Adobe has released Lightroom Classic 10.1, cloud-based Lightroom desktop 4.1, and Lightroom Mobile 6.1 for iOS and Android. These small updates include support for new cameras, new lens profiles and bug fixes. (There are MANY bug fixes for Lightroom Classic, including for customer-reported crashes). There are also a few very small feature enhancements.
Owners of my latest Lightroom 5, 6 and Classic: The Fundamentals & Beyond video series (within your initial period of free updates or having renewed): the Member area of this site has been updated for these changes, and the downloads are now available (for the full up-to-date series an for the smaller update download). There is a new video on how to update from Lightroom Classic 10.0 to 10.1 and a small update to the More Zoom Tools and Tips video.
Not yet an owner of this Lightroom 5, 6 and Classic: The Fundamentals & Beyond video series? Whether you’re a beginner or experienced learner, you’ll be amazed at how much you learn! The series is now up-to-date through Lightroom Classic 10.1. Download it and get started today!
In This Article:
- When and How to Update
- New Cameras Now Supported
- New Lens Profiles
- Lightroom Classic Enhancements
- Cloud-Based Lightroom Desktop Enhancements
- Lightroom Mobile Enhancements
- Resolved Bugs
(The above links to sections below may or may not work depending on what device and system you are using. If they don’t work, scroll down.)
When and How to Update
When to Update:
I don’t have any indication that things won’t go smoothly with these small updates. That said, it couldn’t hurt to wait a week or two to see if others experience issues, unless you need to update urgently to hopefully resolve bugs introduced in the last release(s). If you install the update and then encounter bugs that you can’t live with, you can use the Creative Cloud app to revert to the previous version.
NOTE for those using custom monitor profiles on Mac: According to Victoria Bampton, the interface performance issues introduced in Classic 10.0 have not been fixed in this 10.1 update – so you may want to stay with 9.4 for now. She advices that alternatively, you could set your monitor profile to sRGB if you are primarily doing Library and output module work.)
If I hear of serious issues with this release I will post them here in this section – please check here rather than emailing me.
Click here to check for bug reports and to report bugs or issues that you encounter.
If you had previously chosen to auto-update, open Lightroom Classic and go to Help>System Info to verify that you are now using 10.1. If not, or if you hadn’t chosen to auto-update, go to Help>Update, and the Creative Cloud app will open. Click on Update next to Lightroom Classic. If the update is not listed in the CC app then go to Help>Check for Updates. If it’s still not there, click on the three dots next to Lightroom Classic, choose Other Versions, and see if 10.1 is listed there. Otherwise if it’s the day of release, then try later.
This update process is covered in my video tutorial below:
Your operating system must support the update to Classic 10. When updating, Lightroom Classic will upgrade your catalog, you’ll need to get your dock/taskbar icons squared away and clean up old files. I recommend watching my video tutorial below on this:
If you previously were prompted to agree to auto-update Lightroom and if you agreed, then when you open Lightroom for the first time after the update is available, go to Help>System Info to verify that you are now using version 4.1. Otherwise to update to 4.1, go to Help>Updates, and in the Creative Cloud app, on the Updates tab click on Update next to Lightroom (cloud-based photo service with the “Lr” icon; not Lightroom Classic with the “LrC” icon.)
Find the Lightroom app in the Apple App Store or Google Play Store and tap on Update.
New Cameras Now Supported
Lightroom Classic and the entire Lightroom ecosystem now support the following new cameras:
- Apple iPad Air 4
- Apple iPhone 12 Rear Wide Camera
- Apple iPhone 12 Mini Rear Wide Camera
- Apple iPhone 12 Pro Front Camera
- Apple iPhone 12 Pro Rear Wide Camera
- Apple iPhone 12 Pro Rear Telephoto Camera
- Apple iPhone 12 Pro Rear Ultra Wide Camera
- Apple iPhone 12 Pro Max Front Camera
- Apple iPhone 12 Pro Max Rear Wide Camera
- Apple iPhone 12 Pro Max Rear Telephoto Camera
- Apple iPhone 12 Pro Max Rear Ultra Wide Camera
- Canon EOS M50 Mark II
- Google Pixel 5 Front Camera
- Google Pixel 5 Rear Main Camera
- Google Pixel 5 Rear Ultra Wide Camera
- LG V60 ThinQ Front Camera
- LG V60 ThinQ Rear Main Camera
- LG Velvet Front Camera
- LG Velvet Rear Main Camera
- LG Velvet Rear Wide Camera
- LG Wing Rear Main Camera
- LG Wing Front Camera
- LG Wing Rear Wide Camera
- Nikon Z 6 II
- Nikon Z 7 II
- OnePlus 8 Front Camera
- OnePlus 8 Rear Main Camera
- OnePlus 8 Pro Front Camera
- OnePlus 8 Pro Rear Main Camera
- Samsung Note 20 Rear Main Camera
- Samsung Note 20 Ultra Rear Main Camera
- Sony A7C (ILCE-7C) (final support)
Click here for a list of all cameras supported by each version of Lightroom (and Camera Raw).
