Lightroom Classic 9.2 has been released today. As well as bug fixes and new camera/lens support, the engineering team have spent this release cycle focusing on some long-term requests and other enhancements.
The entire Lightroom cloud-based ecosystem has also been updated today too.
Custom Defaults
The old defaults system has been completely replaced by a new one in Lightroom Classic 9.2. Note that old defaults aren’t carried over, so if you use custom defaults, you’ll need to recreate them.
The new defaults are found in the Preferences > Presets tab.
You can stick with Adobe’s default settings, or you can automatically apply a preset of your choice to all new photos, without having to remember to select it in the Import dialog.
Alternatively, if you like to use your camera’s picture styles when you’re shooting, for example, your camera’s B&W setting, Lightroom can now recognize the picture style you used and apply the matching camera profile.
Different defaults can be set for each camera you own, or you can use the same default setting for all new raw photos.
You will notice that different defaults by ISO are no longer natively supported, as Lightroom’s noise reduction has improved and they’re generally no longer needed. However, if you do need iso-specific defaults, a solution is described in this month’s Missing FAQ book update.
PSB file support
A long-standing request has been for PSB files (Photoshop files that exceed the PSD limit of 2Gb) to be catalogued in Lightroom. These can now be imported as long as they’re under Lightroom’s maximum dimensions (not greater than 65,000px long edge and no more than 512 MP).
Auto Sync button
It’s easy to forget that Auto Sync is turned on and accidentally apply a Develop edit to multiple photos, so the Auto Sync button is now highlighted when it’s enabled.
Multiple Monitors
Another long-requested feature: If you’re using 3 or more monitors, you can now select the screen to use as Lightroom’s secondary monitor in Preferences > Display.
Export Dialog Updates
As well as Export and Cancel, a third option has now been added to the Export dialog. Done will save any export settings you’ve changed without exporting photos at the same time.
GPU Updates
Full acceleration is now applied for AMD GPU’s when Auto GPU is selected for macOS 10.14.5 or later.
Enhance Details can now make use of eGPU’s on macOS Catalina.
Photoshop Elements 2020
Catalog migration from PSE2020 is now supported.
New camera support:
- Canon EOS-1Dx Mark III
- Huawei
- Mate 30 Rear Main Camera
- Mate 30 Rear Telephoto Camera
- Mate 30 Rear Wide Camera
- Mate 30 Pro Rear Main Camera
- Mate 30 Pro Rear Telephoto Camera
- Mate 30 Pro Rear Wide Camera
- LEICA M10 Monochrom
- LG
- G8 ThinQ Front Camera
- G8 ThinQ Rear Main Camera
- G8 ThinQ Rear Wide Camera
- V50s ThinQ Front Camera
- V50s ThinQ Rear Main Camera
- V50s ThinQ Rear Wide Camera
- Nikon
- Coolpix P950
- D780
- OnePlus
- 7T Front Camera
- 7T Rear Main Camera
- Phase One IQ4 150MP (Preliminary)
- Click to view the full list of supported cameras
New lens profiles:
- Fujifilm X
- Zhongyi Mitakon Speedmaster 35mm f0.95 Mark II
- Hasselblad
- XCD 4/45P
- HUAWEI
- Mate 30 Front Camera (JPEG only)
- Mate 30 Rear Main Camera (DNG + JPEG)
- Mate 30 Rear Telephoto Camera (DNG + JPEG)
- Mate 30 Rear Wide Camera (DNG + JPEG)
- Mate 30 Pro Front Camera (JPEG only)
- Mate 30 Rear Main Camera (DNG + JPEG)
- Mate 30 Pro Rear Telephoto Camera (DNG + JPEG)
- Mate 30 Pro Rear Wide Camera (DNG + JPEG)
- Leica M
- Voigtlander VM 21mm f/3.5 Color Skopar Aspherical
- Voigtlander VM 35mm f/2 Ultron Aspherical
- Voigtlander VM 75mm f/1.5 Nokton Aspherical
- LGE
- LG G8 ThinQ Front Camera (DNG+JPEG)
- LG G8 ThinQ Rear Main Camera (DNG+JPEG)
- LG G8 ThinQ Rear Wide Camera (DNG+JPEG)
- LG V50S ThinQ Front Camera (DNG+JPEG)
- LG V50S ThinQ Rear Main Camera (DNG+JPEG)
- LG V50S ThinQ Rear Wide Camera OnePlus
- OnePlus
- 7T Front Camera (DNG + JPEG)
- 7T Rear Main Camera (DNG + JPEG)
- 7T Rear Telephoto Camera (JPEG)
- 7T Rear Wide Camera (JPEG)
- SIGMA L*
- 14-24mm F2.8 DG DN A019 L Mount
- 14mm F1.8 DG HSM A017 L Mount
- 20mm F1.4 DG HSM A015 L Mount
- 24-70mm F2.8 DG DN A019 L Mount
- 24mm F1.4 DG HSM A015 L Mount
- 28mm F1.4 DG HSM A019 L Mount
- 35mm F1.2 DG DN A019 L Mount
- 35mm F1.4 DG HSM A012 L Mount
- 40mm F1.4 DG HSM A018 L Mount
- 45mm F2.8 DG DN C019 L Mount
- 50mm F1.4 DG HSM A014 L Mount
- 70mm F2.8 DG MACRO A018 L Mount
- 85mm F1.4 DG HSM A016 L Mount
- 105mm F1.4 DG HSM A018 L Mount
- 135mm F1.8 DG HSM A017 L Mount
- *SIGMA L mount profiles contain vignette correction only, and are not expected to automatically match when selected.
