Today, Adobe has announced and released a new version of Lightroom Classic (and Photoshop too). This new version has totally changed the way I edit in Lightroom. And it’s been so hard to sit on this new feature for the last few months because every time I do a video, I know it would be so much easier and better if I could have just shown you the new features that were coming.
Well… they’re here and I’ve got you covered with long and short videos on what’s new in Lightroom Classic. The first video is a longer “Deep Dive” in to the new Masking and Brush/Gradient changes. The second video is a quick 5 minute “Just show me what’s new” video.
Updating Your Apps
You may have to refresh your Creative Cloud Updater app or even restart your computer to see the updates. Click here to see a video I did on this.
If you don’t see the updates… DO NOT POST HERE. They roll out over 24 hours and nobody here can help you if you’ve already restarted your computer. Enjoy!
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Thank you for the detailed information and the ebook. When I open each chapter in the book, I do see a desktop view, and I do hear your voice, but I do not see any of the moves you make to show me what you are doing. Can you help? Many thanks
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Matt, thanks so much for this. I waited to watch your video before I download the update. One quick question: When you Select Subject, can you select Inverse by clicking on the box at the upper right?
Hi Linda. Yes you can. Thanks.
Matt. Can you point me to the brush preset bundle you used in the Lightroom tutorial above
Yes, just click the link in the “New Course and Presets” banner above. Thanks.
Excellent tutorial, as always. Thank you!!!!
Your new masking and brush tutorials are great, as always.
I wonder how much luminosity masking and adjusting, as has been done for years in PS, (and you have a course in luminosity masks I would have bought previously if it worked with PS6) you can simulate with the new LR luminosity tool in LR. Can the new LR tools be used to “fire up” (usually) landscapes as previously done in PS?
(PS I recently caved in and subscribe to CC.)
Hi
I asked a question on Nov 2 2021 about luminosity masking in the new LR/CR possibly replacing the very complicated courses on luminosity masks in PS, one of which you offer. (I would have bought it but at that time I had PS 6 which was not compatible. I have since subscribed to Adobe Photo pack).
I notice that your good buddy Blake Rudis spoke at PS summit 4 about presets to make luminosity masks.
You never answered my question, so I’m asking again: Can and how can we use new luminosity masking to duplicate/approximate prior complicated methods? I hope to see a course from you about this.
I can’t seem to find this answer. Can you now do sky replacement using the new sky selection?
Hi Jeff. No that isn’t possible. You can select the sky easily and make your normal LR adjustments to it, but you can’t replace it. You’d need Photoshop for that.
Hi Matt,
Great tutorial thanks.
I am about to upgrade my imac OS, as presently have High Sierra and the PS 2020 and LR classic plan.
Would you know if Catalina is good enough for the latest releases of PS and LR?
Thanks
There seems to be some significant changes in editing metadata for a selected group of images. If you have a group of images selected and you change the Title, it will only change the first image. If you toggle the “Auto Sync” switch on the bottom right, it will change the Title for all images. The other big change, which to me is very confusing, is when you select multiple images and Title is different for all images. The metadata panel will show the Title for only the first image. In Lightroom 10 and below it would show if the titles were different. This could lead you to believe that the Title is the same for all images. Is there any way to display if there is a difference in metadata from one image to another?
Hi Jeff. I’m not aware of any changes but to be honest, I only open the Metadata panel about twice a year when I have to do a tutorial on it. Other than that, metadata is not something I ever mess with. Thanks.
Matt;
I’m not very impressed with your answer as you just blew Jeff off. Your attitude seems to be that since you don’t really use it you don’t really care or know about any changes. The changes Jeff mentions explains why I didn’t see the usual prompt after I had selected multiple photos and wanted the title/description fields to be the same in all of them. The prompt use to ask if you wanted to apply the changes to all the selected photos. Your attitude makes me regret having just dropped some dollars on buying your LR/PS classes as they probably only cover what is of interest to you.
