New Lightroom And Photoshop Updates

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Adobe has announced a new round of Creative Cloud updates, with many of the changes meant to reduce the amount of time you spend sorting, reviewing, and organising large batches of photos. One of the biggest additions is the full rollout of Assisted Culling in Lightroom, a feature Adobe first showed at Adobe MAX last year. The tool can now evaluate each person in a photo individually, checking whether eyes are open and in focus, while also automatically grouping similar shots together and suggesting the strongest image from each set. Adobe has also added customisable filters, giving you more control over how aggressively the system makes its selections.

Lightroom is also gaining a new Photo to Video feature powered by Adobe Firefly and Google Veo, allowing you to turn a photo into a short video clip with AI-generated motion. Another update brings Topaz Labs’ Noise-Aware Sharpen model directly into Lightroom’s AI Sharpen tool, which Adobe says can do a better job recovering fine detail while managing noise. In addition, Lightroom, Lightroom Classic, and Adobe Camera Raw now fully support the Sony A7R VI’s RAW formats, including the newer Compressed HQfiles that caused compatibility headaches for some software when Sony first introduced the format.

Photoshop is also receiving a couple of updates. The existing Reflection Removal tool has been expanded so that reflections are now isolated onto a separate layer, giving you the option to dial the effect back rather than removing reflections completely. Adobe has also updated the Remove Tool, which uses generative AI to erase unwanted objects from photos. Previously, the feature required an internet connection, but it can now run offline using an on-device AI model. All updates are rolling out this week.