Lightroom Solutions

Lightroom 7.4 released

Not a very exciting release, the best thing is that you can hide the inane built-in presets and all the near-useless minor variations on profiles.

Lightroom 7.3 released

Look out for Lightroom 7.3 today – the official announcement is here. Profiles There’s a very big change in the profiles area. Profiles have moved from the Camera Calibration tab up into the Basic panel and they are greatly extended in scope: New Adobe looks New “creative” looks Profiles can now include LUTs. The extension […]

Lightroom 7.2

Lightroom Classic 7.2 focusses on more performance tuning. I see a 68% improvement generating 1:1 Previews, 58% improvement generating Standard Previews, and 28% improvement in Export speed.

In the press

Adobe have "reached out" to a number of photography sites and let them try Lightroom's upcoming 7.2

Lightroom 7.1

Lightroom 7.1 came out overnight with updates to all Lightroom apps. The new feature is a completely-rewritten Auto button - the results are so good that you should try it.

“Best photos”

What are the criteria for "best photos" in Lightroom web's technology preview?

Re-editable Silver Efex files

Although my starting point is LR, I always launch Silver Efex this way, via Photoshop as Smart Object. The flexibility is a big advantage.

Lightroom Mobile and Photoshop

Here's a nice little feature in Photoshop 2018. Its Welcome page now lets you directly access photos you've synced in Lightroom.