I understand it was probably easiest for you to stick them in the same e-commerce platform you use for your other stuff, and I don’t fault you for selling stuff at all, but in this day and age where sites are being hacked left, right, and center, creating an account and providing any information just to get something for free is not what I consider a good idea. You want me to register to download a free zip file containing some text files. ProLost, I’ve nothing against you except for this. I have to make a bit of an aside here on this. The first ones I came across were from a company called ProLost. Since this revelation, several people have jumped out on this revelation offering free dehaze presets for download. Yep, the dehaze presets work just fine in Lightroom. It shouldn’t take a rocket scientist to guess what the results were. Of course, it didn’t take long for someone to make the leap and try building develop presets in Lightroom CC for dehaze then copying them to a Lightroom 6.1 installation to see if they worked. This was of course rapidly discovered by people looking to see what the software supported, and very quickly there was discussions online at DPReview and other sites about this. That is, you can dehaze an image in LR CC or ACR for PS CC, and send it to someone as a DNG, and they’ll be able to open it in Lightroom 6.1 and see the image rendered properly. More importantly, it means that there aren’t all kinds of stupid compatibility breaking issues when moving from version to version.

First, it allows Adobe to cut costs and maintain one code base. If you stop and think about it this make sense for two reasons.

Lightroom CC 2015.1, Lightroom 6.1, and the equivalent Adobe Camera RAW (9.1in CS6, I’m not sure what the version is for CC), all use the same code base and rendering engine, all support the same adjustments. Overall there is one big laugh in this whole matter. I don’t really want to get into it, instead I want to talk about working around the stupidity that this imparts. Adobe has made some weasily comments about how they’d be in violation of various laws-which they almost certainly wouldn’t-if they added these new “features” to Lightroom 6.1 and blah blah blah. I just saw this, but there’s been plenty of discussion around the new “features” that Adobe has added in Lightroom CC 2015.1 or whatever they’re calling the CC release that corresponded with Lightroom 6.1.

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