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CMass
Community Manager
Community Manager
October 28, 2025

📸 From MAX 2025: New Features in Lightroom Classic 15.0

  • October 28, 2025
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Lightroom Classic 15.0: Assisted Culling, Dust removal, and more from MAX!

Calling all Lightroom Classic users — Adobe MAX is here, and it's your time to shine! This is more than a conference — it’s a creative recharge for photographers who want to make the most of every pixel. Join MAX online for free and check out all the Lightroom sessions! Want to know everything about this release? Read our release notes. 

 

Try Lightroom Classic

Download the latest version and dive into the new Adobe Lightroom Classic features.

Big updates just dropped! Open your Creative Cloud app and hit 'Update' next to Lightroom Classic to dive in. More detailed instructions for updating.

Here's what's new in Lightroom Classic

Organize with Assisted Culling

Assisted culling helps you efficiently organize large photo collections by identifying top images, automatically rejecting low-quality ones, and allowing manual adjustments to selections.

 

Want to learn more about this tool? Check out this article.

 

Dust Removal

The AI-powered Dust Removal feature in the Distraction Removal panel automatically detects and removes dust spots in a photo, created by dust on your camera's sensor or lens.

 

 
Want to learn more about this tool? Check out this article.

 

Color Variance

Now, access the variance slider in the Point Slider tool. Adjust the tone and color of an image with the Variance slider to achieve a consistent look.

 

 
 
Want to get the most out of color variance in Lightroom? Learn more here!


Camera and Lens Support + Enhancements

Lightroom Classic 15.0 also includes newly supported cameras and lenses, plus some exciting improvements:

  • Other new features include Remove Shadows using Generative Remove, auto stacking, and more

  • Landscape mask now includes snow and access to a new set of Landscape presets!
  • Lecia Support for Teathered Capture 
  • Performance improvements in the Develop module. 
  • Read more about this release in our release notes. 

Check out the full list of supported cameras and lens profiles.

Open your Creative Cloud desktop app and click "Update" next to Lightroom Classic

More detailed instructions for updating.

 

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    3 replies

    Gabor Lenart
    Known Participant
    November 15, 2025

    The Library module on a 5K Apple Studio Display is still extremely slow. It is fast in lower resolution, but I don't want to keep changing the resolution back and forth. Please do something for native 5K resolution optimizing. It is clearly something wrong, I can step forward 10 photos on the strip and the photo on the viewer doesn't change at all. It is impossibly slow to cull images this way.

    SergeiZ
    Participating Frequently
    October 31, 2025

    Develop module in the 15.0 is painfully slow. I had to rall back to 14.5.1 Going from photo to photo may take 2-3 seconds. I tried all kinds of methods to fix the performance (creating a new catalog, renuilding new previews, trying different GPU options) still very sticky and painful Working on an individual photo is ok but going quickly is impossible. 

    The older version 14.5.1 just flies through files. Too bad

    CMass
    Community Manager
    CMassCommunity ManagerAuthor
    Community Manager
    November 3, 2025

    Hey @SergeiZ

    Would you mind sharing your system info? This release included performance enhancements for the developed module. Specifically, I'm curious about what might be going on. You can find system info by going to Help > System Info while in Lightroom Classic. Copy and paste that into a text file and attach it to your response. 

    ^CM

    Known Participant
    October 28, 2025

    Hi all,

    how to turn off 'automatic culling' ? they eats up CPU.

    of  course I' m so glad adobe focused this area that I wrote as plugin.

    john beardsworth
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    October 29, 2025

    Close the AC panel.