But as mentioned, if you DO click the icon, the file with gain a cleaner overall look (especially in shadow and highlight areas), and all the new Noise Reduction features will become available. Of course, if for some reason you don’t like the changes (most of which are subtle and hard to see without zooming in on the file) you can always Undo and continue to work with the file as in the past. Every time you open an image that was processed with ACR 5 or before, you’ll see a little exclamation mark in the lower right hand corner of ACR’s preview window telling you that new processing enhancements like Noise Reduction wont be available to you unless you click on the icon and give ACR permission to use it’s new capabilities. Well they could, but it wouldn’t be polite without asking, and that’s exactly what they do. (processed using the current 2003 engine) and update them to the new 2010 profiles. But there is a decision to be made: Adobe couldn’t just arbitrary go back to your already adjusted files With the results you’ll see you will be tempted to go back to some of your older portfolio files just to see what quality increase is possible. ACR 6’s updated Detail panel gives you three new sliders to control Color Detail, and Luminance Detail and Contrast, but you may not need to play around much with these new options (though they do add indispensable control)because the ability to get accurate, saturated, yet non “Christmas Tree Lights” color, while maintaining smooth detail, is apparent even at the default settings of the new sliders. How to get both has been the digital photographers’s balancing act for the last decade – especially if one didn’t want to rely on opening a file and applying pixel-based noise reduction/sharpening filter. This quality boost would be worth the price of upgrade alone but the ACR team has also added new improved blending options for the Post-Crop Vignette feature and also the ability to add a simulated “grain” back into images to obtain a range of traditional film looks. The algorithms for this new “demosaicing” process allows Adobe Camera Raw 6 (like it’s cousin Lightroom 3) to achieve sharper, cleaner detail while also dramatically reducing noise in high ISO images. Adobe has done it again – they’ve taken the foundational image processing engine of the world’s most popular raw converter and rewritten it from the ground up.
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