Camera Raw 8.8 now available

65 thoughts on “Camera Raw 8.8 now available”

1. The download links for mac and windows are exchanged

   1. For the DNG Converter? Seems to be right for me.

2. Is the camera raw plugin installer for CC and CS6?

   1. http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/multi/camera-raw-plug-in-installer.html

      This help doc indicates that the installers will work for CS6, CC and CC2014.

      1. Thanks!

3. And when the bug with ALT+TAB on Windows (8.1) task switching when ACR window is full screen will be fixed ?

4. Hello,

   I hope that there is a RAW support for the Canon EOS M3 + 11-22mm lens.

   Thank you.

   1. I second this – I got my eos m3 yesterday and would be really happy to be able to edit my raw photos in lightroom rather than “digital photo professional”

   2. I third this. M3 support would be greatly appreciated.

   3. Please add my request for the EOS M3 support as well.

      1. Should be happening very soon, Ross.

5. I do not find any information for canon 600d under lens correction

   1. Lens correction is specific to the particular lens, not camera body.

6. nobody dares to adress the white elephant in the room?

   WHEN IS LIGHTROOM 6 COMING? 🙂

   1. I know right !! LR6……where IS IT !! Please just give us a date and I will calm down.

7. Is this RAW version compatible with LR 5.7.1?
   Adobe never say when the RAW version changes and I don’t like that annoying ‘version incompatibility’ warning when exporting RAW files from LR to PS.

   1. Hi Paul,

      LR 5.7.1 does not support the above listed cameras, however, you can use the DNG converter (links in this blog post) to gain ability to process your new RAW images.

      Regards

      1. No – I meant is this new ACR compatible with the RAW engine in LR.

         What sometimes happens is Adobe update the engine without bothering to say(!) so when you export from LR to PS you get some horrible warning about incompatibility between the RAW engines.

         Given that LR6 is just around the corner it’s not implausible it’s changed again…

         1. I wonder “How” much around the corner. It was supposed to be released today, according to the latest rumors… 🙁

         2. ACR 8.8 seems to use same Process Version 6.7 as Lightroom 5.

            1. Thank you!

8. No Canon EF 11-24mm F4?

   1. Not yet. The lens only began shipping recently – too late for the 8.8 update. Another thread has mentioned it is a high-priority.

9. Does camera raw 8.8 support UI 200% for high-density displays?

10. A “fault” was introduced in ACR version 8.7 and is still present in this new version 8.8. Not a bug because there is no crash or bad results produced. The fault is that raw conversions are much slower than with version 8.6 or earlier, but only on systems with AVX/AVX2 support. Users with hardware made prior to 2012 will see no fault. Users with newer systems will suffer slow conversions (150%). This issue is documented and reported at the following:
    http://forum.luminous-landscape.com/index.php?topic=97727.0
    https://forums.adobe.com/message/7185351#7185351
    http://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/acr-version-8-7-is-much-slower-than-8-6?rfm=1

    1. Only you’ve reported it, and it needs to be tested with AVX disabled vs enabled, rather than on different hardware. Google for “Disable AVX feature”, there are instructions for disabling AVX under Windows.

       1. Correction, Google just for “Disable AVX”. It requires using bcdedit.

       2. Thanks for the reply. I see how I could try to disable AVX. But if it’s not an AVX issue then it’s something else inside ACR 8.7 and will require Adobe to fix.

          I can’t get Adobe to acknowledge the issue or even acknowledge the report of it. Their staff have apparently disappeared from all forums, including their own. I can only hope someone at Adobe is at least reading this stuff. We probably have to wait for a few more releases for a fix.

          I’m comfortable keeping ACR 8.6 in Photoshop/Bridge. Too bad Lightroom users can’t roll back their version.

    2. I tested turning AVX on and off. The tests were exporting photos to JPEG and building fresh 1:1 previews, both tasks I find take awhile. The photos were olympus raw files (ORF) from an OM-D. They had a number of corrections, including a few with complex wide-angle corrections in addition to normal developments. The system is a X1 Carbon with SSD and i5-3427U, which supports AVX (but not AVX2).
       The tests took over 5 minutes each. Times for AVX on vs AVX off were within 0.1sec of each other.
       My conclusion is that AVX does not affect performance at all.

       1. Thanks for that. Certainly helpful information. Are you able to test if there is any difference in speed between ACR 8.6 and ACR 8.7 on your system? I’m guessing you can’t, since “exporting” implies you are running Lightroom and Lightroom can’t be rolled back to previous versions.

          But if you also have Photoshop with Bridge, it’s a fairly easy test.

       2. For what it’s worth… In a private email a tech guru has told me that the bcdedit disable of AVX applies only to the Windows operating system itself. If AVX is implemented in the native code of an application program, the bcdedit trick will not disable it. He may be right, he may be wrong. I have no way of telling.

11. So I just want to make sure: CR 8.8 is Adobe PS CS4 compatible, correct?

    1. CS6, CC and CC2014 are the versions capable of using ACR 8.8

12. A little warning: The plugin installation linked above wipes out the ENTIRE contents of the Common Files/Adobe/Plugins/CC/File formats/ directory where the Camera Raw.8bi is stored. That’s where I keep my older (renamed) versions of the 8bi files. Luckily I had a backup. Been doing that for years, never had an update wipe out my files before.

