Lightroom Classic and Desktop gain generative features, Camera Raw adds profiles

Adobe distributed its February update bundle to photo and imaging customers via the Creative Cloud App on February 20, 2026, delivering Camera Raw 18.2, Lightroom Classic 15.2, Lightroom Desktop 9.2 and Lightroom Mobile 11.2 with new camera and lens profiles, generative features, and bug fixes.

Lightroom Classic 15.2 and Lightroom Desktop 9.2 add a direct Firefly workflow. "Starting with this update to Lightroom Classic and Desktop, you can now send images directly to Adobe Firefly to explore new creative possibilities," Computer Darkroom reported, and Adobe's community post says, "Edit in Firefly - Easily enhance Lightroom images in Firefly with prompt-based editing, or turn images into videos. Learn more about it here." The feature lets users send photos into Firefly for prompt-based edits or to generate short videos from a single frame.

Lightroom Desktop introduces a generative Upscale option that produces 2X or 4X output. "Lightroom Desktop now includes the ability to generatively upscale your images to either 2X or 4X the original size," Computer Darkroom wrote, and the reviewer identified the model as Topaz Gigapixal: "The actual model used is Topaz Gigapixal. However, unlike the version of Gigapixel that you can purchase, the version provided in Lightroom does not include the ability to adjust parameters such as the degree of noise reduction or sharpening applied. As such the quality of the results are, in my opinion, not particularly good." The reviewer added a workflow preference: "At a personal level, I would have much preferred that Adobe updated their existing upscaling feature (i.e. Super Resolution) to include their AI based noise reduction). In my tests, Super Resolution along with manual noise reduction in Lightroom Desktop produces superior results at 2X than the Topaz model."

WebP support has been expanded to allow opening, display, and in-app edits, but export and sync limits remain. "You can open or import and edit WebP images. You can also export WebP images to other file formats, but not as WebP," Computer Darkroom noted, adding a pointed aside: "I can already hear the screams of displeasure." Adobe Community also summarizes the change as "Support for WebP format (Excludes Export) - You can now open, display, and edit photos in the WebP file format."

Assisted Culling in both Classic and Desktop gains new models labeled Subject Selection and Eye Focus that will force image score recalculations and target people photos specifically. Computer Darkroom reported, "Assisted Culling has new 'Subject Selection' and 'Eye Focus' models, which should improve results in photos of groups of people. The model inclusion will cause images to recalculate scores." Adobe’s Helpx release notes list "Enhanced Assisted Culling with improved results" and also note "Improved Denoise quality for some Ricoh and Pentax cameras."

Camera and lens support is broad in this update. Lightroom Queen and other reports highlight new camera models such as OM Digital Solutions OM-3 Astro and RICOH GR IV Monochrome and smartphone modules including the Xiaomi 17 Ultra and a long list of OPPO Find X8 series camera modules. Petapixel flagged newly supported lenses including Canon RF 7-14mm f/2.8-3.5L Fisheye STM, Canon RF 14mm f/1.4L VCM, Leica Noctilux-M 35mm f/1.2 ASPH., Sigma 14mm f/1.4 DG DN Art (L-Mount), Sigma 28-105mm T3 FF Cine, Sony FE 28-70mm f/3.5-5.6 OSS II, Viltrox AF 14mm f/4 FE, Viltrox AF 15mm f/1.7 E and Viltrox AF 9mm f/2.8 E, with Adobe support pages carrying the full, authoritative lists; Petapixel remarked of the Leica, "As it turns out, and to nobody’s real surprise, the lens is extremely good."

Adobe’s Helpx notes list critical bug fixes and stability improvements across the apps. One Adobe Community post contains a likely typographical reference to February 2025, but distribution via Creative Cloud on February 20, 2026 and the documented versions Camera Raw 18.2, Lightroom Classic 15.2 and Lightroom Desktop 9.2 confirm this is the February 2026 release. Users should consult Adobe’s release notes for the complete camera and lens listings and the Helpx details on denoise and bug fixes.