3 MAJOR IMPROVEMENTS In The New Lightroom Desktop Update [December 2024]

[@davep6603]

Congratulations on your achievement! Instead of saying, “Adobe has improved…,” you now get to say “WE have improved…!” You are a perfect fit for that role, and glad to know that knowledgeable people like you are on the team!

[@howardthompson7017]

Congratulations on connecting officially with Adobe! It is well deserved.

[@TormodMalmgren]

Congrats for your new role in Adobe`s Lightroom team.

[@brianmatiash]

Thank you so much 😀

[@JMSteger]

Brian, Congratulations on your new role on the Lightroom team! I’m looking forward to more enhancements and improvements.

[@franksalasphoto]

Great job Brian! Well deserved my friend!

[@AndyGlavac]

Congrats for the new role on Team Adobe Thanks for the videos

[@brianmatiash]

Thank you, Andy!

[@thelyric2333]

Congrats! Thank you for producing these great videos

[@brianmatiash]

My pleasure! I'm glad you're finding them helpful!

[@dtcb400]

Congratulations on your achievement with Adobe!! Well deserved 🎉

[@jeffdagostino3077]

Congratulations on the Adobe credit! Well deserved. Thanks for the information, great updates. It just keeps getting better.

[@jtinoco9859]

I’ve been waiting for this update! This was the last thing I wanted since I switched from using LR classic. Congratulations to you Brian!

[@lawoman4602]

A huge congrats to you, Brian! I bought your LR course yesterday and I am so pleased with it. My winter project is to learn LR everywhere and how to use my iphone 16 pro max efficiently. I will be 70 soon and feel the need to "keep up" Thanks for helping m in my endeavour!

[@havovubu]

Congratulations Brian, very well deserved. Yes you should be proud!!! 👏👏

[@the-pixel-whisperer]

Congratulations on your new career highlight, Brian. Well done.

[@joekriss9318]

Congratulations on your new role, Brian! Very well deserved indeed. I have been watching your content for years and you are awesome!

[@vonblashke]

Congrats, Brian!

[@forestchaput]

I'm so happy to see the "open as layers" option. Great job team!

[@losttog]

Congrats dude!! The edit in PS updates are so welcome 🫡🫡

[@yomismo1945]

Congratulations, sir, very well deserved! Awesome update, tks for highlighting it!

[@brianmatiash]

Thank you kindly!

[@ericadams6608]

Thanks Brian another great video, and congratulations on becoming part of the team!!

[@richiev63]

Congratulations on the credit! I'm sure that it's well deserved. This is the first of your videos that I've seen and it won't be the last.. Subscription earned.

[@fashopimpin]

Congrats!!!! Brian you deserve it!!!!

[@bruceatkinson932]

Really great things Brian!! Congratulations to you and the entire team.

[@paulg3388]

Congratulations and well deserved Brian. I am not surprised in the least to be honest. Thanks for all of your Videos!

[@gregbenzphotography]

Congrats! And the workflow changes for Smart Objects show that sometime simple changes can be incredibly powerful. This is a very helpful update.

[@JH-qv3xv]

Just found you. Congratulations and please thank the team - the after crop removal just put a big smile on my face. Thanks

[@RichardPochop]

Great video as always and a huge congratulations with all your work with the Adobe team. I was able to attend some Lightroom courses/mini seminars in San Francisco years ago and I was blown away at all the talent and resources within Adobe.

[@stephenschmid492]

Great video, Brian. And great to learn about generative remove working with cropping. That has tripped me up a few times, and I didn't realize why.

[@randolphvacchi1933]

Kudos for your achievement. Glad to follow your passion as you assist in our development.

[@JoshMainka]

Congratulations Brian, absolutely thrilled for you 🥳

[@mikejiang7916]

Great Job Brian and always enjoying you outstanding videos. Thank you.

[@cidron3843]

Congratulations on joining the team and great video. You do an excellent job explains said material covered.

[@krishchandran4125]

Congratulations Brian ! Great Video !!

