Laura Shoe's Lightroom Blog
Adobe last night released version 2.4 of the cloud-based Lightroom (CC) Desktop application and version 4.4 of Lightroom Mobile iOS and Android, and they also introduced new Lightroom Web features. The headline feature available now across the entire Lightroom ecosystem (Desktop, Mobile, Web) is the ability to recover photos deleted within the past 60 days [...]
Do you know what the histogram is and are you using it in-camera when you shoot and in Lightroom as you edit images? The histogram is a graph that gives you lots of information about your exposure and tones in your image, and I recommend learning about it and using it both in-camera and in [...]
Whether you use Lightroom Classic, Lightroom 6 or the cloud-based Lightroom, sometimes you'll want to view photos from more than source together in the grid, whether the sources are folders, dates, collections or albums. It's easy - select the ones you want using the selection methods that work for files, and then the images for [...]
Every week someone comes to me panicking - you open Lightroom and see that just about EVERYTHING has changed - the Folders panel isn't there with your nicely organized folders, there are no keywording panels on the right, there are no Library, Develop or other modules, etc - or you experience the opposite - you're [...]
One of the strengths of the newer simplified cloud-based Lightroom application is that when you use it on multiple computers, Lightroom automatically keeps your images and work in sync amongst the computers. (This is not the case with Lightroom Classic, to the despair of some Classic users.) We're used to being able to use Adobe [...]
Adobe this morning released Lightroom Classic (CC) version 8.3.1. This unscheduled "double-dot" release has no new features - just two bug fixes that Adobe deemed critical enough to release before the next-scheduled Classic 8.4 update. Bugs Fixed: "The specified folder is not writable" message when exporting or publishing (via a publish service). This issue blocking [...]
Through Tuesday, May 28, SAVE 20% on my Lightroom 5, 6 and Classic CC: The Fundamentals & Beyond V. 8. and Lightroom 5, 6 and Classic CC: Producing Great Output V. 8 video series, and save an additional 20% by purchasing the two together. To receive this sale pricing, use promo code MEMORIAL20 in the shopping [...]
Letters this week have gone out to some Adobe customers stating, "We have recently discontinued certain older versions of Creative Cloud applications and as a result, under the terms of our agreement, you are no longer licensed to use them....Please be aware that should you use the discontinued version(s), you may be at risk of [...]
Adobe released Lightroom Classic (CC) version 8.3 today. In addition to bug fixes and new lens profiles, there are two new features - Texture for enhancing or smoothing out detail and Flat Field Correction for correcting for lens shading. Updates for Lightroom (CC) Desktop, iOS and Android were also released - see my Lightroom CC [...]
Adobe today released version 2.3 of the cloud-based Lightroom (CC) Desktop application, along with Lightroom iOS 4.3 and Android 4.3. In addition to new camera support, new lens profiles, and bug fixes, there are significant new features, including a way to recover recently deleted photo files and new editing tools. An update to Lightroom Classic [...]
Life used to be so simple - there was one Lightroom program, and the only question was whether you were using version 5 or 6 (or another number). Starting in October 2017, there are now there are two Lightroom programs, and their names have been a moving target - most recently changing today. It's important [...]
Many in the Lightroom community are now asking what's going on with Lightroom Classic and Photography Plan pricing. The subscription plan that most Lightroom Classic users subscribe to, the Creative Cloud Photography plan, has been $9.99 for years. The plan includes Lightroom Classic, Photoshop, the newer cloud-based Lightroom application (AKA Lightroom CC), and a minimal 20 [...]
