Category Archives: Lightroom Ecosystem

Camera Raw, Lightroom Classic & Desktop | September 2026

  The latest updates to Camera Raw (18.7), Lightroom Classic (15.6) and Lightroom Desktop (9.6) have been released to customers via the Creative Cloud App. These updates include new camera and lens support along with some new features. There are also bug fixes for all.

New features in Camera Raw 18.7

  • Enhanced Reflection Removal: Enjoy higher quality when removing reflections from your photos. Lightroom Classic and Desktop also benefit from the same enhancement.
  • Photo Grid: Organise your photos using the new photo grid and filtering tools.
  • Match Exposure: Match exposures across multiple photos with camera metadata.
  • Floating Vectorscope: Camera Raw now supports detaching and resizing the vectorscope panel for more flexibility.

More details can be found here.

Prompt to Edit  [Lightroom Desktop]

Lightroom Desktop 9.6 provide Early Access to a new  AI-powered prompt-based editing feature.

 

New Camera Support [All Clients]

  • Details of new camera support added since the last release can be found here

New Lens Correction Support [All Clients]

  • Details of new lens support added since the last release can be found here

Camera Raw, Lightroom Classic & Desktop | February 2026

The latest updates to Camera Raw (18.2), Lightroom Classic (15.2) and Lightroom Desktop (9.2) have been released to customers via the Creative Cloud App. These updates include new camera and lens support along with Generative AI features in Lightroom Classic and Desktop. There are also bug fixes for all.

Edit in Firefly [Lightroom Classic and Desktop]

Starting with this update to Lightroom Classic and Desktop, you can now send images directly to Adobe Firefly to explore new creative possibilities. Two edit options are available:

  • Edit images using Firefly’s capabilities
  • Generate videos from a single image

To access ‘Edit in Firefly’:

Lightroom Classic

Select  an image, then choose ‘Generate using Firefly’. Alternatively, Right-click the image, then choose ‘Generate using Firefly’ in the context menu.

Lightroom Desktop

Select image, click the ‘Share’ button at top right corner of application window, then choose Firefly.

When you send an image to Firefly it opens your web browser rather than Lightroom Classic or Desktop application. Both of the above Firefly options also require that you provide a description (Prompt) of what you want to create or edit.

I can’t comment on the accuracy or quality of the results from either of the options or models as I’ve never used Prompt based Generative AI in any application or from any vendor. However, it is important to note that the Firefly resolution of the generated image and/or video is, at time of writing, limited to 2K.

Also, note that this feature uses AI credits. Of course, your subscription already includes a small monthly credit allowance. So, this may not be a problem if you only use the feature occasionally. However, as the screenshots included above indicate, 10 credits is used for a single image and 80 credits for a video based on a single image. The screenshot shown below shows the monthly cost for additional credits.

 

WebP Support [Camera Raw, Lightroom Classic and Desktop]

You can open or import and edit WebP images. You can also export WebP images to other file formats, but not as WebP. I can already hear the screams of displeasure.

Filtering WebP images is possible using metadata filters and smart collections in Lightroom Classic.

Note: WebP files cannot be synced from Lightroom Classic.

New Assisted Culling Models [Lightroom Classic and Desktop]

Assisted Culling has new ‘Subject Selection’ and ‘Eye Focus’ models, which should improve results in photos of groups of people. The model inclusion will cause images to recalculate scores.

Note that the Assisted Culling remains only suitable for photos of people.

Generative Upscale [Lightroom Desktop]

Lightroom Desktop now includes the ability to generatively upscale your images to either 2X or 4X the original size.

The actual model used is Topaz Gigapixal. However, unlike the version of Gigapixel that you can purchase, the version provided in Lightroom does not include the ability to adjust parameters such as the degree of noise reduction or sharpening applied. As such the quality of the results are, in my opinion, not particularly good. If the results are not to your liking, then tough, the credits have been used and there’s no refund.

At a personal level, I would have much preferred that Adobe updated their existing upscaling feature (i.e. Super Resolution) to include their AI based noise reduction). In my tests, Super Resolution along with manual noise reduction in Lightroom Desktop produces superior results at 2X than the Topaz model.

New Camera Support [All Clients]

  • Details of new camera support added since the last release can be found here

New Lens Correction Support [All Clients]

  • Details of new lens support added since the last release can be found here

Camera Raw, Lightroom Classic & Desktop | December 2024

The latest updates to Camera Raw (17.1), Lightroom Classic (14.1) and Lightroom Desktop (8.1) have been released to customers via the Creative Cloud App. These updates include new camera and lens support along with minor feature enhancements and bug fixes.

