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Adobe yearly big updates - november 2026
Adobe Update Center 2026
What’s new in Lightroom & Photoshop
We have some big updates to Lightroom and Photoshop this week. I cover what's new in the videos below.
Lightroom
Lightroom Update — Version 10
New glow, masking, tether shooting and customizable interface settings.
Lightroom Classic
Lightroom Classic Update — Version 16
New glow, masking and show focus point settings.
Photoshop
Photoshop Update — Version 2027
New generative ai features, and camera raw enhancements.
Questions or thoughts? Leave a comment below.
I make little hand made books using my photos so I need the print option in LRC. Is there any way to transfer photos from LR to LRC so that I can do that? I use the print modual a lot , in fact depend on it for what I do.
Sabina
Yes, there is and it’s covered in the course. But if you require print for what you do, why would you risk it? Why wouldn’t you just stay with what you have since it works and makes you money. If you print a lot, I wouldn’t ever want to break that workflow. Thanks.
Hi Matt, thanks for highlighting the new features of the Adobe products. I think you may have misspoke on one of the Glow features…you said “speed”, but it should be “spread”. I had close captioning while watching the video to verify this. No harm, just making you aware.
If you have been working with LRC and have a substantial catalog at this point, how would you get those photos with their edits in to LR. I travel. My desktop stays home so I “import as a catalog “ from my laptop after getting home from trips. Would moving to LR be something I should consider or just keep things status quo?
Thank you. Love your videos.
Hi Sandy. You can save Metadata (XMP) to your files and when you open that folder in LR your edits, ratings, labels, keywords will be there.
Remember, I highly disliked LR Classic so the switch was good for me. If you have a system you like then a switch probably would not be good. Thanks.
Matt – Does Lr allow the use of plug-ins yet? Radiant, Topaz, Silver Efex Pro & Lens Tagger are plug-ins I often use. I also do some printing at home. Thanks for your informative videos.
Hi Jeff. It had allowed plug-in support for over a year now.
But also, keep in mind it doesn’t need support for each plug-in like LRC does, because it doesn’t have a catalog – so no tradeoff between plug-in and LR needs to happen. It has the ability to let you go to “File > Open in Other App” and you can point to any plug-in you want. Plug-in support only needs to happen in the software like LRC, because of the catalog. When you remove that, plug-ins become simpler. Full workflow for this is covered in my course as well. Thanks.
The updates to LR look as though it is a real alternative to LRC.
But am I correct in thinking that;
– I still can’ t print from LR. I print from LRC normally and although not perfect it does let me apply a printing template to a series of photos very easily
– In LR I still can’t easily search my entire photo drive (which is all in one catalogue in LRC) by keyword and rating.
I find your courses and update videos really useful – many thanks
Hi Owen. Yes printing is not there yet. If you print a lot, I guess you’d need LRC. I just don’t know many people that print that much to warrant not using a better program. I print from Photoshop when needed and it doesn’t take me any more time and quality is exactly the same since it’s the Adobe print engine.
LR works in folder hierarchy. So if all of your photos are stored in folders within one top level folder, then you can indeed search through that. Again, if that’s a feature you need, it’s probably easier in LRC. It’s just not a feature the majority need. If I want a photo, I know what folder to go in to find it because of the way I organize. But I recognize some people don’t work that way. Thanks and hope that helps.
HELP. My photo storage is a mess; on several external HDs; and some just missing. I mistakenly thought when I saved the LRC catalog, I was saving images. To find a solution, three “pros” have told me to just start over with a new catalog. Which I have done and subsequently lost LRC links to the images.
I was just gifted a new, large external HD and want to move years of images without losing links. I heard you say LR does not use catalogs. Music to my ears.
What is my best next step? I would love to use a folder system and get rid of the catalogs but I do need LR to link.
Hi Kay. The next step would be to start using Lightroom. But I have to say that keep in mind, no program is going to help you with a poor organization system. First and foremost… you have to know exactly where your photos are on your hard drives and have them organized. That is done by you and not any program so you’d want to make sure you know where all of your photos are. From there, Lightroom can help you look at those photos and edit them if you’d like. And I don’t know what “but I need LR to link” means. Thanks.
If only Lightroom had the print option, it would be complete. The video options are superior in Lightroom compared to Classic.
I agree print is nice. You have to evaluate how much printing you do and is it worth it. Printing is a dying art and most don’t do it often enough to warrant staying with a cumbersome program. Notice you hear from every various company constantly in the photography space… but printing has stagnated and neither Epson or Canon release anything new or improve the system. I print from Photoshop and I never have a problem. It doesn’t take me any longer or isn’t any harder. Thanks.
I like to use the print module to allow me to label my photos, then print-to-file. The process allows me to capture much of the metadata and display it on the photo…when appropriate.
Hi Tom. If I recall you also put watermarks on your photos. So it appears you like text on your photos and that’s a personal choice, so you’d need this feature. I prefer no text with my photos so it’s just not a feature I would ever think to use. Thanks!
If the main difference between LR and LRC is no catalogue, why not dedicate a video on why this difference is better. I get great organization with LRC catalogue.
When I lasted looked at Lr it didn’t have the robust keywording capabliity of LrC. Is that still the case? I have a lot of hierarchical keywords set up that would need to migrate.
Hi Marty. It allows you to add keywords. I honestly don’t use keywords and I can’t really even speak to hierarchical keywords but the keyword section allows you to type keywords. I don’t see anything about nesting them inside of each other. Thanks.