MAJOR Lightroom Update! (NEW in June 2020)

In this video, we are going to take a look at the June 2020 updates to Lightroom Classic. Today is Tuesday, June 16th. Adobe just released a couple of updates to Lightroom as well as Photoshop too. And we're going to take a look at those. You'll see a new screen when you restart Lightroom. A couple of things as we get started. Number one, I had to reboot my computer so I could see it in the Adobe Creative Cloud updater app. You're going to see new icons and everything like that. And you know, go in some other website and discuss whether you like or don't like them. It doesn't affect my photography one bit, but there are a couple of new icons in there. Just, just be aware of that. And I would suggest restarting your computer if you're not seeing the Lightroom 9.3 update. Another thing is, is do before and after. Adobe was, Adobe put some, they're always putting performance updates in there. I could see it in grid mode when I would just go and mash down on the right arrow key and go through the photos. I would hit the spacebar key. So I saw the photo bigger. Again, I did the same thing I could see, and I could see it with the brush tool. So maybe before you update, try those things and see if you can notice it. And then lastly, as we get started here, just remember this is for Adobe Creative Cloud subscribers. If you hate the subscription model, then you should go watch another video. This is for people that have Lightroom Classic and they want to know what's new in their software. And I promise you there's going to be a really good feature in here that people have been waiting a long time for. So let's go ahead and get started. A couple of quick cosmetic changes. You will notice the icons have changed. So it's now, it says LRC on it. It is a rounded icon, which does away with the whole square rounded thing, why they were different. I don't know. I don't really care about icons. It doesn't, doesn't affect my photography. So Adobe can do whatever they want with those things. When you went up into the top left corner, it used to give you your creative cloud information. If you were syncing any photos to the Lightroom cloud, now that cloud icon you will see is over here in the top right-hand corner. It's a couple of cosmetic things as far as the interface is concerned. Big, big change. This is going to be the one everybody's going to like over here under the develop module, right? Under the develop module. When we go to our graduated filter or radial filter or the brush tool, we now have here the cheers hue. We can now selectively adjust hue. It used to be only in the HSL panel and it was a global change to the whole photo. So this anytime I release a what's new in Lightroom video, I can guarantee you multiple people will always comment. When is Lightroom going to allow you to selectively adjust colors, selectively adjust the hue with any of the adjustment tools. Now you have it. The easiest way it works to me is you move this to a color you want to switch it to. I'll move the arrow to point to blue. I wouldn't even worry too much about it. Essentially, I'm going to paint. We'll go over here and we'll paint. I'll generally paint into the open areas first. By the way, they're always working on performance. I know that's something that they always say. I can tell you, I can feel it with the brush. I noticed it as soon as I was doing this video and practicing for this part. I noticed it with the brush, but I'm something that'd be interested to see how you see it. I'm going to turn on auto mask whenever I get near edges. I usually turn on auto mask for those areas. Obviously I spilled over a little bit. I'll undo that command or control Z. I'm not going to go too crazy with this. Just give you an idea of what it does, but turn that off there. And then I always try to turn auto mask off once I get away from the edges there because it tends to make things a little bit splotchy as you're working. Then you can just move the slider around. It'll point to the color you're shifting to. I don't think it's difficult to just grab the slider and move it around to the color that you want to change it to. All of your other settings still work. In fact, I would suggest you use your range masking along with this to help blend this in. I think that will help quite a bit. That is your hue adjustment just to give you a couple of different ways you might want to use it. I've got a fairly gray sky here, so I could go take my adjustment brush and start painting in a little bit of color. Obviously, I'm not going to do that. In fact, let's do this. Let's grab my graduated filter. I'm obviously not going to keep it that ugly color, but maybe I want to just put a little bit of orangey magenta color into the sky there. I could do that. When I looked at this photo, I thought the water had a much bluer tinge than a lot of the magenta pinks that the photo tends to have. Again, I could go over here and take my brush tool, start to paint. Obviously, this is going to be too much, but I will show you a couple of things we can do. I'm just going to be very, very quick over the rocks. The rocks are fairly monotone, so they're not even going to pick up too much color. Again, you could just move that adjustment and shift those colors. If you do do a crazy adjustment with it like that, then you might want to consider coming over to range masking. Maybe do some luminance or luminosity masking and adjusting some of those colors from there. Again, I think it's definitely overboard on what I would want, but just to show you the extremes of what you can do with it. You can change colors, you can shift colors. If you wanted to go in here, again, we could go in there and let's reset that. Take our hue, use our brush, and start to change colors in the photo. Again, don't forget you'd want to turn on auto mask for all of that stuff to help keep it in the edges or zoom in and use a smaller brush. All right, moving on to the next one. For all of the people that are going to comment on that one, it's been asked for so much. You can figure out what kind of person you are because there's two types of people that will comment on this last feature with the hue adjustment. Let's say you have a spouse and your spouse doesn't clean as much as you want. Maybe your spouse doesn't cook as much as you want. All of a sudden, one day, they cook, or they clean, or they do something that they don't normally do. You say, what kind of person are you? If you say, well, gee, it's about time, I'll reveal a lot about you, or do you just simply say, thank you. Anyway, all right, let's