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Explore What’s New in Lightroom Classic 15.3 - Smarter Workflows and Creative Updates

  • April 16, 2026
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Hey everyone! We’ve just rolled out new features, updates, and bug fixes for Lightroom Classic 15.3. This release brings improved generative results along with fixes inspired directly by your reports. Thanks for the feedback!

 

What’s New 

This release brings a fresh set of updates designed to speed up your workflow and spark creativity, including new film‑inspired presets and improved Photoshop integrations with PSB support. You can also send photos straight to Firefly Boards to make ideation and planning even easier. Curious about any of these features? Find out more about What’s New in our Release notes. 


Start playing with all these new features and updates now! Get started in Lightroom Classic


Bug Fixes - Thanks to You 

The following issues were identified and upvoted by members of this community. Thank you for flagging them and helping us prioritize: 

For a complete list of all the bug fixes check our release notes here. Your reports and upvotes directly influence what gets addressed. Please keep them coming. 

 

How to Update

Get the latest features, updates, and bug fixes by simply updating Lightroom Classic to the latest version. Update Lightroom Classic now

 
What’s Next?  

Let us know what you would like us to prioritize for the next Lightroom Ecosystem release.

      12 replies

      cbbrookephoto
      cbbrookephoto
      Participating Frequently
      May 26, 2026

      Please fix this. I’m only editing 200 photos. It should not glitch this much. I have to hard reset my PC every 30 minutes. This update has destroyed my ability to use the app. 

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      Fuzzmut
      Inspiring
      May 19, 2026

      Bugs correction. Before anything else.

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        djspira
        Participating Frequently
        May 19, 2026

        This update has completely destroyed my lightroom performance. 64GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop GPU (6 GB) 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-13620H (2.40 GHz).

        Is there a way to revert back to 15.2?

        I can’t even click menus. 

        I only use AI for masking sky/landscape. Nothing else.

        I have a large catalog 300k images (JPG+RAW) running off a network drive. Whilst I expect some network performance - since the update to 15.3 I can’t even select an unedited picture and edit in Nik 7 for example. 

        I have also tried updating to the latest NVIDIA studio drivers with no success

        Paying for a product that is now unusable. 

         

         

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        Fuzzmut
        Inspiring
        May 19, 2026

        This version is a real flop. Meanwhile we pay... Adobe should put the AI in the bug fix.. they love it so much it.

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        djspira
        Participating Frequently
        May 19, 2026

        I’ve tried reverting back to 15.2 and still having the same problem. This evening I used a landscape /mountain mask for the first time (normally I use sky /select inverse). Not sure if it that completely trashed the application.  I’ve deliberately renamed the folder on my drive and it has lost reference to it, and removed it.  (I’d only edited half a dozen photos this evening). It all started when I then clicked an Edit in. Some message popped up on crashing saying that it couldn’t process all my AI Edits or future AI edits may be lost… Doing a mask selection - I appreciate it’s assisting with the masking, but it shouldn’t bring the whole application down.  Backing up my catalog now after removing the folder. Going to try and export /edit something after restarting. If the copying catalog ever completes….

        What is interesting is the moment i disconnected my wifi as well and it couldn’t locate pictures, lightroom became instantly usable again.  Now I’m connected hopefully the edit will work, now that I’ve removed that completely from the catalog.

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        Fuzzmut
        Inspiring
        May 19, 2026

        Hello,

        I'm sorry to say this, but version 15.3 is very unstable. I've been using Lightroom since version 3 and I've never had so many problems. It doesn't recognize Hasselblad .fff files, it's extremely slow, and Lightroom takes forever to open. Perhaps installing the latest Tahoe 26.5 version has also made Lightroom Classic unstable. I take some of the blame; I should wait before installing the latest versions.

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          Andrew C. Brinsmead
          Inspiring
          May 18, 2026

          Has the memory leak problem in Lightroom Classic 15.2 been resolved?

          david holt
          david holt
          Participant
          May 11, 2026

          Hi, are there any plans to support the Canon R6 mark iii in tethered capture, when is this likely to happen?

          F. McLion
          Community Expert
          F. McLionCommunity Expert
          Community Expert
          May 14, 2026

          Please read here: 

           

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            Dimitar30292967lz5p
            Inspiring
            May 4, 2026

            Where are film-inspired profiles saved?

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            Dimitar30292967lz5p
            Inspiring
            May 4, 2026

            Where are stored as .xmp files or?

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            vicld9179801
            Participant
            April 30, 2026

            My Lightroom Classic just updated and my catalogue is gone!!! How do I get it back?

            dj_paige
            dj_paige
            Legend
            April 30, 2026

            My Lightroom Classic just updated and my catalogue is gone!!! How do I get it back?

             

            Sometimes, LrC upgrades to a new empty catalog. This is easily fixed, your previous catalog is still available. Use your operating system’s search feature to search all files in all folders whose name ends .LRCAT. The largest of the files found is probably the one you want, double-click on it to open it and then you will probably have to upgrade it and you should be all set. if the largest of the files found is not the catalog you want, keep double-clicking on all files found until you find the catalog file you want.

             

            PS: Better you should ask in the Questions area rather than here in the announcement. You will get more views and quicker answers.

              feelgood13x
              feelgood13x
              Participant
              April 25, 2026

              I dunno if I'm imagining things, but 15.3 seems so much snappier moving between modules (I use Library, Develop and Print extensively).  It’s like you’ve given a new lease on life for my M1 Max!  Good job! 👏

                DdeGannes
                Community Expert
                DdeGannesCommunity Expert
                Community Expert
                April 22, 2026

                Works for me. 🤗

                Regards, Denis: iMac 27” mid-2015, macOS 11.7.10 Big Sur; 2TB SSD, 24 GB Ram, GPU 2 GB; LrC 12.5,; Lr 6.5, PS 24.7,; ACR 15.5,; (also Laptop Win 11, ver 24H2, LrC 15.3; PS 27.0; ) Camera Oly OM-D E-M1.
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