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  • It's Lightroom update time again! As well as the usual new cameras, lens profiles and bug fixes, Lightroom Classic has a new local Hue tool, improved ISO-specific defaults, performance improvements and more. The Lightroom cloud ecosystem also gets local Hue, as well as Versions, Activity notifications, text watermarking and the ability to upload your own Discovery tutorials. Here are the full updates about Lightroom Classic and the Lightroom cloud ecosystem.

lightroom classic

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    Workflow for Sharing photos: Masters in Lightroom Classic some synced via Lightroom-CC and published in Portfolio

    Hi All, with a lot of time on my hands I have finally subscribed to Lightroom for the photography collection and I have started to use the full feature set of lightroom classic, previously I only used it as a Catalog. I know some don't like folder structures being used in Lightroom but I have...
  2. nkawoods

    Smart Previews Only in Lightroom CC

    I'm using Lightroom on two computers, Lightroom Classic on one (my primary computer) and Lightroom CC on a smaller computer (which I use for travel). Several of my photos in Lightroom CC indicate that there is only a smart preview available in the cloud. I thought what I needed to do to fix...
  3. R

    Lightroom and Classic minimize disk space

    Laptop with Windows 10, 1TB internal, 2TB external I just made the switch from Lightroom 5.7 to the Lightroom subscription. In order to maximize flexibility I chose to download both Lightroom and Lightroom Classic. I successfully migrated my catalog and had Lightroom store my photos on an...
  4. H

    Difference between Lightroom cloud service and Lightroom classic

    I am new to Lightroom and I am using the cloud service. I was just curious as to what the difference was between the cloud service and Lightroom classic. Which one would you recommend?
  5. L

    Aperture to Lightroom Classic before upgrading to Catalina

    I have not transferred my Aperture library to LR Classic yet and understand that I will need to do this before upgrading to Catalina. What is currently the best procedure to do this?
  6. nkawoods

    Lightroom Classic vs Camera Raw Features

    If I were to give up Lightroom Classic in favor of Lightroom CC plus Camera Raw - are there any editing features I would be giving up? Publishing services? Printing? Are Camera Raw's noise reduction features as good as LR Classic?
  7. houghtonphoto

    Can I convert to B&W in Lightroom and remove all colour data?

    I've just released a book on street photography on Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing, but the 140 page 6"x9" book which contains 64 square format B&W images is about 46Mb, even when the PDF is optimised in Adobe Acrobat. This makes it a larger than normal Kindle download according to Amazon, who...
  8. R

    Sync Lightroom Classic and CC Sync Problems - Duplicate Files & Misorganisation

    Hi Guys I think I've truly stuffed up on this one! This is a Lightroom Classic post, although I'll be mentioning Lightroom CC a lot at the start. Background I am a long-time Lightroom Classic user. I've got a "Master Catalogue" of over 50,000 photos. These photos are sorted into a folder...
  9. silkenpaw

    catalog problem

    I have a weird problem with the dates in my cat.alog. I must have selected the wrong date for an import because Lighroom created another “2019” folder inside the existing 2019 folder and is now putting new photos in there. A screen shot is attached. I tried deleting the folder and re-importing...
  10. Jonathan Clulow

    Where is my storage going..

    Hi, Recently I completed a rather painful exercise of starting afresh with Lightroom by going straight into Lightroom CC and storing my entire library on a 1TB Adobe plan first hand. Now that process has completed (14days solid Virgin Media connection maxed out) I would like to work on...
  11. R

    Duplicates support

    We often have duplicate images which are caused by modifying originals, cropping them, etc. LR already provides the capability of selecting the best picture using AI. I'd like the following support: 1. Gather all the pictures whose date taken are identical 2. Highlight the one AI believes to be...
  12. C

    Lightroom preset is auto adjusting photos in develop

    I am new to using Lightroom. In a previous catalog i created my first preset to try and make things faster for a set of photos i was working on. i have now created a new catalog and imported a completely different set of photos for another client. After choosing and rting my photos i went to...
  13. TBC

    Strange Export Error Message

    I am on Windows 10 wtih the latest Classic CC 8. Ever since I upgraded, I have had problems exporting images and get the following message: readMetadata: Error when Lightroom attempts to process a catalog master image file: “dng_error_file_not_founf” (look at the part after “dng_error” for a...
  14. L

    Lightroom CC 7.5 Load Preset Issue

    Hi everyone, I've spent hours googling this and not getting anywhere so I'm hoping someone can help explain what to do to fix. I've just updated to Lightroom Classic 7.5, everything looks normal but my presets aren't loading onto my photo's. They still show the example on the smaller example...
  15. V

    Running out of room on my computer!

    Operating System: Mac Exact Lightroom Version (Help menu > System Info): Classic Hello, I have run out of room on my computer (Macbook Pro) and need to figure out what to do. I was interested in using the new Lightroom cloud but I can't print from it (I'm a scrapbooker and print most of my...
  16. mantra

    lightroom classic and cc installation question

    hi i have installed lightroom classic ( i call it v7 to avoid confusion) and lightroom cc i'm an adobe subscription , lightroom and photoshop i tried to install under w10 and sierra and hi-sierra lightroom cc , but i got several crashes but may i ask you a question? seeing i have started to be...
  17. J

    Lightroom CC & Classic

    I'm confused and reading some threads on here hasn't helped to clear the fog. 1 have... A laptop with CC & Classic A Tablet with Lightroom mobile A Phone with Lightroom mobile Photos are held on the C: drive. I set local storage to the F: drive in CC where there is now a Lightroom folder...
  18. GrandmaG

    Problems with Lightroom Classic

    Operating System:Mac Exact Lightroom Version (Help menu > System Info):High Sierra v.10.13 Well, I've seen the many complaints about this latest upgrade and thought, "Wow, It's working for me". That has changed. So far, these are the two things I have noticed. error #1: There was an error...
  19. R

    LR Classic has changed the WB on many of my Presets to 2000k

    Operating System:High Sierra Lightroom Version: Classic (Please go to Help menu > System Info to double check the exact version number) Question or Description of Problem Discovered that many of my presets are suddenly changing WB to Custom and 2000K (blue). Doubt Custom was the original...
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