Feature Requests

Adobe Lightroom remains the gold standard for RAW image processing, catalog management, and professional color grading. However, the modern photography industry is rapidly evolving toward AI-assisted, high-volume, and automation-first workflows — especially in portrait, wedding, beauty, fashion, and studio photography.While Lightroom has introduced selective AI tools over recent years, the platform still lacks a deeply integrated, end-to-end intelligent portrait workflow system that dramatically reduces manual editing time while maintaining professional quality.This feature request proposes a next-generation evolution of Lightroom into a fully AI-native photography production environment.The Current Workflow ProblemLightroom is exceptional at:RAW development Color grading Asset organization Metadata management Preset ecosystems Adobe Cloud synchronization Integration with PhotoshopHowever, modern portrait workflows still require excessive manual intervention for:Retouching Facial clean

I think all portrait photographers would like to have any AI portrait retouch system on Lightroom classic and photoshop, like FACEAPP. We really need something like that. And I know that Adobe can do better than faceapp

How to turn off display of milliseconds (capture time). Milliseconds are useless to me, but they clutter the grid view and make it impossible to quickly review capture time for long burst of bird photos when trying to determine when a burst ends and a new beginning. Just want to turn off the milliseconds and keep the seconds (as in the previous version)  

Please add a way to zoom in on the live preview image while in tethered shooting mode in order to really dial in focus. Both Capture One and the Canon Software (back when it used to work -- it stopped connecting to my camera a couple of years ago) have a way to double click the live view of a shot to get an extreme zoom of the shot, so you could really ensure your product is in focus. I would REALLY love Lightroom Classic to have this feature. The current auto-focus is not good enough when shooting products where you want a specific thing to be in focus while using manual focus. Since I am using flash and not continuous lighting, the preview can be a bit dark and tends to look blurry/out of focus even when full screen and even when it is in focus.PLEASE I am BEGGING you to add the ability to zoom in on the live preview!

Hi Adobe, I am not shure, if it is possible to add such a possibility of an adjustment to Lightroom Classic. My idea is to have the possibility to add an adjustment brush to the skin of a model on the photograph. Afterwards a KI scans the skin for acne (mainly red colored), pimpels (mainly red colored) and varicose veins (mainly green or blue colored), and repair these areas with skin tones of the close environment of the model. Moles shall not be removed (or can optional be removed, if a user likes sterile skin).   Warm regards, Markus

lightroom cloud has many presets not available in Lightroom Classic. share the wealth!

We urge you to consider a transformative feature for Lightroom: an AI-powered batch editing tool, finely tuned to each photographer's unique style. Imagine a feature that learns from an individual's editing history, creating a personalized AI profile. This tool would not only expedite batch processing but also evolve with the user's artistic growth. An essential addition would be intelligent AI-assisted culling. This feature would automatically discern and prioritize images, streamlining the initial selection phase and focusing on quality and composition. Moreover, the introduction of adaptive 'SmartPresets' is crucial. These presets, unlike any currently available, would dynamically adjust to each image, informed by the user's historical editing patterns, ensuring consistency and quality across varied lighting and contextual scenarios. The integration of such advanced AI features would dramatically revolutionize the editing workflow, cutting down editing time and freeing photographers

It would be great if the curves panel in Lightroom was physically bigger. The current panel is too small. While it's easy to make big adjustments, fine tuning is difficult and imprecise. I've attached two screenshots showing the curves panel for Lightroom (LR 4 beta) and Aperture (3.2.2) for the same image. In Lightroom, I've selected a medium contrast curve; in Aperture, I've used the "auto" curve option. Physically, the Lightroom curve panel itself measures 160 pixels per side. The Aperture one is 260 pixels per side, 60% bigger linearly, and three times the area! (67,500 pixels versus 25,600.)Aperture's bigger curves panel gives three big advantages:-- it's easier to see the changes, particularly in relation to the linear slope;-- it's easier to make changes, particularly precise ones; and-- it's easier to either select a current point or make a new one without accidentally doing the opposite.I'd also say a bigger panel encourages you to use it: just grab a point and yank it, withou

Offer color options for the crop and grid frame.  The default frame is difficult to see on light colored images.  Even a limited choice of simply white, black or red would be a vast improvement.

