The May updates to the Adobe Photography lineup include significant improvements to help you become a better photographer, collaborate more easily, and elevate your editing. Download the latest Lightroom updates today from the iOS App Store, the Google Play Store, or using the Creative Cloud desktop app.
New Ways to Learn and Get Inspired
In Lightroom for iOS and Android (and coming soon to Mac and Windows), we’re introducing a new Home view that showcases your most recent photos, along with new interactive tutorials and inspirational photos. Both the interactive tutorials and inspirational photos allow you to see the edits made to a wide variety of photos, with more being added daily.
The interactive tutorials provide a unique learning experience. Instead of having to watch the tutorial in a different window or on another device while attempting to follow along in the app, the interactive tutorials give you access to the photo from the tutorial directly on your device and then guide you through each edit, step-by-step. You can adjust each slider with guidance and instructions from the instructors.
Inspirational photos offer a simpler way to find inspiration while still showcasing the editing process behind the image. Tapping on a Discover post lets you view the step-by-step edits applied to the photo. Then, you can tap the Edits control to reveal a wheel that lets you scroll through the edits and see exactly which settings were used.
We’ve partnered with a number of amazing photography educators and regularly create new content with even more. Matt Kloskowski, Katrin Eismann, Kristina Sherk, and Nicole Young have all contributed incredibly useful tutorials and photos, and we’re adding more authors on a regular basis.
In Lightroom for Mac and Windows, the help menu (found in the ? icon at the top-right of the application window) has been significantly expanded. It now offers searchable help for each of the tools, along with built-in tutorials leveraging some of the content available on the iOS and Android versions of Lightroom.
New Ways to Collaborate
In Lightroom for Mac, Windows, iOS, Android, and ChromeOS, you can now invite others to contribute photos to your albums. By navigating to the Share & Invite menu, you can invite people via email and grant them either view or contribute access to your album. Once someone adds a photo or video to your album, you’ll have access to the full resolution in the format they added, including raw formats.
Alternatively, you can share a link, and people can request access to your album – ideal for sharing with larger groups without having to input every email address.
New Ways to Edit
Texture
Lightroom for Mac, Windows, iOS, Android, and ChromeOS, Lightroom Classic, and Camera Raw.
Texture is a new editing control designed to either accentuate or smooth medium-sized details, like skin, bark, and hair. By focusing on medium-sized details, Texture can smooth skin without affecting the details of pores (providing a natural smoothing effect) or accentuate bark or hair without increasing noise or impacting bokeh.
Texture works wonderfully in conjunction with other tools like Clarity and Dehaze, providing a powerful way to achieve your creative vision.
Defringe
Lightroom for Mac and Windows
Available within the Optics section, Defringe helps remove purple or green fringes caused by lens chromatic aberrations. We recommend first enabling the Remove Chromatic Aberrations checkbox. If chromatic aberrations are still visible in your photo, use the eyedropper to select an area of your image with a color fringe to identify the hue of the fringe and reduce it throughout your photo.
Batch Editing
Lightroom for Android
You can now copy settings from one image and paste them to multiple images, saving you time and streamlining your editing process. First, select a photo with the desired edits to copy from. Then, use the three-dot menu in the top-right of the screen and select Copy Settings. Next, go to the grid view and long-press to enter select mode. Select all photos you want to apply the edits to, navigate to the three-dot menu in the top-right, and select Paste Settings. Lightroom will then apply the edits to each selected photo.
Flat-Field Correction
Lightroom Classic
Previously available as a plug-in, Flat-Field Correction is now built into Lightroom Classic’s Library module. Flat-Field Correction helps to correct for sensor and lens characteristics that can lead to and show asymmetrical color casts. To use the Flat-Field Correction tool, you’ll need to capture a calibration photo by shooting onto a flat, evenly illuminated reflective surface (or use an ExpoDisc® or a similar tool) with your photos, ensuring the same lighting and lens aperture settings. After importing your photos into Lightroom Classic, select both the photo and the calibration photo and navigate to Library > Flat-Field Correction.
The Flat-Field Correction tool will analyze the calibration photo and then remove any color casts caused by the combination of the lens and the sensor, producing a new DNG file.
All of What’s New
For more information about all the improvements and updates in each product, please consult the What’s New pages for:
Lightroom for Mac and Windows
Lightroom for iOS
Lightroom for Android
Lightroom Classic
Camera Raw
