Lightroom Classic CC Update 7.5 – August 22nd 2018

This morning I updated Lightroom Classic CC to the latest version 7.5.

And likewise I suggest you all do the same thing.

It’s not very often you hear or see me being very positive about Lightroom, but this latest iteration has me impressed for sure.

There has been the usual added camera support, together with some fangled update to the book module with some new Blurb templates – but that’s all inconsequential in my eyes and just so much froofroo.

No, the big improvement on all 3 of my machines here is one of SPEED.

And in particular, large catalogue load-speed.

I have one particular catalogue that sits on a raided pair of hard drives, and it contains just under 70,000 images.

This catalogue normally takes quite some time to open fully and it’s something of a torture-test for Lightroom.

But as of this mornings update not any more it would seem – the catalogue opened and all 69,865 previews were in place in under 10 seconds.

So would I recommend you install this latest update?

You betcha I would….always bearing in mind that Lightroom is notorious for varied performance on different individual systems – so I accept ZERO, NIL, NADA, нуль responsibility!

One negative thing that DID occur twice, but I couldn’t replicate in the video nor since – the infamous PANEL BLACKOUT.

They usually occur in the Develop module and your left and right panels just ‘black out’, and all you can see is your image.

If you do suffer a panel blackout though, don’t panic!

Just hit the G key to take you back to the Library Grid View then hit the D key to go back to the Develop module – you should get your panels back immediately.

I’ll keep you updated if I find any problems over the next few days and weeks, and if you have any problems just let me know.

Here’s the video on YouTube: