What’s New in Lightroom CC 2015.7 / 6.7?

Lightroom CC 2015.7 and Lightroom 6.7 have been released today, and there are some great improvements, as well as the normal camera/lens support and bug fixes for everyone. (For the update links, skip to the end of the post.)

So what’s new?

Develop Performance Improvements using Smart Previews!

Since Lightroom 5’s release, many of us have used Smart Previews to speed up the Develop module. At 2560px, they’re smaller than most raw files and they’re already partially processed, so they improve Develop loading times and interactive performance.

In the past, you had to render Smart Previews when you weren’t using the computer and then rename the folder or dismount the drive to take the originals offline, forcing Lightroom to use the Smart Previews. When you wanted to check sharpening or export the photos, you had to reconnect the photos. It helped performance, but it was a hassle to keep taking photos on/offline.

Now, in Preferences > Performance, you can check the Use Smart Previews instead of Originals for image editing checkbox to automatically utilize any Smart Previews which have been built in advance. Better still, when you zoom in to 1:1 view, Lightroom automatically loads the original file to provide the most accurate preview for judging noise reduction and sharpening.

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Other improvements include:

• macOS Sierra issues have been fixed, ready for the release of the new operating system tomorrow. See my Sierra blog post for full compatibility information.
• OS X 10.9 Mavericks is no longer supported, as of this release.
• Display P3 support was added throughout the app. Display P3 is a wide gamut color space used on the latest Apple devices (iPad Pro 9.7″, iPhone 7/7+, iMac Retina 2015). It’s a similar size to Adobe RGB, but it’s shifted slightly towards reds/oranges and loses some of the greens/blues. It’s primarily useful when exporting photos for display on the latest Apple devices.
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• Adobe Stock plug-in – If you’re a budding stock photographer, the new Adobe Stock app allows you to upload your photos to Adobe Stock directly from Lightroom. Lightroom steps you through the process when you click on Publish Services > Adobe Stock > Setup.
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• Change to Sync behavior (CC only) – 2015.7 changes the way you remove photos from the sync cloud. You can now drag photos to the All Synced Photographs collection to add them to the cloud, and delete them from the All Synced Photographs collection to remove them from the cloud and any synced collections. If you simply stop syncing a collection, the photos themselves now remain in the cloud. Stop and read the dialogs carefully before hitting ok.
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• Guided Upright shortcut (CC only) – Hold the Alt (Windows) / Opt (Mac) key while adjusting the lines to slow down the cursor for greater accuracy.

Updated instructions for these changes are already waiting in the Members Area for owners of my Lightroom CC/6 book, and the Sync changes are also updated in the Lightroom mobile book.

New camera support:

• Apple iPad Pro 9.7″ (Wi-Fi and cellular)
• Apple iPhone 6s Plus
• Apple iPhone 6s
• Apple iPhone SE
• Canon EOS 5D Mark IV (with limitations on dual pixel raw)
• Casio EX-ZR4000 (EX-ZR5000)
• Hasselblad H6D-100c
• Nikon D3400
• iPhone 7 / 7+ full support will be added to the next release, but since they use JPEG and DNG, even the raw files are readable immediately. They’re just lacking camera/lens profiles.
• Click to view the full list of supported cameras

Tethering for new cameras:

• Nikon D5
• Nikon D500
• Click to view the full list of cameras supported for tethering.

New camera profiles:

• Canon 5DS – updated lower contrast Adobe Standard v2 profile
• Canon 5DSR – updated lower contrast Adobe Standard v2 profile

New lens profiles:

Further user-created profiles can be downloaded using the Lens Profile Downloader (scroll down slightly, it’s at the end of the Resources section on that link)

Bug fixes:

There are loads of bug fixes. These are the main ones:

Import/Tethering

• Nikon SDK updated on Windows and Mac.
• Canon SDK updated on Mac.
• Fixed – Error message about not being able to import photos when in fact the issue is due to the destination folder is read only

Library

• Fixed – Selected Published Folder or Collection is not deselected if a folder is selected
• Fixed – 6­-digit counts of photos are truncated in the Keyword Panel
• Fixed – Collections with counts greater than 5 digits are truncated.
• Fixed – Fuji E X2 file imported as DNG is unreadable “The File Appears to be unsupported or damaged”
• Fixed – Keyword suggestion for a word having &(ampersand) is incorrect

Develop

• Fixed – Adjustment brush stops working after deleting photo
• Improved performance when using the Temperature and Tint slides for adjusting White Balance
• Fixed – White Balance Loupe displays incorrect RGB values
• Fixed – Fixed issue where the SIGMA 10­-20mm F3.5 EX DC HSM lens for Pentax mount was not being auto recognized
• Fixed – Vignette correction for Zeiss Batis 25mm f2 too aggressive
• Fixed – Image preview flickering when GPU acceleration is turned off (Windows only)

Photo Merge

• Fixed – Pano merge failed when using source files from a Leica M Monochrom (Typ 246).

Export

• Fixed – Exporting with a watermark changes white point

If you find another bug, click here to report it.

How do I update?

To update, go to Help menu > Updates or click the Update button in the CC app. The update servers take a while to push the updates around the world, to avoid crashing the servers, but if you’re in a hurry to update, here are the direct links to the patches: Windows – Mac

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