Feature Requests

This is one of my highest hopes for Lightroom First, to get this out of the way: - U-points are great when they work: but they don't always work, and they have their limitations... - they are not a panacea... It is my hope that Adobe will tackle the same problem that U-points solve, only do a better job than Nik did, and preferably open the technology for use in both Lightroom and Photoshop proper so it can be used with third party plugins too. I have a vision for this that could go on for pages, but I'll refrain, and just iterate the purpose. Often when I look at a photo I think: Gee: If I could just alter the color of ... in this one region, without altering ... it would be perfect. PS - This is just one of many possible examples. Put another way: How to specify the target for various adjustments, without having to explicitly paint the mask. One of the genius features of the U-points is the "anti-point". Its an intelligent, adaptive technology. You say: Get stuff like this (by droppi

I have an OMDS (formally Olympus) camera.  Standard images are 20MP.  The camera provides two levels of high resolution enhancement by sensor shift.  The first is Hand Held High Resolution.  This produces a nominally 50MP composite image using hand movement for sensor shift.  The second it Tripod High Resolution.  Here the camera is fixed and the sensor is moved by algorithm producing a nominal 80MP image.  If processed through the OMDS OM Workspace software, quite pleasing images are produced.  There are two levels of processing, standard and using the AI Noise Reduction plug-in.I've done some experimenting and in terms of rendering detail and sharpening artefacts, I've not been able to get LrC to replicate the quality produced by OM Workspace, close but not as good.  This is quite remarkable give that OM Workspace is free to OMDS owners.  I suspect this may be due proprietary sensor shift algorithms being used but I don't know. 

Just in case we don't get all adjustments local in Lr4, I'd like to toss in the idea of a local tone-curve adjustment. If you've never applied local tone curves, you'll be in for a real treat. If you have, then you know what I'm talking about. Summary: ------------ 1st choice - all adjustments locally apply-able. 2nd choice, top additions to locals, prioritized: 1. Luminance Noise Reduction - preferably with independent detail/contrast controls, but independent controls far less important for NR than for sharpening. 2. HSL 3.a. Tone Curve 3.b. Independent sharpen control settings. Notes: -------- Really hard to decide between independent sharpen controls vs. tone curve. - We already have local sharpening (and de-sharpening/masking, and the sharpen "auto"masking), and together with local NR, would afford a fair amount of flexibility. - And we already have basic local tone controls. But being able to apply a curve allows much better local tone control... I mean fill & highlight recov

I am hoping this would be easy to implement but it would be really helpful if Heal and Clone looked different when using the spot removal tool. Whether it's the colour of the sampler or shape, it doesn't matter. In my use case, I've just gone through 28 photos(thank God I realised before going through the lot) with about 20 spots each and then realised that I was using clone all along. Now having to go back through those 28 photos(X20 plus spots)

only contains a very small preview, which will not allow proper viewing from any app that uses the embedded preview. The size of this preview does not reflect the setting for the size of embedded previews. The preview size of the resulting DNG should at least contain on option to have a fullsize preview embedded and respect the overall setting for embedded previews.   System: Windows 10, Applications: Camera Raw in Photoshop and Lightroom Classic

Please add a color profiling step to the Camera RAW processing panel. This would consist of a step wherein a reference image with a color target (Calibrite, SpyderColor, etc) is selected, and the color swatches designated by the user or automatic detection. The corrected color profile could then be easily applied to the complete set of images being processed.For example: I work in product photography, and we struggle to get colors to stay consistent between cameras, lenses, strobe, and room variation. Currently there is an intensely manual process to color-match images of the same product shot on different sets. The ability to correct these variations with a common color checker target would be extremely helpful.In the video world, these features are becoming commonplace in the color grading process: matching two cameras is becoming as simple as shooting them both at the same target, and making an automated correction, after which the colorist can edit from a common starting point. See

Bring back the “save new camera raw defaults” button. Browsing the menu is tedious and buggy for setting a large quantity of identical camera's often the case in photogrammetry rigs. I'm still on Camera RAW 13, and lowest photoshop and Bridge available.

I absolutely adore the new masking features, especially the ability to use the AI masking in a batch. One issue I have is that when I use a color range selection for multiple images, the mask on the other images selects the color range from the same position as the main photo, not the color that is picked. While there may be a use for that, it seems like it would be more useful, or at least as useful, to be able to sync the selected color range. For example, I often will mask skin tones, but I have re-select the color range on each image because it gets the color range from the position, and it may select a shirt, sky, etc. Is there a way to do this that I am missing? If not, I feel like this would be a useful feature.

