HUGE UPDATE! Lightroom Classic 13.3 May 2024

[@aarong311]

Generative remove is an awesome addition. I would always jump in and out of photoshop to do that. This will save me a few steps.

[@joelwexler]

Beautiful demo, thanks, you're a great presenter. I love the depth blur. I used to be a programmer. What these guys do is so beyond what I ever dreamed of.

[@photoshopcafe]

Thanks, yeah its amazing

[@bv42]

Just... Wow! And, as always, so clearly illustrated and explained. Thanks!!!

[@photoshopcafe]

Thanks

[@margueritewhite3038]

Oh wow!!! That lens blur is awesome and so easy to use! It's about time that these things became so user friendly!! Thank you for the update!

[@photoshopcafe]

Glad you like it

[@picklebird1261]

Really like the generative remove and much improved background blur (although it still requires a lot of work to look realistic!). Thanks for your review.

[@miguelf.m.9184]

The enhancement to the lens blur feature is my favorite. This feature works great to sharpen objects into focus, this enhancement allows you greater control.

[@photoshopcafe]

It's a good one

[@garyrodrigues7433]

These are fantastic updates, especially the Sony tethering feature! It is great that Adobe is incorporating more features from Photoshop to Lightroom Classic!

[@jessemorgan2009]

the lens blur improvements are excellent

[@photoshopcafe]

They are

[@JimSewell]

Thanks Colin, great job explaining and demonstrating the new features. I like the AI-assisted remove best but they are all sweet features to have in LR!

[@guzy08]

Thank you for the info! the new features looks cool and happy to know the tethered connection speed now are in par with capture one.

[@photoshopcafe]

I'll take your word for it. I've never used C1

[@NicholasStein]

The blur features are very interesting to me. You demonstrated them well.

[@delpinsky]

Really interesting being able to work like this directly in Lightroom. It's getting better and better AI.

[@longislandstu]

The Generative Remove is a great enhancement.

[@photoshopcafe]

I agree

[@mikeedgar8114]

I tried it in a garden picture where a bouncy castle was encroaching in behind a flower arch... Dismal failure! I'm sure in time it will get better but for now I give it 4 out of 10

[@sfiron]

Tethering is great 👍🏻 been waiting forever for that

[@photoshopcafe]

Me too!

[@longboardfella5306]

Thanks! Brian Manish also just dropped a video explaining these tools for LR as well. And the ability to Archive photos from the Cloud to local (with edits preserved). We are nearly getting to a consistent ecosystem. Finally!

[@shapirovideo]

Thanks for the update. You knocked it out of the park again! 👍🏻🙂 (Can't wait to test the Sony tethered shooting.)

[@photoshopcafe]

Thanks Abba. You’re going to love it!

[@RegWestly]

finally got the Canon R6 MarkII tethering good too, super fast as well Great explanation of the focus blur

[@photoshopcafe]

Very nice!

[@ChuckJ7777]

These are great updates

[@photoshopcafe]

yes they are!

[@GeoffGrant2010]

Great tool! Great demo! Thanks Colin! Geoff

[@photoshopcafe]

Thanks

[@marclabro]

super presentation and examples ! my preferred feature is sony tether for my a74 and a7r5. Recently i purchased tethertools smartshooter 5 but didn't like it under LRC, so i purchased C1 just for tethering, which is amazing tool for zooming,checking focus,.... Perhaps i won't renew my C1 next year if LRC is working well. I am not interested with IA remove because it is limited to 250 images/month with photography subscription. So, i will continue using photoshop and ON1 to do that for free.

[@jamesgarcia1680]

Great video, thank you! My favorite would be the new removal tools.

[@photoshopcafe]

awesome

[@GrymmsPlace]

Aaargh! My brain will explode - too much to relearn! 😁 Great that we keep seeing more content for the Adobe suite, and great summary and clarification.

[@photoshopcafe]

That's why I make tutorials :)

[@mandytohphotography8212]

Tethering connection is faster in Win 11 than Mac Sonoma 14.5. When connecting camera to Mac, it takes a while for LrC to detect the camera, whereas when connected to window laptop, the connection is instant. I wish LrC can rotate the screen in live view when shooting in portrait mode to make viewing easier.

[@johntriebe7441]

Great video. On tethering, what settings are needed to be made on the camera?

[@TheMorrow76]

1st off WOW! Thank YOU! I am excited to use @lightroom and see what all I can enhance!