- Sony FE
- Rokinon/Samyang AF 18mm F2.8 FE
- Rokinon/Samyang AF 45mm F1.8 FE
- SIGMA 24-70mm F2.8 DG DN A019
- TAMRON 17-28mm F2.8 Di III RXD A046S
- TAMRON 20mm F2.8 Di III OSD M1:2 F050
- TAMRON 24mm F2.8 Di III OSD M1:2 F051
- TAMRON 35mm F2.8 Di III OSD M1:2 F053
- Voigtlander COLOR-SKOPAR 21mm F3.5 Aspherical
- Voigtlander MACRO APO-LANTHAR 110mm F2.5
- Voigtlander NOKTON 21mm F1.4 Aspherical
- Voigtlander NOKTON 50mm F1.2 Aspherical
- Click here for the full list of available Adobe Lens Profiles
Bug fixes:
As usual this release also includes bug fixes. Adobe only publishes the ones that were reported by users.
- Warn users when trying to open multiple files at once in Photoshop.
- Face tagging suggestions appear twice and incorrect entries are not removed.
- Fixed preset preview issues.
- Lightroom Classic preset preview does not respect image orientation.
- IPTC Extension collapsible fields (Location Shown, Location Created) do not retain data.
- Error creating virtual copies.
- Book Module: Export to PDF hangs/never completes; some pages are blank
- Metadata preset doesn’t always set Altitude correctly
- Metadata panel truncates, rather than rounds, GPS coordinates at thousandths of a second
- Post processing disappearing from Export window when checking presets
- Changed HEIC Metadata doesn’t seem to get reloaded
- Library enable filters setting not kept
- Hanging on launch (Mac 10.14.6)
- Lossy DNG compression stopped working on macOS 10.15 Catalina
- Export with previous fails when using using a user preset
- When will sync auto upright be fixed ?
- CRASH of Lightroom Classic CC when exporting folder as catalog
- Custom Splash Screen still shows 2007-2014 Adobe Copyright
- Exporting EXIF with high “Transform” value
- Phase One IQ4 support
If you find a 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 the … icon (top right) and select Check for Updates to give it a nudge.
Is the book updated?
The eBooks for Adobe Lightroom Classic – The Missing FAQ are already updated for these changes, and available for download in the Members Area for current Classic Premium Members.
Do you know how about the new Canon R5 and R6 – are they supported in LR Classic? I have Classic 5 and suddenly neither LR nor EOS Utility recognises my camera…🤔
Best from Susanne
Susanne
Both cameras are supported in Classic 9.4 (or above)
Is there a way to change the “adobe default” when setting up my import settings? I just want the adobe neutral instead of the high contrast adobe color. It seems like so many extra steps to have to create a preset and save that as my default import rather than in the past when I could just pick a profile I wanted and set it as the default.
The preset will take you all of 10 seconds to create, then you can either set it as default (that’s what I’d do) or apply it on import. It may be 10 seconds slower if you just use one camera, but it’s way quicker if you have more than one.
Since updating to 9.2 LR always opens to full screen window on my iMac. It doesn’t seem to remember the window size as it used to. Any ideas? Am I missing some preference?
Thanks!
Joel
It’s not you, it’s been confirmed as a bug: https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/lightroom-classic-9-2-window-sizing-problem
Thanks for the update Victoria.
I’m glad it’s not me but a fairly inconvenient bug. If it bothers me a lot I’ll roll back or just live with it until Adobe fixes it…
Lightroom 9.2 changed the way presets work. On Import, I would like Lightroom to import the lens profile from my Nikon S Mount lenses, but none of the other settings from the camera. How do I do that?
