Camera Raw

Camera Raw 18.4 should include a preference to return automatically to "Fit in View" after crop operations. Earlier workflows were faster because the image always returned to the full-screen view after validating a crop. Please add a user preference to choose between preserving zoom level and returning to Fit in View.

Particularly with architectural images it is useful to transform the image to make building edges vertical or horizontal.   This leaves the image in an odd shape with missing corners that need to be cropped - or perhaps small corners that could be patched up with the clone tool.  However, the clone tool does not work in this case because these areas are outside of the original image.Why can't Lightroom fill in these blank areas with some added pixels so that this subsequent editing can be done within LR?

SInce last update - I am on CR 17.5.12319 now - the inner circle (feathering amount) has not been visible. I can still adjust the feathering on the slider, but the graphical interpretation has gone.It's on two Windows 11 machines - a laptop and a very well spec. desktop, so I don't think it's a hardware issue.I don't know if this is on purpose, or perhaps somebody has made the same observation.Jan, DK

Lightroom is capable to convert JPGs into DNG. The DNG Converter unfortunately currently is not. Please add JPG support to the Adobe DNG Converter. Thank you very much for considering!

One of the most incredible photography editing features I’ve run into is the gamma slider in DxO PhotoLab.Once I realized what it did, translate the entire curve of light seamlessly, without stops and starts like the regular tone curve in Lightroom, the gamma curve quickly became my most critical and helpful adjustment in the most difficult lighting conditions at first, and then in every possible photograph. It’s so much more repeatable, natural-looking, and consistent than anything I have ever been able to do with the tone curve.I considered switching fully to their software, but of course, all the other features I rely on like subject masks, HDR AVIF export, etc., kept me with Lightroom.Please, please, one million, billion times, please add a gamma curve slider in Lightroom, and maybe you can make it even better than any other software’s implementation, as long as the crucial core concept remains the same. Thank you! Sincerely,Dr. Joseph MyersProfessor of Science and Math, and avid p

I frequently open images in Adobe Camera Raw from Adobe Bridge, and most often than not I'd like to return to Bridge without opening Photoshop.   Can we have a keyboard shortcut for that? If you use a large display, it is inconvenient to drag your pointer to click such small button, with the risk of pressing cancel and losing your changes.   Pressing ENTER is not a solution as it opens Photoshop and that will not commit the changes to the file, what is also undesirable.   A simple keyboard shortcut will alleviate this pain and will be very welcomed.   Thank you.

I shoot video using the Red Epic camera, which shoots super high resolution video. I often pull high-res photos from the camera and use them in Lightroom. However, I'm hoping to add a feature that supports anamorphic lenses. These lenses shoot natively-stretched pixels. Meaning, the images are stretched vertically 2:1. It's a classic way to shoot movies, and I wish Lightroom supported a way to select the pixel aspect ratio so the images can be viewed undistorted. Currently, I have to stretch them in Photoshop and export. Which is a bummer because the Red Camera's raw files are supported in LR, and I would love to use those files straight from the camera rather than make new ones. Anyone else agree?

When reviewing and culling photos in Adobe Camera Raw, the counter displayed at the top of the interface always shows the original number of loaded images, even after some of them have been marked for deletion.For example:Load 100 images Mark 25 images for deletion The counter still shows 1 of 100This makes it difficult to see how many images will actually remain after the culling process.I would like the item counter to reflect images that have been marked for deletion, or at least display that information in real time.For example:DSC_XXXX.NEF (1 of 100 • 25 marked for deletion)This small UI improvement would make the culling workflow much clearer, especially when reviewing hundreds or thousands of photos. Users could immediately see how many images are pending deletion without having to keep track mentally or wait until the files are actually deleted.The attached screenshot shows the current counter, which could be enhanced to provide this additional information. Thanks!

See also my question in this community. I do usually have my cameras set to always save a raw and a jpeg file, with the same basename. Recent versions of DNG Converter convert both into DNG files. I don’t need dngs of JPEGs and this means I need to take extra steps to avoid that. There should be an option to disable that and I think that not having DNGs of JPEGs should be the default setting.

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In Camera Raw, it would be nice to have more precision in the Geometry tab when you want to shift an image along the X or Y axis. Using the slider to the right or left with a mouse isn't precise at all. Ideally, you should be able to increment the values by +0.1 or -0.1 using the <- or -> keys on the keyboard.The “Constrain to Image” checkbox should also be moved back to where it used to be, right next to the Magnifying Glass checkbox. Since the latest version, you have to right-click on the photo and select “Constrain to Image,” which is sometimes grayed out even though it should be active. This is truly an incomprehensible regression. 

