The new filter box in Folders lets you hide or display folders. Here I only want to see 2018 folders, or I could have entered -02- and seen February over multiple years.

Lightroom Classic 7.2 has been released. The features I like most are:

  • More performance tuning
    • Most noticeable in Import grid, importing, building previews, stepping through in Loupe view, displaying adjustments in Develop, panorama/HDR merges, export
    • Should benefit everyone
    • Biggest benefits for those with more than 12gb RAM and more CPU cores
  • Folder filter
  • Mark folders as favourites
    • Integrated with the Favorite Sources in the filmstrip
  • Create a Collection Hierarchy from a Folder Hierarchy
7.2’s improvements over 7.1 do indicate that it’s a continuing effort, but in my view you can best gauge Adobe’s work on LR performance by comparing 7.2 against how things were when it began – ie against the last version of 6.14 or 2015.14. With an older 4 core PC but with 48Gb RAM, what I am seeing is:
  • 68% faster generating 1:1 Previews
  • 58% faster generating Standard Previews
  • 28% faster in Export speed
  • 26% faster merging 8 frame panorama
  • 12% faster merging 3 frame HDR