180 ROTATE upside down phooto a MUST - currently have to hit rotate 90 degreen button once... let it process... and then do it again to correct an upside down photo

Many DSLRs have the capability to produce reference photos that can be used to remove sensor dust. For example, Nikon. In addition, good film scanners have an infrared channel (Digital Ice) that programs like Vuescan can save as a separate grayscale image showing where all the dust and scratches are. It would be simplify the workflow, and possibly improve results (if done right) if Photoshop/ACR/LR could make use of the DSLR reference photo or the Vuescan Infrared image to remove dust and scratches automatically.

I would like to see Adobe implement a crash-recovery feature for ACR.  I know that the XMP file (for RAW files) is only written when you open the file into PS or you click Done and close ACR.  It would be nice if in the background, ACR took "snapshots" of your work (not really snapshots like you would within ACR) but basically make a backup of your work, say every 5 minutes, and write it to a temp file.  Then if ACR closes gracefully (doesn't crash) the temp XMP file is erased.  If ACR crashes, then the temp file is detected and you are prompted if you want to pick up where you left off. I think for this to work properly, it would have to be such that ACR writes each change you make to the temp XMP file (sort of like how Lightroom Classic does this with the XMP file option turned on).   I think if Adobe could implement this as an optional setting that you can activate, people would feel more comfortable using ACR.  I know in some of my long edit sessions,

Hi,    After numerous unresponsive Camera Raw edits, restarts are required to start working again.  I wanted to ask if it is possible to save add the option to save an edit to a sidecar .xmp file directly after that change or edit is made in camera raw. When I edit a file in lightroom, the edit is saved in the lightroom database and saved in a sidecar XMP file. In Camera Raw, a sidecar XMP file is made when the raw file is opened in photoshop. But when camera raw becomes unresponsive, all the edits that are made are gone, and you have to start over again.    A little background:  About ten times per week, I make images of real estate. A selection of 100 to 200 CR2 raw files is opened in Adobe Photoshop and Camera Raw as a plugin. I do three passes of all the images, and then I open them all in Photoshop at once. For 15 years, this went well until I changed my Mac from Intel to apple silicon. Since I Have random unresponsive camera raw and photoshop applica

If Adobe documents the format of RGB LUTs stored in enhanced profiles, then it will be straightforward for LR plugins to make it much easier for users to import video LUTs as enhanced profiles and apply them to their images. There are hundreds, perhaps thousands, of existing LUTs, primarily used for video editing, and most of those are in Rec 709.  There are several roadblocks to users wanting to use those LUTs in LR:- Camera Raw doesn't allow the Rec 709 gamma 2.2 and 2.4 color spaces when importing a LUT into a new enhanced profile:https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/camera-raw-add-rec-709-to-lut-color-spaces-in...- A user would need to buy an expensive utility to convert Rec 709 LUTs to a supported color space (e.g. ProPhoto RGB or Rec 2020).- While LR 7 users will have access to Camera Raw via Photoshop (included in their CC subscription), many of them are unfamiliar with Camera Raw and would find the steps for creating enhanced profiles obscure and dau

On this page it is said that Adobe is investigating the option to update Lens Profile Creator program to 64-bit. What is the present status and where can we keep track of progress on this? I'm eager to have the Lens Profile Creator available under macOS Catalina.

Like a topographical map, except instead of showing altitude, show sharpness/in-focus-ness.Would allow one to see at a glance where the focal plane lies, and how well focused is the photo at the focal plane (and everywhere else), and what is the depth of field.PhaseOne took a whack at this in CaptureOne. I think their implementation has some weaknesses: shows focal plane, but no indication of how well focused at the plane, and gives no sense of depth of field, but is still quite useful.See http://feedback.photoshop.com/photosh... for a related idea, that would go nicely with this one.If you like this idea, please remember to click the '+1' button below.