[@photoshopcafe]

Have fun

[@csc-photo]

Cool new features and excellent overview / instructions, thanks! 👏🏻

[@photoshopcafe]

You're welcome

[@trueatfalse]

Obviously, the lens blur feature isn't yet where it should be usability-wise. There should be stuff like masking objects or parts of the image and set focus/blur to selected areas with as you would do with a color picker for example. At the moment with all the work done with brushes, there's still way too much corrections needed to be done by hand.

[@kc6715]

The generative remove is also available now in Adobe Camera Raw! Works the exact same way - great new feature!

[@photoshopcafe]

Yes, ACR and LR always have the same tools

[@SchatzFamilyHF]

Thanks for the update. These are amazing features.

[@photoshopcafe]

they are

[@bnazzaro21]

The tether is really good. Everything works well. Only thing I wish they would add is on the live view the ability to click and choose your focus point.

[@photoshopcafe]

That would be a nice feature!

[@lucky2watch]

Thanks for your do good and helpful Video. It's always great to watch.

[@photoshopcafe]

Thanks

[@Endogamy]

We use to brush paint colors, but now, with this new update we are brushing focus areas!

[@birdie399]

Thanks for all the help.

[@photoshopcafe]

happy to help

[@erik1836]

How wonderful❤! What fun!

[@bigdan23]

Thank you so much for this clear explanation. I'm curious what are some other tools Photoshop could offer that Lightroom classic can't now? Asking because I started trying to learn Photoshop, and now this removal tool came out, and I'm wondering if it's worth the venture of trying to learn Photoshop still

[@photoshopcafe]

Layers and blending modes, more accurate masking, custom brushes, filters, channels, type tool, layers styles, patterns.. I could go on and on :)

[@SusanneGeert]

Such a great video - thanks for taking the time to create this 🙌 One thing (and please don't misunderstand this fr not being grateful for the time you out into these videos - it is 100% only a kind advice ): I find there is a rather annoying background noise - especially when you stop talking. Just wanted to mention it 🌱

[@photoshopcafe]

Its been mentioned

[@gerardoesoto1931]

all of them are mmgy new favorites Im a Sony shoter and have tethered is great

[@MyMultiforce]

may be you could show how to updated your lightroom catalogue from old version because when you do auto update the AI feature doesn't work

[@photoshopcafe]

Weird, it did for me

[@harunkhan549]

Nice. But what is the quality of the AI generated portion of the image.? Is it of same quality of the sorrounding area?

[@aquatronics7354]

This is WOW !

[@BW_Maher]

good overview Thanks!

[@photoshopcafe]

You're welcome

[@bobkillen8396]

Lens Blur is no a Wow tool. Great and thanks

[@adamchandler8508]

Great video! Do you know if Sony tethering for the iPad version of Lightroom works?

[@photoshopcafe]

I don't know, sorry

[@tomgambrel7519]

Seems they finally fixed the overheating issue on iPad as well. Thank God!

[@TANZANIAFILMMAKINGTV]

U save my life got tethered shoot tonight

[@photoshopcafe]

Awesome!

[@fabriceparmentier4125]

Great video about the new features! Got so excited that I tried tethering with my Sony A6600, but so far I can't get it to work (the menu is different from that on your Sony A1).

[@fabriceparmentier4125]

Update: I think I have my settings right, but I get the following message from Lightroom: "Lightroom Classic is unable to cnnect with ILCE-6600. Lightroom Classic does not support tethering with current firmware version of ILCE-6600". I have the latest firmware installed, though (1.10). So no tethering for Sony A6600 shooters, I'm afraid... ☹ The tehering for Sony is only for the following cameras: A1, A9II, A7SIII, A7RIV, A7RV, A7IV, A7C and A6700...

[@photoshopcafe]

@@fabriceparmentier4125 yes, just the newest ones

[@JET-Photo]

Definitely a work in progress. Sometimes it works well, sometimes not. But they are working on it.

[@MIshaHaijtema]

Omg tethered for sony SO HAPPY

[@fabriceparmentier4125]

Supported for A1, A9II, A7SIII, A7RIV, A7RV, A7IV, A7C and A6700... (I have the A6600, no luck for me)

[@photoshopcafe]

me too!

[@bobmccormac5218]

In both LR and PS when I use Lens/Depth blur it's creating a dark fringe around the subject and sometimes butchering the edges of the subject. I end up spending a lot of time fixing these issues. How can I stop this from happening? PS - enjoy your videos very much!

[@ivo_huth]

Is the AI remove tool using any kind of credits, or can you use it on as many photos you want?

