Lightroom Classic 12.4 has been released today. There are some enhancements, along with lots of bug fixes, new cameras and new lens support. The entire Lightroom Cloud ecosystem has also been updated.
New bugs in 12.4…
Process Version 6
There’s a new Process Version, PV6, that you may spot in the Calibration panel. It’s a relatively minor change, this time with the aim of reducing banding. You don’t need to do anything… any PV3-PV5 photos are automatically updated to PV6 when you make any edits. The changes are small enough that you won’t likely want to update older photos in bulk.
Masking
Grain sliders are now available as a Masking adjustment. Like the local Noise slider, the local Grain Amount slider increases or decreases the global Grain setting. If there’s no global grain applied, negative local grain won’t do anything. The other sliders are linked to the main Grain sliders in the Effects panel, so if you change Size and Roughness, they change in both locations.
Tone Curve
Adjusting the main Tone Curve affects the saturation of colors and usually this is beneficial. However, there may be times where you want to change the RGB Point Curve without affecting Saturation. Now, when the RGB Point Curve is active, there’s a new slider directly underneath, called Refine Saturation. The default is set to 100, which is identical to the old behavior. At less than 100, the saturation boost is reduced, and 0 applies the curve without changing saturation.
Color Mix / HSL
In the Color panel, there are now dots (called edit indicators) to show which colors have adjustments, so you don’t have to check each subpanel.
If you hold down the Alt (Windows) / Opt (Mac) key while adjusting the sliders, the active hue is shown in color while the rest is grayscale. If you hold it down while using the TAT tool, the two affected hues are in color. This helps to identify which hues are being adjusted.
Catalog Rollback Warning
Due to these Develop changes, if you roll back to 12.3 or earlier, you’ll get a message warning that the catalog has been opened in a newer version. 12.0 – 12.3 can still open the catalog, but they won’t understand the new local Grain, PV6 or the Tone Curve Saturation slider. Images may look slightly different in these older versions.
Create Preset / Copy Settings dialog
The previous single Curve checkbox in the Create Preset and Copy Settings dialogs has now been replaced by one checkbox for the Parametric Curve and another for the Point Curve.
Book Module
There’s a new set of alignment buttons in the Book module’s Cell panel, which allow you to set the alignment of the photo within a cell.
Performance
As usual, there’s performance improvements. This time, it’s improvements in switching between images in the Develop module.
There’s also a new dialog to warn you if GPU is turned off in Preferences. In most cases, Auto is the best choice, which you can change it back to.
Sync Version
The minimum version of Lightroom Classic required to sync with the Cloud is now 11.5.
New camera support:
- Pentax
- PENTAX K-3 Mark III Monochrome
- Sony
- Sony Xperia 1 V Front Camera
- Sony Xperia 1 V Ultrawide Camera
- Sony Xperia 1 V Wide Camera
- Sony Xperia 1 V Zoom Camera
- Sony ZV-1M2
- Sony ZV-E1
Click to view the full list of supported cameras
New tether support:
- No new tethered support this release
Click to view the full list of tethered cameras
New lens correction support:
- Canon RF
- Canon RF 28mm F2.8 STM
- Canon RF 100-300mm F2.8L IS USM
- Canon RF 100-300mm F2.8 L IS USM + EXTENDER RF1.4x
- Canon RF 100-300mm F2.8 L IS USM + EXTENDER RF2x
- Sony Mobile
- Sony Xperia 1 V Front Camera
- Sony Xperia 1 V Ultrawide Camera
- Sony Xperia 1 V Wide Camera
- Sony Xperia 1 V Zoom Camera
- Xiaomi
- Xiaomi 13 Ultra Rear Super Telephoto Camera
- Xiaomi 13 Ultra Rear Telephoto Camera
- Xiaomi 13 Ultra Rear Ultrawide Camera
- Xiaomi 13 Ultra Rear Wide Camera
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:
- Save Metadata To File doesn’t clear GPS EXIF fields for DNG’s
- Exporting photo with brush mask and overlapping red-eye correction fails with “unknown error”
- Cursor flickering in Develop module
- Crash during sync
- Searching for ancestor keywords in Keyword List panel shows incorrect results
- Errors in keyboard shortcuts shown in Help windows
- Batch Enhance fails when invoked on a raw and its virtual copy
- Multi-line keywords are possible, but break keywords csv export/import
- Edit in Photoshop window not coming to the front automatically
- 12.3 crashing on launch on Mac
- Can’t install 12.3 on Windows 11 (ARM only)
- (Red button) cancel out of Enhance Dialog causes ‘force quit’ state
- Color Rating using Shortcuts in Full Screen Mode produces unexpected screen
- Applying flag in Crop mode when working on unflagged images causes the Develop window to go blank
- Shortcut for full screen returns to regular view when second screen is active
- Edit In Full Screen creates inaccurate image position when pressing [-] [+] Keys
- Sony Hif Images reading image and writing metadata error
- Import sometimes fails to eject drives it considers removable (Mac only)
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
The 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.
