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 confirmed bugs in 12.4…
- Will update when anything is reported
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, the local adjustments 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The previous single Curve checkbox in the Create Preset and Copy Settings dialogs has now been replaced by one checkbox for the Parametric Curve and another for the Point Curve.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.
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.
Sorry for bothering – restart of my Mac solved this behaviour.
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