{"id":11099,"date":"2015-04-28T12:54:49","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T16:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=11099"},"modified":"2018-10-25T15:23:17","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T19:23:17","slug":"adobe-photoshop-lightroom-cc-2015-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/28\/adobe-photoshop-lightroom-cc-2015-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Adobe Photoshop Lightroom CC 2015 Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/2912679\/adobe-photoshop-lightroom-cc-2015-review-new-features-and-major-performance-gains.html\">Jeff Carlson<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/2912679\/adobe-photoshop-lightroom-cc-2015-review-new-features-and-major-performance-gains.html\">\n<p>Lightroom CC now takes advantage of your computer&rsquo;s GPU (graphics processing unit) for image-intensive tasks, so the main processor isn&rsquo;t shouldering as much of the load. Computers with discrete GPUs see the most improvement, but machines with integrated GPUs (soldered onto the motherboard, such as many Intel processors) also see improvements. [&#8230;] Want to see the difference yourself? In Lightroom&rsquo;s preferences, you can turn off the Use Graphics Processor option in the Performance screen, an option no doubt included in case compatibility issues arise with graphics cards.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Lightroom 5 offered a way to create HDR (high dynamic range) photos by selecting two or more shots of the same scene captured at different exposures and shuttling them over to Photoshop CC&rsquo;s HDR Pro module. Instead of taking that round trip through Photoshop to merge the shots into one, Lightroom CC now includes its own HDR Merge feature.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I think I will eventually switch to Lightroom and adjust to it, but I&rsquo;m not looking forward to that process.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Carlson: Lightroom CC now takes advantage of your computer&rsquo;s GPU (graphics processing unit) for image-intensive tasks, so the main processor isn&rsquo;t shouldering as much of the load. Computers with discrete GPUs see the most improvement, but machines with integrated GPUs (soldered onto the motherboard, such as many Intel processors) also see improvements. [&#8230;] Want [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2018-10-25T19:23:19Z","apple_news_api_id":"2ff84232-b157-447f-b487-6bef22c4f70a","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2018-10-25T19:23:19Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AL_hCMrFXRH-0h2vvIsT3Cg","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[928,1748,30,32,153],"class_list":["post-11099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-lightroom","tag-high-dynamic-range-hdr","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-photography"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11100,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11099\/revisions\/11100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}