The Photo -> Edit in -> Adobe Photoshop 2023 command doesn’t work any more with Lightroom 12.4 and Photoshop 24.7.0. Photoshop is open but the image doesn’t appear in photoshop. Is this a known bug or could something be messed up with the Preferences?
I am working with a Mac Studio 2023 and MacOS Ventura 13.5.
This fix for the same issue with Ps 25 has worked in the same scenario you mention:
– Close Lightroom and Photoshop.
– Uninstall Photoshop using the CC App – see our blog https://www.lightroomqueen.com/cc-app-2019/ for details.
– Restart your computer.
– Install Photoshop again
I recently plugged in an external hard drive to process older version of lightroom photos. Once i finished I unplugged the hard drive. Then went back into lightroom to process photos in the newer version 12.4 and i cannot locate that version on my desktop. Can someone help me to restore my catalog to new version?
I’m not quite clear on what you did after you plugged in the external hard drive. Did you have an additional catalog on the external hard drive which you opened? If so, I would try File menu > Open Recent and see if the more recent catalog is listed there. Otherwise, search your hard drive for files with an lrcat extension and a recent last modified date.
I cannot make use of the new AI denoise function in LRC due to my laptops GPU incompatibility. It requires direct x 12, my laptop GeForce 940 GPU is direct x 11. The same goes for Photoshop new AI features. I imagine there are a large number of home users experiencing the same issue and having to accept it or purchase new laptop/graphics card.
Unfortunately more processor-intensive tasks (GPU ones) do have minimum levels needed to work. This is true of a few AI functions requiring higher processing power.
https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-discussions/can-not-connect-to-remoter-server/td-p/13887642
Great to see it’s being investigated, thanks for posting the Adobe link.
It appears there may be an issue with Publish Plug Ins.
I use Photoshelter and users on their forum have reported their Publish Plugin is broken since upgrading to 12.4. A user reports their help desk have confirmed this saying: “The update of Lightroom to version 12.4 has unfortunately introduced incompatabilities that mean our plugin will no longer run”
A quick Google suggests Format may also have a problem with their LR Plugin.
I’m not clear whether this is something that will need to be sorted by Adobe or Photoshelter but I have therefore decided to hold off upgrading for now as the Publish function is absolutely critical for managing my archive and photolibrary.
Thanks for the heads up! If you’re not already aware of an official bug report, that would worth doing: https://www.lightroomqueen.com/send-bug-report-feature-request-adobe/
Thanks Victoria, since I’m holding off upgrading myself, I’m trying to get more info from Photoshelter about the nature of the problem so I can write a more useful bug report but they have not yet responded.
After seeing a user post about problems on the Smugmug forum I contacted their support team however they say they are not aware of any compatability issue with their LR plugin.
There is now also a thread on the Adobe public forum here:
Does anyone have this issue?
“viewing before (using “\” on a PC in develop) image has different colour temperature and tint”
The solution at the moment is to disable GPU in the performance tab, but that isn’t optimal for performance.
https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-discussions/viewing-before-image-has-different-colour-temperature-and-tint/m-p/13834021#M324241
https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-discussions/quot-before-quot-has-the-incorrect-white-balance/td-p/13810546
That sounds like a GPU bug to me, but it could also be interesting to check whether the first state in history does the same thing (by clicking the first history state, then undo).
