HDR Panoramic Merge? Depth Mask? Okay, that’s cool. And as you can tell, many of those changes (besides the new camera support) are pretty useless to many of us as photographers. With Adobe Lightroom Classic CC 8, all the important and big changes are in the lead image for this review. Not sure how I’d use Depth Range Masking.I didn’t optimize my previous one, but even if I did it would be very clunky still. To be clear, I started a brand new catalog to do this review.Works fastest without Presets, which is a major bummer for any photographer who really wants to work with presets.Adobe is trying to get photographers to work faster but I still feel like this slows us down.My computer was designed to edit and render 8K video footage and this is the loudest I’ve ever heard the fans go since playing video games on this computer.For Landscapes and such, I genuinely think that it makes more sense to use Capture One due to the better RAW file rendering.Panoramic HDR is cool, but for a photographer that doesn’t use this feature, who cares?.Improvements in RAW file renderings for sure but it still doesn’t feel as powerful as C1.

But even so, it’s very slow in comparison to Capture One.

This is the fastest I’ve seen it since before Lightroom Classic CC and even before Creative Cloud. Capture One has never sponsored the Phoblographer at all instead I say all of this due to my own experiences, frustrations and for what I’ve implemented as a standard amongst our staffers. At the same time, realizing that this isn’t going to help you get images out faster and it won’t give you much of what Capture One Pro has been delivering for years now. Despite the fact that the Phoblographer partially came up on social media, I’ve never been one to want to willingly engage in toxic discourse and to instead look for solutions. To that end, if you don’t have a business and you’d just like to spend more time on forums, Facebook groups and your most private Instagram pods complaining about it amongst yourself, then please do. But I’m going to stand very strongly by my next statement: I think that any photographer that continues to use Adobe Lightroom Classic CC 8 on the regular is seriously doing themselves a massive injustice and genuinely doesn’t care about the livelihood of their own business–and that goes for whether you’re a professional photographer, influencer, or a blogger/journalist like I am. I’m going to begin this review by stating that during my review period for Adobe Lightroom Classic CC 8, I gave the program every single advantage that it could truly have. With today’s update of Adobe Lightroom Classic CC 8, photographers are getting more of the same.

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