📸 What's new in Lightroom for MAX 2025

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Lightroom Ecosystem: Assisted Culling, Dust removal, and more from MAX!

Calling all Lightroom 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 it in the Desktop App Download the latest version and dive into the new features offered in Adobe Lightroom.

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The Lightroom Ecosystem just got a major upgrade. Read more about how to keep Lightroom updated here. 

Here's what's new in Lightroom 9.0

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 Assisted Culling? Check out this article. Let us know your thoughts on Assisted Culling here: (Early Access) Assisted Culling (Lightroom Ecosystem - Desktop)

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 learn more about this Color Variance? Check out this article.

What's new on Lightroom iOS and Android 11.0

Blemish Removal (EA) The Quick Actions tool in Lightroom on mobile streamlines the editing process by offering quick, AI-powered suggestions for specific parts of a photo. Open an image, select Actions, and let Lightroom analyse it to provide tailored enhancements for your photo on the go. You can access Blemish Removal (Early Access) in Lightroom for mobile iOS, Android, and web!

Camera and Lens Support + Enhancements:

Lightroom 9.0 & Lightroom Mobile 11.0 also include newly supported cameras and lenses, plus some exciting improvements:

• Early Access features such as Blemish Removal & Edit Suggestions on mobile and desktop. 

• New features on Desktop, such as GenRemove Shadow detection, Color Labels, and Batch Files Rename. 

• Color variance for on Desktop and Web. 
• New Landscape Adaptive Presets across the Ecosystem.
• Read more about this release in our release notes. 

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

Are you ready to get started? Update Lightroom to the latest version and explore the new tools for faster, smarter editing. Let us know what you think below, or share your before/after results in the comments. On Desktop: Open your Creative Cloud desktop app and click "Update" next to Lightroom Desktop. On Mobile: Head to the App Store or Google Play, and download the latest version of Lightroom Mobile. More detailed instructions for updating.

We’d love to hear from you!

Lightroom Ecosystem just leveled up! Update now to explore powerful new tools. Show off your before/afters or drop your thoughts in the comments!

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[richardc27]

The auto-stack has been implemented  in possibly the most useless way possible. I just tried to use this on an 1600 image album, to group by visual similarities, and the process was going to take well over an hour, on a reasonably fast internet connection. I am a Fuji shooter, I want to stack Raw and Jpeg by filename, so IMG_1234.RAF and IMG_1234.jpg are stacked, so I can cull them. This is basic functionality, that is STILL missing from LR Cloud

[S.Seng]

There is almost nothing in the Max for iPad users. There were virtually none last year as well. Why? If you don't want to support iPad users just withdraw your product from that platform. Don't waste others time.

[S.Seng]

There is no Adoptive Landscape preset in iPad version 11, contrary to claim by Adobe. Why don't you say there are no features for iPad in version 11.  So tell us what's is new?

[richardc27]

I just switched from an iPad to a MacBook Air, I couldn't take how limited the iPad app is anymore. I would far prefter to edit on an iPad, but since that is the least capable version of LR, on any platform, it stopped being viable for me. Even the web browser version has way more capabilities. If anyone at Adobe reads these comments, the iPad app is a complete joke that needs a total overhaul.

[nearlyferal]

Anyone else update and then have any photos older than say about 6mo show up pixelated? Just me? Thanks for nothing Adobe, now I have to delete and reload AND RE-EDIT photos for a deadline tomorrow. %@$#@#$#^%&!!!!!

[Derek22471893zdid]

Ai removal is now terrible, photographs are showing pixelated. Also, just exported a Wedding for an important client, and photographs are out of order, width photographs have exported lenghways on their sides. It's an absolute mess. I'm having to revert back to older version and re-edit the whole wedding.

[claire_1394]

Yes, the remove tool is horrible! It's manipulating the image outside of what i'm selecting. Something so simple like removing a blemish from a nose is now completely changing the shape of the nose