Feature Requests

  Why don't we have a Saturation Range Mask here yet? 🤨   A separate saturation adjustment tool would help us quickly target and fix oversaturated and undersaturated areas, without navigating through multiple tabs and other sliders.

Many people have beautiful, natural freckles that often get softened. Manually enhancing them in Photoshop (with dodge&burn or channel masks) is effective but time-consuming. Add  a one-click "Enhance Freckles" filter within Adobe Camera Raw. Smart Auto-Detection: the filter should intelligently identify and select freckle patterns.Adjustable Sliders: Lightness, Contrast, Hue, Saturation. A wide range of values should allow us to do everything from boosting freckles to mostly eliminating them. This would provide a fast, intuitive, and non-destructive way to accentuate a subject's natural character.

Please consider adding a Midtone Adjustment slider to the Develop Module in Lightroom Classic and ACR.  This adjustment slider would be in addition to the other sliders.

Try to crop a 6003 x 4002 image to 6000 x 4000 in one go.   You click and drag, then release your LMB. Now your image is 5999 x 3998. You zoom in your image to get better precision and try again, and this time you get 6001 x 3999. ....   Please implement Photoshop's Canvas Size (⌥⌘C) feature into ACR.

This seems very obvious but having the thumnail strip on the right hand side of the image in camera raw would save a lot of mouse/pen movement across screen when editing mutiple images. I wonder how many miles my cursor has moved this route over the decades:) Apologies if this has been discussed before.

Please give us an option to permanently disable the new-ish toolbar that pops up over the image when using the Color Mixer in Camera Raw. It’s distracting and keeps getting in the way, and I'd rather not have to hit close every time it pops up.   

I'd like to see different shape options for the Adjustment Brush and Clone/Heal tools. Circles don't work to well on linear objects. I'd like to see squares. If it doesn't require a great deal of additional code-writing, I'd like to be able to rotate and change the size of the square brush. Just a thought.Jimwww.JMartinHarris.com

Hi Adobe team 👋 First of all, I want to say how impressed I am with the new “Remove Dust” feature in Camera Raw. It works incredibly well — the AI mapping and automatic cleanup of lens dust is a huge time-saver and very accurate. I’d love to suggest an extension of this feature to cover other types of image contamination, especially dead or burned pixels caused by sensor damage. In my case, my camera sensor was hit by a laser, and now I have a few fixed pixel spots that appear in every photo. When I use a fixed lens, the position stays consistent, which makes it easier to correct. But with zoom lenses, the location of the damaged pixels shifts slightly, so I have to manually fix each image one by one. It would be amazing if Camera Raw could include a “Remove Pixel Damage” option — something that detects and corrects these recurring pixel artifacts across a batch of images. I believe this could be implemented similarly to the dust removal logic, and it would help many photograph

I know the sliders allow to fade in and out the selected range, but this still produces bad results in several situations. Blur is different from fading, and it gives better results under many circumstances.

Hey, Adobe! why isn't it here yet?! It's a super handy feature to compare the files. Especially when they are shot with different camera settings / lighting conditions, but you have to make them look similar.   Lightroom has this feature for ages, but as a retoucher I have small series & process them in ACR.   (the screenshot is from a Youtube tutorial)  

It would be good to have an "are you sureyou want to dismiss" request after pressing ESC in ACR. I have occasionally pressed it by accident and it dismisses ACR instantly which can result in hours of lost work. It would be good to demand a confirmation to save us from our own finger trouble!

I'd like to have the cross closing icon at the upper right corner of the ACR window.The same function as the Cancel button, but in a more user friendly location, IMHO 🙂When I open files for a qick review and then want to close the window, intuitively I move the cursor to the upper corner... again and again. I believe, I'm not alone, heh

It works for ages in LR, why don't we have it in ACR?One scroll of the mouse wheel changes the value by 5 points (or 0.1 for the exposure). It's very handy.

