Adobe Lightroom Update | Wichtigste Neuerungen im Oktober 2023

The new Adobe Lightroom update brings along some useful new features. I'll show you what they are in this video. After Photoshop already received the big update in September, Lightroom is now also available in October. Let's take a look at what's new to discover here. I'm in Lightroom Classic. The new features are also available in Lightroom and Camera Raw. That's for your information. The first new feature is in the development area. On the right side of the bar, there is a slider with the lens blur. There is also a note that says earlier access. So the function is still being worked on. We can unfold the whole thing and want to try out this function. What happens here is that we can make the background blurry or even more blurry with the help of AI. That means we click on apply here to activate the function. Our image is then analyzed and we'll take a closer look at what is being analyzed. What is possible after the analysis is that we can now increase the degree of blurring. I think you can see the effect. The background becomes much more blurry than it was before. However, there is a clear difference to see. So you can freely adjust the whole thing here. Below that, we find a point with bokeh that can be unfolded here. Here you can choose different blurred styles. You can also increase the bokeh here. You can also choose different types of bokeh. They don't look very visible in this image, but we'll take a look at that in another image later. So let's go straight to the next point. Here would be the focal length. On the right, we find two symbols. One is that the motif is in focus. Our image was analyzed and a motif was recognized. This motif is in focus and the rest is blurred. Of course, the whole thing works with AI support. Alternatively, we can also click on this area focus point on the right. And so we can now select the focus point ourselves. So which area should be in focus. So if we don't go to our main motif, but click somewhere else, it will try to focus on this area. And then we see that our motif is in focus. Of course, this doesn't make sense in this image. Especially because the image was already in focus in the background. And that's why this area can't be sharpened at all. But that's just a hint, so we can set the focus ourselves. If I click on the bird again, for example, then it is focused again and the rest is blurred. Now we come to what was analyzed in the image. We see here that the depth of the image is recognized. It becomes a bit more understandable if we set the checkbox here in depth visualize. Namely, the image is analyzed and it is recognized what is in the foreground, what is in the middle, so a little further away from the camera, and what is, for example, in the background, so very far away from the camera. And so the distance, the depth of the image is measured and is now nicely visualized so that we can understand it. And then we see, for example, here on this small bar that practically the white and yellow areas are currently in focus. They are framed here. These are the areas that are at the very front and of course they are also sharpened. So if we visualize this depth, take the checkbox out again, then the image is shown to us normally again. And if we now, for example, move this area here, so that we say we don't want to focus on these yellow areas anymore, but we grab this and put it a little to the right, then we can see how practically our motif slowly comes out of the focus area and accordingly also becomes blurred. And so you can practically limit this area yourself and can also expand this limitation here. We can also draw this into the width. If we practically mark everything here, then we get our image back in the original state, as it looked before. Because in this case, our adjusted soft drawing doesn't affect anything anymore. If we limit the area again, then the adjusted soft drawing affects the areas that are not in our limited focus area. That's how you could express it. I think quite understandable and in any case a very nice function here. And what is also interesting here, I go again to visualize depth, then we see that there can also be mistakes. Namely, we have here at the beak of the bird, if we take a closer look, then we see that here, as I said, a mistake happened. Simply because there is such a color difference at the beak of the bird, the AI thinks that this area probably belongs to the background and would make it accordingly blurred. But we can correct the areas. There are these two buttons here. Once we can add something to the focus area or to the blur area. We want to add something to the focus, so I go to focus. I get a brush tool, as you can see here. We can make the brush smaller or larger using the mouse wheel. There are different brush settings here. And with this brush, I just brush over the area that should actually also be in the focus. So I just go over it completely until everything is added again. And so this mistake would be corrected by hand again. Then I zoom out again. And so you could of course do this with different areas. I take out the hook again so that we can see the image normally again. And just as we can do this with the focus, we can also select the blur here and then make areas additionally blurred with a brush. It is so that the back areas get more blur than the front areas, of course. But if we now say here in front that should also be really blurry, then we can select the blur here and now brush over it with this brush. And you see the effect. Now the front areas are also made extremely blurry. Of course it doesn't look nice, but just for demonstration. Let's go straight to the next image. I want to show you again that adding this can be really practical. I have a picture here. If I activate this lens blur here, then you can already see that the background is made nice and additionally blurry. That works quite well so far. However, we have a few