Feature Requests

Please add vector shapes with variable feathering to the local correction tools. Filling in shapes with the adjustment brush all the time is just not much fun and makes it harder than necessary to make changes afterwards.

Can we have an improved zoom for Lightroom? At the moment you can pick 1, possibly 2 and then the toggle jumps around between 100%, fit, fill and whatever you have selected.With the advent of the radial tool, there is often the need to zoom out to 1/8 or even 1/16th.Photoshop has a great zoom, press a key and roll the mouse, how about implementing something like that, even if it has to do discrete steps300%, 200%, 100%, fill, fit, 50%, 25%, 12% 6%, that would be perfect.If there are logistical issues with the mouse wheel, how about actually making the CMD + and CMD - that is the current zoom actually work properly.This would be a worthy improvement for LR4 to LR5.

Now that Photoshop CS6 has a nice dark interface, Camera Raw should follow suit for the same reason: to focus on the photo itself. (Also, dark interface looks cool.)

Having the adjustment brush within the mask menu adds additional clicks and it's frustrating that I have to reselect the brush tool when I go to the next picture.  This slows workflow.  There should be the option to separate specific mask options to a solo click on the panel.

As someone who uses both Camera Raw and Lightroom, having the C key as crop tool in CR and compare images in LR (whereas R rotate images in one while being the crop tool in the other) drives me insane daily, and I can't be the only user with this experience.   Assigning shortcut keys ourselves like in PS would be the best but even making both of them C, or R (or whatever third key), do the same thing would be very welcome.

As many are probably aware, today we have quite a few cameras that can take multiple shots and store them in single RAW file. Either for exposure stacking or for pixel shifting.   What would be good feature would be to have ability to split those files into individual DNG files, given sometimes one wants either only one frame, or needs to merge those files for HDR "by hand".   DNG files should preferably be truly RAW, meaning non-linearised, since that allows most of non-destructive post-processing.   Anyway, thanks for keeping Adobe DNG converter alive and up-to-date. Its really helpful tool and I think DNG actually is starting to be very useful format.   Btw. ability to bake-in your own DCP profile into DNG would be kinda great too.   Thanks for reading.

This is a need that is way overdue for Camera Raw and it's in Lightroom:  Please add a center marker on Crop & Rotate and on the Grid Overlay.

I recently converted a Nikon camera to infrared. Adobe's dng profile editor appears to be the only way to get infrared white balancing to work in the raw editor as well as light room classic . I have a lot of OCD related anxiety and after seeing how old the dng profile editor is, I have been having panic attacks about it eventually being neglected and becoming obsolete. Can you comment on Adobes future investment in the dng profile editor. Also do you know of a more up to date system for extending white balance in the raw. Thank you for your help. 11:51 AM

It would be great if one could output raw linear tiffs from a raw file. That is a file with no adjustments in exposure or curves but can utilize the lens profiles. Anyone think of a way to bypass the auto-correction to exposure in ACR?

Hi Adobe engineering team,    It would be great if you could make a Beta of the DNG Converter which adds support for the Canon EOS R3.(Like you did last year for the R5/R6)   Kind regards, Henrik Beckheim

It is rather strange to put this into this forum as a request or a subject to discuss, but it seems the ADOBE way.Until some time ago, I could change the image size in Camera Raw in the specs with a short- just below the image. You still can. What is no longer working today is a preview in Camera Raw based on this image size change. It was removed with a new version, or as I see it, somebody killed it by mistake.This little feature entirely made sense. I either preview images I would adjust for web in a small pixel size or interpolate pictures for print and adjust the noise level in Camera Raw. All this mainly on many images.Now we have to open each image to see how the adjustments translate to the needed size.PLEASE ADOBE....BRING IT BACK!! THX

Hi, now that 3D camera's are everywhere and JPS is the standard, is there anyway we can get Photoshop Elements Organizer to allow JPS files?A JPS file is literally a renamed JPEG file but it has 2 images side by side (so it's twice the width of a 2D version) so there's no issues with Organizer reading the file as it's basically a jpeg but I take hundreds of photos and I don't want to rename them all to jpeg because the files then don't display properly on a 3D viewing device.

Currently in ACR, there is only one set of settings that applies to all three of the adjustment tools: Brush, Radial, and Gradient.  If you adjust settings in one tool, then select a different tool, the settings will be the same as what you selected for the previous tool.   This doesn't make sense to me.  I use each of these tools for very different purposes.  Settings for one adjustment tool are completely different from settings for the other tools.  It would make much more sense to have separate settings remembered for each separate tool.  Then when I edit several similar images, the settings I used in the previous image for each of the tools will default to what I used for that specific tool on the last image.   This should be a very simple add.

I have an Apple Magic Mouse, which lets me use its upper surface as a trackpad. In older versions of ACR, scrolling with the mouse panned the open image the same way it still does in Photoshop. Starting in 2020, scrolling the mouse in ACR began changing the spot-removal brush size and adjustment brush size instead of panning the open image. I want mouse-scrolling behavior to go back to the way it was in ACR and still is in Photoshop. (Oh, sweet consistency!) Why can't Adobe give me the option in ACR to have mouse scrolling work the way it used to, which is the way I want it to? I searched and found this problem raised in forums in 2020, but as far as I can tell Adobe still hasn't provided that option.

