The Luminance Range Masking panel now includes an eyedropper tool for faster sampling of a single point or a range of luminance. If you have been using the new Range Masking features, you’ll appreciate this useful update. Your catalog and its name will remain unchanged.

The laundry list, with short notes, of everything else is at the bottom of this post for those interested in more details about this “major” release.Īnd, unlike previous major releases, version 8 will not upgrade your current catalog by creating a new “-2” catalog. Given the total number of updated features and bug fixes we thought it best to give you a review what we feel are the four most notable improvements. Nevertheless, these updates are welcome and demonstrate Adobe’s ongoing commitment that Lightroom Classic CC isn’t going away. Since this release coincides with the start of the 2018 Adobe MAX conference, we assume the marketing department wanted to have a bigger sounding headline. However most of the updates and changes are under-the-hood improvements with a few important, feature specific improvements. Lightroom Classic CC Version 8 Splash ScreenĪdobe is branding this as a full version update of Lightroom Classic.

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