Lightroom Classic 15.0
Quickly select the best shots from a large set of images with Assisted Culling. [link]
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Easily stack your images based on time and visual similarity. You can also use the Stack filter in the Attribute panel. [link]
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Quickly detect and remove dust spots caused by the camera’s sensor or lens. [link]
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Achieve substantial performance improvements with enhanced speed, accuracy, and smooth responsiveness across tools and adjustments for interactive editing tasks. [link]
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You can now zoom in while cropping an image to make the best selection. [link]
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Fine-tune the overall tone and color in a photo using the Variance slider in Point Color. [link]
There doesn’t seem to be a permalink, so in the future you may need to find these notes under the October 2025 release.
This is a hidden gem! The new Variance slider is in Point Color. It lets you increase or decrease color contrast, for example, evening out tone variations or increasing contrast between similar colors. If you haven’t used Point Color before, and the rest of the panel looks a bit overwhelming, don’t worry, because this slider can be used without touching any of the others. It works well to adjust redness in cheeks; also to enhance foliage colors, add drama to sunsets, balancing out wide-angle polarized skies, and much more!
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You might say that AI can’t replace the creativity and intelligence of a human, and you’d be absolutely right, but there are some things it can do very well, like judging sharpness and grouping photos by visual similarity. These don’t remove the human touch from the culling process, but they do help speed it up.
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The AI model for the Reflections removal tool has been updated, and the improvements are quite impressive…
As usual, I’ve put together a video that shows you everything that’s new.
See also: Julieanne Kost.
Previously:
