Whether you want to remove distracting people from the background of an image or enhance your HDR shots with just a click, the latest updates of Photoshop Lightroom and Adobe Camera Raw will help you take your photo editing to the next level.
Adobe is excited to announce the arrival of two new AI-powered editing features in Photoshop Lightroom and Adobe Camera Raw: Adaptive Profiles and Distraction Removal. These tools unlock new ways for you to edit your photos and reduce the tedious repetition required for common tasks.
Realistically enhance HDR photos with Adaptive Profiles
Adaptive Profiles, which help you quickly create great-looking HDR images, are now generally available in both colour and black & white across the entire Lightroom ecosystem. First introduced in Camera Raw last year, Adaptive Profiles dynamically adjust the tones and colours of your photos, creating an enhanced, yet realistic starting point for further editing.
Unlike traditional presets and profiles with universal settings, Adaptive Profiles adapt to your image. An AI model analyses your photo and adjusts tones and colours to make them look just right. The effect is as if the AI had changed Exposure, Shadows, Highlights, Colour Mixer, Curves, and other controls for you, although the actual controls stay in their original neutral position.
Adaptive Profiles build on Adobe’s existing support for HDR workflows. They’re just the latest improvement of many since Adobe first introduced support for creating and editing high dynamic range images in 2023.
Remove distracting people from your photos
Available in Early Access in Adobe Camera Raw, coming soon to Lightroom
Removing distractions has long been a tedious and manual task for many photographers. Today, photos full of distractions either take ages to edit, or you may have no choice but to throw them out entirely. Adobe wants to make it much easier to not only identify unwanted distractions in your photos but remove them in just a few clicks.
Distraction Removal, now available in Camera Raw as a Tech Preview and coming soon to Photoshop Lightroom, can detect and remove common distractions in your photos like unwanted people. From eliminating photobombers at a photo shoot to combating the crowds in family vacation photos, you can now easily achieve clean, professional-looking results in moments. And if you have trouble with annoying window reflections, check out the Distraction Removal feature for removing window reflections Adobe launched in December.
You asked, Adobe listened
In addition to innovating for the future, Photoshop Lightroom is also committed to building features that the community has been asking for. These improvements will streamline your workflows and make your life easier.
Save time managing your photo library
Available in Early Access in Lightroom on the web
Organising and managing the hundreds or thousands of images in your photo library is one of the most tedious and time-consuming parts of photography. Adobe has begun experimenting with some powerful new tools in Lightroom on the web that are designed to make it easier to identify the right photos for continued editing and remove unneeded ones.
One of the biggest annoyances is tracking down the duplicate images that always seem to find their way into your library. Today, that’s getting easier with the launch of Find Duplicates, now available in early access as part of the Clean Up tool in Photoshop Lightroom on the web.
Clean Up is one of the features that makes Photoshop Lightroom on the web a great lightweight tool for quickly viewing, organising, and managing the photos you have saved in the cloud. In addition to identifying duplicate shots, Clean Up also helps you find blurry photos, screenshots, and other unwanted images.
Intuitive Focus Point Selection for Tether Live View
Available in Lightroom Classic
Getting the perfect shot during your live photo session is now easier than ever with Lightroom Classic’s new Focus Point Selection tool. When tethered to Lightroom Classic, you can change your camera’s autofocus mode in the Tether Live View window and simply click on your desired subject. No more fiddling with Auto Focus or manual near/far focus buttons — just point and click to get the right focus every time.
This is especially handy when your camera is set up in a tricky spot, like high above your head for a bird’s-eye-view shot. Plus, it’s much easier to set the focus point on the larger, live-view window than on the smaller camera screen. Whether you’re focusing on a model’s eye or another object, this tool gives you the confidence that you’re capturing the perfect shot. The feature is available for supported Sony, Nikon, and Canon cameras.
Enhanced sharing experiences
Available in Lightroom Mobile (iOS)
For most photographers, the point of capturing a great image is to share it. So Adobe is making it faster, easier, and more intuitive to share photos and albums with your family and friends.
4X Faster Share Link Generation: Adobe has also made it faster to generate a share link, reducing the wait time by 75 percent. Now, you can generate shareable links in a fraction of the time, ensuring that sharing photos is both fast and hassle-free.
Easier Link Copy and Share Options: With easy-to-access, intuitive options, you can quickly decide how you want to share your content — whether by copying the link, sharing via social media, or sending directly to your contacts.
Real-time Customisation Preview: Before sharing a link, you can now view a real-time preview of any customisation made to the shared album or content. This feature lets you see exactly how your content will appear to recipients, so you can tweak it to get the exact appearance you want.
Even more Photoshop Lightroom updates
Lightroom Classic Performance Improvements: With this latest update, experience improved responsiveness while brushing masks, rotating crop angles, and adjusting white balance adjustments, especially for images with a lot of masks. Also, try out the optimisations for accessing and reading folders in your catalogue.
Select Background (Available in Lightroom for Mobile, iPhone and Android): You can now easily make selective edits on the background of your photos directly from your phone, instead of having to switch to a larger-screen device, thanks to improvements in Lightroom Mobile’s AI masking tools.
Dual Monitor Support (Available in Photoshop Lightroom): Need more space? You can now use Lightroom across two computer monitors. Using two screens can really streamline your workflow — many photographers like having the edit view open on one monitor and the grid view open on the other for maximum efficiency.
Try it out
You can download the latest update today on Lightroom for mobile from the Apple App Store, Google Play Store, and Samsung Galaxy Store. Try the Lightroom app for free by going to the app store on your mobile phone.
Lightroom for web features are available at lightroom.adobe.com — no download required. You can download Photoshop Lightroom, Lightroom Classic, and Photoshop via the Creative Cloud Desktop application. Contact Dax Data for more details.