New Lens Profiles
These new lens profiles are available in Lightroom Classic and throughout the Lightroom ecosystem:
Lightroom Classic Enhancements
Photoshop Elements 2021 Support
Photoshop Elements 2021 catalogs can now be imported into Lightroom Classic. (For how, watch my video on importing Elements catalogs, in my Lightroom Fundamentals & Beyond video series.)
Zoom
The Scrubby Zoom tool can now be used while using the local adjustment tools (brush, radial filter, graduated filter) and while using the tone curve and HSL targeted adjustment tools. Activate the Scrubby Zoom tool with Shift+Cmd on Mac and Shift+Ctl on PC, then drag a rectangular area to zoom into.
Cloud-Based Lightroom Desktop Enhancements
- The cloud-based Lightroom is now natively compatible with Mac M1 processors and Windows ARM processors.
- We can now rearrange images in an album manually by dragging.
Lightroom Mobile Enhancements
iOS iPad and iPhone
- New home screen widgets available:
- Camera launcher (back or front/selfie)
- Featured Discover posts
- Featured Learn tutorials
- Better support for iPhone 12’s
- Improvements to the camera module
Resolved Bugs
LOTS of bugs have been fixed or otherwise resolved, including the following customer-reported ones for Lightroom Classic and the cloud-based Lightroom. (I’m sure that Lightroom Mobile bugs have also been fixed, but I don’t have the list.)
- Proxy uploaded to cloud has incorrect/missing tiff:Orientation.
- Images that have orientation changed look different in Lightroom Classic
- Import from iPhone to NAS fails
- Second monitor grid view shortcut keys don’t work
- Import from iPhone to NAS fails
- Sync doesn’t complete
- Enhanced Details preview displays chromatic aberration that has been fixed
- Control point in tone curve moves when not dragging it
- Collections panel shows one collection after restarting Lightroom with panel collapsed
- Error when emailing from Lightroom
- Slow starting and frequent crashing
- Agnegativestyle exception, Develop module stays blank
- Compare view doesn’t display star rating properly
- ompare view doesn’t display star rating properly
- Copy and paste white balance setting from Basic panel pop-up menu Changes label but not settings
- Image isn’t sharp at 200%
- Windows Only: Issue with German UI in Library
- Adding to collection gives an error when sort order is custom
- Mac: Unexpected error opening catalog
- Loupe view doesn’t remember star ratings, flags
- Brush stroke vanishes when using spot healing
- Mac: Unexpected error opening catalog
- Error: Some smart previews not built when using Copy as DNG
- Pasting white balance doesn’t work
- Tone Curve presets not working properly with Lightroom Classic 10
- Copy-Paste/Sync applies Color Grading on an image after doing a checkAll followed by uncheck CG in the dialogbox
- Advanced Export: dialog shown for downloading smart preview although Original is on disk
- Album sort order is not preserved after restarting the app
- Edits lost after machine put to sleep
- Export creates duplicates when saving
- The text is too small in the info panel.
- Copy and Paste: Paste hangs
- Edit Capture Time allows entry over colon
- UI: Gap between Edit Stack and Local tools in Russian Language
- Click on Map in Info view fails to open browser
- CR3 Files are not editable when Store Smart Previews Locally is checked (Windows)
iOS iPad and iPhone:
- Fixed issue that could cause Share to fail
After updating to LRC10.0, LRC can longer locate my catalog, even though Win explorer shows them in the right location. I note that in the Adobe forum, many other users have offered their problems with LR. Is this normal? If has never encountered with LR, so I don’t know is this is typical.
I’m not sure what happened, Mac – it’s not normal. If you haven’t already, go to File>Open Catalog and navigate to and select the .lrcat file.