More commonly associated with the likes of Picasa and Facebook, it’s a feature that may seem superfluous to most serious snappers – but for those who cover weddings or celebrity events, it could be a tremendous time-saver. This means you can easily – for example – drag down a graduated filter to add depth and vibrancy to a drab sky, then manually mask out any protruding trees and buildings, to keep their natural exposure and tone.Īnother easily overlooked addition is automatic facial recognition, and the accompanying “Find similar faces” function.

An inconspicuous update to the Graduated and Radial Filter tools now lets you edit their adjustment masks with a brush. In fact, it might be Lightroom 6’s more minor upgrades that have the biggest impact on your day-to-day workflow. Alas, Dehaze is restricted currently to CC subscribers owners of the standalone edition won’t get to play with it until they pay to upgrade to the next version, or take out a Creative Cloud subscription. It works pretty well in most circumstances if used carefully, but unwanted effects can occur in some circumstances, such as smudgy, unnatural-looking clouds. Again, the output is a DNG, so you can use Lightroom’s processing tools to non-destructively punch up the resulting image.ĭehaze, introduced in the 2015 update to Creative Cloud, is another new feature, adding a way to reduce the haze or fogging that shooting into the sun or a bright light can add to photographs. Thankfully, our results proved impressively consistent, with even quite widely spaced shots stitching seamlessly together: only in one case did we need to export the image into Photoshop to tidy up a glitch.

You can’t even zoom into the preview to check for boundary mismatches – although that’s perhaps academic, as there are no tools for fixing them anyway. On opening the preview window you’ll see very few options: just three different projections and an auto-crop tool.

It’s a similar story with the panorama feature.

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