📸 New ways to edit: New Features in Lightroom Classic 14.4

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Lightroom Classic 14.4: Select Landscape, Catalog Management, and more from MAX London!

We’re excited to announce the release of Lightroom Classic 14.4, available now as part of the June 2025 update. 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.

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

Adobe Lightroom Classic 14.4

To update Lightroom Classic to 14.4, click "Update" in the Creative Cloud desktop app next to Lightroom. More detailed instructions for updating.

Here’s what’s new in Lightroom Classic 14.4:

Reflection Removal on Desktop Shooting through a window or glass door? Use Reflections Removal to eliminate glare and surface reflections from your image, leaving behind a clean, crisp final photo. You can even adjust the Quality setting to control your final resolution—great for balancing speed and precision. Learn how you can remove reflections on your photos by using the new Reflections Removal Tool here.

People Removal Crowded backgrounds? The new People Removal feature automatically detects and removes extra or unwanted people from your shot. Whether you're on the desktop or mobile app, it's easy to clean up your photo so your main subject shines. Learn how to remove distracting people in a photo with the AI-powered Distracting People Removal tool here.

View and Update AI Edit Settings Stay in control of your edits. Now, when you apply AI-powered tools like Denoise, Remove, or Lens Blur, an AI Edit Status icon will show up. If anything changes that might affect your results, the icon turns yellow so you'll know it's time to reapply or tweak your settings. It's an easy way to keep your edits looking their best with no guesswork needed.  Learn more about the AI Status Icon here.

Tether Capture with Fujifilm Cameras Lightroom Classic now has native support for tethered capture using Fujifilm cameras. Check out whether your camera is supported and how to set up your camera here.

Performance Improvements Enjoy faster, smoother, and more accurate performance across tools and adjustments, making interactive editing feel quicker and more responsive. Key improvements include improvements in Crop Rotation, Brush, and linear gradient in the Masking panel. To know more about the performance improvements, click here.

Lightroom Classic 14.4 also includes fixes to some user-reported issues. You can check out more about the fixed issues here.

To update Lightroom Classic to version 14.4, open the Creative Cloud desktop app, find Lightroom Classic in the list of installed apps, and click Update. More detailed instructions for updating.

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[reinaldo_c]

Is there any way to use the new 'reflection removal' locally, e.g. to remove reflections on a person's glasses?

[Jan Z09]

I updated my Lightroom Classic to version 14.4. Unfortunatelly the Distraction Removal panel is not showing below Remove panel. I can see a new denoise section, so some new functions were added. I am running Lightroom Classic in emulation mode on the new Surface Pro with ARM-based processor. 

[albertw88285768]

Hi Jan, I'm not sure if this is the case, but in the Adobe intro to how to use the People Distraction Tool it highlights that it will not work in ARM computers. 

[Jan Z09]

Thanks, Albert. I guess, I have to wait for Adobe to make Lightroom Classic fully compatible with the ARM based computers.

[jorge_8661]

About Tether capture witn fujifilm cameras, Why hasn't the Fujifilm X-M5 been included?

It is fully compatible with Capture One, and I am testing it with the three months included with the camera purchase, and it is a delight for studio and product photography.

[lukasradek]

I was used to just pressing Q and easily and quickly removing something with a single click of the remove tool. Now I have to press Q, mouse over to select "Remove" instead of Distraction Removal. This is very bad.

[BBuzan549]

The update to the denoise feature initially seemed fine. However, I used to be able to denoise multiple files simultaneously before. Now I can only do one file at a time. Oh well, maybe next update.

[albertw88285768]

Have you tried using the Auto Sync (amazing tool by the way) when you have multiple files selected? I'm testing it now and it seems to be working. 

[DHW Photography]

Many thanks for the workaround, it's not ideal but better than having to do the images one by one! The only problem is when you don't want to sync any other settings and you have to untick them in the dialog box and then retick them when you do want to apply them (which I do a lot in my workflow), they should be treated as two separate elements IMHO. Furthermore LR is rendered unuseable when applying, it's not treated like a background task like previously, so I have to just walk away and leave it doing it's thing. This is the kind of hamfisted update I'd expect from Topaz, not Adobe. Hopefully they'll come up with a better solution. 

[Victor e Duda Fotografia]

Estou passando pelo mesmo problema, antes conseguia remover o ruído de vários arquivos ao mesmo tempo, o fato de precisar fazer um por vez, me faz querer voltar a versão antiga.

[cmajors]

Yesterday I was using the Variance slider under the Point Color menu, today it is gone. Anyone else have that? It was super useful for portraits so I didn't have to open the file in photoshop to adjust unbalanced skin tones.

[Rikk Flohr: Photography]

@cmajors  The Variance Slider is only in Camera Raw at this time. It has never been in Lightroom Classic. 

[Elkanan]

I am not sure how Lightroom determines what is a distrction and what is not. I ran into a similiar issue with Camera Raw when I assume the feature was in Beta. Only 2 of the many people were selected. I'd love to have an "All People" option. This few a selection is really not as helpful as the "hype" suggest.

