A Roundup Of All The Great New Features In Lightroom & Photoshop 2026

New features in Lightroom & Photoshop 2026 keep changing the game.

Get up to speed with these great videos from trusted mavens.

All The New Lightroom Features

All The New Photoshop Features

5 New Features In Camera Raw

Generative Upscale

New Generative Fill Options

Photoshop’s New Hue/Saturation Invert Button

The New White Balance Tool

Photoshop’s New AI Harmonize

New AI Dust Removal

If you’re thinking, “Hey, this list doesn’t include the new AI image generators.” You’re right. More on that later.

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Generative Upscale In Photoshop

“In this video, you’ll discover the advantage of using the new Generative Upscale feature in Photoshop when increasing the size of an image using Firefly Upscale, Topaz Gigapixel, and Topaz Bloom.”

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Photoshop’s Generative Fill Adds Two New Partner Models – Nano Banana and Flux Kontext Pro

Julianne Kost walks you through the latest update in the Photoshop Beta—where you can now combine the power of two new partner models in Photoshop’s Generative Fill workflow: Gemini 2.5 Flash Image (Nano Banana) and Flux Kontext Pro. You’ll see step-by-step examples of how to:

Change object colors with natural prompts
Replace backgrounds while preserving key details
Edit and replace text in a photograph
Explore creative style transfers like Cubism, Vector, Anime, and more
Composite multiple photos together for unique results

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All Of Adobe Photoshop 2026’s New Features Covered In Detail

Photoshop just received a major update. Colin Smith shows you how to use the most important new features in Photoshop 2026.

00:00 Intro and Announcement
00:38 Remove background and select subject update
01:40 Harmonize
02:25 Generative Upscale, Topaz Gigapixel included
04:48 Partner Models in Generative Fill, Nano banana
06:31 Color and Vibrance

Tour Photoshop 2026’s new features with two digital gurus.

 

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5 New Updates for Adobe Camera Raw 2026

“In this video, Julieanne walks through the new features in Camera Raw v18, including automatic dust removal, improved reflection removal, better object detection, new landscape masking options, and an update for editing images to be displayed on HDR displays.”

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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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Photoshop’s New Hue/Saturation Invert Button

“Learn how to use Photoshop’s NEW Hue/Saturation ‘Invert’ button to quickly flip color selections and isolate colors faster.” … from the guy who suggested the feature.

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Comparing Photoshop’s 2 New Generative AI’s – Nano Banano & Flux Kontext Pro

“Flux Kontext Pro is amazing in Photoshop and lets you do AI editing. We compare Flux Kontext Pro to Nanao Banana in Photoshop and see where each shines.”

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