The Latest Update: Auto Stack Feature and Adobe Cloud Applications

In this latest update, we're excited to introduce some exciting new features that will enhance your photography experience. One of the standout features is the Auto Stack feature, which allows you to automatically align and blend images together, creating stunning panoramas with ease. This feature is particularly useful when working with multiple images of a scene, such as landscapes or cityscapes. By applying the Auto stack feature, you can ensure that your images are properly aligned and blended, resulting in a seamless and high-quality panorama.

In addition to the Auto Stack feature, we're also introducing some updates to Adobe's cloud-based applications. As many users know, Adobe offers two versions of Lightroom: Creative Cloud and Lightroom Classic. While both apps share many similarities, they do have some key differences. For example, Lightroom CC is a more streamlined version that focuses on web-based editing, while Lightroom Classic is a desktop application that offers more advanced features and tools. In the past, this has caused confusion among users who were unsure which app to use.

However, it appears that Adobe is finally moving towards a unified cloud-based approach for both applications. With this latest update, we're seeing some significant changes in how the two apps interact with each other. For example, users will now be able to sync their images across devices and platforms, allowing for seamless collaboration and editing on any device. This includes mobile devices, desktop computers, and even web-based browsers. The implications of this are huge, as it means that photographers will no longer have to worry about having multiple apps to manage different aspects of their workflow.

One of the most interesting aspects of Adobe's cloud-based strategy is its potential for browser-based editing. With the rise of mobile devices and web browsing, it's becoming increasingly common for people to access their images and edit them on the go. Adobe is taking advantage of this trend by introducing a new browser-based version of Lightroom that allows users to edit images directly in their browser. This feature is particularly useful when working with clients or family members who need to review and comment on images, as it enables real-time collaboration and feedback.

The browser-based version of Lightroom is still in its early stages, but it's clear that Adobe is committed to making this technology work seamlessly across all devices and platforms. By leveraging technologies such as HTML5 and CSS3, Adobe is able to deliver a robust and feature-rich editing experience that rivals traditional desktop applications. This is particularly exciting for photographers who want to access their images and edit them on any device, whether it's a mobile phone or a desktop computer.

Looking ahead, it's clear that Adobe's cloud-based strategy is going to play an increasingly important role in the company's future plans. As we mentioned earlier, Adobe has some big updates planned for this week, including a focus on big dark room printing techniques and more. We'll be taking our audience on a little trip tomorrow to explore some of these new features and technologies, so stay tuned!

Adobe Cloud Roadmap: A Unified Approach

As we discussed earlier, Adobe's cloud-based strategy is becoming increasingly important as the company moves forward. With Lightroom CC and Classic, we've seen two different approaches emerge, each with its own strengths and weaknesses. However, it appears that Adobe is finally moving towards a unified approach, one that will simplify the user experience and provide a more cohesive workflow.

One of the key aspects of this unified approach is the ability to sync images across devices and platforms. This means that photographers can access their images on any device, whether it's a desktop computer, mobile phone, or web browser. The implications of this are huge, as it enables seamless collaboration and editing on any device, without having to worry about juggling multiple apps.

Another aspect of Adobe's unified approach is the integration of Lightroom with other cloud-based services. For example, users will now be able to share images directly from their mobile devices or web browsers, without having to switch to a desktop application. This feature is particularly useful when working with clients or family members who need to review and comment on images.

The browser-based version of Lightroom is still in its early stages, but it's clear that Adobe is committed to making this technology work seamlessly across all devices and platforms. By leveraging technologies such as HTML5 and CSS3, Adobe is able to deliver a robust and feature-rich editing experience that rivals traditional desktop applications.

As we move forward, it's clear that Adobe's unified approach will play an increasingly important role in the company's future plans. With the rise of cloud-based services and mobile devices, photographers are looking for ways to simplify their workflow and access their images from anywhere. Adobe is taking steps to address this need, by providing a seamless and integrated experience across all devices and platforms.

The Future of Photography: A Cloud-Based Approach

As we look to the future of photography, it's clear that cloud-based services are going to play an increasingly important role. With the rise of mobile devices and web browsing, photographers are looking for ways to access their images from anywhere, without having to worry about juggling multiple apps.

Adobe is taking steps to address this need, by providing a unified cloud-based approach that simplifies the user experience and provides a more cohesive workflow. By integrating Lightroom with other cloud-based services, Adobe is enabling seamless collaboration and editing on any device, without having to switch to a desktop application.

