Lightroom Classic 11.4 has been released today. There are a couple of small added features, as well as performance improvements, bug fixes and new camera/lens support. The entire Lightroom Cloud ecosystem has also been updated.
Update – confirmed bugs in 11.4…
Convert to DNG in 11.4 doesn’t carry forward any Rating or Color Label previously applied to the Raw file.NOTE: corrected in 11.4.1 released June 29.
Batch Update Select Sky/Subject Masks
One of the most popular requests since Masking’s release… when you paste or sync masks or apply Develop presets that include AI masks, they’re now automatically recomputed, so you don’t have to manually update them.
There’s also a new Develop module > Settings menu > Update AI Masks command to recompute all AI masks on groups of photos that still need manually updating, such as when applying a preset during import.
Invert Composite Mask
In previous releases, if your mask used more than one selection, you had to jump through hoops to invert it. No more! If you right-click on a mask itself (or use the …) there are two new options:
- Invert Mask: inverts the whole mask. For example, if you had selected the subject, this changes to a selection of the photo minus the subject.
- Duplicate and Invert Mask: creates a new mask inverted, with all the sliders on the original mask cleared.
Preset Amount Slider
Adobe’s been listening carefully… another popular feature request has been the ability to fade Develop presets. They’ve gone one stage further, making it possible to amplify the effect of a preset too. The default setting of 100 applies the preset as it was originally created. 200 doubles the effect of the preset, and 0 of course removes all of the scalable settings. (Some edits, such as Auto, lens corrections or geometry, aren’t scalable, so these are always applied using the original preset settings.) You can decide whether a preset should support the Amount slider when you’re creating or updating your presets.
Export Using GPU
Export can now utilize your GPU to improve export performance, as long as your GPU is powerful enough. If your GPU has 8GB of VRAM or higher, the Auto setting automatically utilizes the GPU, or you can enable Use GPU for Export in the Custom settings. On computers with shared memory (such as M1 Macs, or PC’s without dedicated graphics cards), you’ll need at least 12GB of RAM to use the GPU for export, and 16GB or more is recommended.
Automatic Preview Purging
To reduce disk space requirements, a new automatic background process clears previews that are no longer needed (for example, if images have been removed from the catalog but the preview wasn’t deleted, or a preview no longer matches the edit settings.)
Other Feature Improvements
- New Presets – The Adaptive sets use Select Sky and Select Subject for image-specific adjustments, and Video presets are designed for video editing.
- Masking – The invert, subtract and intersect badges/icons on the mask components have been improved and moved to the left for better visibility.
- Masking – The Amount slider in the Masking panel now shows all the time, and fades/amplifies the effect of the mask, much like the new Preset Amount slider. Unlike the old Amount slider, it doesn’t move the Masking sliders, but just scales their effect.
- Crop tool – New Rule of Fifths crop overlay.
- Info Overlays – Using View menu > View Options, you can now set different Info overlays for the Library or Develop views.
- New languages – Norwegian and Polish.
New tether support:
- Canon EOS R3
Click to view the full list of tethered cameras
New camera support:
- Canon EOS R7
- Canon EOS R10
- Fujifilm X-H25
Click to view the full list of supported cameras
New lens correction support:
- Canon RF
- Canon RF-S 18-45mm F4.5-6.3 IS STMCanon RF-S 18-150mm F3.5-6.3 IS STM
- Canon RF 800mm F5.6 L IS USM
- Canon RF 800mm F5.6 L IS USM + EXTENDER RF1.4x
- Canon RF 800mm F5.6 L IS USM + EXTENDER RF2x
- Canon RF 1200mm F8 L IS USM
- Canon RF 1200mm F8 L IS USM + EXTENDER RF1.4x
- Canon RF 1200mm F8 L IS USM + EXTENDER RF2x
- Sigma L
- SIGMA 16-28mm F2.8 DG DN C022
- Sony FE
- SIGMA 16-28mm F2.8 DG DN C022
- Sony FE PZ 16-35mm F4 G
Click here for the full list of available Adobe Lens Profiles
Bug fixes:
There are a number of bug fixes, but Adobe only publishes the ones that were reported by users:
- Incorrect default color rendering on HEIC files (from iOS and Android Captures)
- Metadata panel didn’t display captions containing double quotes
- Preset hover preview was incorrect for incremental Temperature / Tint
- Crash when exporting a Slideshow
- Duplicate detection failed when Filename/Size Match but Date does not
- Preset group names couldn’t contain spaces when option is set to “Replace With An Underscore”
- Select Sky applied +1 Tint to the image
- Photo context menu in Survey mode showed wrong shortcut for Remove From Selection in six languages
- Print module: vertical drag direction was reversed using trackpad / mouse
- Spot Removal Tool Size slider behaved erratically beyond a value of 75
- Preferences > Presets showed “Please wait while loading camera models” indefinitely when no raw files in the catalog
- Metadata Auto Sync didn’t update the display of fields in the Metadata panel
- Lens Corrections fault for Leica M lenses on Leica M11 camera
If you find another bug, click here to learn how to report it to Adobe.
How do I update?
To update, go to Help menu > Updates or click the Update button in the CC app. The update servers take a while to push the updates around the world, to avoid overloading the servers. You can also open the Creative Cloud app, click Update on the left, then click the … icon (top right) and Check for Updates to give it a nudge.
