera profiles. Several professional lost a lot of time trying to cope with this change and thus lost money and felt that Adobe should have sent out a notice to warn about the change and how to deal with it. They would probably know who the professional photographers are but could have informed all their customers anyway. Because several were getting so angry, Adobe had shut the thread down.
Dave
On the Adobe forum the fuss is all about the issue I raised to do with camera profiles. Several professional lost a lot of time trying to cope with this change and thus lost money and felt that Adobe should have sent out a notice to warn about the change and how to deal with it. They would probably know who the professional photographers are but could have informed all their customers anyway. Because several were getting so angry, Adobe had shut the thread down.
Dave
That's interesting Dave as I looked for camera profiles after you had said they were no longer linked and couldn't find them in ACR. So are they still in Lightroom - not sure how you resolved it just via this link with a video?
I followed the advice in this Video You open one of your Raw files in LR creative module. By clicking on the profile options, you will hopefully find the one associated with your camera at the bottom. Then set any other things you would always want. For instance the new default for sharpening is 40 (was 25) so I set that to 20. I also tick for lens correction. You can then create a User Profile and save with a suitable name. I did this for my 3 cameras. Then go to Edit>Preferences and the presets tab and you can set up each of your cameras link to the User profile created.
When I opened a Raw file in ACR, it did pick up the correct profile so I am not sure how setting preferences in LR could have helped but it did. Adobe argue that this arrangement with profiles is better and more flexible and they may be right.
Dave
When I opened a Raw file in ACR, it did pick up the correct profile so I am not sure how setting preferences in LR could have helped but it did. Adobe argue that this arrangement with profiles is better and more flexible and they may be right.
Dave
Thanks Dave - I'll give it a go.
