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November 2026: "South Beach Deco"by Cyn LagosJoin me live on November 2nd at 9am PT on YouTube, where I'll be remixing the "South Beach Deco" image myself and answering your questions in real time!  About Lightroom ReMix It:My graphic design brain has always come along on my photo walks. I photographed this Art Deco building in South Beach while exploring my voice as a street photographer. I was drawn to the straight lines, the way the shadows created new shapes, and a color palette that felt like something I’d build in a design. Photography became another way to explore those same instincts, this time by finding them out in the world. I’m curious to see what catches your eye and where you take it with your edit.Have fun with the Remix and be sure to share yours! I’ll announce my favorites at the end of the month, and we’ll be randomly selecting one entry to receive a complimentary 3-month Creative Cloud subscription.Note: the selected recipient will be asked to provide their full name

May '26 REMIX IT! The “Remix it!” challenge is a fun, community driven creative activity that invites you to jump in, experiment, and share your unique editing style. Inspired by the collaborative spirit of Lightroom’s Remix feature, where photographers build on each other’s edits, this challenge is all about creativity, learning, and having fun together. Take an image, make it your own, and see how others in the community interpret the same starting point, because every remix tells a different story. How to Join Make sure you have the latest version of Lightroom Desktop, iOS, or Android Follow this link to the May '26 Remix It! Challenge in Lightroom Share a screenshot & link to your Remix in the comments below!   About the imageA sure sign that winter is gone – this Robin is a cheery sight!Have fun with the Remix and be sure to share yours! We’ll announce our favorites when we post next month’s challenge.We can't wait to see your take on it! ‌😄‌ About the photographer C

September 2026: “The Horse at the Window”by Celeste GuidiceAbout the ImageThis month I'm sharing one of my favorite barn shots — a curious horse leaning out of a Dutch door window, taking in the world outside. I love the contrast between the weathered gray shingles and his warm bay coat, and that little white blaze running down his face gives him so much personality. There's something about the quiet curiosity in his eye that makes this feel like the perfect end-of-summer image to remix.Have fun with the Remix and be sure to share yours! I'll announce my favorites at the end of the month.I can't wait to see your take on it! 😄 About Me: My name is Celeste Guidice. I've been an Adobe Community Expert since 2016 and founded the Nashua Adobe User Group back in 2012. I'm a commercial photographer and Lightroom coach based in New Hampshire, and I love sharing my images with this community every month. About Lightroom ReMix It: The “Remix it!” challenge is a fun, communit

Lightroom v9.6: Edit with Prompts, Remove Reflections More Cleanly, and Create with Confidence The September 2026 update to Lightroom (version 9.6) introduces AI-powered prompt-based editing, improved Reflection Removal, and expanded camera and lens support to help photographers work more efficiently and stay in flow. What’s New: The Lightroom (version 9.6) brings more control and flexibility to everyday creative workflows with the introduction of Prompt to Edit, allowing photographers to make complex restorations, retouching, and transformations simply by describing the edits they want or selecting from photographer-focused example prompts. Powered by the Nano Banana model, this new capability makes advanced editing faster and more intuitive.  This release also delivers cleaner, more accurate Reflection Removal results on windows, glass, and water, reducing smudges and ghosting artifacts on challenging surfaces. In addition, Lightroom now supports newly added camera models and lenses,

October 2026: "Mad Hatter"by Lisa CarneyJoin me live on October 5th at 9am PT on YouTube and Behance, where I'll be remixing the "Mad Hatter" image myself and answering your questions in real time!  About the ImageThis month I'm sharing one of my favorite shots from a shoot at MAX— a whimsical Mad Hatter character reaching straight out of the frame, with curls of orange hair spilling out from under a black-and-white spotted top hat. I love the theatrical energy in her expression and that playful, come-closer gesture. It feels like she's pulling you right into the frame with her. There's so much personality and texture here, from the lace glove and the velvet gown to the hat details, that I can't wait to see how everyone reinterprets it.Have fun with the Remix and be sure to share yours! I'll announce my favorites at the end of the month and randomly select one entry to receive a complimentary 3-month Creative Cloud subscription. About Me: My name is Lisa Carney. I'm a photograph

Lightroom v9.5 Is Live! Extend Photos with Generative Expand, Refine Masks with Precision, and Edit More Smoothly The August 2026 update to Adobe Lightroom (version 9.5) introduces AI-powered photo expansion, more precise masking controls, and performance enhancements to help photographers and creators work more efficiently and stay in flow. What’s New:Lightroom (version 9.5) brings more control and flexibility to everyday creative workflows with the introduction of Generative Expand, one of the release's most significant additions. This new Firefly-powered feature lets you extend photos beyond their original borders and intelligently generate content that blends naturally with the existing image, making it easier to recover poorly framed shots, create new aspect ratios for social media and marketing formats, reconstruct missing edges, or fill transparent gaps left behind after perspective corrections. Photographers can choose between Firefly Fill & Expand, which generates multiple

