The Adobe Camera Raw plug-in became the latest must-have tool for professional photographers when it was released in February 2003. This powerful plug-in has been frequently updated to support more cameras and include more features and is available as part of Adobe Photoshop CS6.

Camera Raw 9.5 is now available through the update mechanism in Photoshop CC and the Creative Cloud application. As mentioned in an update to our camera support policy, Camera Raw 9.5 is only available in Photoshop CC or later.

Customers using older versions of Photoshop can utilize the DNG Converter for continued camera support. Camera Raw 9.5 has an updated visual interface designed to align with Photoshop CC and Bridge. NOTE – We have a critical issue with support on OSX 10.7 and OSX 10.8. Your color scheme within Camera Raw will mimic Photoshop and Bridge, and you can change your color scheme by visiting the interface preferences within the host application. Bugs Fixed in Camera Raw 9.5 • Fix crash/hang in Camera Raw and DNG Converter on some Mac systems when saving multiple images. • Fix corruption issue that would prevent DNG images originally created by Parrot Bebop Drone devices from being opened after metadata updates. • Pressing the Option/Alt key while click-dragging on a perimeter handle of a Radial Filter will adjust only that side of the filter.

This change in behavior was made to match Lightroom’s behavior. Previously, Option/Alt-clicking on a Radial Filter in Camera Raw would delete that filter. • Camera Raw Filter now displays the histogram and RGB color readouts using the assigned color space of the corresponding Photoshop document. Previously, Camera Raw Filter always displayed its histogram and RGB color readouts using the ProPhoto color space. • Improve quality of Boundary Warp for some panoramas. • Fix bug where EXIF metadata for SIGMA 50mm f/1.4 ART lens on Canon was incorrectly identified as Zeiss Milvus 50mm f/1.4. For the most part I think the interface looks slick and more in line with the ascetic of the rest of the suite.

Everything is fairly similar to the last version which I like very much, but I have a couple nit picks that are really bugging me. The sliders don’t snap to center anymore. A surprisingly handy feature I used in my workflow. While dragging the slider if you lowered your mouse cursor below it was snap back to 0. This is nice for experimenting to get a desired effect. I can snap on and off the effect on the fly while adjusting, and if I dislike the effect its as easy as lowering the cursor.

Now I must control Z or carefully place it back at zero. Might seem like a small thing but I use this CONSTANTLY, and I will dearly miss it. This is like someone going into your darkroom and throwing out those little makeshift tools that look like trash but you’ve been using them for years! Preview on/off button moved to the bottom (you screwing up my muscle memory!) Ok, this isn’t really a problem haha. Delete cookies chrome for mac for one websight.

And I really love the Before/After view button you guys added. This page explained it all, thank you. I bought the Sony A6300 and the AWR files do not open. Someone told me in March to download Adobe DNG Converter 9.5 and I am able to highlight all the Raw files I shot and drag them to Adobe DNG and they are converted easily. It’s just a pain to have to delete all the AWR files afterwards but at least I can open my Raw format in my old Photoshop CS6 program from 2012.