Lightroom Classic 15.2 Released. Now lets you create video from your photos with AI (via Firefly)

Adobe has just released new versions of its photography software suite, including Lightroom Classic and Lightroom Desktop. While mostly an under-the-hood release, there are a few new features, including the ability to you send your images directly to Adobe Firefly to create video from your photos using AI. You can also edit your images in firefly using AI. Other new features include improved Assisted Culling and Topaz Gigapixel support directly in Lightroom Desktop.

In the video, I take a look at the new features, specifically the Assisted Culling (which still has some issues) and the Firefly AI features, which also have some issues. In the new version of Lightroom Classic, you can now send your image directly to Adobe Firefly. It gives you two options: Edit Image and Create Video.

I tried creating some video from some of my photos and the results were mixed. None were what I would consider professional quality, and they all had issues following instructions, often directly contradicting what you asked it to do. To be honest, I can’t see this feature as being useful for anything more than generating slop (and for selling firefly credits).

This video was a bit messy, so I have to apologise. It was originally supposed to go out on Wednesday but the release was delayed. Then I found a few mistakes and had to re-edit some of it, and re-record a few bits, so it's a little all over the place, but I think it gets across the gist of the updates.

The edit function is similarly hit-and-miss. In the first example I did in this video, I asked it to turn the image into a sunset, and it totally changed the picture, with a different camera angle and a different view of the ship. I managed to change the prompt to get it to at least keep the ship, but as with many AI tools, the results are just too unreal to be useable. I’m sure the AI bros will just say that I’m prompting it wrong, but I am not convinced that's the real issue here.

I was a bit cynical in this video, to be honest. Well, I was actually way more cynical in the original version, but I cut a lot of it out! I just keep finding a huge disconnect between the promise of generative AI and the results. And if you dare question it, the AI pushers will just claim that the prompt is not specific enough. But I was very specific in my testing, and it often just ignored me. It’s kind of mad really, that this is an actual product that you can pay for (in terms of credits.) I can see it being impressive from a technological point of view, but it still needs lots of improvements in my opinion.

Anyway…. Moving on.

The releases should be available now in the creative cloud app. Just refresh it if you’re not seeing the updates.