- Bonjour mesdames and messieurs, in this video I wanted
to talk to you about the new Lightroom 9,
and the four features that I like the most.
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All right guys, so Lightroom 9 is out,
it's the November update for Lightroom Classic,
and one thing I've been waiting for a long time is this.
Here is a panorama, I select all four photos,
I right click, I go to Photo Merge, Panorama,
and check this out.
You have now the option of Fill Edge.
This is really cool.
You can just click on that, and look at this.
It's gonna use the content aware fill technology
that's in Photoshop to create all the missing pixel.
This is amazing because I have to go to Photoshop
and do it every time.
So that's one big thing.
Next, the ability to do different export at the same time.
Check this out.
Let's say I wanna post this photo on 500px
in the full resolution, on Instagram at a certain resolution
and on Facebook at a certain resolution
and I wanna do it in one shot,
I can now right click, Export, and let's say this photo
I want to export it at a very specific resolution
to 500px for example, like full resolution
and then a smaller resolution to Instagram
and a different resolution to Facebook.
Well, check this out.
You can can go here, I'm gonna take the option
called Specific Folder, I'm gonna go for example
on My Document folder I'm gonna create a folder
called Social Media, okay, so that it,
it's gonna be the root of everything is gonna be there.
All right.
And now I'm gonna create a sub folder called, for example,
500px and on this one I wanna put full resolution photos
to 500px, so I'm not gonna resize it.
Okay, so instead of exporting, I'm gonna just add it here
as a preset and I'm gonna create a new folder of preset
called Social Media.
All right, here we go.
And this one I'm gonna call 500px for example.
Okay.
So now I've got this folder with 500px.
Let's create another one.
Let's create Instagram.
Instagram, do it for the 'Gram.
Instagram, so for this one I'm gonna resize it,
let's say the short edge, at minimum wanna have
the short edge to be 1,500, that's what I do usually for
because I like to have a certain dimension on Instagram.
So I can go here, add this again,
and let's call this Instagram.
Instagram.
Okay, and then do one more.
Facebook.
And on this one I want the short edge to be like 2,000.
Okay, so add Facebook.
And now all I have to do is select the three folders,
click export and it's gonna export that photo
in the specific folders at the specific size
and it's really cool.
Let's say I wanna add this one too,
I can just right click, Export, Export,
now that I have it set up I can just click here,
yes, I want this, I want this and boom, export.
And check this out.
I'm in the social media folder 500px,
I've got these two folders and look at this, 3,400, 5,016,
they are like full resolution.
3,600, that's the full resolution of this photo,
and this one is 2,500 by 2,000 and same thing
and they were all resized based on what I said,
so that's really cool.
The next update is the ability to export a group
of preset in one shot.
Before, it was a bit hard, you had to go into the system
and get them, now you can just take this is like
all my natural preset that I use all the time,
I can just go here and if I wanna sell them
or give them to somebody I can right click
and export group and I'm gonna put it here for example
in that social media and boom,
if I go in my social media,
you can see now I have a ZIP file,
if I double click on it, I have all XMP files
which is all the presets I've been using.
So if you're into preset making,
or you wanna give presets to your friends,
that's a great way to do it.
One, just a small thing is the ability to clear history,
so for example I'm on this photo, this is the history
of the retouching, you know I applied a preset to it,
I did a few thing and eventually it came to that,
and now I've got all these different things which
is different exports that's in my history,
it's cluttering my history, I can right click
and I can do clear history above this step
and it's gonna erase everything and just keep the main,
really retouching history that I want.
Small, but kinda cool.
One thing I wanna cover which I think is kinda cool
is the ability in the Library Module on the grid view
to be able to erase different photos at the same time,
before you had to do them one by one,
now I can just use the Command key on my keyboard,
select different photos, it's Control on Windows,
Shift + Delete and now I can delete the six photos
at one time.
So that's a small thing, the other improvement
is just different small things, I covered what I really
like about it, you know they added new cameras,
there is something about the crop factors,
some stuff on keywords.
Anyway, my name is Serge Ramelli,
I do one video, sometime two videos per week on Lightroom,
Photoshop and photography or the business of photography.
Subscribe to my channel if you get a chance
and I will see you in the next video.
Thank you very much for your time.