What’s maybe more interesting, though, is that Adobe is introducing six new Adobe Raw profiles and 40 new creative profiles. In Lightroom CC on Mac, Windows, iOS, Android and ChromeOS, they are now in the edit panel.
In Lightroom Classic and Camera Raw, these are now part of the Basic panel (and not hidden in the Camera Calibration panel anymore). Many photographers, though, also use them for creative purposes. That’s partly true, but at its core, they are all about rendering the raw camera data that was captured by the camera’s sensor. With this update, Lightroom CC is making it easier to find ‘profiles,’ which are presets that, at first glance, look similar to filters. It’s no surprise then that Lightroom CC is seeing most of today’s updates, but the company is also updating Classic, Camera Raw (the Lightroom equivalent in Photoshop) and the various Lightroom mobile apps. With Lightroom CC and Lightroom Classic CC, the desktop version has undergone a split that is taking the software into two distinct directions, with the Lightroom CC version putting its focus on the cloud and next-gen technologies. Since the end of last year, there isn’t just one canonical “Lightroom” anymore, of course.
We’re not talking about any revolutionary new features but there are a few updates here that’ll make life for photographers a bit easier. Adobe is launching an update to its Lightroom photo management and editing apps today.
