Lightroom 7.4 Update June 2018

We’ve just had a new update for Lightroom Classic CC which upgrades us to Lightroom  7.4

I’ve just made a short video about how we can make use of one of the updates main features to tidy up those Profiles in the profile browser of the Develop module.

You can see the video here:

My Thoughts:

Being able to manage the visibility of those profile groups in the develop module is a real bonus, because if nothing else, it frees up screen real-estate.

We still can’t stop the ‘hover preview’ of any profile – a LOT of people on the Adobe forums have found this very annoying over the last 2 months since the issue of v7.3

You CAN turn it off under the  Lightroom Preferences>Performance tab – but this is for presets only – it doesn’t turn the hover preview off for profiles.

We can also add color labels to folders, and search folders.  Some people might find this useful, especially those who work in one master catalogue, and some like me find this update ‘window dressing Fru-Fru’ – a new technical term there folks!

Lightroom 7.4 now supports HEVC and HEIF images and video from the latest Apple iOS systems and devices.

And the forth ‘improvement’ applies to Photomerge HDR and Pano where the end merge result can be stacked on top of the component images.  As I say in the video, this is possibly the answer to a question no one was asking – I’ve not seen a single request for this on any of the the Lightroom forums in the last 2 months.

So watch the video and explore the update on your own machine – you might be more impressed than I am!  But at least Adobe haven’t broken Lightroom 7.4 anymore than it was already, so let’s be thankful for small mercies ehh!