Big Lightroom Updates Today (and Yes, You Can Tether to Your iPad!)

Adobe MAX kicked off today, and if you’ve been waiting to plug your camera into your iPad and have the photos show up in Lightroom as you shoot, today’s your day. My buddy Terry White has three videos for you, covering all of the highlights, so let’s start with Lightroom Classic.

Lightroom Classic 16.0. You can now use a depth mask on a photo even if it didn’t have depth information to begin with. So if you want to darken the background without touching the foreground, you’ve got a new way to do it. There’s also color grading inside masks, AI-powered blemish removal, and some new Glow effects. Terry gives you a look at iPad tethering in this one, too.

Lightroom Desktop 10.0 and Lightroom on iPad. Desktop gets tethering to the cloud or a local folder, plus a workspace you can set up with some of the keyboard shortcuts you already know from Classic. There’s also a Favorites panel where you can keep the sliders you reach for all the time. Terry walks you through those and shows you how tethering works on the iPad.

And a little Photoshop bonus. Terry shares his five favorite things in Photoshop 2027. The one that caught my eye is the Remove Tool update. Take out a lamp and Photoshop can take out its shadow and reflection, too. That’s three things I’d usually have to clean up.

Thanks, Terry!