Lightroom 2026’s New Features Showcased By 3 Digital Gurus

Tour Lightroom’s 2026’s new features with three digital gurus.

First, Colin Smith shows you how to use new features in Lightroom.

00:00 Intro
00:26 Assisted Culling
07:21 Shadow and reflection in Remove Object
08:18 Dust Removal
09:27 Updated Reflection Removal
10:28 Point Color Variance With landscape photos
11:49 Color Variance with Portrait photos
12:49 Snow in Landscape Masks
13:13 New Color Spaces
13:46 Video and Slideshows in 4K
14:06 Outro

Second, Julianne Kost shows 15 new features.

Third, Matt Koslowski shows his favorite new features.

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Remove Distracting People and Reflections With Lightroom Classic

“In this video, Julieanne demonstrates how easy it is to remove unwanted reflections and distracting people in photos using the new Distraction Removal tools in Lightroom Classic.”

For more check out Julieanne’s blog.

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Colin Smith Details How To Use Lightroom & Photoshop’s New Landscape Masks

Colin Smith (PhotoshopCafe) details “How to use Landscape masks in Photoshop ACR and Lightroom. Make awesome edits on landscape photos easily and quickly to make them pop in Lightroom and ACR.”

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Hot Features In The New Lightoom 2025 Update

“The June 2025 update of Lightroom, brings mostly features we have seen before in ACR and beta releases, but brings them to Lightroom and implements them nicely into a finished release. There are a couple of things that we haven’t seen.”

Auto Remove People, Reflection Removal, AI Denoise, and Super Resolution are the big hits.

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New Adobe Lightroom & Camera Raw AI Auto Landscape Masks

Julieanne Kost demonstrates how to use Lightroom Classic’s new Select Landscape masking tools to automatically select different regions in photographs, including sky, mountains, water, architecture, vegetation, natural ground, and artificial ground.

Learn more from Julianne Kost here.

Colin Smith shows you how to use the new masks in Lightroom / Camera Raw with tips and tricks to help you get better results faster.

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Removing Lens Distortions and Correcting Perspective in Lightroom Classic

“In this video, you’ll learn how to remove distortions caused by the camera lens using the Lens Correction panel as well as correct perspective distortions using the auto and guided upright options in the Transform Panel.”

Watch more from Julianne Kost here.

Learn more in my digital photography and digital printing workshops.