Feature Requests

The Clone & Heal tool is really great. I really find it easy to use. It would be great to be able to rotate the healed/cloned area. This would be really useful for blending lines. I hope it's clear what I'm trying to ask for, any questions give me a shout. John

Hi there. In colour blind and I was wondering if lightroom could have a couple of features to help out. Maybe with setting the white balance and the colour picker. In the HSL panel it could show what colours I'm picking. Maybe have a "colour peaking" option to show if a photo is becoming too saturated. Or if you could come up with some ideas to help edit photos that would be great. Cheers

Add Shine Remove Options in Camera RAW

It would be extremely useful to me if it were possible to change ACR versions quickly in the CC app, rather than with the installer packages (see: https://helpx.adobe.com/camera-raw/kb/camera-raw-plug-in-installer.html#12_x).  This would let me easily use the superior user interface of 12.2.1 and also the masking features in the newer versions of ACR.     Even better if this could be done at-will within the photoshop Preferences menus somehow.

Currently, the preset amount slider does not affect calibration, but it did before, this makes almost all of my preset useless because I and many other photographers use the calibration tab for stylistic purposes, and being unable to adjust the intensity quickly interferes with our workflow.

after updating photoshop , when i opened it for the first time there was option to use camera raw as it is (vertical film) or to change it to new UI (with new look and horizontal filmstrip ), i just clicked new UI to see how it looks , i thought if i dont like it i will just go back to using older UI but there is no option to select older UI , i contacted adobe but person who was helping me just suggested that i should install older version of camera raw or ask for help from this forum , i found it bit frustrating that if there was simple option to choose new UI so why not give option to revert back to older UI with newly updated software. maybe its bug or adobe forcing people to use new UI even if they dont like it

My Macbook M1 (latest PS, CR, MacOS, everything...) crashes randomly when I edit my raw files in CR. Eg. last time I edited 6 photos for 1 hour when it crashed. Please make an auto-save or something like it, because now I can only start it from the beginning and it's soooooo annoying!!!

The content aware move tool is a very nice tool in photoshop.   Would there be any plans to have this feature put into Lightroom as you have with the content aware fill too? It would be amazing and very useful to those of us who prefer to use Lightroom.   Thank you

I've always wonder why, a company that has the most well known software for  photo editing, doesn't have a huge choice of film analog emulation presets and color profiles. Surely the freedom for editing raw files by applying color profile and presets is the most easy (compare to others softwares) but why Adobe has never create a good starting base for editing? I personally don't think that old style, analog film, is old enough to get rid of it. The defaults presets that are in, are just fine, but why not implement them, with a rich choice of new/old profiles? Probably I'm asking too much, and is too much work, and probably also there's always the problem about brands rights, but it would be awesome to have a rich choice of analog film profiles and presets inside Camera raw and Lightroom (mobile and classic). 

It would be amazing if Lightroom had a feature that could use subject Detection to apply a radial filter.    Users could select subject Detection, apply the radial settings, and then sync settings across all images.    For portrait or wedding photographers this would have the potential to be game changing and doesn't seem like it would be that hard to implement seeing that Photoshop already has subject Detection technology. 

I'd like all adjustments to be available locally (i.e. maskable, and ability to apply with different settings). (This hasn't been explicitly suggest yet on this "forum", has it?)

Hi everyone, as an interior photographer, I really appreciated it when the automatic tool for correcting perspective lines was introduced a few years ago. In a way, I realized that over time, I could save a lot of time in retouching my interior work and focus on other things. However, even though it's been maybe two or three years now, I don't think the tool is quite mature yet. Let me explain. When I go to retouch the photos taken inside renovated buildings, I almost always have to deal with many lines. Some of these lines are load-bearing and fundamental, while others are less important. It just so happens that Camera Raw almost always fails to identify these important lines. And that's why I think this tool should be further refined, allowing us to choose which lines the automation should work on and which ones it shouldn't. Does anyone else feel the same way when working with Camera Raw? I think it's pretty much the same with Lightroom, given that the tool is identical. Thank you &

I wondered if there's a way of adding an option where you can opt to either always show the masking amount without also using the Option key or to use the Option key? This would make using the sharpening and masking a lot slicker. 

