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bigdazzler
20-11-2009, 9:14am
http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Camera_Raw_5.6

Helen S
20-11-2009, 12:02pm
Cool, thanks Darren. :)

Kym
20-11-2009, 1:50pm
Pentax K-x supported !!

bigdazzler
20-11-2009, 4:24pm
A850 too :efelant:

Tricky
21-11-2009, 9:56pm
And Canon 7D - thanks! :th3:

Tricky
21-11-2009, 10:21pm
Wow. Just reprocessed a couple of 7D files using ACR5.6 rather than 5.5... is it just me, or am I seeing considerably lower noise and artifacting? Wish I'd kept a couple of 5.5 files without any further noise reduction, for comparison to 5.6.

Tricky
21-11-2009, 11:06pm
Managed to find a file which I'd converted using ACR 5.5 and saved as a TIFF without any further editing. I then converted the same file using ACR5.6. I've zoomed in to 426% on both files (ie severe pixel peeping) and then cropped the resulting whole screen at 900x600.

If you look at the area around the "W" in particular, the noise and artifacting with the second one seems greatly reduced.

guess this shouldn't be all that surprising... ACR5.5 was never labelled as fully supporting the 7D, it just handled the CR2 raw files as a stop gap. Even ACR5.6 is just a beta with 7D support. Still, very happy that the 7D's low noise performance (already pretty good for a 18MP crop sensor) is in fact even better with ACR5.6 :th3:

ACR5.5
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b79/Tricky999/IMG_1361_ACR55_426crop.jpg
ACR5.6
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b79/Tricky999/IMG_1361_ACR56_426crop.jpg

Tricky
24-12-2009, 10:06pm
ACR 5.6 has now gone final / published (previous version was a beta).

Link here to final version:
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/thankyou.jsp?ftpID=4622&fileID=4299

mcdesign
27-12-2009, 6:37pm
I got a book on using the latest version, it is so powerful you can just about do all your editing in ACR.
(Camera Raw with Adobe photoshop CS4...Industrial strength production techniques, Bruce Fraser & Jeff Schewe) I am only half way through the book so can't pass on any major tips as yet.

Roof
15-01-2010, 6:53am
Sorry to bring an old thread to life , but does it work with cs3 ?

yarnella
15-01-2010, 7:00am
Sorry to bring an old thread to life , but does it work with cs3 ?

No. From the link in the first post:

System Requirements

See the system requirements for Adobe Creative Suite 4 or Photoshop CS4.

Roof
15-01-2010, 7:26am
Thanks Ray,