Lightroom's Assisted Culling and 5x Faster Sliders Are Now Live

Assisted Culling is now live in Lightroom, and it's the feature that actually matters here. If you're regularly delivering 500-plus selects from a wedding or corporate shoot, having a tool that pre-filters for focus and exposure before you even start flagging saves real time. The tolerance slider is the smart part: you stay in control of the final call, it just kills the obvious rejects first. The 5x slider performance claim is worth testing on your next edit — if it holds up on large RAW files, that's a genuine workflow improvement, not a marketing footnote. Sony a7 V shooters also finally get compressed Raw support, which should have shipped months ago.