I have an Apple Magic Mouse, which lets me use its upper surface as a trackpad. In older versions of ACR, scrolling with the mouse panned the open image the same way it still does in Photoshop. Starting in 2020, scrolling the mouse in ACR began changing the spot-removal brush size and adjustment brush size instead of panning the open image. I want mouse-scrolling behavior to go back to the way it was in ACR and still is in Photoshop. (Oh, sweet consistency!) Why can't Adobe give me the option in ACR to have mouse scrolling work the way it used to, which is the way I want it to? I searched and found this problem raised in forums in 2020, but as far as I can tell Adobe still hasn't provided that option.

It would be great to have a field for "personal notes" during the Lightroom Develop step. During my import workflow I walk through all of my picture the first time, delete bad ones and rate better ones with stars. Sometimes a good idea comes to my mind (how I could edit the picture), which I would like to fix to the photo. It would be perfect to have a comment field for personal usage, which gets saved in the Lightroom Catalogue, but not in the Metadata of the file. I thought of the implementation similar to the PDF comment feature in Mendeley. Each picture can get a note, at the end I can get an overview of all my notes, which are still to do. It would also be smart to implement the ability, to filter for photos with/without notes.A simple workaround, which is currently doable, to mark a picture with a certain color (which I associate with something), isn't enough. Similar to Mendeley.[Currently using Lightroom 3.6 / Win7 64bit]

Since so many people have difficulties installing, finding, deleting or simply managing their presets, lete alone moving them from one machine to another, why not add a backup/restore for presets to LR? I could fairly easily be added to the catalog backups. If a separate function, the resulting zip file could be passworded with something based on the user ID to prevent piracy.Henk

Please, PLEASE have the team add the SAME CROP OVERLAYS to the Bridge Camera RAW editor as are in both the Lightroom and the Photoshop Crop Overlays.It's very frustrating and seems to make no sense to leave this out of the camera RAW editor in Bridge.

When creating an ISO-dependent preset you have several images of different ISO values.  If you're not paying attention it's easy to NOT check the box to create the ISO-dependent preset. Perhaps when you have several images at different ISO values selected, and you HAVEN'T checked the ISO dependent box pop up a warning asking if you want an ISO-dependent preset.

The ACR 12.3 UI is a good accomplishment, but it will take some getting used to. However, I find the text size to be quite small throughout the UI (from the settings windows to the panel elements), particularly if I use a monitor resolution of 2560 x 1440 or higher. In Photoshop, the Interface Settings window provides a choice of 4 text sizes, and the biggest sizes help with this problem. Please include in ACR a settings feature that offers larger text sizes.

I would be great if the app had the option to export a raw file with the adjustments made within the app, so that you can continue editing on LR desktop. The app only allows to export the original file without any changes.

In an image with a lot of structure in it, adjustment brush pins get lost. How about a list with meaningful names? Choosing the correct mask and adjustment would be faster in complex images.

Equirectangular (EQR) images for 360 'photosphere' images need appropriate support in LR and PS. These features are pretty straight forward and should be easy to add. You can even get free open source code to do it in a variety of environments. (Hugin, panorama tools, cubic2erect, erect2cube, ...)What is needed is:1. a check box to indicate an image is an EQR and should be processed as such.2. any processing that combines data from an area of pixels into each new pixel should treat the edges of the EQR as contiguous left to right, and mapped to a point for top and bottom (zenith and nadir). This include functions such as sharpening, clarity, noise reduction, and other local area adjustments)3. provide functions to translate the image zenith and nadir (top and bottom ~20% of the EQR) to the center of a re-mapped image for patching, and then to restore the edited zenith and nadir back into the original EQR again when patching is done.4. provide a function to extract cube faces, and re-cr

The work flow of a png file is safer for image quality in the long run and is a more favorable file format then Jpeg. It would save a lot of time and issues if exporting from Lightroom was a capability.

Hi there,Maybe I am a pixel peeper, but as of 2020, my observations are that Lightroom's demosaicing is falling way behind competitors and doesn't recover as much detail as, for example, CaptureOne or RawTherapee. Together with fairly average sharpening and denoising, the final result is so mushy compared to what you can get elsewhere with just a snap of your fingers, that it's just frustrating and urges me to look for a replacement.Here is a 200% crop of a photo taken on Nikon D5100 as demosaiced by RawTherapee's AMaZE VS Lightroom (all sharpening, denoising and corrections turned off in both). See how much crisper and detailed is the AMaZE version?It's literally free resolution! Well, technically, the Lr's version is "lost resolution" - you are not getting from your gear what you paid for it.Can Adobe do something about this? I mean, adopting AMaZE demosaicing from the open-source shouldn't be too hard, right? That would be already a significant improvement. Please?Cheers!