Adobe just released a new yearly update to Lightroom which puts us on Lightroom version 9. Keep in mind this video is on Lightroom (which is what I use), not Lightroom Classic. If you’d like to learn more about my switch to Lightroom from a couple of years ago, you can click here. 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.
great and clear summary as usual
As usual a great video on these updated. I was hoping the find distractions (wires/people) feature in LRc would make it’s way into LR. Maybe next time
Hi Ian. Thanks! LRC and LR’s distraction removal features are the same. There is no wires feature in either and they both have the people feature.
HI Matt. I saw someone demoing the new upgrade in Lightroom Classic that finds and removed people in background. Is this feature in lightroom also
thanks
Hi Hal. Yes, I must have forgot to show it but you can see it in the Remove area when I demo Spots and Reflections.
Great introduction to Lightroom’s new features with helpful hints to help you get started
Although the Lightroom police will probably knock on my door at midnight, I would hasten to point out that in Bridge color labels are there under labels and Batch Rename is easy as pie under Tools. They have been there since the McKinley administration! 😂😂😂
Bridge for me!
Hi Jerry. I don’t think anyone is saying that Bridge isn’t any good or doesn’t have important features. However, there’s a disconnect. You browse your photos in one app, then you have to open them in another (ACR). And editing multiple photos in ACR is clunky – to say the least – which is why Lightroom has become the standard for it. But, if what you do works, there’s nothing wrong with that workflow. I used Bridge plenty until Lightroom Desktop introduced the “Local” option. At that point I had what I wished LR Classic always was… Bridge with ACR built in to it and no catalog. To me, the editing process is just faster and easier, than Bridge/ACR. Thanks!
Very useful information that you
Wow! One of the things that I couldn’t stand is not seeing the items in subfolders. Minor thing but yay for having that fixed in the new LR! Thanks for this video!!
I’m still waiting for a print option in Lightroom. Now I have to switch to LR Classic to print any of my photos. Is there a work-around that you know of?? One option might be, in the meanwhile, adding the option, “Continue editing in LRC”?
Is this one you’d prefer I send off to Adobe, as you often suggest?
Hi Wally. I’m not sure you’ll get a full featured print module like you have in LRC. And you most definitely won’t get any interoperability with LR to LRC and back, since they are two programs never meant to work together and should not work together (which is a good thing). I wish I knew what to tell you. I hate to say it but printing with your own printer is dead. And that’s coming from a guy who prints, so don’t hate me 🙂 But it’s sadly true. Printing is not growing, and has been on the decline for decades, so you can’t expect a company to invest resources in to it, since we are the extreme minority. As a workaround, just make a collection that syncs to the cloud and drop your to-be-printed files in there. Then that collection will appear back in LRC and you can print from it. Adobe knows some people want printing, so requesting from them won’t do you any good. Maybe as we move to a world where LR Classic goes away, they’ll break down and add it. But I have no idea if and/or when that would happen. Thanks
Thanks for your thoughtful reply, including a helpful suggestion. I still print family photos and prints for my own use and occasional sales, so I still like to be able to print on my own.