Lightroom Classic 14.5
Victoria Bampton on 14.3 (Adobe):
A new mask selection tool is introduced for Landscape. It works much like the Select People tool, using AI to read the scene and select specific elements[…]
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In the Develop and Photo Merge dialogs, transparency now shows as a checkerboard pattern (just like in Photoshop), making it easier to identify transparent areas.
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If you select Manage Catalogs in the same menu, a new dialog allows you to remove catalogs from that list.
Victoria Bampton on 14.4 (Adobe):
If you’ve enjoyed using the Enhance tool to increase the size of your best photos using Super Resolution or to benefit from the AI-generated noise reduction (Denoise), you’ll be excited to find that these tools are now available directly in the Detail panel, without needing to generate a separate DNG file.
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There’s a new Distraction Removal tool, which is designed to remove people who aren’t the subject of a photo. It uses AI to automatically select any distracting people, and then employs Generative AI to remove them and repair the background. The detection is based on the current crop area, so if you want to remove people who are currently hidden by the crop, remove the crop before running the People Removal.
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The new Reflections Removal tool uses AI to eliminate reflections created by photographing objects through glass, such as items in a shop window, artifacts in a museum, or the view through an airplane window. You do need to be quite close to the glass, so it doesn’t work well for windows in real estate photography.
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If you have Automatically Write to XMP enabled in Catalog Settings, there are a couple of small changes to improve performance. Writing to XMP is now automatically paused while an Import is running, and when you’re working on a photo in the Develop module, it now saves every 10 seconds.
Victoria Bampton on 14.5 (Adobe):
With this release, a new pop-up appears in the dialogs, allowing you to save specific groups of checkboxes.
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If you have a high-end graphics card, you’ll be excited to know it can now be used to speed up preview generation, in addition to the existing GPU acceleration. […] It’s also up to 2x faster.
The thumbnail issues I’ve previously discussed seem to be fixed. XMP is still wonky as always. It will spend a long time writing changes to XMP and say it’s done, but then if I go and view an old folder that fully wrote its XMP years ago and hasn’t changed since, it will then start a new round of XMP work. I’ve tried leaving my catalog open for a few days, but it never seems to get to a stable state where it’s satisfied that the XMP is up-to-date everywhere.
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