 The latest update to Adobe Lightroom introduces AI-powered image expansion, more creative flexibility, and seamless editing workflows to help photographers and content creators extend their compositions without leaving their creative flow.How to Use Generative ExpandThe latest release of Adobe Lightroom brings more control and flexibility to everyday creative workflows with Generative Expand, a powerful AI-powered feature that lets you extend images beyond their original borders while naturally filling in new content. Whether you're reframing a shot for social media, correcting a crop, or creating more balanced compositions, Generative Expand intelligently creates new pixels that blend seamlessly with the existing image. This helps photographers spend less time reshooting or manually editing and more time focusing on their creative vision.Using Generative Expand is simple:Open your image and select the Crop tool. Drag the crop handles beyond the image borders to expand the canvas. Cho

Bring your photos to life with Generate Video in Lightroom Ever wish a favorite photo had a little more motion, a subtle drift of clouds, a slow pan across a landscape, a gentle sway in the trees? Generate Video in Adobe Lightroom turns your edited photos into short, polished videos using AI, right from the app you already use to edit. How to Use Generate Video:Just open a photo in Detail view, right-click, and select Generate Video (or find it under the Photo menu). From there, choose a model: Firefly Video, Google Veo 3.1, or Google Veo 3.1 Fast. Then set your aspect ratio, resolution, and duration. Once you click Generate, watch you photo come to life! Not sure what to type in the prompt field?You don't need to be a prompting expert. Try one of the built-in presets:Slow pan for gentle camera movement Subtle motion for AI-generated natural motion Hyperlapse for AI-generated time-lapse style motionWant to keep your original photo paired with the new video? Select Create stack to group

Try the new Feather and Edge sliders for more control, better creative effects, and smoother transitions when masking.The latest release brings improvements to the Masking panel sliders: Feather and Edge. Together, they give you more control over how a mask blends into your photo, so you can get smoother transitions, better creative effects, and results that look natural straight out of the gate. New Masking Tools:However you build a mask — Select Subject, Select Sky, Select People, a hand-painted Brush stroke, or a Range Mask — the edge of that mask is what makes or breaks the edit. A boundary that's too hard reads as "obviously edited." A selection that's slightly off grabs a bit too much background, or misses a sliver of your subject. Feather and Edge let you fix both in seconds, right in the panel you're already working in. Spend less time troubleshooting the edges of your mask, and more time on the creative part of the edit.How it Works:Feather softens the edges of your mask, so a

Help us shape this community: What content do you want to see? Whether you're a longtime community member or just found this space, your input will directly shape what we publish here. We want this to be a place you return to, not just when something breaks, but when you want to learn, get inspired, or connect with other creatives. What we’re considering:🚀 Feature Highlights: What’s new in Photoshop, explained with real workflows.📖 How-to Guides: Step-by-step tutorials for common tasks, errors, and workflows.💬 Community Discussions: Polls, questions, and conversations about how you work.🌟 Community Highlights: Spotlighting community members, standout work, and creative journeys.👉 Other: What other type of content would you like to see? We’d love to hear your thoughts:What type of content do you find most useful when you visit this forum? Is there a Lightroom topic you keep looking up but never find a great answer for here? Would you want to share your own creative workflow or be f

 Cull Faster, Not Harder: Meet Assisted Culling in LightroomSorting through hundreds of shots to find the keepers is one of the most time-consuming parts of any shoot. Assisted Culling takes on the heavy lifting for you by automatically checking subject sharpness, eye sharpness, open eyes, exposure issues, and even accidental "misfire" shots, then sorting everything into Select and Reject groups so you can review at a glance instead of clicking through every frame.Once Lightroom finishes analyzing your album, you can fine-tune the results with adjustable focus thresholds, dig into the Culling Info panel to see exactly why a photo scored the way it did, and apply batch actions. It's a big time-saver for wedding, event, and sports photographers working through massive photo sets, and you're always one click away from overriding any pick.  How to Use Assisted Culling: Open an album and select Assisted Culling > Cull. In the Select section, turn on the filters you want scored: Subject

