Feature Requests

Hi,A tool frequently used by photojournalists is to use the lock to flag pictures for import and filing. This allows you to review and flag on the camera as you are shooting a lot of frames, rather than taking the time to import and review hundreds of pictures while you're on a tight deadline.PhotoMechanic allows the photographer to only import the locked images. Would it be possible for Lightroom to have this feature?From what I understand, all that happens is that the file system flag for "read-only" is set and that is how PM recognizes it. Why can't Lightroom?

When I want to soften a bokeh, I can create mask by clicking the "Select Subject" button, invert it and decrease Sharpeness.   But the problem occurs at the edges of subject, the edges of subject are blurred too. The only way is to create another brush mask, paint around the subject and subtract it from original mask.   1. It would be nice if there was a feather control in "Select Subject" that would extend the mask.   2. It would be great if there were an option to automatically recalculate AI mask after synchronization or if mask was copied to a new photo or when applying preset with AI mask.   With this features softening the bokeh could be saved as a preset and it would be very easy to apply it.

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)  

Is it possible that you can place 2 watermarks/logos in the watermark edit. So place a watermark at the top right and bottom right at the same time. Thanks, Roy Froma

Description: I am requesting a UI update for Lightroom to ensure all pop-up menus, specifically the "Copy Settings"dialog, respect the selected Dark Theme.The Problem: Currently, when working in the dark interface, copying settings triggers a bright white pop-up. This creates extreme visual contrast ("light flashes") that causes eye strain and breaks the editing flow, especially in low-light environments or during long professional sessions.Proposed Solution: Update the "Copy Settings" and "Paste Settings" dialog boxes to have a dark background and light text, matching the rest of the Lightroom Pro/Classic interface.Why it matters: Consistency in UI is crucial for professional photo editing. A unified dark mode will improve accessibility and reduce eye fatigue for millions of users who prefer working in a dark environment. 

Feature: allow users to provide criteria for name-space search (face-name matches) that exclude (prefer) according to user-specified criteria. Most important criteria for matching is capture time, but other criteria (keyword / keyword groups, for example) could be used. Fuzzy logic implementation would also be possible (e.g. heavily weight likely results by year of capture, presence in collections/collection sets, etc)This will GREATLY reduce the number of false-positive matches.Example using capture time:-User has large catalog containing many photographs, including images going many years.-Selects a group of photos (by collection set, folder years, search criteria, etc) that all have capture times of 2025.-In suggested matches, Lightroom currently displays potential matches for names that are only in images prior to 2005 (real world example). -Provide an option for user to specify capture-time periods (eg 2020-present), and the number of false matches drops dramatically. -All of this

I have a main catalog to which I occasionally add photos using the Import from another catalog option. It doesn't happen often, but sometimes those photos are already in the main catalog with edits and other metadata. When faced with duplicates, Lightroom offers the option to Keep old settings as virtual copies, but it seems more logical to me that when faced with duplicates, the opposite option should be available, i.e., to add the photos from the imported secondary catalog as virtual copies while keeping the existing ones as Masters. This would allow users to compare both versions side-by-side and delete the unnecessary one without risking the integrity of their primary edits.In my case, there are usually no edits in the imported catalog, but to be on the safe side, I would like to import it (as a virtual copy) so that I can compare, check, and delete them if necessary.

Lightroom Classic, like Lightroom CC (what a confusion this naming causes!) should be able to upload full raw files to the cloud and not just smart previews. This is clearly a missing feature. This is especially handy if you mainly use Lightroom Classic because of its much more powerful editing and ability to actually print but would love to edit the full image from other machines.

Please add an option to turn off the obnoxious grey transparency grid when viewing files in Develop mode. You know, like Photoshop.

Es wäre super, wenn man ein Bild aus LR in FireFly sendet und man anschliessend wieder mit dem korrigierten Bild in den LR Katalog zurück gehen kann. So wie das auch ist, wenn ich von LR in Photoshop bearbeite und das Bild dann automatisch in den LR Katalog übernommen wird

