Feature Requests

Okay… so I know I’ve gotten on to Adobe in the past… but I’m gonna do it again. Why? Why did the latest update remove the ability to sort via marked for deletion in Camera Raw? What did it streamline? What? This destroyed my entire normal editing flow. Thanks for that. To add to it, do ya’ll have a room full of people that look at Adobe software with a dartboard labeled with ways to make your users' lives harder? Its like every time I update anything (which is needed cause stuff starts crashing which is also not great for my workflow), something is moved, or gone entirely or replaced with a system that makes so much less sense its not even funny (looking at you premeire color panel). So please for the love of god, stop changing something thats working, you aren’t making it better, and return the sorting via marked for deletion because it makes absolutley no sense for that to be removed. Now there is a whole extra sorting step to do batch processes like denoises. As always, I wish I had

I often work with RAW files that contain GPS coordinates, but for privacy and wildlife protection reasons I must ensure that exported files (TIFF/JPEG, etc.) do not contain any location data.Right now, I have to export from Camera Raw and then run a separate step with external tools to strip all GPS tags from the output files. This adds friction to the workflow and introduces the risk of accidentally sharing images that still contain GPS metadata.I would love to see a simple checkbox in Adobe Camera Raw, for example:“Remove GPS metadata from output files” (or “Include GPS metadata in output files: On/Off”).When enabled, Camera Raw would strip all GPS tags when writing the exported file, so no GPS data from the RAW source is carried over into the output image.This would make it much easier to produce privacy‑safe files directly from Camera Raw, and would be especially valuable for professional users in wildlife photography, journalism, and other sensitive fields where publishing exact l

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.

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

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?

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!

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

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Hello Adobe Camera Raw Team,   I would like to suggest adding an option to customize keyboard shortcut keys in Adobe Camera Raw. Custom shortcuts would greatly improve workflow efficiency, especially for photographers and retouchers who work with large batches of images daily. Being able to assign personal shortcuts for frequently used tools such as Basic adjustments, Masking, Healing, Presets, Compare view, and Reset would save time and reduce repetitive mouse actions. Many professionals already rely heavily on keyboard-driven workflows in Photoshop and Lightroom, and having the same level of shortcut customization in Camera Raw would make it even more powerful and user-friendly. This feature would be especially valuable for: High-volume editing workflows Wedding and portrait retouching Users transitioning between Lightroom and Camera Raw Power users with custom keyboards or control surfaces Thank you for continuously improving Adobe Camera Raw. I hope this feature can

Now that HEIC is starting to get some reasonable adoption after iOS 11, it’s great that Lightroom Classic CC can import those files. But it would be even better if it could export them too. For various reasons, I end up exporting from Lightroom to Apple Photos.app, and it seems like a no-brainer for me to use HEIC if Lightroom supported them. (Why not save the extra disk space?) I know I can export to TIFF or some other lossless format and then use a third-party utility to convert them to HEIC, but that’s too much of a pain. Having native support in the Export workflow would be ideal.

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.

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

The Preset Amount slider is a new beta feature in Camera Raw 14.0 releasing at MAX 2021.   To try the effect, use the Preset panel to apply a preset to a photo, then adjust the slider to reduce or amplify the effect of that preset.    The 'beta' label means that the feature is still under development. Please use this forum thread to provide feedback about this feature.    Thank you!

Can we please have lasso tools implemented into Lightroom Classic?The AI masking stuff is helpful sometimes but it often struggles to make precise selections. It also tends to have spillage which is quite annoying to go back and remove.Windows are the most annoying but any sharp edges are really difficult to get correct.Lasso tools are professional, clean and get the job done. Side note: please also have the “Select Object” tool default to subsequently adding to the selection instead of having to go up to the masking panel and clicking add again. It works like this in ACR and it’s quite aggravating in Lightroom

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.

Add and subtracting masks is very useful in refining your mask. Being able to add or subtract and existing mask would be (IMO) a great improvement in this feature.Many times I will labour over tweaking the mask for my subject, then I want to subtract that mast from my background so background adjustments don’t affect my subject. The background/landscape/sky masks will often include areas of the subject which interfere with processing. Here’s an example.Selecting “Subject” results in tree branches being included and misses many detailed tail feathers.Selecting (in this case) “Vegetation” includes those same tail features as part of the selection. I can spend a great deal of time painstakingly finessing my subject selection and would like to subtract that from the background.I did find this as a feature request in the Lightroom area so I hope this is not out of bounds to add to the ACR area. ACR seems to have new features tested out before being added elsewhere (and ACR is my tool of cho

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

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.

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!

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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