Book Module

Lightroom Classic 7.5 Just Fixed Three Things That Were Driving Me Crazy
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Lightroom Classic 7.5 Just Fixed Three Things That Were Driving Me Crazy

Every time Adobe drops a Lightroom update, I do the same thing. I open the release notes, skim past the “performance improvements,” and hunt for anything that actually changes how I work. Most updates are quiet. Version 7.5, which Adobe pushed out in the third week of August 2018, is not one of those quiet updates. It’s got three specific changes that solve problems I’ve been working around for months.

Stop Using Default Book Layouts: How to Build Custom Page Cells in Lightroom
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Stop Using Default Book Layouts: How to Build Custom Page Cells in Lightroom

Every time I finished a project and moved into the Book module, I’d spend ten minutes scrolling through the built-in layout templates, picking the least-wrong one, and moving on. Not the best one. The least wrong one. There’s a difference, and if you’ve used Lightroom’s Book module for anything more than a quick blurb project, you know exactly what I mean. The templates are fine for generic use, but the moment you have a specific vision for how three tall portraits should sit side by side, or how an image should bleed into a particular corner, the template library starts feeling like trying to find a song you like on a radio station that’s almost right.

Lightroom's Book Module Just Got a Lot Less Annoying — Here's What's New
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Lightroom's Book Module Just Got a Lot Less Annoying — Here's What's New

Photo books have always been one of those Lightroom features I wanted to love but kept abandoning halfway through. The cell-based layout system felt like it was designed by someone who had never actually tried to build a visually interesting spread under deadline pressure. I’d drag a cell, watch it snap somewhere useless, try to nudge it, and eventually just export everything to InDesign and move on with my life.