Hey there everyone! I’m just getting back from teaching some workshops in Costa Rica, but I wanted to share some of the new features in the latest update to Lightroom (Lightroom 7.4 Released on June 20th, 2018).
Of course you have your normal camera and lens profile updates. But they did add the ability to manage your Preset and Profile libraries to show and hide things that you don’t want to see anymore. They’ve also added Color Labeled Folders, some HEIC Support for Mac OS 10.3, and a preference that let’s you turn off the preset preview option when you hover over a photo.
But my favorite feature of all is that your own custom Presets and Profiles can now be used on your mobile devices and tablets. You will have to use Lightroom CC (not classic) to at least import the presets/profiles so they’ll sync. Look for a video coming on that one soon.
Anyway, if you want to check out a video about all the new stuff, just have a look below. Enjoy!
I love teaching and photography... In that order. I feel that enjoying photography, and photo editing can get WAY too complicated. So my personal mission (and favorite thing to do), is to create education that simplifies the process of taking great photos, and how to edit them to get the results you’ve always wanted.
Hey Matt,
I enjoyed the information given in this tutorial. I am relatively new to Lightroom still and it was super helpful getting all of this content condensed into an easy to understand video. Awesome to see how some of the new features can be utilized.
Thanks!
Matt, thank you for another great video, you explain things very well.
Great video and thanks for making the new features so understandable. Having passed on 7.3 because of reported bugs I have now upgraded to 7.4 and installed the profile pack I ordered from you back in April. All good so thanks again.
HI Matt,
Once again you did a great update video, like a lot of people who never bother to read and look into all these upgrades and just upgrade regardless and if it wasn’t for your upgrade videos where would we be :o) Seriously though as always you make it easy to listen and follow along with you and on a side note are you ever going to make it over here to Scotland?
hallo Matt,
is it possible to create categories/folders for presets as we have in profiles ?
i have too many presets in left sidebar.
NOTE : send button text is white on white background color so, not visible !
marc
Thanks Matt, these little update episodes save me a lot of time!
Hi Matt, I have a heap of LR presets including yours, however I find it frustrating that there is no ‘down’ or ‘up’ arrow to be able to scroll through each pre-set. There is the large slider to the left, but that won’t keep scrolling through each one. Appreciate if you are able to help or shed some light on it for me.
Thank you for this update
Hi Matt,
thanks for the great video! I have a question – I thought it was the amount of presets that slowed my computer down, rather than the preview feature – or is it a bit of both? I also wondered, if you deselect presets in ‘manage presets’ will they still be loaded into lightroom (i.e. slow down Lightroom), or not?
Thans for your help!
Kat
Hi Kat. Unfortunately I don’t know on both questions. Sorry about that.
Profiles (including the MattK ones) synced fine but only the LR supplied Presets seemed to synchronize. In c:/program data/adobe/camera raw/settings/presets are the xml files for all of the standard LR presets but none of my purchased or custom presets. All of these have a date of 6/19/2018. That’s when I did the 7.4 upgrade. Any thoughts? All of the presets show in LR Classic.
Thank you for this update
Al,
Syncing Lightroom Classic CC presess to the broader ecosystem requires the use of an intermediary (Lightroom CC) to accomplish this sync. Here is an quick tutorial: https://www.lightroomqueen.com/sync-presets-profiles-lightroom-classic-mobile/
I am getting ready to upgrade from LR Classic 7.1 to 7.4. Other than bugs fixed (which dissuaded me from upgrading earlier) do I need to review what changes may have occurred between 7.1 and 7.3? Thanks in advance.
I would just upgrade. You’ll find new things along the way. Check out this site here and I’ve done a video for every update.
Thanks Matt for this video…it make the update all the more understandable…Thanks again!
Thanks Matt, great time saver 🙂
Peter
thanks for the update, Matt !
instead of preview on rollover, it would be nice to have a full screen grid of presets and profiles like ON1.
profile thumbnails are quite small on right sidebar and the room to display them with categories is quite limited
kind regards
marc
Matt – Great to have this broken down – Excellent tutorial – Thanks
I am really glad that someone like you takes the time to keep someone like me up to date, every time I can watch one of your video I learn
something new. Thanks’
Happy to help Dennis! Thanks!
Great update, thank you.
Can i use Lightroom with Photoshop Elements without buying PS on line from Adobe
How can I use lightroom with photoshop elements 2018
Hi William. You can use it with Photoshop Elements, but not in any of the ways described in this video. Maybe this will help: https://helpx.adobe.com/au/lightroom/help/editing-photoshop-or-photoshop-elements.html
Thanks so much for explaining the newest update. I had a whole set of presets that triggered a message every time I loaded LR saying there were errors creating custom develop presets to XMP, and I was about to write them about this, but alas, it is now fixed!!! Yay! Love the way you make things so user friendly!
Thanks Matt!
These updates make your courses even more valuable!!!
Thanks! 🙂