

Lightroom Classic has the classic double-edged sword situation of mature, well-loved software. My favorite thing to do with it is enhance color contrast by keying in warmer warms in a shot to which I’ve given an overall cool tone, or vise versa. I’ve found this new color control to be very useful. You can now further isolate a Local Adjustment with a color picker or luminance range mask. Lightroom Classic got a small but meaningful upgrade, with performance improvements that you’ll actually notice, and a new trick for Local Adjustments called Color Range Masking. People downloading “Lightroom” will search the web for help and tutorials, and what they find will be referring to something very different from what is on their screen. They wanted to both signal that Lightroom CC, the connected, cloud-synced, slick-new-hotness, joins Lightroom web and Lightroom mobile to form their new and ongoing vision of Lightroom, and also ensure folks that the Lightroom they know and love is not being discontinued.īut the path they chose is going to cause problems. Last thing about the names: This stuff is hard, and Adobe worked hard on it. Adobe’s own website is gleefully inconsistent with this naming.įor the sake of sanity, the Prolost style guide for Lightroom will be Lightroom CC for the new cloudy thing (including the iOS and Android apps), and Lightroom Classic for the venerable old desktop girl.

The “new Lightroom,” previewed last year as “Project Nimbus,” will generally be colloquially known as Lightroom CC, but in fact also has “Photoshop” uselessly grafted into its seldom-used official title, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom CC. No one ever uses this version of the name, but that’s the actual name (found only in the splash screen). But the official Adobe name is Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic CC. Within the app, “the old Lightroom” refers to itself as Adobe Lightroom Classic CC. It’s actually worse than Benjamin is letting on though.
