Following extensive community testing, Adobe has announced the immediate availability of the Photoshop Camera Raw 6.1 plug-in for Photoshop and Photoshop Elements.

 

June 2, 2010: Following extensive community testing, Adobe has announced the immediate availability of the Photoshop Camera Raw 6.1 plug-in for Photoshop and Photoshop Elements.
Photoshop Camera Raw 6.1 is available as a free download for Photoshop CS5, Photoshop Elements 8 (Win/Mac) and Premiere Elements 8 customers. The latest version includes new lens correction functionality and adds raw file support for 10 new popular camera models for Photoshop CS5 customers.

New lens correction features allow photographers to automatically apply profiles that correct for geometric distortions, chromatic aberration and lens vignette effects as well as manually make vertical and horizontal perspective transforms. Customised lens profiles can also be created with the newly released Lens Profile Creator, available now on Adobe Labs.

The newly supported camera models include the Canon EOS 550D, Kodak Z981, Leaf Aptus-II 8, Leaf Aptus-II 10R, Mamiya DM40, Olympus E-PL1, Olympus E-600, Panasonic G2, Panasonic G10 and Sony A450. For more information and to download the updates visit http://www.adobe.com/downloads/updates/. The Adobe Lens Profile Creator is available on Adobe Labs http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/lensprofile_creator/.