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Lightroom and Other Adobe Photography Updates Coming This Week
A set of June updates to Adobe’s Photography applications will be released later this week. This will include Lightroom Classic, Lightroom, Photoshop and so on. For the most part, these will be bug fixes and new camera support, but there are a couple of things worth noting.
Fed up with everything being a Subscription? Maybe it's time for regulation?
With the number of software and service subscriptions at an all-time high, and the loathing of software subscriptions even higher, maybe it’s time for governments to admit that there is a serious problem here. Companies will never regulate themselves, so maybe it’s time to consider legislation to address the issue. I’m not talking about banning subscriptions or anything, but rather regulating them so that they are a little more consumer-friendly, and a little less corporate-evil.
Key new Features of Adobe’s October 2024 Photography Releases
Adobe has just held its annual adobe MAX conference, and as part of the event it announced a slew of new updates across its product lines. This, of course included its Photography products, and all versions of Lightroom, Camera Raw and Photoshop have been updated. In this blog post, I’m going to cover a few of the key new features across the lineup.
Adobe Updates its Confusing Terms of Service
After the calamity of Adobe’s recent Terms of Service update (which it turns out wasn’t that recent) they have followed through on their promise of re-writing the terms and adding plain English explanations for the various clauses.
Adobe’s In Some Trouble
Ever since Adobe switched to a subscription model many years ago, people have loved to hate them. They often don’t do themselves any favours in the PR department, either. And hot off the heels of their recent PR disaster with the badly worded revisions to their Terms and Conditions, they’re now being sued for the way they handle subscriptions bye the US government.
Lightroom Classic 10 Released: New Colour Grading Tool & Other Features
Adobe today announced the latest versions of its Lightroom family of applications. There are a couple of key new features, the biggest one of which is the new colour grading tool. In the post below, I’m just discussing Lightroom Classic, but many of these features are across the whole ecosystem.
Adobe Photography Updates for June 2020 - New Versions of Lightroom Classic, Desktop and Mobile. New Version of Photoshop
Adobe has just released a new round of updates for its photography applications, including all versions of Lightroom and Photoshop. Here are some of the key features in this new release.
Quick Note - Adobe offering 2 Months Free for Current Creative Cloud Members
I was trying to write the title for this post and make it not sound like a spam ad, which is what I thought when I first saw this, but its true. Adobe is offering two months off for creative cloud subscribers to help creatives deal with the current global situation. I read about this on a tweet, and I thought it was a joke or a scam, but it was from a reliable source, and I tried it and it works (at least it did a few days ago).
Lightroom Classic 8 Released along with lots of other Adobe updates
Today Adobe is holding it’s “Max” conference, and the company officially announced a whole bunch of updates to the various creative cloud apps. I won’t go into everything here, but the ones that interest me the most, are the updates to Lightroom and Photoshop. I’m also pretty interested in the new Premiere Rush.
Adobe Updates Photoshop CC (And other CC Apps)
Yesterday Adobe released a major update to many of its Creative Cloud Apps, including Photoshop. The updates include a number of new features, and further integration of Creative Cloud Libraries and Adobe Stock. Photoshop in particular includes some interesting new features.
Lightroom Updated to CC 2015.5.1 and 6.5.1.
Adobe has issued a series of updates to Lightroom and camera raw. The updates are mainly bug fixes, as well as adding support two new cameras. It's available now from the Adobe update panel.