You’ll need to start with a series of photographs that have been taken with a panorama in mind. Let’s begin by looking at Merge to Panorama. With this new addition in Lightroom 6, it’s possible to do it all within Lightroom. With previous versions of Lightroom, if you wanted to take a series of exposures and create a panoramic image or a high dynamic range image, you could select them in Lightroom but the actual processing would need to take place in Photoshop or one of the many third-party options available. It comes in 2 forms – Merge to Panorama and Merge to HDR. With this new feature, we no longer have to go round-trip to Photoshop to develop these types of images. As far as new tools and features go, Photo Merge is likely to be the one of most interest to photographers. The new release boasts a few changes over previous releases in terms of speed and mobile integration. Although I am a Creative Cloud subscriber, throughout this post I’ll refer to it as Lightroom 6 for sake of continuity with previous naming conventions used in other posts. The actual software is exactly the same in either case. If you choose to buy or upgrade as a standalone, then it’s Lightroom 6. If you are a subscriber to Adobe’s Creative Cloud, your application is called Lightroom CC. Before that however, just a quick note on the name of the software. With the just-released Adobe Lightroom 6 or Lightroom CC now available it’s time to take a look at some of the new features.

Lightroom 6 standalone upgrade