Adobe Updates Lightroom Classic CC & Lightroom CC

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Lightroom Classic CC v7.4 | June 2018

This release of Lightroom Classic CC rolls out new features and enhancements, support for new cameras and lenses, and bug fixes.

Manage Presets and Profiles You can now choose to show or hide various preset/profile groups that are displayed in the Presets panel/Profile Browser, allowing you to scan through the profiles and presets you use the most.

Color label for folders and faster folder search

In the Folders panel (Library module), you can now organize your images by adding a color label to the folders. You can also filter all the folders that have been assigned a color label.

HEIC image files support on macOS High Sierra

Beginning with this release, Lightroom Classic CC now supports Apple's HEIC image file format on macOS High Sierra v10.13 or later.

Auto stack HDR and panorama

You can now prevent the HDR and Panorama stacks from cluttering the grid view by selecting the new Create Stack option in the HDR/Panorama Merge Preview dialog.

Support for new cameras and lenses

For a full list of supported cameras and lens profiles, see these resources:

Fixed customer issues

Issues fixed in Lightroom Classic CC 7.4 (June 2018 release)

  • Keyboard shortcuts not working for rotate left and right in French, Swedish, Spanish, and Italian
  • Crop overlay is hard to see
  • Tone curve enabled not copied by sync, auto sync, presets, or snapshots
  • Settings are reset when develop preset is applied via script
  • (macOS-only) When backing up catalogs on macOS, Lightroom Classic doesn't compress (zip) catalogs that have a file size less than 4 GB.
  • Lightroom unresponsive after Eject SD Card/USB Drive
  • Presets no longer record and apply the turn on/off settings in the Develop Module
  • Hitting “Previous” and/or Copy/Paste is triggering an bad error message
  • Not saving new saving new presets if they contain special characters
  • iPhone video play in wrong orientation



Lightroom CC v1.4 | June 2018

This release of Lightroom CC desktop rolls out new features and enhancements, support for new cameras and lenses, and bug fixes.

Presets and Profiles syncing

Beginning with this release, your Presets and Profiles (including third-party, custom user presets and profiles) now automatically sync across Lightroom CC desktop and mobile.

However, the custom user presets and profiles that you add in Lightroom CC do not sync with Lightroom Classic CC desktop.

Manage Presets and Profiles

You can now choose to show or hide various preset/profile groups that are displayed in the Presets panel/Profile Browser, allowing you to scan through the profiles and presets you use the most.

Copy and paste edits across multiple photos

Enhanced in this release of Lightroom CC on desktop You can now copy the edits from a photo and paste across multiple photos.

You can also choose which edit settings to copy from a photo using the new Choose Edit Settings To Copy option. To access this option, select a photo and then choose Photo > Choose Edit Settings To Copy from the menu bar. Alternatively, press Control + Shift + C (Win) or Shift + Command + C (Mac) keys.

HEIC image files support on macOS High Sierra

Beginning with this release, Lightroom CC now supports Apple's HEIC image file format on macOS High Sierra v10.13 or later.

Reset photo edits to the last opened state

You can now restore your photo edits to the state when last opened it Lightroom CC using the new Reset To Open option in the Photo menu. To reset your photo edits, you must be in Detail view.

Specify share settings for a web gallery

While sharing a Lightroom CC album as a web gallery, you now control the following preferences:

  • Allow Downloads: Select this preference to allow others to download the shared album photos.
  • Show Metadata: Select this preference to allow others to view metadata of the shared album photos.
  • Show Location Info: Select this preference to allow others to view location info of the shared album photos. Deselect it to hide location info.

To modify the sharing preferences of an album that is already public, right-click (Win) / Control-click (Mac) the album and choose Share Settings from the context-menu.

Sort photos by Modified Date

In this release of Lightroom CC, a new option to sort the grid photos by Modified Date has been added.

Get Lightroom CC mobile by texting a download link to your phone

From Lightroom CC desktop, you can now text a link on your phone number to download Lightroom CC for mobile from Google Play/App Store.

Support for new cameras and lenses

For a full list of supported cameras and lens profiles, see these resources:

Fixed customer issues

Issues fixed in Lightroom CC v1.4 on desktop (June 2018 release)

  • iPhone videos play in wrong orientation
  • Incorrect translation of the UI strings 'Portrait' and 'Landscape' in Adobe Raw profiles and Camera Matching profiles
  • Preset and Profile import fails when there are illegal characters in the filenames
  • Dehaze tool causing lag in the edit operations
  • Pressing the G key toggles Guided Upright instead of Grid mode
  • Hovering over a preset doesn't display its effect when Edit panels are toggled to the off position
  • When trying to edit a raw file in Lightroom CC mobile, the app starts downloading the image and then freezes

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Posted: 6/19/2018 2:32:45 PM ET   Posted By: Sean
Posted to: Canon News, Sony News    Categories: Adobe News, Lightroom News
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