The new Lightroom Classic updates

Saturday 26 July 2025, 13:31 by Nando Harmsen | 3,980 views | 3 comments

This article was translated from Dutch with the help of AI. Read the original.

Adobe recently released an update. There are some welcome changes to Lightroom, Lightroom Classic and Adobe Camera Raw. This makes the way you work even easier.

Adobe's regular software updates have been released. For software that uses Adobe Camera Raw, such as Lightroom and Lightroom Classic, there are a number of useful and practical changes.

Your version of this software has probably been updated automatically, but it may be worth checking. Lightroom is now on version 8.4, Lightroom Classic on 14.4 and Camera Raw on version 17.41. Photoshop has received version 26.8.1.

The video above covers a list of the new features. I want to highlight a few points that are particularly useful. The most important is probably how AI noise reduction is now carried out.

AI functionality is now used to automatically recognise people. If they are distracting, you can remove them at the press of a button. Reflections can also be recognised and removed.

Until now, using AI noise reduction opened a window where you had to guess how much noise reduction you wanted. The result was a separate DNG file. Now no separate file is created, and you have a slider to adjust the amount.

Some AI masks need to be updated after new edits have been applied on top of them. Previously, it was difficult to see whether this was needed. Now there is a new button that immediately indicates when AI masks need updating. That's very handy.

The new updates in Lightroom, Lightroom Classic and Camera Raw are a welcome improvement to the software. If you haven't installed the update yet, I recommend that you do so.

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Nando Harmsen has been photographing for more than 40 years. He specialises in wedding photography and landscape photography. Nando also gives talks, workshops, masterclasses and photo trips, and regularly reviews new and interesting equipment.

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3 comments

Wim Lievaart wrote on Tuesday 29 July 2025 at 12:56 | reply
Dear Nando
Thank you for your clear explanation.
I knew most of it, but not everything
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Ton Engels wrote on Tuesday 29 July 2025 at 13:29 | reply
Nando

Thanks so much for your clear explanation.
Despite everything, I still learned something new.
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Etienne Van den Heuvel wrote on Wednesday 30 July 2025 at 10:20 | reply
Explained very clearly by Nando

Thanks
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