Today, Adobe is unveiling new AI innovations in the Lightroom ecosystem — Lightroom, Lightroom Classic, Lightroom Mobile and Web — that make it easy to edit photos like a pro, so everyone can bring their creative visions to life wherever inspiration strikes. New Adobe Sensei AI-powered features empower intuitive editing and seamless workflows. Expanded adaptive presets and Masking categories for Select People make it easy to adjust fine details from the colour of the sky to the texture of a person’s beard with a single click. Additionally, new features including Denoise and Curves in masking help you do more with less to save time and focus on getting the perfect shot.
All of the features are live now, so why not try them out at your next photo walk, family get-together or on your next big trip? The new enhancements, alongside Lightroom’s existing feature set that includes travel presets, help you capture your adventures in a way you’ll be proud of.
Accelerate your workflows with AI-powered precision
Denoise
(Lightroom for Mac/Windows, Lightroom Classic, Adobe Camera Raw)
Never miss another photo opportunity because of poor lighting. With Lightroom’s latest advanced AI-powered feature, Denoise, you can remove digital noise from your images to improve quality without losing any details. This is especially useful when dealing with high ISO files in low light — for example when you’re taking a photo of the sunset at the beach, snapping evening shots of the city, or at a candle-lit birthday party. This new feature is now available for RAW files, with additional file types coming soon.
Curves in masking
(Lightroom for Mac/Win, Lightroom Classic, ACR)
You can now create highly customised and precise edits by adjusting contrast, tone, and colour on specific parts of your image with Curves in masking. This combination provides fine control over tonality and colour in specific regions of a photo to help you achieve the perfect look. Use this feature in a landscape photo that needs a specific part edited, for example, to bring out shadow detail, correct colour, or add creative effects. Or refine a portrait by selectively adding warmth or brightening areas without impacting the overall exposure.
Additional AI Mask categories for Select People
(Lightroom for Mac/Win, Lightroom Classic, ACR)
When Adobe introduced Select People at last year’s Adobe MAX in October 2022, it made editing and retouching portraits easier than ever.
Now it’s possible to make precise edits to clothing and facial hair by automatically generating a mask for individuals or groups in any portrait. This means you can select clothes, such as a shirt, and change the colour with minimal effort. Or select a beard in your photo and darken or adjust the texture.
Enhance in the moment with ease
Additional adaptive presets for portraits
(Lightroom for Mac/Win, Lightroom Classic, ACR, iOS, Android, Lightroom on Web)
Adaptive presets are an entirely new class of premium presets that Adobe started rolling out last year. Building on the powerfully advanced capabilities of the AI masks, it’s now possible to apply presets which automatically enhance a particular part of the photo to add in final touches — the newest additions are Polished Portrait, Darken Beard, and Enhance Clothing. These presets allow you to access the power of AI masking with the ease of a single click or tap.
Polished Portrait enables you to quickly smooth the skin on portraits, enhance the lighting, and refine facial features to achieve the desired look. Or use Darken Beard to darken the facial hair of the model in your photo for a greater impact. Enhance Clothing, meanwhile, increases contrast, saturation and texture — useful when you want to highlight the details of an outfit — to optimise the definition and make your photos stand out more. The new adaptive presets have been added to Adobe’s existing library that already includes Enhance, Glamour, Whiten Teeth, and Texturise Hair to name a few.
Black & white for video
(Lightroom for Mac/Win, iOS, Lightroom on Web, coming to Android soon)
Last year, Adobe added support for video in Lightroom to enable you to use the same edit controls that you already use to make your photography shine with your videos as well.
Today, Adobe is adding the ability to make any videos black and white to help you achieve a sophisticated black and white look on video, reminiscent of classic film styles, with the tap of a button.
This new video feature is a great time-saver, as you can quickly apply the same black and white treatment to multiple video clips, which creates a cohesive look and feel.
Masking features and Adaptive Presets on the web
(Lightroom for Mac/Win, Lightroom Classic, ACR, iOS, Android, Lightroom on Web)
Adobe is focused on delivering beloved features from the desktop and mobile versions of Lightroom to the web. You can now access the power of AI masks on the web as well, starting with our selective adjustment tools.
AI Masking for both Select Subject, Sky and Background are now available in Lightroom on the web, which means that with one tap only you can detect and create an adaptive mask based on the contents of the image — without having to download an application or leave the browser.
Adobe is also releasing all of the adaptive presets you know and love for Lightroom on the web, including Whiten Teeth, Glamour, and the new portraits mentioned above so you can automatically apply preset enhancements to those areas of the photo. Contact Dax Data to find out about thrilling new AI advancements in the Creative Cloud suite of editing tools.
