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Adobe Lightroom Classic 15.5

2 stories tracked since 7 Aug 2026 — latest 13 Aug 2026. This page updates itself as new coverage lands.

  1. 7 Aug 2026 · Software News

    Lightroom 15.5/9.5/11.5: Generative Expand, Render to DNG, Mask Sliders

    Adobe has pushed simultaneous updates to Lightroom Classic (15.5), Desktop (9.5) and Mobile (11.5). The headline addition on Desktop and Mobile is Generative Expand, previously Photoshop-only since mid-2023, which fills canvas area created by perspective shifts or aspect ratio changes. Classic still doesn't get it. All three versions add Feather and Edge sliders to Subject, Background and Object masks for finer transition control. Classic and Desktop also get Render to DNG, a right-click command that bakes the current edit stack into a new DNG file — worth noting it's closer to compressed TIFF under the hood, so original highlight and shadow headroom is gone. Classic adds on-startup lrcat-data repair for corrupted catalog data.

  2. 13 Aug 2026 · Software News

    Lightroom Classic 15.5: Edit AI Masks After the Fact

    Lightroom Classic 15.5 lets you feather and reshape masks after creation, not just at the point of generation. That fixes a workflow pain point that's been there since automatic masking launched: bad edges meant scrapping the mask and starting again.