Hello I have an idea about slightly different way of White Balancing: 1. suppose we have photographed a human head in several different light scenarios with varying light color 2. we have also photographed neutral gray patch in one of those photos to reach correct WB for this particular photo 3. now we could use the new tool [let's call it 'Color Anchor'] which works this way:a) we sample color of the skin on the forehead of this human and ACR gets color data, eg. RGB(200, 153, 129) [#c89981]b) we then 'lock this color' in this toolc) next we take another photo of this human and click with this new tool and its locked color on the foreheadd) now since this is the same human and the same forehead - we can reach the same colors and WB by applying WB transformation from 'Color Anchor' tool   I have no doubts it could be valuable for almost everyone since WB is very important when developing RAWs. cheers,Sempoo

Hello, When using Ccamera raw I have two options when ready with the adjustments: And I have the Dutch version: OPEN/OPEN and it opens the picture in Photoshop GEREED/READY and it closes the picture and saving the adjustments. After this you can proceed with selecting pictures in Bridge.   The shortcut on the mac keyboard for OPEN is the "press ENTER", but what is the shortcut for GEREED/READY? Seems it's not available and I need it to program my Loupdeck keyboard. So vote for this.

Hello! My name is Adrian and I have been retouching photos for other photographers for many years. I have realized that the most time consuming process of processing each photo in camera raw is straightening the photos. Not all photographers are able to take photos with a straight horizon, many take 90% of the photos crooked. With artificial intelligence it is not currently possible to add a button to automatically straighten the photos? The function of drawing a line on the horizon on a 13-inch screen, with the effect of un-zooming the photo to straighten, makes it very inaccurate on a small screen. I think it would be a good idea and would save many photographers and retouchers a lot of time. Thank you.

In camera raw filmstrip, if you have many files open, it would be very usefull with an automatic indicator that shows which files have been saved after editing so you will not save more than once if forgetting to mark them manually. I Know that i can give them a label after saving, but it would be much easier with a automatic marking.

Work lost. I was doing a complicated set of masks in PhotoShop Camera Raw (14.3) and was getting very happy with the results. I would say the image had about 15-20 minor tweaks to the mask and I had spent an hour or so getting it to that point.    Then I must have hit a key or done something similar as the entire image returned to its base state with the exception of a simple subject mask (even the mask name reset).    That is when I started to look for a undo or history to reverse the "whatever" I had done. I had not made any snapshots or saved any settings at this point. After chatting with a tech it became clear I was out of luck and would just have to start over. It never occurred to me there would not be a history of the ability to do a series of undos (this is all within the Camera Raw module).  The tech suggested to me that I post this experience and put it on the wish list.  So here it is, A way to recover from an error in the PS Camera Raw module

[This post contains formatting and embedded images that don't appear in email. View the post in your Web browser.]   The Cameras Supported By Camera Raw page incorrectly shows that the newly added OM Digital Solutions OM SYSTEM OM-1 doesn't have camera-matching profiles available: But in fact, LR shows camera-matching profiles available for this sample OM-1 raw:   See here for someone confused by this:  https://community.adobe.com/t5/camera-raw-discussions/p-raw-file-support-requests-and-information-new-camera/m-p/12854482#M17719 

The new enhanced profiles can include LUTs, but the most common color space for existing LUTs, Rec 709, is omitted: There are thousands of Rec 709 LUTs available for video color grading, and allowing Rec 709 LUTs in enhanced profiles would let people achieve the same look for their video and still images.Note that it would be necessary to include two versions of Rec 709 for gamma 2.2 and 2.4, since those are both widely used.

REQUEST: Add a "Copy/Paste Name" function to the presets!   REASON:  Being able to copy/paste the name of the preset in Camera Raw into the PS layer after you open an image is important.  How can you remember later what preset you used to open the image?  You get a nice result and later you want to remember what preset that was... There currently is no simple way. PROBLEM: Currently it is very convoluted and troublesome to copy the preset name - and a little dangerous.  You have to right click, get the drop-down submenu, then hit "Rename Preset", then go to the dialog box to rename the preset, then carefully select the preset name - being careful not to accidentally erase it, then "Copy", then hit "cancel", then paste the name of the preset into the layer after you open it! Whew!   SOLUTION: A simple "Copy Preset Name" function added to the right click menu would be tremendously useful!  Alternatively, just to be able to double-click on

It would be very helpful if it would be possible to change the grid color in the crop tool the same way you can change the "Mask Overlay Color".

I miss the abillity to change the previews of the pressets bij navigating with the down or up arrow. It's a strain on my hands when i have to hover/glide over the many options. Now i have to use the pen(wacom) or the mouse and this causes nerve pains in my hands to make those tiny precision movents or to hold it for a while on the same spot for longer time when to decide . I often decide not to use it and the arrows while make it more enjoyable for me and i think many others so can you help me.