
The Face Recognition engine in Lightroom has been replaced, and it should do a better job of picking up faces the old engine would have missed. Oh, and big news… presets now preview on the main image now, not just the small navigator panel.īy popular demand, the Dehaze slider has been moved from the Effects panel to the Basic panel! You will need to check your backups include the new profile and preset locations, which I’ve listed here. There are workarounds, but hopefully Adobe will address these missing features in the next update.


Some of the preset management tools, like creating, renaming and deleting new folders, have gone missing in this release. Most of these changes happen automatically behind the scenes when you start Lightroom, but all the geeky details are in the 7.3 update for my Lightroom Classic book, for those who like to understand how it works.

Their location has also changed as a result. xmp, so that presets are fully compatible with the Camera Raw plug-in. You can read all about the new profiles here. These profiles are now available across the entire Lightroom and Camera Raw ecosystem. In addition to the existing camera matching profiles, there’s now a whole set of new Adobe profiles for different subjects, and a wide range of creative profiles to give your photos a specific “look”. In the April 2018 Lightroom releases, these profiles have become first-class citizens, and the concept has been greatly expanded. Since version 3, Lightroom has offered a number of profiles to emulate different in-camera picture styles, but they were hidden away in the Camera Calibration panel so most people didn’t know they existed, and they weren’t available in Lightroom CC. Presets don’t work, Profile pop-up hasn’t moved to Basic panel, Splash Screen says Lightroom 6.The translation of Adobe Portrait and Adobe Landscape is incorrect in some languages.Applying a preset applies the Adobe Standard profile or converts from B&W to Color or vice versa in some circumstances.Some presets did not convert and appear to disappear (workaround included).Update 24 hours in – there’s a few bugs cropping up, mainly around presets:

The entire Lightroom CC ecosystem has also been updated. This release introduces major updates to the Develop module and improved Face Recognition, as well as the usual new camera/ lens support for Lightroom. Lightroom Classic CC 7.3 has been released today.