[@omarortizytc]

what is the image quality of the generated pixels? is it still 1024 x 1024? or it matches the resolution of the original image?

[@photoshopcafe]

Still 1k

[@MisterDavidH]

Is it possible to set this up in Lightroom and use it with zoom calls?

[@jmgcg]

So generative remove is kind of Remove Tool on Photoshop. Cool now we have double power

[@photoshopcafe]

Yes, its generative fill

[@jmgcg]

@@photoshopcafe Try It and Like it, only one thing but just a preference or a wish of mine. When generating, there is no panel with the variations generated that allow us to, well I don't like this one let's go back to the other 6 ones he generated, But, it's only this because O yess fantastic

[@SolidMGSnake]

Should I buy that $2000 F1.2 lens or just use lens blur..

[@marysivertsenphotography]

Hi. I did something wrong with this latest update and my catalog is messed up. How do I get it back?

[@otavioleitefotografia]

Cool!

[@christophersharman8171]

Ok found out that lightroom does not support the current firmware version for A7iii and A7Riii come on Sony that's disappointing, do I have to upgrade my camera ?

[@TehGems1]

I don’t know if I’m the only one, but I noticed the tool works much better (ie: both higher precision and faster) if you use it as the first thing in your workflow, before any edit (especially masking).

[@photoshopcafe]

Good call.Adobe recommends that too

[@TehGems1]

Really? I found out by chance! Is there a link to the recommendation? I tested it on many photos and sometimes it makes a huge difference. That is not perceived in Photoshop because files get converted to TIFF so the program is not overloaded by edits I would think.

[@photoshopcafe]

@@TehGems1 Check out Julianne Kost's video. The masks have to be regenerated after using Gen Remove, there is a button to regen masks.

[@vkshafeer9953]

No Doubt AI Generate ...Thank you

[@snowhite1qazse4]

How can I update/ em still 13.2

[@photoshopcafe]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/qmHZhmeXp8-fgM0si=P_a7UB24o9GpfqCq

[@MusicFed]

for some reason the tethering window doesn't load if I use two monitors

[@photoshopcafe]

Odd, I use 3 and I see it

[@MikkoTolonen]

Sony A7iii with a Firmware 4.01 does not support tethering in LR 13.3. :( What a bummer

[@photoshopcafe]

Only the newer Interface is supported.

[@meady200]

So are the gen fills capped at 1000px resolution like in PS Gen AI? Edit: its capped still. Tolerable in PS. In a photo editing app like LR that is always going to be dealing with large images, this is slightly disappointing.

[@leedonohue]

sony tether, FINALLY. i wonder if i can finally set raws to automatically open with lightroom/photoshop for some reason the "always open with" never worked. not sure if its a sony/adobe thing or a sony/mac thing. anyone else have this problem?

[@photoshopcafe]

That's a file association thing with your finder. Find a raw file, press CMD+I set to LR/ACR the change always open to...

[@leedonohue]

@@photoshopcafe for some reason whenever i do that, it doesnt stick. it been like this for 1,5years now

[@cindysmith6842]

So does generative remove have a tally count like Photoshop, meaning we can only use it so many times before being charged?

[@photoshopcafe]

Unknown right now, I'm trying to find out. But for most plans the meter doesn't start till June

[@jonnybondphoto]

Does the Sony tethering work with the new iPad Pro M4

[@photoshopcafe]

probably not

[@RNNONMT]

I don't have access to the update - not sure why - I have 13.2 and when I click for updates - LR is not there - it's showing as no updates -???

[@photoshopcafe]

photoshopcafe.com/i-dont-see-new-features-in-photoshop-update-fixed-in-1-minute/

[@RNNONMT]

@@photoshopcafe worked! Thank you!!

[@TheHockey1980]

So what's the difference between AI from Photoshop and the lightroom AI?

[@photoshopcafe]

Big question. In a nutshell, PS generates, LR removes, There is no text to image in LR

[@JorgePille]

I hate that selection brush tool, it so clunky. It’d be nice to have the lasso tools (particularly polygonal) from Photoshop in Lr/ACR.

[@RandumbTech]

I don't see "early access" on my version and there is no update available. Any ideas how to enable this feature?

[@photoshopcafe]

See my recent video about missing features, you prob didn't refresh your CC

[@BrendanMacNeillPhotography]

I now believe there's a higher power. Kidding of course but to get tethering for Sonys in Lightroom is a miracle. Guessing it now relieves Sony of the task and they can let their nth rate app go.