problems here again. For example, we have a band on the right that is at the same height, at the same depth, depending on how you want to express it. And that is also partially sharp, partially blurry, looks a bit weird. And that can now be corrected quite well. If I click on focus here, then I can use my brush just here over the band, over the areas above, which were falsely made blurry. And then you see that it really works pretty well that the band is completely sharp here. And if I would now say, okay, I want the right band to be really blurry, then I go to blur and brush over here and then it disappears, so to speak. So you really have good options to adjust the precision again. As far as the effect is concerned, it should also be said that it works best with images that already had a blurry background from the beginning. Then it is much easier for the program to recognize and calculate it correctly. For example, we have a picture here that is still relatively sharp both in the foreground and in the background. That still works quite well, but as I said, it works even better if the background was already blurry anyway. I activate the effect here once and then we see that it really works pretty well here, even though the background was not particularly blurry. Even if we have the depth of the picture, we can still see that it is really well recognized that this is our motif here. The next level gets a little darker, it gets darker in the back. So the area, the depth of the picture is really well recognized in this case at least. But why we look at this picture is again the bokeh function. Namely, the effect is a little nicer to see here, as I think. So if I go to bokeh now, and if we click through here, then you see that there are different types of blur for the background. You see the effect in the background how it changes a little with every click here. So you can adjust the bokeh a little bit in its own way. Away from the blur, we come to the next big innovation and that is the color adjustment of our picture. I have opened a new picture here and if we look into the mixer, then we find here under mixer still our HSL adjustment, which was already available before, where you can adjust the color, saturation, luminance or everything at once. And next to the mixer there is now also the point color. And with the point color we can now, instead of using the controls that existed before, pick out a color tone with a pipette and adjust this color tone in a very special way. This is a really great function. I like it very much. But let's take a look at it. We can click on the pipette and look for a place in the picture where we want to change a color. I take the color of these flowers and click on it. And when we click on it, the color is shown to us. We can also pick out several colors to edit them. We can click on the pipette again, we can choose a green tone and this one is picked. And now we can change and adjust the selected colors. We can also remove these colors. So with a right-click you can delete a color field. And if we want to adjust a color, it simply has to be selected. And then we have a large field where we can freely adjust color tone, saturation and luminance. Or alternatively, it works via the controls down here. So if we move the whole thing here, you can see how the selected color is changed live on the picture. And as I said, this is a great feature that allows you to pick out the colors very precisely. And if I move the point here, the controls below also move. That's about it. We can also limit the area that we have selected. So we have now picked out a color tone and we can adjust how much tolerance or how much deviation of this color tone is allowed which is also changed. So if we change the color tone for example, and we say we increase the area, then we can see something on the picture how, for example, the skin tones are affected by the change. If we limit the area, you can see how the skin tones look more natural again. You can clearly see the difference. So you can limit the color area. The great thing is that we can visualize the whole thing again. So if we put the checkmark here, then all areas that are not selected will be displayed in black and white. In this case also the hands and arms. And so we can make sure that the hands are not affected by the selected color. That means we can adjust the picture without changing the skin tones. But if we increase the area, then we can see how some color is added. And that means that we would also change the skin tones. As I said, a great function. Sometimes you have to increase the area a bit so that the borders don't look too hard. So that you have a soft gradient of the areas that are changed. That's obvious. But here you have a great possibility to adjust the colors. I also want to mention that this function can also be used inside masks. For me, these are the most important innovations. As I said, they are also available in Lightroom and Camera Raw. If you look at the official Adobe website, then you can see an overview of all the innovations. For example, you can see that processing and exporting of HDR content is possible. And that you can only see it with a HDR monitor. Apart from that, there are different performance improvements and similar things. As you can see here, these functions are also available in Camera Raw. And if we take a look at the normal Lightroom version, then you can see that there is also a special innovation. Processing locally saved photos in Lightroom. Now you can also access locally saved photos, edit and organize as you only knew from Lightroom Classic. So much for that. I hope that I was able to introduce the innovations to you understandably. Please leave a like if you liked the video. Of course, I am happy if you subscribe to the channel. And if you want to get to know Lightroom or Photoshop in detail, then take a look at the video description. I hope to see you again soon in one of my next videos.