The latest and ? greatest incarnation.  I was not sure whether to upgrade and certainly the sums for subscribing to Photoshop CC were not convincing. £102.84 per year vs £59 for the upgrade which I can keep forever.

You do get Photoshop CC included and lightroom mobile, but my heavy lifting on the Mac is now in the very capable hands of Pixelmator which keeps going from strength to strength.

What made up my mind to upgrade to ver 6? Simply —  security.

I noticed 2 photos of the Falklands that would work well as a pano, but when I wanted to export them to Photoshop CS3 (my old and trusted out of date version), I was told that I would need to load an old version of Java. Sadly, that is a no-no.  Java is so prone to hacking and thus your machine will be insecure.  

So PSCS3 is now off the menu bar and Pixelmator will do the job.

LR6 also will do HDR and panos – and certainly with panos, does a great job.  My HDR workflow uses Nik software effects and I can make lots of different flavours of HDR.  I will try out the LR6 HDR to see how that works in practice.

LR6 is also supposed to be faster – as it uses the graphics processor – not too sure if that is noticeable in real life. The change to Metal on OS X promises great improvements in speed.  Pity that Adobe were not on the stage at WWDC on Monday to show off their software with Metal