SummaryPanorama Merge with Perspective projection anchors the output projection plane on the first image in filmstrip sort order. The geometry of the merged panorama therefore changes when only the filenames change, with identical pixel data, EXIF and capture times.EnvironmentCamera Raw 18.4.1, macOS 14.8.7, Sony SLT-A77, 3 frames shot right to left.Steps to reproduceSelect the 3 frames, Merge to Panorama, Perspective, Boundary Warp 0, Auto Crop off. Repeat twice, renaming the files so that the centre frame, then the left frame, sorts first.Actual resultThree different output geometries.Case 1 - Right image first.Case 2 - Center image first.Case 3 - Left image first.Cases 1 and 3 are exact mirror images of each other, indicating the output plane is aligned with the optical axis of whichever frame sorts first, with no re-centring applied.Expected resultOutput geometry depends only on image content, not on filenames.Suggested fixDerive the output plane orientation from the estimated came

Please add generative expand for cropping in Adobe Camera Raw. I love that Geneative AI is added as an opton for "remmove," but it would be GREAT if we could expand the crop area byond the original image and use Generative AI to expand...just like in Photoshop.

I am a professional wedding photographer and I edit between 30,000 and 50,000 RAW files every year using Photo Mechanic, Adobe Bridge and Camera Raw.For many years, after confirming a crop in Camera Raw, the image automatically returned to 100% zoom. This behavior became an essential part of my editing workflow and muscle memory.Since updating to Camera Raw 18.4.1, this behavior has changed. The image now remains at the previous zoom level, forcing me to manually press Command + 1 after almost every crop.This may seem like a minor interface change, but for professionals editing tens of thousands of images every year, it adds thousands of unnecessary keystrokes and noticeably slows down the editing process.Please consider restoring the previous behavior or, even better, adding a preference that allows users to choose what happens after confirming a crop:• Return to 100% zoom• Keep current zoom• Fit on screenCamera Raw is an exceptional tool, and this request is simply about preserving t

Nikon cameras stores the focus point that was in focus and the exposure was taken. This would be extremely valuable to see for a sports/action/wildlife photographer.

With the new update 18.4.1, it’s now impossible to have an image always cropped to non-transparent pixels.There used to be a checkbox ensuring your photo didn’t have any transparent pixels while making Geometry changes and now it’s replaced with a button.That checkbox was optimal for my workflow.Now the behaviour is a bit odd. If “Enable Expand” is unchecked, it will be cropped to non-transparent pixels only if you’re not doing any Geometry changes. For example the Angle setting will stay within opaque pixels, but Rotate won’t. But it should! Is it a bug or a feature?Today constraining crop is a button in the top right of Crop & Expand. The work I do needs to be fast, and this new feature isn’t. I have to click that button every… single… time because I’m doing Geometry changes all the time. It’s time consuming. The checkbox made sure I always had 100% opaque pixels. No hesitation, the real deal no matter what.While editing Geometry, I knew exactly the outcome of the crop because th

The „Done" button in Camera Raw has no keyboard shortcut. „Enter" opens the image in Photoshop, „Escape" cancels without saving — but „Done" (save settings and close without opening in Photoshop) is only reachable by mouse click. Please add a keyboard shortcut for „Done". (macOS)

There are a lot more satellites in the night sky than there used to be and it’s a nightmare trying to remove them all manually from multiple exposures of a night scene. I love the AI-powered removal of dust and people and was thinking it would be great if Lightroom could also detect satellite streaks in night photos. The attached is an example of a single exposure with at least ten satellite streaks - just one from a series of 150 photos for a timelapse/star trails composition. 

The new Vector Scope is great, but it would be even better if some additional features were added directly inside the Vector Scope itself or new tool. The color points shown in the Vector Scope could be made interactive so that we can grab and tune them directly. There could be an option to pick a color point in the Vector Scope and drag it to the color we want, and the adjustment would be applied automatically.This would work similarly to the Color Warper Tool, 3D Color, and Chroma Warp Tool in DaVinci Resolve. Having this functionality directly inside the Vector Scope would make color grading and editing much easier and faster.

When the Camera RAW Radial Gradient tool was first introduced, one could hit “X” WHILE DRAGGING to flip the effect. One could ALSO HOLD THE SPACEBAR WHILE CREATING* the Radial Gradient before releasing the mouse to REPOSITION the gradient.These VERY USEFUL behaviors were lost sometime since.It would be a DELIGHT to see them return.(*Same behavior already exists in InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop.)

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Can we get a square gradient tool, and not just the radial one?  Think "editing windows in a house".  Not every shape in a photo is a circle, so why don't we have a square gradient tool?  Cheers!

The Xiaomi 17 Ultra is supported by Camera Raw, but not the Leitzphone (based on th Xiaomi 17 Ultra). So I have no access to my Color-Profile created by Calibrite Profiler Software

I would dearly like to see the Lightroom 4 Beta team implement an additional feature in the final release. That feature would be the ability to take a camera+macro lens image of a B&W negative -- essentially a camera-based scan of a negative -- and invert the negative image to a positive image at the beginning of the development process in such a way that the resulting sliders in the LR4 Develop Module would not operate in reverse. As I understand it, this capability exists in Photoshop, but I don't own Photoshop. I do own Photoshop Elements 9, but that program only supports an 8-bit workflow, not 16-bits per channel, and round-tripping between LR & PSE9 requires the reimportation of a TIFF file that is more than twice the size of my NEF RAW files. Since this programming wizardry already exists in Photoshop, I would think that it would be a relatively simple matter to transfer and adapt that code for LR4 -- but then, I'm not a programmer, so what do I know...I've been digitizin