[@spahtucus]

Congrats to you and your colleagues on making the best photo editing tool ever! You have made me a better photographer and I thank you for that. And congrats on the nod from Apple, that should get you some exponential exposure so anyone who wants their work to look great will *have to have* Lightroom!

[@GG-ko9gg]

Great video brian always look forward to seeing your latest one and ready for next

[@brianmatiash]

I really appreciate it! I'm working on "What's New in Lightroom Mobile" and "What's New in Lightroom Web" videos next!

[@jonnybondphoto]

Way to go Brian. Congrats!!

[@malcolmsellar7176]

Congrats Brian, well-deserved recognition

[@azheber]

Congrats for gettind into Adobes team, great video too. Please we need color labels for improve work flow. Thanks.

[@ronnykhalil]

awesome, congrats! love to see LR grow, and welcome any and ALL quality of life improvements (please please keyboard shortcuts like LR Classic, at the least give us a zoom in zoom out 🙏

[@sarahbatsford4791]

Well done Brian🎉🎉

[@DancesWithFlies]

Congrats, Brian! Adobe made a great decision adding you to the team. Very appreciative for the new features in LR, so thanks to the team. Now if we could get a Versions indicator…. Maybe a word from our guy on the inside! 😜

[@BoltonClaudia]

Congratulations on joining the Lightroom team and being recognized on the start up panel. That is definitely something to be proud of.

[@pascaledominique4709]

Thank you Brian for this update, always helpful ! ... As well Congrats on your personal achievement

[@LukaEsenko]

Congratulations Brian 🎉. You deserve it fully!

[@JimSewell]

Contrats Brian on the Lightroom role! Well done and well deserved.

[@mickphotographer8725]

well done Brian, excellent work

[@davevowles8093]

Congratulations, really enjoy you vids.

[@robkar623]

Congratulations, something to be very proud of indeed🥳

[@clairerobinson2006]

Kudos, and thanks for your great work!

[@ThePNWRiderWA]

That’s really cool congrats. My wildlife rig is m 4/3 and I do miss the creamy background on my other kit. So the blur adjustability is very nice.

[@seanhernon9059]

well done Brian excellent work

[@DavidSchamis]

Congrats on getting your name in there - you have achieved immortality!

[@yolinejoseph-hoskin1222]

Congratulations on being recognized by Adobe as a valued contributor to the Quality Engineering team for Lightroom. This is a well-deserved honor!

[@peterrothwell4964]

For me this a game changer well done Brian

[@courtneyfoster4697]

great info.. glad i came across your video

[@RayDDavid]

Thanks for the update video and congrats on being able to see your name in the credits!

[@tdalton854]

So It's like you have you name in lights Brian! Very happy for you. Lot's of goodness in this release that helps me. The gen remove change is big, And the multiple open in photoshop too. The alt text field will help me if i plan to export to multiple social sites that have and encourage it's use. But i'm delighted with the extended description field. Well, I guess I'd better try it out first. I was thinking I can use this for notes but if this is also exported I'd better be cautious. thanks

[@tdalton854]

Upon further review, the Alt text field does not show up in a few social media places I tried. This may be because those sites strip out the meta data as one person suggested? No big deal now. We'll see what the future brings.

[@santaBarbaraCyclist]

Congrats to you. I appreciate your videos, I've learned a lot. Keep up the good work.

[@trevtog]

Congratulations on the credit. I help manage quality engineers in my day job and, like you, they are crucial to success. I'm happy to know you're part of the team.

[@mauriciophotography]

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!WOW

[@MDMiller60]

Congratulations on your recognition.

[@paulasimson4939]

Great tutorial, and can we just talk about how great your photography is?

[@jimhowarth2707]

Congratulations Brian.

[@DavidPinkus2309]

Congrats Brian, a well deserved accolade!!!

[@huty]

Thank you for your video. rly nice update .im really excited about third party controller. i hope they is a Loupedock Support soon. i can add keyboard buttons now but no dials and all that stuff.