One of the most exciting aspects of this approach is the potential for browser-based editing. With the rise of mobile devices and web browsing, it's becoming increasingly common for people to access their images and edit them on the go. Adobe is taking advantage of this trend by introducing a new browser-based version of Lightroom that allows users to edit images directly in their browser.

The implications of this are huge, as it enables real-time collaboration and feedback between photographers and clients or family members. This feature is particularly useful when working with large teams or projects, where seamless communication and collaboration are essential.

As we move forward, it's clear that Adobe's cloud-based approach will play an increasingly important role in the company's future plans. With the rise of mobile devices and web browsing, photographers are looking for ways to simplify their workflow and access their images from anywhere. Adobe is taking steps to address this need, by providing a seamless and integrated experience across all devices and platforms.

Stay tuned for more updates on Adobe's cloud-based strategy, as we explore some of the new features and technologies that are going to shape the future of photography.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat is up everybody welcome back I've got some exciting news to share with you guys today in the world of Adobe Lightroom there are updates that are going to be issuing today across the entire suite of Lightroom applications including Lightroom classic Lightroom cc the website Lightroom Adobe comm and Lightroom Mobile which includes all platforms Android iOS Chrome OS tile eveything out anyway there's some cool stuff let's get started first up we now have preset and profile syncing and this is pretty cool because not only does include presets and profiles that ship with Lightroom obviously but it also includes presets that you make yourself or that you buy from third parties and it allows you to access them not only on the desktop but also on mobile applications and this is very useful now in order to get this going if you have presets that you've built or third-party presets if you're like me and you use Lightroom classic a lot you've got to import them into Lightroom cc first and then they will start syncing so to do this you're gonna go into Lightroom cc and under the file menu you're going to import your presets locate them in the finder and then they will start syncing across devices this is pretty awesome because now you can access them on mobile and so if you go over to the mobile version of Lightroom basically in the Edit panel if you go all the way to the bottom you will now see your presets and there they are voila and of course this goes both ways you can now create presets in the mobile version of Lightroom and they will sync up to the desktop and I think this is a really powerful feature that Adobe has given us one thing I tend to do a lot is small things that become very repetitive like emulating a film curve or something like that I don't want to recreate every time so I have a lot of presets that are kind of utility presets that just do some color toning or some curves adjustments and then I can take it further from there but they go ahead and get it set up for me this is a great way to work and now that you can sync these with mobile it's a great way to do it on the go also new if you go over to Lightroom Adobe comm this is the browser version of Lightroom that you use for sharing images they have now added enhanced sharing options for albums that you've created and what you want to do is you want to click on the shared icon and then you can control download permissions show metadata and location data on a map this is very useful if you're using this to work with clients now let's talk about Lightroom mobile now I did mention that we have the ability to create presets in Lightroom Obul that will sync to the desktop and there's some other new features that are pretty cool too first up we now have a Healing Brush so now you can perform healing adjustments within the mobile application we also have the ability to remove dramatic aberrations now at the moment this is only available in the iOS version I imagine it will be coming to Android soon and speaking of things that are coming soon let's talk about technology previews now if you're not familiar with what technology previews are if you go into the Preferences and the mobile application you can turn these on and these are basically kind of these beta previews of things that will be coming that are being enhanced and worked on you can turn them on and off if they're not working for you but we've got two really cool ones in Lightroom mobile the first one is guided tutorials so if you're not familiar with Lightroom this is a great way to get a guided tutorial around the software interface and how you can best use this and we also now have a long exposure emulation too which is kind of cool and there have been other apps that have done this before but this is for capturing images on a mobile device like your phone and long exposures something that just the nature of the design is hard to do so you have to emulate it with a series of exposures what's cool about this is it allows you to do a long exposure emulation without a tripod which is actually kind of interesting and I'll be working through some of these in the next few weeks and we'll test them out and see if they're the real deal or not but this one does look promising if you're on the Android version of the device you can take advantage of the new HDR support that's in there as well so if you're capturing images from a cell phone in a really high contrast area you can play with the high dynamic range and get shadows and highlights to even out and things like that so that looks very promising as well adobe has also given us the ability to batch copy and paste settings in lightroom sea scene and this is something that we've had for a while now in Lightroom classic and they finally moved this over to the cc version as well so if this is the version you're using this allows you to make edits to one image and then if you just let's say you have a group of similar images you can just copy and paste those settings across an entire group of images so to do this what you want to do after you've edited an image is you want to select the image in one of the view modes