Monthly Archives: August 2018

Adobe Lightroom Classic 7.5 | August 2018

 This release of Lightroom Classic CC adds new features and enhancements, support for new cameras and lenses, and bug fixes. Full details of what’s new and fixed in Lightroom 7.5 can be found on the application support page

The new features most likely to attract customer attention are in  the Book module. They include the ability to customise pages plus two new book types (i.e. Blurb Magazine and Trade Books). There is also for importing Presets and Profiles, and HEIC support in Windows.

Book Enhancements

Blurb Book Styles

The new book styles can be accessed from the the Book Settings panel as top right corner of Book module.

New Blurb Book styles – Blurb Magazine and Blurb Trade Book

New Paper Type

By popular request, Adobe have also added Blurb’s Layflat paper.

New Paper Type – Standard Layflat

  1. In the ‘Book Settings’ panel, select Book as ‘Blurb Photo Book’
  2. In the ‘Paper Type’ drop-down list, you can choose from Premium Lustre, Premium Matte, ProLine Uncoated, ProLine Pearl Photo, Standard, and the newly introduced Standard Layflat. When using Standard Layflat, the minimum page count is 33 due to the binding requirements. The minimum page count for all other paper types is 20.

Other Book enhancements include:

  • Select where page numbers are printed on a book, including on only left or right pages, or all pages.
  • Customise cells within a page.
  • Add Photo Border.
  • Add multiple cells on a page, move specific cells to the front or back and drag the cell exactly where you want it.

Photo Border

Upload Presets and Profiles in bulk

You can now import multiple presets or profiles in a zip file into Lightroom Classic. Do the following:

  1. Navigate to the Develop module.
  2. From the menu bar, choose File > Import Develop Profiles and Presets.
  3. In the Presets panel, click the plus (+) icon at the upper-right corner and choose Import Presets from the menu.
  4. In the Basic panel, click the ( page7image1765312) Show Profile Browser icon in the Profile area.
  5. In Profile Browser, click the plus (+) icon at the upper-left corner and choose Import Profiles from the menu.

Import Presets

Camera and Lens Support

Details on Camera and Lens support by Lightroom Classic can be found on following pages

More details of this release along with upcoming releases for mobile devices can be read here.

Adobe Lightroom CC | August 2018

 The latest version of Lightroom CC for Desktops was released today (22 August 18). This release is primarily focussed on new camera and lens support.

There are a couple of album related new features in this build. The new ‘Store Album Locally’ setting allows you to save original copies of that album’s photos locally. Adobe are suggesting that you use this option when travelling. In particular, when you know that you’re going to be offline or on a low bandwidth internet connection.

Store Album Locally

The second new feature is intended to help you establish which, if any, albums a particular image is in. To see it in operation, click on an image then click on the ‘Info panel’, and scroll to the new ‘Albums’ panel.

Show album membership – Info Panel

Search and Filter Photos

Another feature introduced introduced in  1.5 is Faceted Search. Basically, you type an object name, or a facet name followed by a colon ‘:’ into the Search field. For example, you can type ‘keyword:’ to display a list of keywords used. The terms used in Search bar are not case-sensitive.

Faceted Search

To search your photos, you can use any of the facets listed below. In the Search bar, type a facet name followed by a colon ‘:’

More details of this release along with upcoming releases for mobile devices can be read here.

Camera and Lens Support

Details on Camera and Lens support by Lightroom Classic can be found on following pages