Open a photo in Develop, hit Reset, turn on lens corrections, create a preset with everything checked and assign that as the default.
still waiting for adobe to expnd the watermark feature where you have the option to add multiple logos (png files) and place them where on the images, ie event photography.
Add your vote to this request: https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/please-make-it-possible-to-add-multiple-watermarks-on-too-one-photo. It’s not getting a lot of support so far.
Anyone else having problems with downloading the updated Lightroom Classic book from the above link? My download attempts in the past week have invariably timed out.
Log in and send us details on the contact form and we’ll look into for you. To answer your question, no, we haven’t had issues with the downloads.
This is all sorted out now (via WeTransfer), thank you Victoria, thank you Paul! 🙂
I’m sure Your Right. But as I said the other system I want to use it on is only for tethering to a Nikon. I have Photoshop on that system also. Never use it though on that system. So for now I will not update that system and I should be OK. It’s just that all of these little expenses can add up with a full time studio. Rent, phone, insurance, heat, A/C and on and on. Customers that think the prices are too high, etc. Thanks for your replies. Check out our website.
OK Adobe has now done it in Photoshop also.
OK. Here’s a problem with the 9.2 update. When you sign out of Lightroom Classic 9.2 it shuts down the program with no warning. No chance to back up your catalog or anything. It is my understanding that this is something new to Lightroom. I have been told that in the future you will have to sign out of Lightroom and Photoshop thru the Creative Cloud. Expect to see the Sign Out under Help go away. I don’t know about you but I am not seeing any of this as a plus. By doing this Adobe is no letting you run these programs on say 3 systems. Guess you will have to buy 2 subscription to do this. Ok I get that, but don’t shut them down with no warning so you can’t back up or save what you are dong. Bad move Adobe.
Joe
Just open Preferences and set the backup frequency in there – you can change it to every time Lr exits if you like. Nothing has been changed by Adobe on this.
What do you mean about signing out of Creative Cloud? For what purpose?
Adobe have always allowed you to have an active license on two systems concurrently (for Lr & Ps), there’s been no change there on Classic, it goes back to the early versions of Lr.
Here is the info I received:
Joe,
One of the people in the support group was able to get me a copy of your case notes. The behavior you describe was reproducible by support and they logged a bug with the Lightroom Classic team. I’ve reviewed the bug and it had already been closed with the notation “as-designed”. It was noted that this was a behavior change made in 9.2.
Lightroom Classic will now close on Help>Sign Out and that will be expected behavior going forward. Correct procedure is to Sign In and Sign out via the Adobe Creative Cloud App. I would expect Lightroom Classic to remove the Help>Sign Out option in an upcoming release.
It probably isn’t the answer you were looking for but it does explain what happened here – which was my goal in contacting you via the Matt K. Blog.
~ Rikk Flohr – Adobe, Inc.
What if you don’t have an internet connection at that moment? Are you locked out?
To sign back in, then yes, you’d need internet access. I’m not sure what happens if you try to sign out without internet access, but that would be an easy thing to test (and why would you anyway!).
The license does indeed only allow you to be activated on up to two machines at a time, and does require you to be logged in. That’s been true since they went subscription.
The catalog saves as it goes along, so you’re not losing anything with the abrupt shutdown. If you want to back up, sign out using the CC app instead.
In past versions of Lightroom Classic I had it running on 2 PC’s. I would sign out of 1 and be able to open it on another and sign in. Yes then it was running on 3 systems. I can no longer do that because when I sign out of that first one it closes out (shuts Down) no backing up catalog, etc. Just disappears very fast. I do have a work around though. Here it is. Running on 2 systems. Sign Out of 1. It disappears as described above. I am now signed out of 1. Go to another system that Lightroom has not been updated on, open it and Sign In. Sign Out of that. Since it’s the previous version it does not shut down. Go back to the first and Sign In and run it. Now I have it running on 3 systems. Yes it’s a pain. I will not update that 3rd system so I am able to do this. For me I don’t need all of those new things. Especially on that 3rd system. I only use it for Tethering a Nikon in the studio. I will add again the info I received on this below. Let me know what you think.
Joe,
One of the people in the support group was able to get me a copy of your case notes. The behavior you describe was reproducible by support and they logged a bug with the Lightroom Classic team. I’ve reviewed the bug and it had already been closed with the notation “as-designed”. It was noted that this was a behavior change made in 9.2.
Lightroom Classic will now close on Help>Sign Out and that will be expected behavior going forward. Correct procedure is to Sign In and Sign out via the Adobe Creative Cloud App. I would expect Lightroom Classic to remove the Help>Sign Out option in an upcoming release.
