My favorite retro lens filter for a film-like look is now a digital slider. Adobe has sneak-launched a new “glow” slider, and I’m already obsessed

A street performer at night, with blurred traffic in the streets, edited in Adobe Camera RAW.

The filter that lives on my favorite camera lens a majority of the time is a diffusion filter, which gives light sources a glow that feels like a retro film lens. But now a new slider from Adobe is mimicking that retro effect – and it’s a new launch hidden inside Adobe Camera RAW.

While Photoshop got a major announcement last week with a new light adjustment layer, the new update to Adobe Camera RAW (ACR) came with little fanfare. ACR is Adobe’s RAW file converter that edits and preps RAW files before opening them inside Photoshop.