June '26 REMIX IT! The “Remix it!” challenge is a fun, community driven creative activity that invites you to jump in, experiment, and share your unique editing style. Inspired by the collaborative spirit of Lightroom’s Remix feature, where photographers build on each other’s edits, this challenge is all about creativity, learning, and having fun together. Take an image, make it your own, and see how others in the community interpret the same starting point, because every remix tells a different story. How to Join Make sure you have the latest version of Lightroom Desktop, iOS, or Android Follow this link to the June '26 Remix It! Challenge in Lightroom Share a screenshot & link to your Remix in the comments below!   About the imageCape Neddick, MaineSometimes everything just falls into place. This seagull lined up perfectly against a dramatic sky, creating a moment that was impossible to ignore. And here's the best part: this image wasn't captured with expensive gear - it was

The June 2026 update to Lightroom (v9.4) lets you add AI-generated motion to your photos, recover and sharpen blurred images using AI Sharpen, explore people-focused culling, and organize smartly.  What’s NewThe Lightroom ecosystem (v9.4) brings more creative flexibility, speed, and control to everyday workflows. On desktop, the new Faces panel streamlines people-focused assisted culling with Eye sharpness and Eyes open scores, making it easier to pick the best shots quickly. You can also bring photos to life with Generate Video, turning a single image into a short video using a simple text prompt. AI Sharpen (powered by Topaz) restores detail in slightly out-of-focus images, while improved subject selection when masking and the interactive Histogram give you more precise control over edits. Custom color labels help streamline organization and keep projects easy to track.On mobile, iOS users can now edit photo location data directly in-app, while Android users get seamless blemish remo

Hey everyone! We’ve just rolled out new features, updates, and bug fixes across the Lightroom ecosystem including Lightroom Desktop 9.3 and Lightroom Mobile iOS (11.3) and Android (11.3.1). This release brings improved generative results along with fixes inspired directly by your reports. Thanks for the feedback! What’s New This release brings a fresh set of updates designed to speed up your workflow and spark creativity, from smarter natural‑language search and improved assisted culling to new film‑inspired presets, smoother crop controls, and better Photoshop integrations including PSB support. You can also now send photos straight to Firefly Boards for easy ideation and planning. Curious about any of these features? Find out more about them in our What’s New. Start playing with all these new features and updates now, get started in Lightroom!Bug Fixes - Thanks to You The following issues were identified and upvoted by members of this community. Thank you for flagging them and helpin

Hey everyone! We’ve just rolled out support for new cameras and lenses, along with bug fixes for Lightroom desktop 9.3.2. What’s New This release brings a support for new Cameras and Lenses.   How to UpdateGet the latest features, updates, and bug fixes by simply updating Lightroom desktop to the latest version. Update Lightroom now What’s Next?  Let us know what you would like us to prioritize for the next Lightroom Ecosystem release. Your reports and upvotes directly influence what gets addressed. Please keep them coming.  

April '26 REMIX IT! The “Remix it!” challenge is a fun, community driven creative activity that invites you to jump in, experiment, and share your unique editing style. Inspired by the collaborative spirit of Lightroom’s Remix feature, where photographers build on each other’s edits, this challenge is all about creativity, learning, and having fun together. Take an image, make it your own, and see how others in the community interpret the same starting point, because every remix tells a different story. How to Join Make sure you have the latest version of Lightroom Desktop, iOS, or Android Follow this link to the April '26 Remix It! Challenge in Lightroom Share a screenshot & link to your Remix in the comments below!   About the imageOeschinensee is constantly ranked as Switzerland’s #1 prettiest hikes. Its fluorescent turquoise waters, limestone cliffs, dramatic glacial peaks, and wildflower meadows, create a high-altitude amphitheater truly worthy of its UNESCO status. I hope

In this ReleaseWe’ve included several critical bug fixes, including one identified by the community. P: Paste of Crop results in an uncropped destination image How to Update Open the Creative Cloud desktop app, then select Update next to Lightroom. For step-by-step instructions, see the full guide here. 

We’re excited to announce what’s new and fixed in February’s Lightroom Desktop, Mobile and Web updates. This release includes new features designed to speed up your workflow and expand your creative control, plus support for the latest cameras and lenses and important bug fixes. Here’s What’s New:  Lightroom Desktop 9.2Read Support for WebP format (Excludes Export) -  You can now open, sync, and edit photos in the WebP file format. Learn more about it here.  Assisted Culling is now more intelligent and precise, with enhanced subject recognition and eye-open detection to help you work faster. You can now copy photos straight into an album while transferring them from Local to Cloud.Lightroom iOS 11.2 and Android v11.2.0Edit in Firefly - Easily enhance Lightroom images in Firefly with prompt-based editing, or turn images into videos. Learn more about it here.  Read Support for WebP format (Excludes Export) -  You can now open, display, and edit photos in the WebP file format. Learn more