It probably isn’t the answer you were looking for but it does explain what happened here – which was my goal in contacting you via the Matt K. Blog.
~ Rikk Flohr – Adobe, Inc.
Ahhhh so you’re the reason they closed the loophole! 😉 The license agreement has always been 2 computers, they’re obviously just enforcing it more carefully with this release.
Ahhhh You got it. It’s all about the money. The only way around this is to have 2 subscriptions. Double the cost for us. So in the USA it would be $20.00 instead of $10.00 per month. OK but for now I still have my work around.
They will get arond to doing this in Photoshop sooner or later.
Yes, I’m sure you’re right. As a pro, I’m sure you remember how much this software used to cost. Adobe’s driven the price down to make it accessible to more individuals, but that does mean they have to enforce their license agreements.
At the end of the day, it’s a tool of your trade. I bet your cameras cost an awful lot more, and they can only be used by one person at a time.
I live in hope that one day one of these updates will be: “multiple users on the same computer can access the same catalog.”
For my wife and I who share an Apple Mac and have different logins so we can access mail etc separately, and who also shoot jointly and separately, the inability to work on the same catalog is just the single most irritating thing about Lr.
Any ideas if this will ever change?
Cheers,
Mark.
Maybe you can place the LR catalog on a seperate disk or share which you both can access?
I’m thinking along the same lines as Jelmer. As long as you quit Lightroom before switching users, there’s no reason you can’t both use the same catalog accessed from different accounts. I’m guessing you’re just hitting some permissions issues.
Will changing the defaults with this new system actually change the default slider values, or is it just like a preset? In other words, if I double-click the name of a slider, will it reset the slider to Adobe’s default setting for that slider or mine?
It’s like a preset, except the default values are altered. So, if you change it so the default value for Highlights is -15, that will be the default setting. It will show as -15 in Develop, and if you then adjust it further, setting it back to default (double-clicking the slider name for example) it will return to -15 rather than the ‘standard’ default of zero.
You write about improved noise reduction…since when has this been a thing? I cannot find it in the release notes.
It’s been years. Whereas in ACR’s early days, you needed different slider values for every ISO, these days it’s smarter. They now have noise profiles for almost every camera, so you don’t generally need to tweak for every ISO.
This is an interesting new feature. The book already gives a lot of information. Can you please consider the possibility to write a specific post anyway? Or: is there any reference article I can read?
If there’s anything you need to know that we haven’t already included in the book, feel free to drop us an email via the Contact Form. That’s one of your premium member benefits.
I will. Thank you!
Trying to open LR Classic just now the message popped up stating that the my catalogue needed to be updated for the new 9.2 version, but when it had processed that all my photos had disappeared. I tried to go back to the previous version but the instant it installed that an auto update started leaving ne once again with 9.2 but no photos! How do I get back my catalogue please?
My best guess is it’s simply opened the wrong catalog. Just find the right catalog and double click to open it.
And they still haven’t managed to fix the “Photo placed in wrong spot on map” issue – very disappointing…
This one? https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/bug-in-map-module-of-lightroom-6-8
Yes, exactly. Meanwhile I have learned that you can work around this issue by Ctrl-clicking the position in the map. I even was not aware that this is a bug since a couple of years – I was seeing this only with new HW since a few months.
Does the update fix the import problem where you have to relocate your folder each time you import? Lightroom seemed to loose that feature on the previous update.
That doesn’t ring a bell, at least based on that description. Tell me more?
I have the same problem since the previous update. When importing to LR Classic, the folder list on the RHS is completely collapsed so I have to painstakingly open each level right from MacHD through to Pictures and on and on to eventually come to the destination folder I want…or use the little drop down arrow next to MacHD to see the last used import folder.
Same here. I expected they would fix that with this update. It happened with an update a couple of years ago too. It is a monumental pain in the neck — I used LR Classic in editing a magazine and am constantly importing small numbers of images from the same folder. It is ridiculous to have to click on the Import folder tree nine times every time I want to import a few images.
Same here in LR classic v 9.1 using Mac OS Catalina folder list on RHS is collapsed on importing and have to open up each folder to find my destination folder. On my other Mac computer LR Classic v9.1 using Mac OS Mojave, Importing folder structure list on RHS for destination is same as it always has been – all good. Think it maybe a Catalina bug – Anyone updated to 9.2 and has this issue been fixed?
I don’t remember seeing a bug report on that, so here’s instructions on how to report it to Adobe: https://www.lightroomqueen.com/send-bug-report-feature-request-adobe/