Today's update to Lightroom CC may be of particular interest to Mac users who previously used the now-defunct Aperture photo editing software, as Apple no longer offers a professional-level photo editing app since discontinuing Aperture in favor of Photos for OS X. There's also a tool for syncing slideshows to multiple audio clips, and it's possible to add up to 10 songs to a slideshow.

The last major feature update, which adds advanced slideshow tools, lets users put pan and zoom effects into their slideshows to add a motion effect. Lightroom's new filter brush, a popular request from Adobe customers, works with graduated and radial filter affects, letting a filter mask be reshaped with a brush tool so filter effects can be added and subtracted from specific parts of images for better precision. Other HDR options typically require more photos at different exposure levels to create a suitable image. Because it works with RAW files, a high-quality HDR image can be created from as few as two photos. Unlike other photo editing apps, Adobe's HDR Merge works directly with both JPG and RAW images. With HDR Merge, it's possible to combine several different photos with different exposure settings into a single HDR image. With Lightroom's graphical performance improvements, even huge panorama files can be edited in real time with little lag. It has built in tools for automatically cropping non-matching edges and changing perspectives. Panorama Merge, another new feature, lets photographers stitch together multiple images, including RAW and JPG files to create ultra high-quality panoramic shots. A new 'People' view lets users sort photos by person.

Once a face in a single photo is named, the software is able to find more images that feature that person for quick tagging by face. One of the most impressive new organizational features in the updated version of Lightroom is facial recognition, which lets Lightroom users organize their photos by subject for the first time, in addition to organizing with tags, flags, and star ratings. The new update brings significant performance improvements and several new features like HDR merge, Panorama merge, facial recognition, improved slideshows, a filter brush, and more. Adobe today announced a major update to Lightroom CC (and the launch of the standalone Lightroom 6), its professional photo editing software for Mac users.

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