Hello everyone,   I have a question (or a remark) about the "noise profile" tag that is expected to be found on .dng files. For reminding, the noise in a raw picture can be approached by a Gaussian noise, whose variance scales linearly with the brightness. The noise profile tag therefore gives the slope and the intercept of this linear relation, for each color channel.   There are several methods to estimate these parameters, but I doubt that such an estimation is done everytime I take a raw picture with my smartphone. I suspect that the noise profile is estimated one time by the camera manufacter, and scaled according to the picture settings.   It is now fairly known that the slope scales linearly witht the ISO, and the intercept scales quadratically with the ISO, and such relationships can indeed be observed on the metadatas of pictures taken with different ISOs.  Note that there is a first gap in Adobe's documentation, since there is no convention on the ISO for

Hey,    is there any way to blend the amount of the calibration menu at once?  I am using it to grade my images and sometimes I would like to tone it down.   And I dont want to do it for every slider?    It would be great if we could have such a feature if it not exist yet.    thanxs    Peter     

There is a huge amount of wasted space in the current ACR interface-- rating, zoom etc. buttons should be merged with the bottom bar (see pic, red circled areas moved to green circles).  The bottom bar is also about 3x too tall and should be shrunk.         This would give more space to actially look at the photo being edited, instead of having all the wasted blank space that is currently in the interface.  

Enhance Details function is great but it seems unneccisary to have to always create the DNG file (which is 5x larger than my raw files and I will just end up deleting to save space) when it seems that the processing could be done at the same time as I'm saving images.    It would be good to have a checkbox in the Save Image dialog to acheve this, but also keep the current functionality in the filmstrip view to output a DNG.

Sometimes I use this manual correction when the lens profile isn't enough. Please, add the Pin edges option to prevent those gaps. The screenshot below is from the Liquify panel, where it already exists.  

Problem this would solve: Currently there is no option in ACR to apply flat field corrections to RAW files. This forces photographers to use other programs to make the correction and then export a file to edit in ACR.   Here is a list of other well known programs that have this feature:   Lightroom has this feature and calls it Flat Field Correction RawTherapee has this feature and also calls it Flat Field Correction Capture One has this feature, but calls it LCC Correction Hasselblad Phocus has this feature, but calls it Scene Calibration   Thanks! Warren

I am using an HP 840 laptop with 16mg RAM and 256 SSD drive. I am running Photoshop CC and camera raw  as part of the Photography CC package so I am assuming it is the latest versions. Photoshop and Lightroom all work well but when I try to view anything in Camera Raw the Screen is so large it doesn't fit on the screen. Consequently many of the buttons are off screen. I have tried setting then UI to 100% but it doesn't make any difference.     Any ideas?

How can I create a vignette where the centre of the brightest part of the image is not in the centre of the frame?

Microsoft recommend windows UI scaling is 200% on Surface Pro 7, all text on Surface is very very samll, It must be scaling to 250%, but when the Windows UI scaling to 250%, Camera Raw does not display fully and correctly, the problem occurred on all versions of Camera Raw.  

There is currently zero support for .CR3 camera color profiles in Lightroom... especially since the newer Canon cameras use a .CR3 format... making it difficult to get work done. Only slightly surprised that this wasnt planned for beforehand since there still isnt a 64bit version of the adobe programs that i can use on the most current version of MacOS.

Most sliders in ACR/Lr are very intuitive and by playing around and tweaking them you can easily understand what they're doing. BUT it's not obvious at all what's the difference between Balance & Blending. I'm not a beginner, but I was confused and had to ask for clarification on this forum. Fortunately, I got the answer (here's the discussion topic). Now I want to help other users to make the difference clear. Here are my suggestions. 1. Rename Blending to Feathering.Photoshop users know well what Feathering means. It's the smoothing of either a mask or a selection edge.The Blending here does the same thing with the graded areas (highlights or shadows). If it's 0, the transition/edge is harsh.But the naming is confusing. Because in PS we've got Blend modes (they are not smoothing anything), Auto-Blend layers (merging layers for panoramas), Blend if (which is close to this, but only when using the split handles). 2. Add the pop

I cannot believe this is not a feature yet: When in comparison view, it seems impossible to drag the line in the middle, so I can compare specific parts quickly. This feature exists in the shared images/edits for lightroom for example, and is pretty standard on websites showing any type of before/after view of photos.