Another use I can foresee is simply sharing a single photo with another photographer to get their opinion on an editing approach or technique.Īs I mentioned, this feature is primarily aimed at Lightroom for Mac, Windows, iOS, Android, and ChromeOs cloud-based versions, but we’ll look at how Lightroom Classic users can utilize this as well. Another example might be if you work with another photographer, and you want to have an album where you both can submit and edit photos to the same album. With this new functionality I will employ a different shared album where I grant them editing permissions to see each person’s take on an edit. It has been a really nice feature that gets them introduced to album sharing as well as providing me a way to track their interactions with the photos. For example, I’ve been creating shared albums for my college classes where I place each student’s work for the class to view, like, and comment. Previously, we could share the album, and we could allow those we shared it with to add their own photos, so granting editing permission represents a pretty significant change in how these albums might be shared. This builds on the existing functionality for sharing an album with others by giving you the ability to grant permission to those you invite for editing existing photos as well as adding new photos of their own to the shared album.

The June 2021 update to the Lightroom family of apps brought a new feature to the Lightroom cloud ecosystem, called Collaborative Editing.

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