you're going to go up under the photo menu at the top of the screen and this gives you two options you can copy all the settings or you can select individual settings that you want to copy and paste then what you're going to do is hold down the shift key and select all the images that you want these settings applied to go back up under the photo menu and then you can paste them across everything syncs up it finally works and it is awesome and finally let's talk about new features in Lightroom classic now this is the version of Lightroom that I use the most it's the one the most familiar with and I also still feel like it's the most powerful of all of the options that you've got and so there have been some new additions to this as well to improve productivity if you're like me over the years you've accumulated a lot of Lightroom presets and they built up and I've organized those into folders and whatnot but I don't use all of them all the time and when you open that folder and it's just a mess now you have the ability to hide and show Lightroom presets so you can turn on stuff off that you're not using and basically you're just gonna click on the little drop down menu and a management window comes up you're able to select what you want to be visible or invisible and then you can close that window now they're still there you're just not gonna see them so they're not in your way if you need access to them you can go turn them back on so it's a very helpful feature in terms of productivity also edit is enhanced search features everything is now faster even I've found when I'm searching across my entire collection everything just pops right up there's actually a really nice performance upgrade there and we now also have the ability to apply color labels to folders much like you can in the finder this is very useful if you want to mark a folder of images that you want to come back to later to finish up or something that needs review anyway this is all designed to make you more productive and then finally is probably my favorite feature that they've added into Lightroom classic and this is small but it's a big time-saver if you work with HDR stacks or panorama stacks I do a lot of panoramas especially when I do drone shots and now we have the ability for Auto stacking this is very cool because now we can import images and based on capture time we can apply Auto stack or when you're applying the HDR or panoramic stitch there is a little tick box that says Auto stack images and when it's done it's going to Auto stack these so you don't just have random images floating around and you don't really remember they're part of a panorama this will make it really clear so these updates who will be able to download and install starting today and I'm pretty excited and I want to talk about Adobe for a second because obviously the highlight of this round of updates has to do with cloud application and I think that is one of the strong suits that adobe has with Lightroom in this direction they're going and I think with this release we're starting to see a little bit of a roadmap and I want to explain that if you remember back to last year when things got a little bit confusing for Lightroom users when all of a sudden we have now the Creative Cloud version then there's Lightroom classic and what is the difference between the two and maybe I should be using CC so you open up CC and it is missing tools that you're used to using and so okay I'm gonna work in classic and it became very confusing and I think a lot of people got a little upset with Adobe for that but I think we're starting to see where Adobe is going with this and I think it's actually kind of interesting and one of the things that you have to understand when it comes to software development is a software company like the ideas are the easiest part and we're gonna have a cloud and you'll be able to sync your images and you'll be able to pull them up on your phone or over here on the desktop or you know we're leveraging all these technologies well not only do you have the software to deal with but you also have hardware to deal with you probably have interim software when all these things are talking to each other to get it to work correctly and if you just fire it all off and then throw out something that doesn't work you're in for big trouble and so Adobe traditionally I think has been somewhat cautious is what they will release and when they will do it and if you think back to when you remember what Lightroom was just one application and it worked on the desktop and the first time they introduced Lightroom mobile and I remember installing it on my phone and it was just kind of like okay I can edit images on my phone but it wasn't any better than some of the other applications that were out there but what happened is over the next couple months next couple years is that Lightroom Mobile got better and now it's a pretty interesting app to use particularly when you can sync it to the desktop so I think a lot of these cloud-based things that we're seeing with Adobe are starting to indicate a roadmap of where they're going I think it's gonna be really interesting to leverage technologies such as browser abilities to edit if you go to Lightroom Adobe comm that's probably the least used from people that I talk to it's a really good place if you're sharing images with the client or with your family or something and you want to give people the ability to download or preview or comment or what have you it works great for that but most people don't know that you can actually open the editor in there and you can do edit adjustments to an image so it's really nice if you're delivering something on the fly or I could see a lot of usefulness there and I think it's interesting because browser technologies are becoming good enough to where you can actually do some of these things in a browser but they are taking advantage of all the points that you might be interacting with your image catalog so this includes mobile includes desktop it includes the browser if you're out of town and you don't have access to your images at home and you have them all synched up in the cloud you can just use the browser version if you want to do something really quickly to send somebody so I think this is really interesting and I think it's really interesting to see where Adobe are going with this because I think the whole cloud element to this is starting