October's Lightroom Classic CC update added more sophisticated editing of color hue, saturation and tonality.

Adobe released updates for its Lightroom software Tuesday to support the latest phones from Apple, Google and Samsung, and to try to address a little of customers' never-ending desire for better performance.

Lightroom CC and its cousin, Lightroom Classic CC, now are tuned to properly handle the color and correct lens problems of Apple's iPhone XS, XS Max and XR; Google's Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL, and Samsung's Galaxy Note 9, Adobe said in a blog post. Apple's new iPad Pro, LG's G7 ThinkQ, GoPro's Hero7 Black and Nikon's Z6 also are supported.

Lightroom is a widely used tool for cataloging and editing photos. It's a couple of steps ahead of phones' built-in tools like Google Photos or Apple Photos when it comes to organization and editing power, but it costs more, too -- at least $10 per month, with prices going up if you need more online storage space.

You've almost certainly heard of Adobe's flagship photo-editing software, Photoshop, but Lightroom is probably the one you should care about if you're a photography enthusiast. It doesn't offer Photoshop's range of abilities for editing and compositing photos, but it's still advanced for editing. And more importantly, it's designed to handle our entire collection of photos -- a potentially mammoth challenge when it's easy to take shots every day with our smartphones and amass thousands of photos.

There are two main versions of Lightroom. The older lineage of Adobe's software, Lightroom Classic CC, offers more advanced options but runs only on Windows and MacOS machines; the newer Lightroom CC runs on phones and in web browsers as well, but requires online storage space from Adobe.

Among other changes:

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