[@bigbigsquid]

Awesome and congratulations 🎉😃❤️🥳

[@robigerovasilisphotography]

3:30 way to go Brian well done congrats 👏

[@robgendreau]

Doh! I just had the oopsie generative remove after crop mistake on a pano, literally an hour before I upgraded. I should have watched your video first! And congrats on the credit; deserved.

[@ottozwolsman8424]

Congratulations 🎉🍾🎈

[@guymatson7731]

Another great video

[@shelkatz]

Congrats!

[@gerarddesilva5193]

Congratulations!

[@ArminSteiner]

First Congratulation, very well deserved. Second the only thing (ok besides the Map Module) I am missing is the new Adaptive Profile that is only in CR so far. Hope it finds it way into LR and LrC soon. I wonder if those three will merge into one Application down the road, or at least LR and LrC it is just weird that Adobe puts so much effort in three almost identical applications.

[@marksimmons8162]

Congratulations on your new role (from another QA Engineer).

[@katehavercroft4940]

hey brian! 13:30 was a revelation to me. I never know why sometimes i could not get objects to remove at the edge of the frame. I had cropped it first! Even though that problem is now fixed, that makes me feel less crazy about the past hahaha.

[@tahant00]

Congratulations on your accomplishments In light room

[@01Dirtnapper]

Congrats on the LR team.

[@Pedro-nf2rr]

Enhorabuena,por tu logro a base de trabajo.Aprobecho a pedirte consejo para cambiar mi PC por uno nuevo,y que trabaje fluido y sin problemas al editar con Photoshop.Gracias

[@alexkistler5804]

Thanks for the great improvements. Please fix the unreliable sync to my other Apple devices.

[@larry.mathewson]

Brian: I am newly switching from Lightroom Classic to Lightroom desktop and cannot figure out how to add the plug-ins I had in classic. Is the a tutorial to explain this if possible for the desktop version. (not syncing to cloud only using locally.)

[@colinmonteith8862]

I wish Adobe would admit they are no longer interested in updating the iPad version.

[@MyDeimudder]

Just spent 3 weeks with only an iPad on vacation. Shot 200 GB of images and video. It's really, really horrible. It actually crashes frequently during import among other issues. Functionality rather is limite, too. I will only use the ipad for transferring the data from the SD card to a backup drive from now in and I do not need LR for that.

[@colinmonteith8862]

@ it may depend on which iPad you have and the RAM. I use with Fuji GFX 100mp files and have never had a crash. I find the iPad version of LR covers 90% of what I need and am also used the LR web version in a browser for a few features. Haven’t used desktop in a couple years now.

[@TC_Conner]

Hey Brian! Congratulations on the Adobe recognition! That’s awesome and you definitely deserve the credit. Now, about the updates….I’m sure you don’t remember, but some time ago I emailed you asking about when the “return to Lightroom after editing in Photoshop” feature might be added to Lr, because I was so used to it being in LrC. Well, we got it now! I’m thrilled to see the other updates too, but not so sure about the “cat eye bokeh” feature in Lens Blur. Who would ever notice edge bokeh not resembling cat eyes? I think that’s kind of funny. I imagine you and other Adobe software engineers discussing it: Fred: “Hey Brian, my mini panther’s eyes have the coolest shape, what say you about adding that shape to the edge bokeh in lens blur?” Brian: “Uhmmm, I guess that’s ok, but who would ever notice that?” 😂😂💜💜😂😂

[@jaheuk]

Nice video again! But can you make one of combining several images into 1? I think this only can be done in photoshop? So if I send 6 birdpics to FS as 6 layers, how can I create a new image holding 2 columns with 3 images under each other ?

[@karlos333s]

Can we get a mass auto straighten and or a shortcut for auto straighten on both LRC and LR?

[@KUGELMultimedia]

Hi, i'm not sure if i missed something about the first features you explained - but for two years now i'm able to select several images and open them merged as layers in one document or as smart objects or individual images. Seeing Videos for real estate photography several years ago teaching the flambient workflow by using exactly this - open several images in layers of one document. So what's the new cool feature on it in latest version?

[@brianmatiash]

You may be referring to Lightroom Classic, which is not the version of Lightroom that I cover in this video.