to mature in a really interesting way I would love to know what you guys think please leave me a comment below I'm gonna warn you now we've got some pretty cool stuff coming up this week I've got about three or four things that I have planned that we're going to be doing with and I'm going to be doing some traveling for this I'm leaving tomorrow I've got a pack today so tune in tomorrow because we're gonna have some really awesome videos especially if you're into big dark room printing techniques and things I don't want to spoil at all just show back up tomorrow and I'll take you on a little trip so until the next video see you guys then later youwhat is up everybody welcome back I've got some exciting news to share with you guys today in the world of Adobe Lightroom there are updates that are going to be issuing today across the entire suite of Lightroom applications including Lightroom classic Lightroom cc the website Lightroom Adobe comm and Lightroom Mobile which includes all platforms Android iOS Chrome OS tile eveything out anyway there's some cool stuff let's get started first up we now have preset and profile syncing and this is pretty cool because not only does include presets and profiles that ship with Lightroom obviously but it also includes presets that you make yourself or that you buy from third parties and it allows you to access them not only on the desktop but also on mobile applications and this is very useful now in order to get this going if you have presets that you've built or third-party presets if you're like me and you use Lightroom classic a lot you've got to import them into Lightroom cc first and then they will start syncing so to do this you're gonna go into Lightroom cc and under the file menu you're going to import your presets locate them in the finder and then they will start syncing across devices this is pretty awesome because now you can access them on mobile and so if you go over to the mobile version of Lightroom basically in the Edit panel if you go all the way to the bottom you will now see your presets and there they are voila and of course this goes both ways you can now create presets in the mobile version of Lightroom and they will sync up to the desktop and I think this is a really powerful feature that Adobe has given us one thing I tend to do a lot is small things that become very repetitive like emulating a film curve or something like that I don't want to recreate every time so I have a lot of presets that are kind of utility presets that just do some color toning or some curves adjustments and then I can take it further from there but they go ahead and get it set up for me this is a great way to work and now that you can sync these with mobile it's a great way to do it on the go also new if you go over to Lightroom Adobe comm this is the browser version of Lightroom that you use for sharing images they have now added enhanced sharing options for albums that you've created and what you want to do is you want to click on the shared icon and then you can control download permissions show metadata and location data on a map this is very useful if you're using this to work with clients now let's talk about Lightroom mobile now I did mention that we have the ability to create presets in Lightroom Obul that will sync to the desktop and there's some other new features that are pretty cool too first up we now have a Healing Brush so now you can perform healing adjustments within the mobile application we also have the ability to remove dramatic aberrations now at the moment this is only available in the iOS version I imagine it will be coming to Android soon and speaking of things that are coming soon let's talk about technology previews now if you're not familiar with what technology previews are if you go into the Preferences and the mobile application you can turn these on and these are basically kind of these beta previews of things that will be coming that are being enhanced and worked on you can turn them on and off if they're not working for you but we've got two really cool ones in Lightroom mobile the first one is guided tutorials so if you're not familiar with Lightroom this is a great way to get a guided tutorial around the software interface and how you can best use this and we also now have a long exposure emulation too which is kind of cool and there have been other apps that have done this before but this is for capturing images on a mobile device like your phone and long exposures something that just the nature of the design is hard to do so you have to emulate it with a series of exposures what's cool about this is it allows you to do a long exposure emulation without a tripod which is actually kind of interesting and I'll be working through some of these in the next few weeks and we'll test them out and see if they're the real deal or not but this one does look promising if you're on the Android version of the device you can take advantage of the new HDR support that's in there as well so if you're capturing images from a cell phone in a really high contrast area you can play with the high dynamic range and get shadows and highlights to even out and things like that so that looks very promising as well adobe has also given us the ability to batch copy and paste settings in lightroom sea scene and this is something that we've had for a while now in Lightroom classic and they finally moved this over to the cc version as well so if this is the version you're using this allows you to make edits to one image and then if you just let's say you have a group of similar images you can just copy and paste those settings across an entire group of images so to do this what you want to do after you've edited an image is you want to select the image in one of the view modes you're going to go up under the photo menu at the top of the screen and this gives you two options you can copy all the settings or you can select individual settings that you want to copy and paste then what you're going to do is hold down the shift key and select all the images that you want these settings applied to go back up under the photo menu and then you can paste them across everything syncs up it finally works and it is awesome and finally let's talk about new features in Lightroom classic now this is the version of Lightroom that I use the most it's the one the most familiar with and I also still feel like it's the most powerful of all