
Experiment with increasing Texture for photos with lots of detail, such as landscape photos, or decreasing texture on portraits. Texture hones in on medium-sized detail (like the rough surface of the rocks, the jeans, or the leather boots in the first photo) and by doing this can enhance (+) or reduce (-) the appearance of those details with less of an affect on the finer details (like the pores in skin of the second photo). In Lightroom Classic there is even a new localĪdjustment preset called, “Soften Skin (Lite)” that sets Texture to -35 andĪs you might surmise by the name, this control is all about enhancing texture (with a positive Texture value) or reducing the appearance of texture detail (with a negative Texture value). As a global adjustment, Texture can be found in the Basic panel of Lightroom Classic and Adobe Camera Raw, or in the Effects panel in the cloud-based versions of Lightroom.īeen added as a local/selective adjustment to the Graduated Filter, Radialįilter, and Adjustment Brush tools. You’ll find the Texture control in two places. In what is sure to be one of the most popular aspects of this update, the new Texture control has been added to Lightroom Classic, the cloud-based Lightroom (Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, and ChromeOS), and the Camera Raw plug-in for Photoshop. I’m sure this will take some time for all of us to digest and adjust how we refer to these apps.

All of these are part of what is called the Lightroom ecosystem, as they all reference the same pool of photos and edits stored in the cloud. One could make the case that having the “CC” on the end did help differentiate between Lightroom Classic and the cloud-based version of Lightroom, but we’ll have to press on and be specific about which version of Lightroom we are using when discussing with others.įrom now on, be prepared to see what was called “Lightroom CC” now called just “Lightroom” in general or if referring to one of the applications within the Lightroom ecosystem, you might see “Lightroom Desktop” (Mac and Windows), “Lightroom Mobile” (iOS and Android), “Lightroom Web” (), or “Lightroom TV” (Apple TV). This is because all versions of Lightroom are now only available via a Creative Cloud subscription, so there is no need to differentiate the CC version from the perpetual license version. Before getting into the new features that have been added, it is important to note that Adobe has dropped the “CC” from the names of Lightroom Classic CC and Lightroom CC.

Today, Adobe has released an update for the Lightroom and Adobe Camera Raw family of applications.