ConceptWhen editing, it’s easy to unintentionally push sliders into ranges that degrade image quality (e.g., overuse of clarity, dehaze, or contrast). I propose a user-configurable system where each slider includes two thresholds (warning and limit zones). As sliders approach these zones, visual feedback (color change) and optional resistance could guide users toward more natural results without removing creative control.Helps beginners avoid over-editing Reinforces good editing habits Improves consistency Still allows full manual override User presets for thresholds Toggle on/off Works with masks and global sliders

The Object select is a great addition to the masking tool. However, it is very frustrating not to be able to select multiple objects in order to apply the same fixes using the masking tool. I have a tricky photo in which I have had to tediously select each object, at least 20 of them, individually. It would be helpful to be able to Cmd-select for multiple objects.

Sometimes sveral masks in a photo need the same edit. It will be effective if I can edit more than one mask in the same photo in a Autosync or Sync workflow.

The “Make a Second Copy To” function in the import dialogue box, creates a folder to hold a 2nd copy of imports during the current session.  In my view,  a powerful safety feature that seems to get little recognition.  Anyway, the feature request is in relation to the naming of these folders.  The naming doesn’t lend itself to sorting making it difficult to find images. For example LrC, will typically label a 2nd Copy folder as, “Imported on Monday, 9 March 2026”.This will sort firstly alphabetically by the day name, then numerically by day date, then alphabetically by month and lastly numerically by year.  This could be easily fixed by changing the folder naming to, “Imported on YYYY-MM-DD”.

When I import photos from my Nikon D-750 and Z8, I choose the "Make a second copy to..." option to a directory on my Windows Home Server, where they are backed up into the cloud by a backup service and are also monitored by Amazon Photos for backups. I have hundreds of backup folders and they all have names like this: These names are utterly useless for finding an import backup that contains a specific date and the date created/modified is not helpful. Please allow me to specify a name for the folder, using a pattern. I'd prefer a name like YYYY-MM-DD Lightroom Import so I can find the folder containing photos taken on a specific day. I'm using Lightroom Classic 13.0.1 on Windows 11, with the backups over SMB to a Windows Server 2016 Essentials host.  

Hello, I often use masking to brighten up a place in the photo, especially for portrait pictures. I always start by selecting the outline of the place I want, except that unfortunately Lightroom Classic doesn’t offer (or maybe a secret function?) to be able to fill the inside of the selection. Because it would save valuable minutes on retouching since I’m not a fan of the automatic skin detection tool. (I often have strange effects on the contours of faces, arms, hands when the background is not the same color. Which is understandable when the colors are a bit similar). I can take about 15 minutes or more for some masks to fill the inside. And even by removing the gradual outline of the brush, to fill the inside and go faster, I often end up with small unpainted spots (setting the exposure to +2.00 to check the entire mask). This option would allow me and could allow us Lightroom users a huge saving of editing time in photography. And as a professional photographer, this time saving is

Please allow clients with no Adobe ID to comment, like and rate Lightroom Mobile Collections. The un-logged in client access needs to be limited to a small number of features to allow clients to interact with their photographer over progress of work and providing feedback. Only major missing feature from LR in my opinion.

I would love to have a white Lightroom interface, just like Photoshop has.Please adobe, consider making it !!!