“Like the local Noise slider, the local Grain Amount slider increases or decreases the global Grain setting. If there’s no global grain applied, the local adjustments won’t do anything.”
This seems to be wrong to me. The local Grain Amount slider does NOT affect the global Grain setting (it would be surprising, and useless, if it did). And even if there’s no global Grain applied, you can still add local Grain. Am I misunderstanding something here?
Apologies, I missed the word negative! We’ve just reworded the post to make it clearer.
Thanks Victoria 🙂
I understand now what you are saying, but still find the statement a bit confusing. You say “the local Grain Amount slider increases or decreases the global Grain setting”, I would prefer something like “the local Grain Amount slider increases or decreases the amount of grain as specified by the global Grain setting”. Just my opinion, of course. Cheers, prb.
Thanks, I’ll play with the wording further. Suggestions always appreciated!
I didn’t update LR Classic when the previous update came out – NR, etc, because some had problems. I updated when this one, 12.4, came out. My computer has been restarted since the updating and LR has been closed several times and restarted. Only the two left-most tabs in LR Classic Prefs have any content in them – the rest are blank. I am running Mac 12.6.6.
I would uninstal, reboot then reinstall, that’ll probably do the trick.
(On the Mac) I first tried the Uninstall app in the Applications>LR folder. It seemed to go thru the motions of uninstalling but evidently didn’t remove the files but wouldn’t launch either. I tried uninstalling using the CC app and that worked and then I reinstalled…but same result…only the left 2 tabs in Prefs have anything in them. I’m going to live with it for now as I want to install the current OS, Ventura (I usually wait till they have a number of updates before installing the latest OS.)
Could be worth a Prefs reset next. https://www.lightroomqueen.com/how-do-i-reset-lightrooms-preferences/
On your “How do I reset Lightroom’s Preferences?” page, you mention removing the earlier versions’ .plist file(s). Do I also delete “.plist.lockfile“ and “.LSShared…plist” files? from earlier versions?
Yes, no harm deleting the lot.
I didn’t see a REPLY button under your June 26, 2023 reply, so responding here.
Had no luck, but was getting a new computer late July/ early Aug. Several days ago got back on this. Was going to try to delete some plist file(s) per my June 26th comment. Was scanning your link above again – not sure I saw the “- With LR Running” entry first time around. Tried that and it brought back the content on the Prefs. Tabs that were blank. Thanks.
Great that sorted it, Mark!
12.4 crashes on my MacBook Pro, 2019 under OS Monterey, v12..6.6, 32gb memory. Rolling back to 12.3 is fine. May have to take a pass on 12.4 until Adobe figures out why the system is crashing.
I have a 2019 iMac with Ventura 13.4 and it works fine. 32gb is more than enough for LrC. For Denoise AI it’s the VRAM that is important.
Please be sure to register the issue with Adobe as a bug. This helps gain a picture of the circumstances (hardware, OS) so a fix can be found.
Here’s the link:
https://www.lightroomqueen.com/send-bug-report-feature-request-adobe/
Also seems to include the fix for Denoise on files from older Fuji cameras where a purple band was created on the edges of images
PV6 includes work on Banding issues.
The AI Noise reduction is still not working at my side (X-T2 and *.raf to *.dng converted files), see:
https://community.adobe.com/t5/camera-raw-bugs/p-ai-noise-reduction-for-fuji-x-h1-files-produces-purple-lines-on-edges/idc-p/13868465#M4625
I see you posted on the Adobe Forum, which is good. Have you tried with a straight .raf file? That would help pin down if it’s actually an issue with the DNG conversion.
Sorry for bothering – restart of my Mac solved this behaviour.
After installation of the new version of Lightroom Classis on my Macbook Pro (M1pro) it seems to me that I am unable to add GPS coordinates to my photos in Map Module.