It’s been called masking before, even though “local adjustments” was probably more common. I haven’t run into any showstopper bugs.Īdobe announced late in September that a big change in Lightroom would come to local/selective adjustments, calling it “Masking”. I was particularly eager to play with the new v11 features of course, and after doing “my normal stuff”, I can say that Lightroom 11.0 runs stable on my 2019 iMac.
I’ve made it a habit to try the newest version with my workflow as good as possible before adding any new work to the updated catalog, and thus committing myself entirely to the new version. Windows users must have Windows 10 v1909 as the minimum, or Windows 11. System requirements: users of older Macs are out if they can’t run at least MacOS 10.15 (Catalina) on their system.
Unfortunately, this is just a dumb “append” and if you want a neat catalog name, you’ll still have to manually intervene and remove the “v10” from the filename, otherwise you’ll end up with a name like “catalog-v10-v11.lrcat” (sigh). With Lightroom 10, Adobe began to add the version number to the catalog name, which was very welcome. On first launch, Lightroom will open your existing v10 catalog, make a copy of it, and update that copy (in other words, the original v10 catalog remains in place, unchanged). Lightroom 11 requires, as most major version updates did in the past, an update of its database, the catalog.
( update: there’s also a video about the new masks from the always excellent Julianne Kost) Catalog Update
For useful screenshots of the new UI pieces (as well as a video), I suggest that you open Adobe’s own announcement, posted at the end of September, in a new browser tab: From the ACR Team: Masking Reimagined. (UPDATE: Lightroom Classic v12 adds further AI-based masks)ĭespite the fact that I’ve added a few screenshots, this has somehow 😬 gotten rather text-heavy (my specialty). In this article, I try to provide an honest and hopefully realistic evaluation and summary of them. Lightroom version 11 was released today and it brings quite a change to my favorite tool: local adjustments! It includes a couple of other new features as well, of course.
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