Lightroom Classic book
Lightroom Classic bookThe eBooks for Adobe Lightroom Classic – The Missing FAQ are already updated for these changes, and can be downloaded immediately after purchasing. If you already have a current Lightroom Classic Premium Membership, the updated eBooks are available for download in your Members Area.
Hoping for Z9 tether support Victoria, do you feel it may come in the next update? Should that be August 15th, estimate?
I’m not at liberty to share sorry Alex! But your date guess seems reasonable based on historical release schedules.
Hello Victoria. I’ve been out of the loop for a few years. I am still using Mojave on a desktop and LR classic 10.4. I seem to remember some pitfalls if I upgrade my Mac os system but can’t remember what they would be. Was the problem only with LR6 catalogues? I still have my LR 6 catalogue isolated from LR Classic. Can you point me in the right direction? Thank you
Just that LR6 (or more specifically its activation process) doesn’t work on more recent macOS versions. Your LR6 catalog will upgrade to Classic just fine though.
Since updating the Flickr plug-in does not add ‘Simple Copyright’ to exported images – and ideas?
Is it safe to upgrade?
It’s looking pretty good, I’ve been out of the office for a couple of days so I’ll catch up with any additional bugs on Monday.
I can seem to get my auto-advance to turn back on now so if you use that, I’d wait to update! Massively disappointed about it and it’s going to take me a lot longer to edit
Hi Hannah
Can you explain better? Do you mean for rating? We’re seeing no issues there; clarify and tell us how you’re trying to turn it back on?
For batch AI masks, there still needs to be an option to set the mask once (i.e., select the sky) and then apply that exact mask (including any further refinements) to all other photos in the batch. For timelapses where the camera doesn’t move, the same pixels (more or less) make up the sky in each photo. The sky mask does not need to be recomputed each time, but having the AI sky masking ability is very helpful for that initial photo edit. I actually got this method to work in a roundabout way on the previous version of LR, but now when I sync settings it automatically tries to needlessly recompute the sky.
When syncing AI masks, LR should ask: (1) do I want to recompute the AI masks for all photos (helpful for moving timelapses), or (2) do I want to just sync the current mask as is?
Make sure you put in a feature request. As the audience needing that feature is a bit more limited, I’m not sure how much traction it would get, so if you have friends/followers that would also need it, get them to vote on the request too.
Somehow I can’t tether my R3 on my M1MBP-16 and InteliMac-27. I shoot tethered on daily basis and been waiting for this update… baffles me that I can’t get it to connect….. somehow.
First thing to check, are all of the tethering plugins enabled in File menu > Plugin Manager? There was an issue a while back that Canon wouldn’t work if the Nikon one was disabled.
In fact, that was the second thing I checked! I have not updated my Mac OS to the latest Monterey build but I doubt it has anything to do with that.
Still baffles me why this is not connecting. Even tried various USB cables too. Argh!
UPDATE: Managed to get it connected but took me awhile to figure out (somewhat). Prior to this, I could either plug the cable and start the tethering menu option, or vice versa, either way worked for all my Canon cams. For this v11.4 + R3, for some reason, I need to first get the tethering menu turned on so it looks for the camera, after which I will then connect the cable the R3, then it will work. If it’s the cable first then tether menu, somehow it does not work. Baffling.
Very odd. Thanks for sharing the solution.
Hey Victoria, thanks for the update – certainly seems that the team have ramped up innovation by an order of magnitude.
Do you, or does anyone commenting here, know of when / whether / if two users logging on to the same Mac will be able to access the same catalogue?
This has been a bugbear of mine for ages: my wife and I both log onto the same Mac with different accounts (because we have different Email, browser bookmarks etc etc etc – a million reasons), but the *only* app I cannot use like that is Lightroom.
We both shoot photos independently, but we keep everything in a single store with separate folder structures – practically this means I can see her photos and she can see mine, which is exactly what we want.
The problem I want to solve is each of us being able to log in on our own account to edit our own photos.
I dream for the day when I see “multiple users of a single catalogue” as an item in one of your blogs!
Cheers,
Mark.
Mark, you can each have your own catalog that points to the same location of both your or photos. By doing that, you will each see the same photos. They will either look like as-shoot or with any post-processing you do on your own.
If you want, you can each process the same photo as you wish since all that is done at the catalog level. You will not see her edits and she won’t see yours. This is all theoretical since I have never tried anything like that.
If you want to actually change her edits it might be best to log in as the other person or set up a third user account on your Mac with just LR access. (The third Mac account sounds interesting.)
Maybe the catalog is in some independent storage space on your drive and you each have an alias that opens it up from within LR. I haven’t thought that through (and there may be a permissions step involved somewhere). No idea if that would actually work.
I like the third account idea.
Maris
What kind of problems are you running into, simply by putting the catalog in a location that you both have read/write access to?
If I understand correctly you want two users simultaneously logged on to a single catalog. That is specifically prohibited by SQLite which is the foundation for Lightroom Classic because it opens an intractable can of worms.
The post states no new cameras supported, yet three were added. Canon R10, Canon R7 and Fujifilm X-H2S.
Oh they do like to sneak cameras in that they can’t tell us about in advance due to NDA agreements. We’ll update, thanks for the heads up!