Each time I open camera raw and want to remove relfections, the quality is set default to "preview".Can there be an option to set the default of reflections removal to another quality settings.I would suggest an option in "preferences"

One of the biggest challenges when editing digital photos is reducing the artificial, overly crisp appearance that’s often associated with the “digital look.” While current frequency-based tools in ACR (texture, clarity and dehaze) are useful, they fall short when trying to soften this digital harshness. Pushing these sliders to the left often produces undesirable artifacts and side effects.   Main limitations with current tools (texture, clarity and dehaze): Color bleeding and smearing: Reducing clarity or dehaze tends to spread colors beyond their natural boundaries, causing them to mix with neighboring tones in an unnatural way. Unwanted darkening: If there is a large area without highlights, what area will become overly dark when reducing dehaze (adding haze). Usually this ends up darkening faces or other relevant parts of the photo. Dark halos and artifacts: When reducing clarity, a noticeable dark halo often appears around dark objects placed against midtone backgrounds, pr

Ever since the new masking features became available in ACR and LR my workflow has gradually changed from 10% raw/90% Photoshop to, in most cases, the complete opposite. That said, there is one feature I would love to see added at some point and that is the ability to copy the settings from one particular mask, say a radial mask, that I frequently use as a quick test of what I'm looking to accomplish over a broad area of my compostion to another. A radial gradient has worked very well for this type of situation but I often find myself manually writing the settings down so I can transfer the exact adjustments combination to a brush mask for finer control over my edits. I realize that I can use the add and subtract sub-masks to achieve a similar outcome but I find I like using the brush much of the time as opposed to that approach after manuallt transferring the radial gradient settings. I could use mask presets but that requires extra steps that I think could be eliminated by a copy/pas

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.

Before there used to be a button in Camera Raw to reset to Camera Raw defaults. Now you have to hold down option for that button to be revealed. I have to look it up every time how to reveal the reset button. I suggest not hiding the button in the first place.

Hi again, I would like to insist in the possibility of moving the edit panel to the left, I work with this software 8hr a day and I would find the edit panel much more confortable in the left side. I think it is a very simple option to add in the program. I hope you can consider it. Have a great day!

Has there been any possibility to adopt/train adobe's denoise program for astrophotography? This could allow astrophotographers to use photoshop for best demosaic and 10-bit hdr editing and take advantage of the HDR market, while other astro programs lag behind.  Two issues I notice with the current denoise algo: 1.) Oversaturates color fringing and star abberations  2.) May oversharpen and bring in too much detail with minimal noise benefit around groups of stars (think Deep sky, not widefield milkyway).           

Could you please add support for the Logitech MX Creative Console in Adobe Camera RAW?Thanks!

When choosing Open Copy after making edits, Photoshop displays a standard background layer regardless of whether Open as a Smart Layer is enabled in the system settings or not. Unless the only purpose of the setting is to change the default display (instead of providing a link back to the RAW file as the default), ignoring this setting does not make sense. Currently, when a Smart Object is not desired, the ability to open it as a regular file or a copy can be achieved simply via a keyboard shortcut or by selecting a different option; however, the system setting should not be overwritten when it is enabled for copies. Simply put, it interferes with the user's creative abilities by limiting options to Open, Open Object, and Open Copy, rather than Open, Open Object, Open Copy, and Open Copy Object. For real-world examples, this limitation can be an issue when using copies is desirable for creating multiple versions (e.g., color, black-and-white, neon), producing multiple copies

In this image, I wanted to remove the reflections from the sky and mountains, but not the underside of the wing.  When I tried it, the contrast in the sky was increased which made the reflections more noticeable, not less.  This is a great feature, but it doesn't work in all cases just yet.  Keep going! 14.1 LR Classic with Camera Raw 17.4

Make a filter for stray hairs removal, as we have for people. The retouchers have to do it manually (either with a Stamp or a Healing brush) which takes too much time.   While Adobe is sleeping, some AI plugins already can do it quite well!

I like the Reflection Removal tool and after kind of seeing how the algorithm works, I had a thought to see how it would work to remove the hazy remnants of a fence, that zoo photographers struggle to completely blur out. This would be an absolute blessing to zoo photographers if the Reflection Removal tool could be refined as a Fence Removal tool. Check out the results!