What’s New in Adobe Lightroom & Photoshop with Julieanne Kost

June 30, 2026

In this replay, presented in partnership with Professional Photographers of America (PPA), join superstar Julieanne Kost, Adobe Principal Digital Imaging Evangelist, to discover the latest updates and exciting new features coming to Lightroom and Photoshop that help photographers work faster, retouch smarter, and deliver consistent results. In just 30 minutes, you’ll learn practical techniques you can apply immediately to speed up culling, enhance images, and polish final photographs.  

o    Use AI selection and masking tools to accelerate editing.
o    Leverage new features for precise retouching.
o    Remove distractions and replace backgrounds with ease.
o    Build faster, more consistent workflows from start to finish.

Enjoy this replay for an inside look at what's new. 


TIMESTAMPS
00:02 Julieanne Kost welcomes us to the What’s New in Lightroom & Photoshop livestream

01:03 Meet the Adobe team joining Julieanne

What’s New in Lightroom? See list of features below:

02:13 Select Subject

05:34 AI Culling

06:49 Denoise

07:30 Duplicate detection

10:48 New filter types

12:16 Object detection

13:50 .ACR file

14:28 Zoom while cropping and more!

What’s New in Photoshop?

15:04 Adjustment layers (light, color, vibrance, clarity, dehaze, grain)

17:04 Remove distractions

19:37 Remove tool

20:40 Rotate object

22:09 Harmonize layer

22:41 Renaming layers

24:32 Gen AI prompting with reference images

26:45 Gen AI remove distracting elements

Adobe Camera Raw (ACR)

27:16 Vectorscope

28:06 Two-sided linear gradient

Wrap up 29:00 Now what? Wondering where you go to learn more? Use these Adobe resources that are updated regularly from Adobe teammates.

29:23 Survey to tell us what you think! Please complete this brief survey

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