Lightroom Classic 10 Released: New Colour Grading Tool & Other Features
Adobe today announced the latest versions of its Lightroom family of applications. There are a couple of key new features, the biggest one of which is the new colour grading tool. In the post below, I’m just discussing Lightroom Classic, but many of these features are across the whole eco system.
Colour Grading
The biggest new feature is the colour grading controls. These replace the old split toning panel, although you can still achieve the same effect. In the video above I give you a demonstration of this in action. Some of the key points:
- The Color Grading controls allow you to tint to shadows, midtones, and, highlights separately, as well as applying a global Hue adjustment to the image.
- This control replaces the old Split Toning panel, but one can still mimic the old Split Toning behavior with the new controls by moving the Blending slider to 100.
- Using older Split Tone presets or opening older images with Split Tone settings will automatically set the Blending slider to 100 and zero out all midtone settings and all luminance settings.
Zoom Controls
The have also changed the way the zoom controls work. You can still click to zoom to 100% (this s now officially called 100% and no longer referred to as 1:1) but you now have scrubby zoom and box zoom. I’ve demonstrated both of those features in the video above. Some other key notes on this:
- Scrubby Zoom: Drag the mouse over the image holding the shift key zooms in and out over the area of focus
- Box Zoom: Hold down ctrl/command to draw a box around the area you want to zoom to.
- Four Zoom levels in navigator preview have been replaced by three Zoom option:
- Fit/Fill1
- 100%
- Right option shows percentages, ranging between 6% and 1600% except 100%.
Other Features:
- If you have a canon Camera you can now get a live view while tethering
- UI font changed to “Adobe Clean”
- Enhancements to Custom Sort Order
- Folder Collection and Scrolling Optimisation
- Catalogue Upgrade
- New System Requirements
- GPU enhancements for Brushes and Gradients
For more details see the release notes from Adobe here.
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