

This release of Lightroom has been somewhat controversial.

I decided to use the software as much as possible before putting electrons to silicon, but every time I tried to make notes or write segments of this, I just found myself being cynical and disappointed. When writing this review I really wanted to be positive. Instead, we saw the software develop a split personality and divide into two versions, each a little different, but neither offering much new over the previous versions. Given that the last version of Lightroom ran as updates to the 2015 release, it is perhaps unfortunate that we did not see more new features or many of the requested updates that users have made over the years. The main areas are the new masking tools, improved importing and overall performance improvements. While a numbered upgrade like this is normally a major feature release, Lightroom Classic seems to offer relatively little in terms of new features since the previous version.

If you look in the about box, you will see the version number is listed as a 7.0 release. Lightroom Classic is essentially Lightroom 7 in Adobe’s weird new naming scheme.