Hi Ken. That’s a bummer you feel that way. I’m not sure what else I could have said. I wrote that I’m not aware of any changes… and I’m not. To me it actually seems like a bug and I believe Jeff wrote in on another platform where I explained that. I thought by letting him know that it’s not an area I use often would add some “color” to why I’m probably not the guy that’s going to uncover any changes/bugs in that area – since I don’t use it. I don’t feel I blew him off in any way. I answered him honestly right? If the response was short, it may have been – please understand that during a big Adobe release week like this, I answer somewhere around 500+ messages between the blog, Youtube, Facebook and my customer service email. I’m happy to do it, and that would never be an excuse to be rude to some one. But at the same time, I’m typically quick and to the point in my responses – especially when it’s a question where I know I don’t have the knowledge to add anything. There are no documented changes to this, so at this point I simply don’t know how to help.
PS: While I do cover many things that don’t interest me in my courses, I am absolutely 100% an instructor that talks mostly about what interests me. It’s worked for me for 20 years because I’m able to talk enthusiastically about my videos. People buy my courses, many times, to cut through the multitude of features and get to the stuff that will make you photos look great. That’s the type of instructor I am and I try to make it very known that you won’t get bogged in technical stuff (example: metadata) in my courses, because that’s simply not me. I can’t be enthusiastic about something that I don’t even use myself. Best!
Out of order. Matt does a great job, but he cannot be expected to know everything, and as he openly admits he does not use metadata hardly at all, I think his reply was to the point and in no way ‘blew’ him off.
Hi Matt,
Great tutorial thanks.
I am about to upgrade my imac OS, as presently have High Sierra and the PS 2020 and LR classic plan.
Would you know if Catalina is good enough for the latest releases of PS and LR?
Thanks
Hi Maddy, It works for me on Catalina.
What a fabulous update to LR Classic! I rarely venture over to PS, so this is HUGE! You have once again provided us with an excellent and well delivered tutorial that I will be referring to for my first few walk throughs. Thank you sooooo very much, MK!
I have to say, this is the first time ever that I’ve been tempted to jump from my perpetual Lightroom 6 to a CC subscription. LR6 has served my needs well for 6 years (aided by your training course from 2016). However the advance in selection capabilities and ease of use is maybe enough to push me over the hurdle. Thanks, Matt!
Do it! 🙂
Thanks Matt for all your instruction video’s they are of great help.
Hi Matt, thanks for the two videos – all I need now is the new LR update – can’t wait to try them out.
Thanks as usual for the great tutorial Matt, will you be updating your “Lightroom System” class to include this new feature?
Yep!
Thanks for sharing this great intro info, Matt!! Now on to the longer video!!.
Wow, this is amazing, so looking forward to these changes! Thank You for your great explanation!
Thanks for the great tutorial, I feel I learnt so much from it! I’d never before considered the idea of using preset brushes for selections/masks! In the past 12 months I’ve been gravitating to using Lightroom more and more on my iPad Pro rather than my desktop and so have a quick question on whether or not the brush presets will still work on the mobile device?
Hi Martin. Thanks! Presets don’t work on the mobile versions.
Hi Matt
Great look at the new features in Lightroom, makes me want to try them on some of my images right now. Thanks.
A quick note about the Video – your lip sync is slightly out, OK when looking at LR screen
Matt, typo in headline — “Coures.” Also, you need to learn the difference in usage between “it’s” and “its.” Spellcheck will not catch mistake, as both are legitimate words. I say this as a public-service courtesy.:-)
Thanks. Already fixed 🙂
With these improvements I think that Lightroom has taken away a lot of the reasoning behind using On1 Raw which has sophisticated masking capabilities along with being a similar DAM program. Well done.
Philip,
Thanks for your comment. I have owned On1 products for many years and have struggled to keep re-educating myself when they redo the look and feel. I really want to spend more time in the woods and swamps taking pictures (I live on the edge of the Everglades) than trying to keep up to date on making the various programs function. I am at about 95% on cancelling my auto-renew to On1 camera raw, especially since they want even more money above the $129.99 I already paid so that I can import my pictures from Lightroom Classic.
Matt, Brilliant as always and just updated last evening and saw the changes – now I am going over some of my old work and changing the looks! What a change! WOW
Thank you again for this video tutorial
Phil
Thanks. As always. Will definitely watch the longer video in a bit. Probably more than once! This is big!
Thanks for the explanation! I have many of your presets already and I look forward to trying them out with this new way of doing it!
