Flat-Field Correction

This feature is now built directly into Lightroom Classic following the v8.3 update. It’s a specialist tool to address vignetting and color fringing seen with certain lenses.

“The standard way to fix shading is with a calibration photo. While taking a regular photo, you can also shoot a reference or calibration frame with the same optical set-up, at the same time. You can then use Flat-Field Correction in Lightroom Classic to automatically detect and analyze the calibration frame and remove the light falloff and color cast from the corresponding photo or batch of photos”

N.B. your original raw file is replaced in the catalog with a corrected DNG file although your original remains on disc. I think it would have been a better design to stack the new DNG and original together.

If your original raw file is already in the DNG format the replacement DNG will have -2 appended to the file name.

 

This feature is accessed from the Lightroom Classic Library after selecting thumbnails and the reference thumbnail. 

Choose Library >> Flat-Field Correction

See this Adobe help document for full details:

Using Flat-Field Correction

The following link has an in-depth appraisal of Flat-Filed Correction, written by respected reviewer Sean Reid.

Reid Reviews

Lightroom Release - May 2019

Adobe has announced today the release of updates for all of the Lightroom products with several new features and support for new camera models.

One of my favourite new features is the Texture slider.

I’ve been using this new slider a lot, especially as a local selective adjustment and I find the results very pleasing. I would say it sits between clarity and sharpening so it’s always best to apply adjustments when viewing images 1:1

I’m finding I get much better results with Texture, even with high positive or negative settings compared with clarity which often adds mid-tone contrast and some sharpening to give an artificial grungy look or hazy softening.

I’ve created a user preset using an off-image graduated filter to apply a combination of Texture with a little Dehaze and this is proving useful on many of my landscape photos with the ability to apply the effect with a single click,

The Texture global adjustment slider is in the Basic tab, under Presence and just above the Clarity slider in Classic or in the Effects tab in Lightroom.

The Texture local adjustment slider is in the local adjustment controls, above Clarity after selecting brush, radial or graduated (linear) filters.

The algorithm uses process version 5. images using PV3 or PV4 will get updated to PV5. Texture works by isolating only medium-sized details without increasing noise.

-Positive values enhance image texture - good for landscapes, and foreground features etc.

-Negative values decrease image texture - good for skin smoothing. A new preset called Soften Skin Lite has been introduced which uses a combination of negative clarity and texture when using the brush.

The new Texture tool is available in all versions of Lightroom, on mobile and in Adobe Camera Raw.

Update

From the Creative Cloud desktop installer, go to the apps tab and click update next to the app you wish to install. iOS updates can be downloaded from the App Store and Android updates from Google Play. The letters CC have been dropped from product titles; so we now see Lightroom Classic. The cloud eco system is now simply known as Lightroom, including Lightroom Mobile and Lightroom Web. Apple iPad users should download Adobe Lightroom for iPad.

To see all of the new features in the May 2019 release click the links below or read more at the Adobe blog.

Lightroom

Lightroom Classic

Adobe Blog

Texture Control

Re-cycle bin for Lightroom Cloud

This is a much requested feature and Adobe customers will be pleased to see this new trash can introduced in the May 2019 release of Lightroom.

Photos permanently deleted will be sent to the trash where they will remain for up to 60 days. Deleted photos do not count towards your cloud storage limit; so space is freed-up immediately. Items in the re-cycle bin can be restored to your library by clicking the undo icon on the blue menu bar that appears after making a selection.

At present, the items sent to trash can only be viewed by logging-in to the web app but it should be possible to delete photos from the desktop or mobile apps to send them to the cloud trash can. 

https://lightroom.adobe.com/

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Aperture End of Life

Apple has reminded customers that Aperture won't run in versions of the Mac operating system after Mac OS Mojave. It suggests migrating to the Apple Photos app or Lightroom Classic. Most likely serious photographers will choose the latter if they have not already done so.

Adobe Blog

Apple Support