Laura Shoe's Lightroom Blog
Today many users of the cloud-based Lightroom CC application are reporting encountering the following message: "Uh-oh! Lightroom CC needs to be restarted. You've deleted your catalog." Don't panic - just restart the application, and all should be well. Adobe is looking into this - they initially believed that "this is being triggered by a Mac OS [...]
Apple has released their macOS Mojave 10.14 operating system update. Adobe has tested Mojave with Lightroom Classic CC 7.5, Lightroom CC 1.5, Lightroom 6.14 and other Creative Cloud applications. Known issues with Lightroom Classic CC 7.5 and Lightroom CC 1.5 and Mojave: Switching to Mojave’s Dark Mode can cause Lightroom Classic CC and Lightroom CC [...]
A lot of my free video tutorials are buried in "What's New in Lightroom X.X" posts, so I'm going to start bringing them to the surface in separate posts. Up first: Range Mask is an excellent tool for isolating edits that you want to make to a particular color range or range of tones in [...]
If you ever photograph buildings or other subjects looking up at them or your camera isn't parallel to them or isn't level, you can benefit from Lightroom's transform tools for correcting perspective and leveling photos. In Lightroom 6 .6+ and Classic, these tools are found in the Transform panel, and include one-click fixes with Upright, Guided [...]
If you've made a photo book with Lightroom's Book module, you know that it can take a long time to get it just right. When you're ready to make your second book, rather than start from scratch, reuse your first design, modifying it as you see fit. In the video tutorial below, from my Lightroom: [...]
Adobe announced today that the next versions of Lightroom Classic CC and Photoshop CC will not be supported on Windows 8.1, Windows 10 v1511 and v1607, and on macOS 10.11 (El Capitan). To enjoy the latest versions, Windows users will need to have Windows 7 64-bit or update to at least Windows 10 version 1703, and [...]
Adobe today released update 1.5 for the Lightroom CC cloud-based desktop application. Updates for iOS and Android have also been announced - but they won't ship for up to a few weeks. An update to Lightroom Classic was also released - see my Lightroom Classic article for details on this. To update Lightroom CC Desktop, [...]
Adobe today released Lightroom Classic CC 7.5, with new Book module features, Windows support for Apple HEIC files, support for new cameras, new lens profiles, bug fixes and more. (Updates were also released for the cloud-based Lightroom CC desktop application as well as for Lightroom CC mobile (iOS and Android) - see my Lightroom CC [...]
Lightroom 6 and Classic users yesterday were reporting receiving a message indicating that the Map module will be discontinued: This issue has arisen because Google has made a change in their "API call". However, Lightroom Classic users shouldn't be getting this message, since Adobe will adjust to Google's change and the Map module in Lightroom [...]
What you may have heard is true - as of August 1, 2018 you'll no longer be able to share to Facebook from Lightroom Classic (or from earlier versions, such as Lightroom 6) or from the cloud-based Lightroom CC desktop application. Facebook will no longer allow desktop applications to post to Facebook (using its API [...]
If you use Lightroom Classic CC or the cloud-based Lightroom CC and you're looking for a way to share your vacation photos with friends, your latest portrait shoot with a client, or any collection / album with anyone, you can do this right from Lightroom - anyone you give the collection/album link to can view [...]
For those new to the cloud-based Lightroom CC or to Lightroom Classic, naturally you want to understand how to save your editing and other work. You'll notice that the File menu in the menu bar suspiciously does not have "File Save" and "File Save As ..." options. The short answer is that all the work you [...]
