Lightroom Mobile Is a Full Editing Studio in Your Pocket — Here's How to Actually Use It

Lightroom Mobile Is a Full Editing Studio in Your Pocket — Here's How to Actually Use It

My phone used to be where photos went to die. I’d shoot something decent on my mirrorless, import it to my computer, and if I hadn’t edited it within 48 hours, it entered a kind of limbo. Meanwhile, whatever I shot on my phone sat in a camera roll that I’d scroll past guiltily for months. The gap between “captured” and “edited” was just too wide. Lightroom Mobile closes that gap almost entirely, and I didn’t fully appreciate how capable it was until I went through this overview tutorial from Aaron Nace over at PHLEARN.

Lightroom Classic CC Just Got Faster — Here's Everything That Actually Changed

Lightroom Classic CC Just Got Faster — Here's Everything That Actually Changed

There’s a specific kind of frustration that hits when you’re sitting at your desk on a Sunday afternoon, memory card full of weekend shoot files, watching Lightroom crawl through preview generation like it’s running on a potato. I’ve been there more times than I’d like to admit. My whole editing setup is dialed in, my vinyl is spinning, my presets are loaded, and Lightroom is the bottleneck. So when Adobe dropped Lightroom Classic CC as an update to Lightroom 6 and the previous Lightroom CC, I wanted to know immediately: does it actually fix that, or is this another changelog full of promises?

Lightroom Classic 10.3: The June 2021 Update Features You Actually Need to Know

Lightroom Classic 10.3: The June 2021 Update Features You Actually Need to Know

Every few months Adobe drops a Lightroom Classic update and I do the same thing: skim the release notes, feel mildly confused, and then go looking for someone who actually tested the new features in a real workflow. For the June 2021 update, version 10.3, that someone was Matt Kloskowski. His breakdown cuts straight to what changed and why it matters, which is exactly the kind of tutorial I can actually use between sessions.