I am requesting a dedicated metadata field in Lightroom Classic that allows photographers to track the copyright registration status of each image. As more photographers register their work with the U.S. Copyright Office—especially using quarterly unpublished group registrations—there is currently no built‑in way to mark which images have been submitted, which batch they belong to, or whether they are safe to publish.Lightroom Classic is the central catalog and workflow hub for many working photographers. It already manages flags, ratings, keywords, EXIF/IPTC metadata, and custom workflow states, but it does not provide any field related to copyright registration. As a result, photographers are forced to use workarounds such as keywords, color labels, or collection names to track registration status. These methods are inconsistent, easy to break, and not scalable for large catalogs.A dedicated metadata field (or small group of fields) would solve this cleanly. Examples of useful fields

I use a couple of smart collections for every wedding client. One contains only flagged photos that are also virtual copies, these are using for sneaky peeks for the couple, social media, etc.The other is flagged photos that aren’t virtual copies, these are the final selections from culling that will be exported for delivery.Being able to use the same smart collection that simple looks at the currently active folder, rather than have hundreds of duplicates, would be ideal and no doubt far more efficient than each smart collection needing to constantly check for changes.I’m sure there are many other reasons why other users would also find this useful.

Lightroom Classic 11.2 on MacOS Catalina 10.15.7.   In the batch file renaming feature accessed through the hamburger icon to the right of the File Name field in the Library module, I often need to search and replace particular text. I don't see a way to, for example, replace "Jan1969-" with "1969-01-", which I wanted to do this week because I had improved my file naming system and wanted to update my old files' names.   Even better would be to support entering an arbitrarily long list of replacements to make in one pass, with a "+" or "Add" button to add more "From" and "To", or "Old" and "New", boxes.  For example,   Old: Jan1969 New: 1969-01 Old: Feb1969 New: 1969-02 Old: Mar1969 New: 1969-03   A further enhancement to that feature would be to give either the whole list or each entry a pulldown like in the Library module Text Filter, specifying Contains, Starts With, or Ends With.   I could actually benefit from a full-blown regular expression matcher,

It would be nice & very helpful if there would be an indicator, that there exists a synched collection under a stacked and collapsed collection. Here is an example for what I mean.  

For those unfamiliar, Median Stacking it is a process where you stack multiple images of the same scene, then a Median filter averages them out to retain only details that exist on all images.   It's commonly used to to eliminate high ISO noise in nightime photography or astrophotography while retaining stars and other details. ISO noise is random and easily filtered out with this method. It's a much better approach to standard noise reduction which adversly affects the whole image.   It's also used to remove crowds of people from a scene – you do a timelapse of the scene and then Median Stack the images remove anything that doesn't exist on multiple photos. Very nice.   It currently has to be done in Photoshop, which is a one way trip (there's a nice overview of how it's done here with some nice examples https://iwillbeyourphotoguide.com/reduce-noise-median-averaging-photos )   Instead, it should be an option inside of Lightroom Classic. A

I marked many photos to create previews and changed star rating of thousands of photos without noticing right away. Using the “edit/ go back one step” functionality wasnt too helpfull, because it didnt gave me enough info about the steps. A history menue like the one in the editing menue would be helpfull to go back a few steps when working in the library module. 

Quanto tempo si perde, dopo aver esportato le foto, nel raccoglierle e organizzarle in cartelle, suddividendole e raggruppandole per non disperderle in folder contenenti centinaia di file? Il modulo di esportazione di LrC permette di esportare contemporaneamente immagini da molte sorgenti. Usando le esportazioni batch anche in molti formati diversi, ma sempre e solo verso un unica destinazione. Non sarebbe utile poter applicare una logica di esportazione flessibile e articolata come quella d’importazione?Uso LrC dal 2007 e gestisco collezioni di centinaia di migliaia d’immagini, organizzate in cartelle e sottocartelle con molti livelli di profondità. Conservo i file originali (convertiti in DNG) e spesso li riprendo per rielaborarli per utilizzi e pubblicazioni sempre diverse. Per valorizzare l’ordine con cui sono suddivisi i file ho sempre trovato utilissimo un semplice plugin donationware sviluppato da Timothy Armes chiamato LR/TreeExporter.Con questo strumento posso esportare interi