Superb intro to this wonderful update
Matt, are you using Big Sur on your Mac? Have not updated yet so wanted to ask before I do.
Thanks, as always, for your great videos explaining these new features!
Thanks Matt! This is very helpful. I really like your teaching style – in depth but not too fast nor too slow. Yea!
If you thought updating Windows 11 is bad .. The upgrade of this latest version of Lightroom Desktop and Lightroom Classic was just pure murder. Spend over an hour upgrading which included downloading, installing, waiting for database restructuring. Although auto it wasn’t fun watching the sliders moved at turtle pace.
On top of that testing the new masking feature was almost impossible .. I think almost everyone upgrading were also doing the same. In the end gave up testing the mask feature.
Suprisingly the phone version (installed a few weeks ago) was creating the masks 10x faster.
This morning the pace is much better .. my guess is Adobe servers isn’t swamp with new toliet requests for the AI mask.
Yes, I agree this is a game changer. Already seeing much better rendition with the new masking feature.
btw. Adobe really needs to step up on their cloud infrastructure. Very unsatisfactory network perfomance last night.
On a good note .. the masks created on several photos with the mobile version on the phone were ported seamlessly.
However the promised across all platforms did not make it to the Lightroom Web version.
I’m freaking out. This is SO COOL– it’s pretty much everything I’ve been wanting from LR for years. Matt, thank you so much for this intro video. You explained the update beautifully and made it very easy to understand. Already have the new course in my shopping cart and can’t wait to learn al the things. Sir, you rock!
Thanks for being right on it for us, Matt. Really glad to see Adobe make such an investment in Lightroom. But darn, now I have to update my Mac operating system, too! They keep moving my cheese. ? Appreciate ALL you do.
Wonderful introduction to these fantastic new LR tools, Matt. Many thanks!
Wow! I have been using Lightroom since it was first released in 2007 and I agree this is the largest leap ever taken by Adobe in an update. Thanks so much for creating this video and very clearly showing how to use these new masking functions.
I had just learned about the new masking function at Adobe Max today. Great timing as your video appeared in my email box soon after. You have brilliant timing. You made it much simpler and thanks for that.
Just as others have, I would need to edit in Photoshop when it was necessary to create complex masks. Now it appears to be even easier to create complex masks in LRC than in Photoshop with the add and subtract functions. This update is a game changer.
I am loving the new features. Thanks for being so quick to create these videos. It’s going to be fun testing these new features out!!
Wow! Matt, you are sooo right! Biggest advance ever in LR! Thanks so much for the intro! How exciting is this new mask option!
Great video Matt. Thank you so much for the explanation, just got to wrap my head around it now!
I think Mats is right. Much appreciate the introductory video. Wow…a lot to learn. Time to modify old habit patterns and build new ones.
Awesome video, Matt!! Are you going to be updating the LRC course which I took a year or so ago? Thanks!
Whoops – nevermind. Just realized it was the PS course I took! Sorry for the confusion.
Totally brilliant presentation!
Thanks Matt That was so helpful.
Thanks for a fast and brilliant tutorial
Matt,
You are an awesome resource as always! Thanks for what you do!
Great run down. Just bought your course.
Great session Matt. Thanks
Great explanation thank you!
Great stuff as usual, Matt! Question: will the updated presets included with the Deep Dive course replace their existing counterparts from you, or will I end up with a dizzying and confusing array of (almost) duplicate presets? Thanks.
Hi Mike. Yes the updated presets will replace the old ones and is included in the Install video that comes with it how to remove them. Thanks!
Holy Frijoles! I have to watch both of these videos again. This is huge. And very well done videos, too.
Lightroom Desktop has added “recommended” presets which use AI to examine your photo and create a list of recommended presets. This is not available in Classic.
Thanks for the very useful information on Classic. Will take some practice.
Adobe showed again what they are capable to achieve. Matt you showed again you are the best and most probably the fastest to show us what’s new. Thank you very much indeed you made our lives much easier showing new features and how to use those. Now going to train my brain to use new approach.
Thanks! I’ve had this ready to go because I was so excited about this release. It’s been hard not to show it and talk about it for the last few months 🙂