Note:

Lightroom Classic 14.1 and later will not install on Intel hardware that doesn’t have support for AVX2 instructions. This change affects macOS and Windows systems with older Intel processors.

Updated 16 December 24

Adobe has released Lightroom Classic14.1.1 with fixes for two issues:

  1. Edit/Sync Photo changes the Capture Time.
  2. Creation of People mask results in LrC crash in a certain scenario on macOS.

Camera Raw, Lightroom Classic and Desktop

The following features and enhancements apply to all desktop clients

  • (11) New Cameras
  • (28) New Lenses
  • Lens Bokeh Controls (Cat-eye Slider, Anamorphic Preset)
  • New Adaptive Blur Presets
  • Performance Improvements
  • Bug Fixes

Adaptive Blur Presets and Lens Blur Enhancements

A set of adaptive blur background presets has been added to Camera Raw, Lightroom Classic & Desktop.

A new Bokeh shape – “Anamorphic” has been added. Also, Cat Eye shape has been removed from the preset shape list, and has been added as an independent slider.

Remove Reflections [Camera Raw]

Reflection Removal (Mac Only)

This feature can be found with the ‘Remove‘ tool panel as shown in below screenshot. The purpose of Reflection Removal is to remove reflections from photos captured through windows. It works best when the window covers most of the field of view.

The slider allows you to blend between the original image (input) and the calculated images representing the window with reflections removed and the window with reflections towards the camera. Using the adjustment slider you can effectively adjust the strength of reflection removal. When using the slider, the key values to note are:

  • 0 – the input image
  • 100 – de-reflected (window reflections removed) image
  • -100 – reflection image (what the window was reflecting towards the camera)

After you are done removing reflections, you can continue editing your image just as you would do otherwise.

For best results, try the new feature following these suggestions:

  • Apply Window Reflection removal before applying any other edits to the image. The changes made to the image may be quite profound and render any changes you already made inappropriate.
  • Play with the feature slider and adjust the removal strength as appropriate.

Note that ‘Remove Reflections’ must be enabled via the Technology Previews dialog in Camera Raw Preferences.

Adaptive Monochrome Profile [Camera Raw]

This is a new monochrome version of the Adobe Adaptive (beta) profile first seen in Camera Raw 17.0. This profile supports images converted to B&W via the treatment button as well as monochrome raw photos.

As with the Adobe Adaptive (beta) profile that shipped with Camera Raw 17.0, the Adaptive Monochrome profile is intended for use when editing images in HDR mode.

Hardware Controller Support [Lightroom Desktop]

This will allow third party hardware controllers (e.g. Loupedeck) to connect to and control Lightroom if and when the third party’s enable support on their end.

Edit in Photoshop [Lightroom Desktop]

Edit in Photoshop now supports selecting multiple files, Open as Smart Objects, and Edit in Layers in Photoshop

Preview Management [Lightroom Classic]

When connecting additional monitors, the preview size will dynamically adjust based on the screen being actively used, displaying at the resolution for either the primary or secondary monitor.

Lightroom Classic also now includes a menu item to delete standard and 1:1 previews for  selected images. To access this,

  • Go to Library Menu bar
  • Select Previews -> Discard Standard and 1:1 Previews

SDK [Lightroom Classic]

The following APIs now support anamorphic preset. CatEye Preset is no longer supported.

  • LrDevelopController.setLensBlurBokeh
  • LrDevelopController.getSelectedLensBlurBokeh

The settings related APIs ( now support LensBlurCatEye for changing the new CatEye slider.

  • LrDevelopController.getValue
  • LrDevelopController.setValue
  • LrDevelopController.getRange
  • LrDevelopController.increment
  • LrDevelopController.decrement
  • LrDevelopController.resetToDefault

New APIs, which are present in “API References/modules/LrDevelopController.lua” in SDK Documentation. Below given is a list of API added :

  • goToRemove
  • goToEyeCorrection
  • getRemovePanelPreferences
  • setRemovePanelPreferences
  • getAllSpots
  • countAllSpots
  • getSelectedSpotIndex
  • setSelectedSpotIndex
  • getSelectedSpotParams
  • setSelectedSpotParams
  • getSelectedSpotType
  • setSelectedSpotType
  • refreshSelectedSpotmoveSelectedSpot
  • deleteSelectedSpot
  • gotoPreviousVariation
  • gotoNextVariation
  • deleteSelectedVariation

New Camera Support [All Clients]

Details of new camera support added since the last release can be found here

New Lens Correction Support [All Clients]

Details of new lens support added since the last release can be found here

New Tethered Camera Support [Lightroom Classic]

Details of new tethered camera support added since the last release can be found here