2. Camera Raw 7.0

This latest version of the Camera Raw plug-in did not get the same user interface makeover as Photoshop CS6 itself, but there are a number of important new features and changes under the hood that will impact your workflow. If you have checked out Lightroom 4, you may have experienced or at least heard of the new Process Version 2012, which is the key to many of the new features.

Process Version

The big engineering brains at Adobe are continually trying to improve the rendering of image data from our photos in an effort to eek out as much of the visual information as our cameras can capture (which is an increasingly staggering amount of data). When Photoshop CS5 and its Camera Raw 6 plug-in came out, we were given Process Version ...

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