Adobe Lightroom

11 Apr 2026 · Software Review

If you're still paying Adobe's monthly tithe and wondering whether to jump, PhotoLab 9 is the benchmark to beat — DxO's noise reduction and lens correction remain class-leading, and owning your software outright still matters when a client calls at midnight and your subscription lapses.

23 Apr 2026 · Software News

DaVinci Resolve 21 just added photo editing and tethered shooting — Blackmagic is coming for Capture One's lunch, and it's free. Everything else in this roundup (Nik 9's AI color tools, Luminar Neo 1.27, Adobe's routine camera support update) is worth bookmarking but not rushing for.

24 Apr 2026 · Software News

April's Lightroom update is live, and if you batch-process jobs or regularly move files between Lightroom and Photoshop, a handful of these changes will hit your actual workflow before the week is out. Not every update is worth stopping for — this one earns a look specifically if round-tripping and batch handling are daily habits, not edge cases.

28 Apr 2026 · Software News

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.

29 Apr 2026 · Software News

April's Lightroom and Photoshop update is shipping now, not someday. If your edit-to-export pipeline has been sluggish, performance improvements in a live update are worth your ten minutes to install and test before the next deadline hits.

29 Apr 2026 · Software Opinion

The Adobe exodus isn't about anger at price hikes. It's about alternatives finally being good enough. For years, photographers grumbled and renewed anyway because walking away meant rebuilding everything — catalogs, presets, client delivery, tethering workflows. That's no longer true. Capture One handles tethering better. DxO PureRaw sits cleanly inside existing workflows. Affinity Photo is a one-time purchase that doesn't phone home. The switch still costs time, but it no longer costs capability. If you're billing enough hours that the Adobe tax stings, run the numbers now — not at renewal time when you're under deadline pressure and just click yes again.

5 May 2026 · Software Tutorial

That yellow icon in Lightroom isn't cosmetic, it's a processing order conflict, and clicking through it without understanding what's changing is how you silently corrupt a finished edit. The practical risk is real: catalogue-heavy shooters running large batches are most exposed, because the change is subtle enough to miss on a fast cull but obvious on a printed deliverable. Know what you're confirming before you confirm it.

12 May 2026 · Software Review

Resolve 21's Photo tool is genuinely interesting if you already live in Resolve for video work. For a hybrid shooter cutting between stills and footage in the same project, the appeal is obvious: one application, one colour pipeline, no round-tripping. But if your stills workflow is Lightroom or Capture One right now, nothing in this beta is pulling you away. Resolve's colour grading heritage is world-class; its photo culling, metadata handling, and DAM features are not, and that gap is what actually matters on delivery day. Worth watching, not worth switching.

16 June 2026 · Software News

Adobe has moved Lightroom's Assisted Culling out of early access, adding a Face View that surfaces detected faces so you can check focus and open eyes yourself, plus stack sorting that puts the best candidate first. A third-party integration brings Topaz Labs' Noise-Aware Sharpen model directly into Lightroom, though it draws on AI feature credits not included in all Creative Cloud plans. Sony a7R VI RAW support is also in, including the new Compressed (HQ) format, which carries through to Photoshop via Adobe Camera Raw.

22 June 2026 · Software News

Both Lightroom Classic and Lightroom have a new update out, with Select Subject among the tools that got a significant rework. Adobe has also addressed two frequently requested features in the same drop.

26 June 2026 · Industry News

Adobe is acquiring Topaz Labs, the company behind Gigapixel, Photo AI, and Video AI. The two have been working together since October 2025, when Topaz upscaling, denoise, and sharpening models were folded into Photoshop. Deal closes second half of 2026, regulatory approval pending. Standalone Topaz apps stay available post-acquisition, but Adobe hasn't said anything yet about pricing or how Topaz tools will sit relative to Creative Cloud subscriptions.

27 June 2026 · Industry News

Adobe has acquired Topaz Labs, confirmed. Topaz tools currently sit inside Photoshop's AI upsizing (as a credits-based feature); the deal opens the door to broader integration of Topaz's sharpening and denoise into Photoshop, Lightroom, and other Creative Cloud apps. Topaz will keep selling standalone software, with Eric Yang staying on to lead the team.

17 July 2026 · Software Tutorial

Camera Raw now surfaces focus point overlays via a right-click menu option, a feature that's been absent while Lightroom users waited for it. The piece covers where to find the setting and touches on the growing feature gap between the two Adobe tools.

7 Aug 2026 · Software News

Adobe has shipped two new sliders in both Lightroom and Lightroom Classic that address edge quality on masks — specifically the halo and softness bleed that shows up around complex edges like trees and skylines. Both apps get the same fix.