[@christophersharman8171]

Does anyone know if lightroom tether works with the A7riii, cant get it to work

[@photoshopcafe]

List of supported cameras is here: photoshopcafe.com/new-features-in-lightroom-classic-13-3-explained/

[@christophersharman8171]

@@photoshopcafe Looks like an upgraded to the A7iv is imminent lol thanks mate

[@L.Spencer]

Curious, how do you know about these updates and have time to make a video about them so quickly?

[@photoshopcafe]

Im an Adobe Community Expert

[@L.Spencer]

@@photoshopcafe Cool. I was just wondering because I had a lot of videos in my feed on the update, and I was wondering how everyone knew, if they just use LRC day and night and notice when something is new. :)

[@mykidvids3578]

Lightroom is updated on my computer but this feature is not there

[@photoshopcafe]

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[@rayzalaf8988]

I hope I'm wrong but I see these updates as an excuse for Adobe to split the photo package and start charging separately for LR and PS.

[@photoshopcafe]

I don't see that

[@mamophoto]

Great Tutorial! But you should fix this noise in the Audio 😞

[@photoshopcafe]

You can't fix it after the video has been posted. I apologize for that, by compression setting is too high. Ill make sure its better on next video.

[@mamophoto]

@@photoshopcafe easy. I just wanted to let you know

[@EverythingCameFromNothing]

This update has broken Lightroom for me! Photos won’t import, system hangs doing basic things, etc. I’d recommend waiting for the next stable release!!

[@ellisvener5337]

With great power comes great responsibility.

[@photoshopcafe]

go get em spidey

[@5RustyBin]

honestly its good to have new stuff but with the frequency of updates an new features I don't think I will ever get to feel I know the full program.

[@photoshopcafe]

That's why I make courses ;)

[@5RustyBin]

@@photoshopcafe haha I know and its awesome. Just always feels like its a constant battle to keep up to speed with the developments :)

[@Emlt]

The ai remove doesn’t work that well with busy backgrounds.

[@photoshopcafe]

Good to know, please report it in LR, its an early access, so they will appreciate your feedback

[@speed4213]

Mine updated but I don’t have this feature anyone else ?

[@photoshopcafe]

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[@eoslove2022]

It's hard to imagine where Adobe will be a year from now with ACR!

[@photoshopcafe]

fun times

[@camerachris]

So they FINALLY put in tethered shooting for Sony????

[@photoshopcafe]

yes they did!

[@camerachris]

@@photoshopcafe, I thought I'd be dead and gone before it happened. Thanks Colins, keep up the great work.

[@bob4chelsea]

Just don't try and remove cables with the generative removal tool! It doesn't work!

[@jimavery3211]

too bad the tether isn't wireless like capture one

[@photoshopcafe]

You can already do that with the Sony app. But wireless is slower

[@DeanAllman]

Meh. I tried it and probably won't use it for the same reason I don't use the clone and healing tool in LR: I think they perform better in Photoshop. Just my opinion.

[@photoshopcafe]

fair enough

[@marioplus321]

👍

[@jbmedia8882]

Lightroom can’t remove things from the sky as well as PS. Photoshop lives on !!!!

[@photoshopcafe]

There are many thing PS does better, that's why I use both :)

[@rasecroel2366]

⁠is this video about PS?...mmmm No

[@BenTroxell]

Now they just need the same remove tool from photoshop. The Lightroom version is terrible.

[@mewk4261]

there is hiss in the audio....

[@photoshopcafe]

oh? What frequency range are you noticing it? I don't hear it on my speakers.

[@longboardfella5306]

Definitely there. High frequency and clearly audible when you are explaining the remove - e.g. at 1:48. You won’t hear on speakers - use ear buds or headphones. A lot of us watch YT using them and they are way more sensitive than speakers.

[@photoshopcafe]

@@longboardfella5306 Thanks for sharing that. I realize the issue. Compression is too hot. Can't fix this one, but future vids I'll be aware.

[@dingbat19]

Good video but weird example to choose for generative remove - let's remove the model, wtf ?

[@photoshopcafe]

And I'm printing the result. lol. I said it was a "test" alas, no-one listens to me

[@xenarvids]

Do a separate video on Sony so I don’t waste my time.

[@Deatarus51]

Have you heard of the chapters feature? Click the text next to the time overlay of the video and it opens chapters. You can skip/view whatever section you want instead of complaining about free education.

[@longboardfella5306]

You could also ask politely. He’s not your slave