13. Oh, hello 🙂 LR 6 can’t be too far round the corner then 🙂

14. I use Lightroom 5 and I have never converted files to DNG and don’t understand why I would. I keep them original “*.nef”. Original files work well with other image programs. Is ACR not built into lightroom and its updates? I do not use any other Adobe product other than their PDF reader. I do not understand the need for this as a separate item. Wasn’t converting to DNG to future proof compatibility issues among others?

    1. The DNG Converter tool is designed to give compatibility of newly released camera files to older versions of LR (back to Ver 1) or older versions of CS (back to CS2). It is a free utility to allow you to buy a new camera and still use your Adobe software. In the event a camera manufacturer releases a new model, ACR and, by extension, the DNG converter will gain access first as they are not on a release schedule like Lightroom. Using the DNG converter gives you a bridge to access your new camera raw files during the time between the camera’s release and the next Lightroom release.

       1. Thanks Rikk Flohr for your reply.

15. When is the non-subscription Lightroom 6 being released?

16. When ALT+TAB bug from ACR to Windows will be fixed?
    I can’t switch to Windows back! Win 7 x64

17. i want to download the file

18. Very good

19. Does anyone know when Adobe support for the D7200 will be out? The camera is now shipping and since I’m paying a rental fee for Adobe software, I’d love to get a commitment from Adobe when they will have that support. Same sensor size, almost no major features changed from D7100, how difficult could it be?

20. THANK YOU VERY MUCH

21. Waited for a long time, finally arrived, thank you!

22. ‘Convert to DNG for the new cameras in Lightroom’, but what about the lens profiles???
    Will the RAW 8.8 be available for Lightroom now, or do we have to wait for version 6?

23. Thanks for the Update and the Support of the newer lens profiles!
    Michael from http://www.digitalminds-photography.com/

24. I got a problem with 4k display, how to fix Alt+Tab switch? (Win 8.1 x64)

25. looking forward to be using ACR functionality in LR soon 🙂

26. I´m using LR 5 (Version 5.7) since one and a half year. Before I use Apple Aperture. I changed, because Apple doesn´t develop further this software. Now it seems, Adobe has the same politics for Lightroom. I´m waiting for an update to open the RAW Files of the new Olympus OM-D E-M5 MarkII. Adobe do not publish any information, if and when the ORF files of this cam could be open. Now I read the update for PS will be done, but not for LR! Means that, in future we have only the possibility to convert a DNG file?? I don´t like to work with a DNG. I like to work with my original ORF! If LR 5.7 will not be able to open the ORF´s, the only way will be to change the software to Capture One. This software now reads the ORF Files from the new E-M5 MarkII.

    1. Lightroom releases new camera support via a loose schedule of 3-4 times per year. The last camera update was done in December 5.7.1. The next update should be coming soon and the Olympus OM-D-E M5 Mark II is on the schedule. Support for this camera was included in the ACR/DNG Update 8.8. Until Lightroom releases its next update, you can use the free Adobe DNG Converter to take your ORF file, create a DNG from it and read it in any version of Lightroom.

       Links to the new DNG Converter are here: http://blogs.adobe.com/lightroomjournal/2015/03/camera-raw-8-8-now-available.html

27. I noticed that it is no longer possible to adjust color temperature from within the adjustment brush… does someone know why it’s out of thus release?

    Carlos

    1. Under Camera Calibration, make sure your process version is set to “2012 (Current)” – Temperature wasn’t an option for the Adjustment Brush using old process versions.

       1. thanks you… that solved the problem.

28. How do you apply the lens correction for NIKKOR 50mm f/1.2?

    1. Support was released in ACR 8.8. Have you installed this yet?

       Also, are you attempting to apply the lens correction to a Raw or JPEG file? Some lens profiles are Raw only.

29. Thank You;)!

30. Hi,
    It seems that there is still no profile for the Pentax Q08 lens, do you have plans to include this lens in ACR?

31. Why isn’t this update available for Lightroom? Until now, updates to the RAW engine have been very closely synchronized between LR and ACR/PS. But now LR users have an extra and unwelcome step (DNG converter) added to the workflow. While I appreciate that you’re working on the next LR release, this has yet to be announced and could be months away.

    So, what gives? Has Adobe changed its priorities concerning LR?

32. So I guess with this release of ACR that Adobe has announced the end of Photoshop CS6 being commercially available. Logic to this statement is the “final release of ACR for CS6 and CC. Leaving only Cloud based solutions going forward for new camera support.

    1. I wouldn’t jump to that conclusion. I believe Sharad was simply saying these were not “RC” or release candidate builds.

33. Where to get old 8.8 Camera Raw plugin only? I’ve got some issues with 9.0 plugin and want to roll back,
    There is 8.8 DNG converter, but I don’t want to DL and install useless soft, I want only 8.8 ACR plugin. Are there links available?

    1. Same. Camera Raw 9 is painfully slow to render images in preview mode. I too would like to revert back to 8.8

34. any news on when Lightroom will work with Olympus raw files (omd mk5 2)

    1. Lightroom 6.0 and later support this camera. Lightroom 6 was released in April.

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