Adobe Updates Photoshop Lightroom With Retina Support

Adobe has updated Photoshop Lightroom, its prosumer image editor, with retina display support. Photoshop and Illustrator CS6 were upgraded with similar support earlier this week.

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What's new

• HiDPI support within the Library and Develop Modules. HiDPI provides support for Retina-enabled Macs.
• Additional raw file support for 20 cameras including the Canon EOS 6D, Nikon D600 and Olympus PEN E-PL5
• Corrections and bug fixes for issues introduced in previous versions of Lightroom.

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 is available on the Mac App Store for $149.99. [Direct Link]

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shurcooL

178 months ago

<3 HiDPI.

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chocolaterabbit

178 months ago

Lightroom is nothing like a "Prosumer image editor." It's as professional as it gets, and image editing is only a small part of what it does.

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669532

178 months ago

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Competition is a fantastic concept for sure. :D

I agree it would be nice to see a little more from apple in the way of pro creative perfective maintenance.

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John.B

178 months ago

For all the silly crap Adobe is capable of, I'm glad to see they are getting this right.

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669532

178 months ago

This must be quite a lot of work for them to build in to such a big suite of programs. In terms of their total user base retina screens must be quite a low percentage too. Just find it interesting that the make the effort thats all. I think adobe are a good company.

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kounterphit

178 months ago

I'm glad to see that this update wasn't too far behind the earlier ones. I was feeling a bit left out before. :D

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