Lightroom Classic 14.2 Lightroom 8.2 new features

Lightroom and ACR have been updated today, here are the new features.

Tether updates focus in Lightroom Classic

Tethering is when you attach a cable to your camera and shoot directly into Lightroom Classic. You can also remote control your camera. This is available for Sony, Canon and Nikon cameras.

Connect the camera and choose File>Tethered Capture>Start Tethered capture

In this case, I’m using a Sony A7S3

Choose Live view

The new feature is onscreen focusing.

Move the rectangle to change the focus point

You can also select different Metering modes

And, yes, it works with macro as well.

I think this is a really great feature for table top and product photography. With my testing the focus speed is too slow for portrait photography. I could see myself using this on table top, being able to remotely adjust settings and focus on the camera while looking at a large screen, is a nice feature.

Adaptive Profiles

Custom profiles are a great starting place for your images. Adaptive Profiles make it even better. By utilizing ai to analyze the image, Lightroom can create the perfect profile for each image. We have had these in Camera Raw for a little while, but now they are here in LR and LRC. THere are 2. Adaptive color and Adaptive B&W. I have done a tutorial on adaptive profiles here. 

Choose the 4 window button to go into profiles.

Profiles appear on the right.

Scroll down to adaptive. Roll over to preview. Click to apply.

This is a perfect starting place. Make the other adjustments like you normally would.

Speed Improvements in Lightroom Classic

There are a few speed updates. 2 notable ones are when rotating and cropping. The other is improved performance with multiple masks. You can see this in the video at the top.

Lightroom Desktop updates

Lets look at the Lightroom Desktop, formally known as Lightroom Mobile. This is the desktop component that syncs with the Phone and iPad app.

Secondary Window

Dual monitor support is now here.

Here. I have dragged both windows together so you can see them both.

New compare view option

Click on the compare view icon

Now, we can see before and after side by side. This helps when making edits.

ACR Adobe Camera RAW update: Remove People

We now have a remove people in ACR (Not in Lightroom yet).

Here is the bean in Chicago, notice I have a lot of people in the shot, as well as reflections of people.

Choose filter>Camera RAW to launch ACR.

First we have to enable this feature. Choose the gear in the top right of ACR

Turn on Technology Previews. (This is the ACR beta functionality).

Choose the eraser tool

Make sure you are in the ai setting.

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Under Distraction Removal, you will see people have been added to the reflection feature.

All the people will be highlighted in red.

Click the blue remove button to remove the people.

It does a great job. If it misses any, just use the remove tool to finish the job.

And there you go!  I may do some in depth tutorials on one or two of these in th near future. Let me know which onwes you want to know more about.

Great to see you here at the CAFE

Colin

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