of the options that you've got and so there have been some new additions to this as well to improve productivity if you're like me over the years you've accumulated a lot of Lightroom presets and they built up and I've organized those into folders and whatnot but I don't use all of them all the time and when you open that folder and it's just a mess now you have the ability to hide and show Lightroom presets so you can turn on stuff off that you're not using and basically you're just gonna click on the little drop down menu and a management window comes up you're able to select what you want to be visible or invisible and then you can close that window now they're still there you're just not gonna see them so they're not in your way if you need access to them you can go turn them back on so it's a very helpful feature in terms of productivity also edit is enhanced search features everything is now faster even I've found when I'm searching across my entire collection everything just pops right up there's actually a really nice performance upgrade there and we now also have the ability to apply color labels to folders much like you can in the finder this is very useful if you want to mark a folder of images that you want to come back to later to finish up or something that needs review anyway this is all designed to make you more productive and then finally is probably my favorite feature that they've added into Lightroom classic and this is small but it's a big time-saver if you work with HDR stacks or panorama stacks I do a lot of panoramas especially when I do drone shots and now we have the ability for Auto stacking this is very cool because now we can import images and based on capture time we can apply Auto stack or when you're applying the HDR or panoramic stitch there is a little tick box that says Auto stack images and when it's done it's going to Auto stack these so you don't just have random images floating around and you don't really remember they're part of a panorama this will make it really clear so these updates who will be able to download and install starting today and I'm pretty excited and I want to talk about Adobe for a second because obviously the highlight of this round of updates has to do with cloud application and I think that is one of the strong suits that adobe has with Lightroom in this direction they're going and I think with this release we're starting to see a little bit of a roadmap and I want to explain that if you remember back to last year when things got a little bit confusing for Lightroom users when all of a sudden we have now the Creative Cloud version then there's Lightroom classic and what is the difference between the two and maybe I should be using CC so you open up CC and it is missing tools that you're used to using and so okay I'm gonna work in classic and it became very confusing and I think a lot of people got a little upset with Adobe for that but I think we're starting to see where Adobe is going with this and I think it's actually kind of interesting and one of the things that you have to understand when it comes to software development is a software company like the ideas are the easiest part and we're gonna have a cloud and you'll be able to sync your images and you'll be able to pull them up on your phone or over here on the desktop or you know we're leveraging all these technologies well not only do you have the software to deal with but you also have hardware to deal with you probably have interim software when all these things are talking to each other to get it to work correctly and if you just fire it all off and then throw out something that doesn't work you're in for big trouble and so Adobe traditionally I think has been somewhat cautious is what they will release and when they will do it and if you think back to when you remember what Lightroom was just one application and it worked on the desktop and the first time they introduced Lightroom mobile and I remember installing it on my phone and it was just kind of like okay I can edit images on my phone but it wasn't any better than some of the other applications that were out there but what happened is over the next couple months next couple years is that Lightroom Mobile got better and now it's a pretty interesting app to use particularly when you can sync it to the desktop so I think a lot of these cloud-based things that we're seeing with Adobe are starting to indicate a roadmap of where they're going I think it's gonna be really interesting to leverage technologies such as browser abilities to edit if you go to Lightroom Adobe comm that's probably the least used from people that I talk to it's a really good place if you're sharing images with the client or with your family or something and you want to give people the ability to download or preview or comment or what have you it works great for that but most people don't know that you can actually open the editor in there and you can do edit adjustments to an image so it's really nice if you're delivering something on the fly or I could see a lot of usefulness there and I think it's interesting because browser technologies are becoming good enough to where you can actually do some of these things in a browser but they are taking advantage of all the points that you might be interacting with your image catalog so this includes mobile includes desktop it includes the browser if you're out of town and you don't have access to your images at home and you have them all synched up in the cloud you can just use the browser version if you want to do something really quickly to send somebody so I think this is really interesting and I think it's really interesting to see where Adobe are going with this because I think the whole cloud element to this is starting to mature in a really interesting way I would love to know what you guys think please leave me a comment below I'm gonna warn you now we've got some pretty cool stuff coming up this week I've got about three or four things that I have planned that we're going to be doing with and I'm going to be doing some traveling for this I'm leaving tomorrow I've got a pack today so tune in tomorrow because we're gonna have some really awesome videos especially if you're into big dark room printing techniques and things I don't want to spoil at all just show back up tomorrow and I'll take you on a little trip so until the next video see you guys then later you\n"