move on to the next one. Next one is really more cosmetic here. If you go to the tone curve, you've just got an easier way to switch between your RGB channels as well as the different tone curves that you can use. No new functionality there. Same thing under HSL color. If you click on color, it was just a different way to adjust hue and saturation. It didn't get you anything different than HSL did, but now you've got your different color picker area up here at the top. Again, it's more of an interface change than it is functionality. Okay, next up, a very, very quick word from our sponsor. If you would just give me 60 seconds, as if you watch my videos, you know the sponsor is always me. If you guys would swing by the website over at mattk.com, we've got lots of great training courses and presets for you as well as free tutorials. If you click on the courses, one of the things we're doing during this time is a temporary 50% off pricing for those that have to stay home a little bit more than they're used to right now and want to use this time to do a little bit of learning. Hopefully this helps out. So as you look through the courses section, specifically, if you want to learn more about Lightroom, my Lightroom system is the all encompassing Lightroom course, everything from importing, organizing, catalogs, develop, advanced develop, printing photo books, and my Photoshop system is my big Photoshop course. So if you're pretty new to Photoshop and you want a course that's not going to teach everything that graphic designers and illustrators need, but rather just the Photoshop, just the photography stuff, just the stuff that you need to know as a photographer, Photoshop becomes a much easier tool to learn when you cut all that other stuff out. So both of those courses are on sale. And during these times, I always like to point out, I give you at least six months of free updates. If not longer, I usually do much longer than that. So you're not stuck having to go buy another Lightroom course just for a couple of updates, but you can scroll through the page and see a lot more advanced courses over there as well. Okay, let's jump back over to the tutorial. The next one, I think a lot of people are also going to like, and that is we're going to come up here and go to file. We're going to go down here to export. Now you have a different batch export where you can export to multiple file types. So here's what I mean by that. If you go and you click on a preset, I'm just opening up the Lightroom presets area on the top left. Don't forget to select a preset. You can't just click on it. To select a preset, you got to click on the checkbox here. Okay. And when you do that, you're telling Lightroom, well, hey, that's why all these settings gray out because you chose a preset. You're not changing the actual settings. But if we click on a preset, and then we go and we click on another preset, what we're going to get here is we've now chosen two different presets to export to, and we can click on batch export. You're going to see the button changed at the bottom there. Well, now I can go in here and I can change the folders and the locations and all those things as far as where they're going to go. So people that want to export into multiple formats and get it all done in the same time will really like that one. Moving on from there is adaptive ISO presets. So, so back in the last version of Lightroom, when you come up here to your preferences and you went into presets, Adobe changed the way that you can set defaults. Okay. If you wanted to have a default for a specific camera for anything like that, that was all changed and moved up into here. It used to be a little bit of a different way to do it in previous versions. That was all changed and moved into this dialogue. One of the things that was lost in that change was to be able to set ISO adaptive presets. So based on your ISO, have a preset adapt to those changes. So let's say, you know, for my landscape photos, I would never, ever, ever do any noise reduction because I don't need to, because I'm shooting at ISO 100. But for my wildlife photos, when my ISOs get cranked up, then I do some noise reduction. So I wouldn't want a preset that does everything because it's, it'd be different. You know, I wouldn't want that noise reduction applied to my landscapes. Well, what you can do now is you select multiple photos and they have to be photos with two different ISOs. So you can see the ISO on this one is 800 and the ISO on this one is 400. So what I do is hold down my command or control key and I can click. So I have both of those photos selected down here or targeted. And now what I do is I go and I click on my presets plus button here and I click create preset. And one of the things you're going to see down here is create ISO adaptive preset. There's a little bit of a learn more link there. So I'll let you guys dive more into that one. It's a very, very techie thing. It's a very advanced thing. So if you're wondering if you would use that or not, just tell you, I, even though I gave you a use case for it, it's not something I personally use, but I'm generally going to do my noise reduction myself every time. But if you want to learn more about it, that is a way that you can go there. And building on that, if you go into your presets panel on the left hand side, if you go under the defaults section, you will see some new presets inside of there. And if you go under the optics section, you'll see some new ones inside of there worth checking out. From there, let's move on to the last feature, which is a simple one here. I'm just going to switch to this photo. If we go choose the crop tool in the develop module. So when you press the letter O, that will change crop overlays. So they've just added another one. It's a two by two grid. Just going to continue pressing O. Once I have the crop tool selected, you got to have the crop tool enabled first. There we go. So you got a two by two grid, which would let you see the exact center of the image. If you're cropping to something in that Not something I would probably not use, but it's if it makes it in there, it means enough people have asked for it. So you could be one of those people that needed to know the exact center point of the photo. Folks, hope that helps you out. And again, if you would do me a huge favor, swing by the website over at mattk.com and check out the courses in the preset section to see if there's anything that interests you there. As always, thank you so much for watching and I'll talk to you again real soon. Transcribed by https://otter.ai