In mid-2022, Adobe quietly redrew the boundary between photography and video, expanding Lightroom — a tool long devoted to still images — to embrace video color grading and a new generation of AI-assisted editing. The move reflects a broader truth about creative work: the walls between disciplines rarely serve the people doing the work. By bringing video into a familiar space rather than forcing photographers into unfamiliar territory, Adobe is acknowledging that the camera captures life in motion as often as it freezes it.
Adobe Lightroom gains video editing capabilities with AI-powered presets
Color-grade and tone-match video without leaving the tool you already know
Mark
So Lightroom can edit video now? I thought that's what Premiere Pro was for.
Mimi
It's not full video editing. You can't cut scenes together or add effects. What you can do is adjust the look—brightness, contrast, saturation, all the visual properties that matter for color grading.
Luke
Right, and that's actually the smart move. Most photographers don't need Premiere Pro. They need their footage to match their photos.
Mimi
Exactly. You shoot a video and a still from the same moment, and now you can make them look like they came from the same camera, the same lighting setup.
Mark
What about the AI stuff? Red-eye removal sounds basic.
Mimi
It is basic, but it's one of those things people have asked for forever. The bigger piece is the Adaptive Presets—you can target just the sky or just a face and adjust only that area.
Luke
How targeted are we talking? Is this actually intelligent masking, or is it more like a brush tool?
Mimi
The source doesn't specify the mechanics. It says the presets let you make rapid changes to targeted areas, but it doesn't explain whether it's automatic detection or manual selection.
Mark
Fair. What about the preset slider?
Mimi
You can dial any preset's intensity up or down. So if a preset is too strong, you don't have to start over—you just reduce it.
Luke
That's useful, but it's also table stakes now. Every editing app does that.
Mimi
True. The real workflow gain is probably the consistency across photos and videos, and the Compare View for picking your best shots.
Mark
Is this available now?
Mimi
Yes, on desktop and mobile. Lightroom Classic has it too.
Luke
And Photoshop on the web is still in beta, so the neural filter stuff isn't there yet.
Mark
So if you're a web-only user, you're waiting.
Mimi
For now, yes.
El Pulso
- Lightroom, once strictly a photographer's tool, can now adjust brightness, contrast, and tone on video clips — using the same controls photographers have trusted for years.
- The tension between simplicity and power is real: Adobe must expand Lightroom without cannibalizing Premiere Pro, its dedicated video editor, keeping each tool purposeful.
- A wave of AI features — adaptive presets, automatic red-eye removal, batch mask copying, and a preset intensity slider — threatens to compress hours of manual editing into minutes.
- Photographers and videographers working the same shoot can now ingest, color-match, and export stills and footage from a single workspace, reducing the friction of jumping between applications.
- Adobe is signaling a repositioning: Lightroom is no longer a finishing room for photos, but an expanding creative hub meant to meet users wherever they work — desktop, mobile, or web.
In mid-2022, Adobe quietly redrew the boundary between photography and video, expanding Lightroom — a tool long devoted to still images — to embrace video color grading and a new generation of AI-assisted editing. The move reflects a broader truth about creative work: the walls between disciplines rarely serve the people doing the work. By bringing video into a familiar space rather than forcing photographers into unfamiliar territory, Adobe is acknowledging that the camera captures life in motion as often as it freezes it.
Adobe has extended Lightroom into territory it once left untouched: video. The photo editing software now allows users to adjust brightness, contrast, and other visual properties on video clips using the same familiar sliders photographers have relied on for years. Clips can be trimmed at the edges, color-graded, and tone-matched to sit alongside stills from the same shoot — all without leaving Lightroom for a more complex application. The intent is not to rival Premiere Pro, but to offer something more practical: a way to bring visual consistency to mixed-media libraries without learning a new tool.
Alongside the video expansion, Adobe introduced a suite of AI-powered features designed to accelerate everyday photo work. Adaptive Presets allow targeted adjustments to specific areas of an image — a sky, a face, a background — rather than applying changes globally. A new Preset Amount Slider lets photographers dial preset intensity up or down, escaping the all-or-nothing constraint of earlier versions. Red-eye removal, long requested by users, now runs automatically through Adobe's Sensei AI. A Compare View tool lets photographers place two images side by side to identify the stronger shot, while batch copy-pasting of AI masks speeds up repetitive workflows.
The cumulative effect is a shift in what Lightroom is. A photographer returning from a shoot can now process stills and video clips together, apply unified color and tone across both formats, and export a coherent set of assets — all within a single workspace. Navigation improvements, local storage controls, and enhancements to the Lightroom Discover sharing feature round out the update.
Adobe's chief product officer Scott Belsky described the changes as part of a push to make great image-making faster and more accessible across devices. The company is also expanding Photoshop on the web, still in beta, and has released a Photo Restoration Neural Filter for Photoshop's desktop version. For Lightroom users, the message is clear: the tool is growing to meet the full scope of how modern creators actually work.
Adobe has quietly expanded what Lightroom can do with video. The photo editing software, long confined to still images, now lets users adjust brightness, contrast, and other visual properties directly on video clips—using the same sliders and controls that photographers have relied on for years. You can trim the beginning and end of a video, apply presets for visual consistency, and move those same edits seamlessly between photos and videos in your library. It's not meant to replace Premiere Pro, Adobe's dedicated video editor. It's something narrower and more practical: a way to color-grade and tone-match video footage without leaving the tool you already know.
The update arrives alongside a suite of AI-powered features that Adobe says will speed up photo work across desktop, mobile, and web. Adaptive Presets let photographers target specific parts of an image—the sky, say, or a subject's face—and adjust only that area. A new Preset Amount Slider lets you dial the intensity of any preset up or down, so you're not locked into an all-or-nothing application. Red-eye removal, a feature photographers have requested for years, now uses Adobe's Sensei AI to detect and fix the problem automatically. There's also a Compare View tool for laying two images side by side to pick the strongest shot, batch copy-pasting of AI masks for faster workflows, and five new premium preset packs designed by Adobe's team.
The practical effect is that Lightroom is becoming less of a finishing tool and more of a complete workspace. A photographer can now ingest video and stills from the same shoot, apply consistent color and tone across both formats, and export everything without jumping between applications. The software also added forward and back buttons for navigation, local storage management so you can control how much space your photo library takes up on your hard drive, and enhancements to Lightroom Discover, the discovery and sharing feature.
Scott Belsky, Adobe's chief product officer for Creative Cloud, framed the changes as part of a broader push to make editing "fast and easy to create great images anywhere." The company is also expanding Photoshop on the web, which remains in beta, and has released a Photo Restoration Neural Filter for Photoshop's desktop version—though that tool isn't yet available in the browser.
Lightroom and Lightroom Classic users can access the video editing tools and AI presets immediately. The updates reflect a shift in how Adobe sees its product line: Lightroom is no longer just for photographers who need to organize and polish their shots. It's becoming a place where photographers and videographers can work together, at least for the color and tone work that both disciplines share.
Citas Notables
These innovative, AI-driven features for desktop, web and mobile make it fast and easy to create great images anywhere— Scott Belsky, chief product officer, Adobe Creative Cloud
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