[@KUGELMultimedia]

@@brianmatiash Ah OK sorry - i'm confused about Classic and Desktop. Though it was the same when there is also Mobile and Web. Will check that out. Thanks.

[@KUGELMultimedia]

@@brianmatiash OK got it - this is what's listed as Lightroom CC. Never saw that this is also called "Desktop" before.

[@ccarpenter006]

Congrats on your credit achievements. One note I wanted to share regarding something that you said in the video... For years I have been able to save a file launched from LRC into Photoshop, and see my updates in LRC without closing the file in PS. This has been and still is a part of my workflow... To save, and then launch and view in full screen in lightroom. I run my apps on a macbook... Not sure if things function differently on windows???

[@guysingleton3908]

Congratulations, would be great if they would add a decent sharpening tool. Wouldn't need any other program then, especially as the noise reduction is so good.

[@juantolentino4963]

Congrats on the recognition ! I double check twice to see if this was really a new video, As far as I remember I can choose multiple images in Lightroom, hit "edit in" and transfer to Photoshop. Am I missing something here? Neither "Edit as smart object" nor "Open as layers in Photoshop" are new either...I have used both of them many times in the past ....I'm really confused here 🙂

[@joekriss9318]

True all of these options have been available in Lightroom Classic for years. The new feature is now you are able to do this from Lightroom Desktop.

[@RRan-dk7ct]

If i'm not mistaken before you could open from lightroom w/Lr edit and even if your in Photoshop and CTRL + S you still didn't have to close out just to get full comp and it still saved in Lr and you keep working on open document....kind of counter productive having to close-out before saving in Lr wouldn't you say ?

[@agniaannisap5048]

Hello can u tell me how to copy my editing in this version?

[@stuartwhittingham8216]

Great video and especially Smart Object support is much appreciated. Is there any way to round trip the original tiff back into Photoshop without creating another file?

[@vitaleonis1196]

Great question

[@ambiaphotography553]

Congratulations 🎉

[@malikdhadhalinux]

Ability to sync Full RES RAW files from Classic is what I'm looking for.

[@roundsjr]

Edit in Photoshop finally work in LR on Snapdragon Elite (CoPilot) PCs??

[@DavidVYoutube]

With the new Lightroom desktop, do you still have to save and close out of your file in Photoshop for it to show up in Lightroom, classic you don't need to All you got to do is save it. But it seems like on the new one you need to close out of the document as well which means potential loss of layers depending on how you're saving the file

[@fangxiang9569]

I hope the next improvement in LR is able to allow us to denoise and upscale jpeg files.

[@s1k2o3d4a5]

Hi Brian. Big congratulations to you and the team! Also, do you know if Lightroom CC will be available for Windows on ARM devices? I’m desperate to know if it’s coming! Thank you for the great videos!

[@wedrivetheworld]

should I be moving from LRC to lr desktop

[@sethr5058]

So when are these coming to LrC? Or perhaps better, when will LrD access a catalog and be able to use plugins? I feel like the Lr experience makes me use two Lr versions on computer, because neither one is a complete solution. Adobes resources spread too thin perhaps?

[@jjaylad]

Brian. Congrats on your appointment to the Adobe Lightroom development team. That's a real milestone. You highlight the 'new' feature of being able to send multiple photos to PS at once from LrC.. I don't get it. I've been doing that for years and never had a problem. Often, I select a background image I want for several images, then add those images to my selection and send them all to PS, where I copy that background to all of them. Then mask each one to let the background through, then save them and get the edits into the LrC catalog. That's been part of my regular workflows for a long, long time. I'm on Windows 10, so I'm wondering if this is just new for Mac, computers??j I can't imagine Macs being behind Windows, but can't think of how else this could be "new". Please, someone, enlighten me.

[@JustMe-Amr]

This video is about Lightroom Desktop (Lr) and not Lightroom Classic (LrC)

[@jjaylad]

@@JustMe-Amr Thanks, one more program name change and I'll take my own life!!

[@Ron.Durant]

Congrats on your achievement.