[risottto]

I Love that LR finally supports Fujifilm tethering with my GFX 100s, it starts quickly, and live view and autofocus works beautifully, (Capture One disables AF in live view, absolutely infuriating!) It's great to have another option besides Fuji's Tether plugin. I have just one major bug that I found while using it:

There is an exact, persistent 5 second delay between pressing the shutter button in LR and the camera autofocusing (5 scrcond pause) then taking the shot, is there any way to get rid of this delay? It transmits the entire 100MP raw file into LR in less than a second when using the shutter on the camera or the Fuji App! Please can Adobe remove this unneeded 5 second delay?

Also it would be nice to be able to use the filenames from the camera directly instead of being forced into renaming to (DSCF0001) or a custom sequence, will be a major issue if I have to grab images from the memory card and ALL of the filenames are different!

Hoping these bug can be fixed in the next update! For now using auto-import and the Fuji App, adds a 5-8 second delay after the image is taken, oh well can't go back to the old plugin method without duplicating every image upon import!

[Jeremyau]

I have a fundamental problem with the new 14.4 method of doing Denoise and Super Resolution. At first it seemed a good idea, almost too good to be true. So I went mad doing stuff to lots of older images because I didn't have to worry about creating all those extra files. However, there was a little niggle in my old IT guy brain. If there are no external files then they must be putting the equivalent of a DNG inside the Catalog database. Sure enough the catalog backups started taking longer, and the backup size went from 1.28GB on the 18th to 6.35GB on the 24th. Its eating my main photography disk. Now having tried it both ways, when not revising old images but going forward, I'd really prefer to have the new fixed image in a DNG file!

[ZimFromIRK]

I'd like to know about this too.  It looks like the People and Reflections removal, when applied to my Nikon Z8 RAW files, does store data in a crs:Table_* element in the separate XMP file, but is there any impact on the catalog?  It would be nice to have an answer.

[avalent]

Makes sense they're embedding the dng files somehow, there's no way LR could handle tons of denoised images in a non-destructive way, it would require a ridiculously beefy hardware to render in realtime.

It's a solution to a problem that didn't exist. While it's nice to have live control over the level of denoise, dng files aren't the end of the world, yes, they're demosaiced but that's it. I delete the original raws after denoising and never looked back. Also, it's a time-saver to be able to use LR while the old denoise method was underway. The new one hijacks not the entire Lightroom window, not allowing anything, even minimizing.

It shows that this will take at least one more update to iron out the kinks.

[ZimFromIRK]

I updated to LIghtroom Classic 14.4 and love the new AI people and reflection removal features. However, other problems seem to be back.  

1. I have some User Presets to apply Auto plus various transforms like Balanced, level, etc. While the preset "previews" like it used to, I sometimes have to click on the preset several times to have it take effect. The Preset I chose doesn't appear under the little navigator window until I click on it a few times.
2. When I do chose the preset, and the title appears under the navigator window, the second monitor preview is updated, but the main preview in the Develop module does not update. I have to navigate forward to the next image, and then back and then it will update.
3. It seems like navigation between photos in develop mode is a lot slower. Sometimes if I go forward, and then back, it'll take two seconds for the image to switch in my Develop module.  I do have the preview on my second monitor (it's the only way while cropping that I can see the result live) and that switches right away, but the image in the develop module is what takes a bit to appear.

I have a Dell Alienware Aurora R15 with a GEForce RTS 4090 video card and Intel 13900K processor. The lightroom photos and catalogs are on a 4GB Samsung NVME SSD, so I doubt performance is the problem.

Any idea what changed? I did finally turn off "generate previews in parallel" and that might have helped just a hair.

[avalent]

I can confirm performance worsening and not by a little, but by a lot. A shame because the recent updates actually slightly improved performance and now all that has been undone and it feels like we're a few years into the past. I also have a good enough setup - or at least it was good enough up until this update.

We'll have to wait for the next update or roll back for the moment.

[Devis Ferri Fotografo]

Io ho riscontrato grossi problemi con il pannello presentazione. Infatti i tecnici dAdobe mi hanno fatto tornare alla  versione 14.2. Qualcuno può dirmi come elaborare le immagini nella sezione riduzione rumore su un file più compresso per ridurre i tempi di lavorazione?

[avalent]

This update deteriorated all the performance increases of the previous updates, terribly so. Going through denoised images takes up to 20 seconds with the view refusing to display any image other than the currently opened one.

Workflow in general has slowed down with huge CPU spikes when adjusting virtually anything before Lightrom 'settles in' on the adjustments. Opening Crop and Mask modules has the same lag, also causing a short flicker and shifting of the entire UI as the software redistributes the hardware resources, or whatever the hell it's doing - it's obvious that it's unoptimized and mismanages resources.

I have multiple nVME drives, 64GB RAM, a 12-threaded CPU and an RTX 3060Ti, up until this update everything was much faster and now I' feel like I'm driving an i3 with a full HDD and 8 gigs of RAM back in 2020.

You actually had an upward curve of optimizing performance and I enjoyed the recent updates (although tbh every single update states 'increased performance' and that's not really true, Lightroom has historically been sluggish and remains such).

Please stop forcing users to play russian roulette with updates and having to roll back every few months. It's a slow and annoying process and some of us have time-critical photojournalism work which doesn't mesh well with randomly deteriorating performance, waiting for an image to display for almost half a minute, and not being able to edit photos as the "non-destructive" denoising is underway - it's quite destructive to the workflow.

We can afford storage for the dng files, we can't afford lost time.