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Well, today I'm joined by Connor Hibbs and Jeff Harmon,

and we have a lot to talk about,

including some updates to Lightroom. Hey guys. Hey? Well, Lightroom, Adobe announced today Lightroom 2015.8.

There are almost two years in the past now still on Lightroom 2015, but they, in addition to some

bug fixes that are always coming.

They've also included a new feature called

Reference Photo.

Jeff, can you kind of tell us about what this is doing for us?

Yeah, sure.

So the idea here is that they thought that photographers needed the option to identify a specific folder somewhere in their catalog in Lightroom as a reference photo, one that you want to kind of replicate,

maybe emulate the colors, whatever it is,

and then go to any other place in your catalog

and have that photo be on the left hand side of the screen

while you're doing your edits on the right hand side of the screen.

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