Hello,   TLDR: I wish the Ai was more clever when syncing subject masks, syncing faces rather than 'Person numbers'    While editing I often create Ai subject masks for one or two people in an image. Let's say it's the bride & groom walking down the aisle for example... I've then got a big sequence of these images that I would like to sync.  But when you sync, the Ai more often than not decides to choose 2 random people sitting off to the side, instead of the first image where I've selected the bride & groom.    Looking into it deeper, it seems it always syncs the 'person number(s)' rather than the actual intended target. So after correcting the mask to the correct people - some shots of the bride & groom could be labelled differently... 'Person 2 & Person 3' while the next shot could be 'Person 3 & Person 4' or if it's getting it really wrong 'Person 5 & Person 6' ....even though the shot is only marginally different from the first

I am a frequent user of the Masking tools in Lightroom Classic, particularly for portrait editing. I often create detailed subject masks that include multiple components such as eyes, face skin, body skin, etc., and then sync those masks across similar images in a session.The problem occurs when there are multiple people in the next image. After syncing, all of the subject-based masks are typically applied to only one person, rather than distributing correctly between subjects. As a result, I have to manually go into each individual mask component (eyes, skin, body, etc.), delete those selections, and then reassign them to the correct subject. This process is repetitive and time-consuming.It would be extremely helpful to have an easier way to clear all components within a mask at once, similar to how Lightroom allows you to remove missing mask areas, so that I can quickly reselect the correct subject and regenerate the appropriate features. Ideally, there would be a simple “Clear Mask

Could Adobe Lightroom Classic incorporate a feature that automates window masking in real estate photo editing, facilitating 'window pulls' without the need for manual brushing?   Love the products!   greets!

The AI for masking is brilliant. What would be nicer is if when I send an image to edit in Photoshop, it sends the mask too. After all, it's already created.   Alternatley, If I open an image in Photoshop's ACR, and I create a mask, why can't it open with the mask as a layer. It seems, again, since the mask is already created, it should be no problem, barely an inconvience.   Thank you for your consideration, Vito S.

I'd like to view the import thumbnails larger, by reducing the number across the screen from the current least(6) down to even 2. This would allow easy viewing without having to open the image. I scan a lot of wildlife images and sometimes the animal is very small in the image, making the thumbnails bigger would make it considerably easier to see if I captured the decisive moment.

Customizable keyboard shortcuts in Lightroom would be great. I just find it so confusing that crop and brush tools and things like that have such odd keyboard shortcuts in Lightroom. I understand that changing that all now would be awful for many existing users, but being able to override them like I can in Photoshop would be helpful. Doesn't anyone else out there find they use to wrong keyboard shortcuts in the wrong program?

Lightroom recently added more precision into the timestamp metadata. 99% of the time this is not useful to my workflow and confuses my brain for a moment while I try to understand what I’m looking at. It would be great to have the option to show only hours:minutes:seconds and hide the milliseconds. 

Implement the pen system from photoshop and illustrator as a masking tool in LR classic. Auto mask and object selection are TERRIBLE. I spend an insane amount of time cleaning up the terrible selection job that the forced automatic system does, when if I was in photoshop I could just go and pen out a mask, set the feather selection manually, and then my mask would be complete in minutes instead of killing half my afternoon fighting with the poorly coded “AI” driven automatic selection system. Please stop forcing automatic selection systems on us and give us back user control. 

this would be a huge help. The auto mask feature is sometimes very useful, but other times, I felt myself weighing the pro's and cons of bringing the image into photoshop simply to be able to use the pen tool. I really wish Adobe would consider bringing the pen tool to the LR adjustment brush menu's Thanks

As an architectural photographer, I am constantly reaching for the fantastic guided transform tool to straighten things out. The one thing I can think of that would make the tool better would be if the lines automatically snapped to edges it sees in the photo. It would make setting the lines much easier using a laptop trackpad in particular, but even a mouse can be jumpy when you’re looking at the loupe view to snap your lines. Of course, I would want a modifier key to temporarily disable the snap feature if for any reason it wasn’t doing what I wanted.

I frequently find the loupe info overlay view options frustratingly limited. It’s a great tool to have, but to me it would be more useful if I could set a few more lines of info and toggle it on & off with the keyboard shortcut as opposed to cycling through two more limited sets of info. It would also be nice to be able to set the font color, opacity, and size. I made a mockup to show what could be:Loupe info 1Loupe info 2Loupe info concept 

Przydała by się opcja usuwania drutów energetycznych w usuwaniu rozpraszających elementów.Bardzo mi tej funkcji brakuje w lightroom=ie 

Love the new feature for AI distractions of people and reflections.. Lets expand on that!!   As a wedding photographer I am constantly removing power lines, stop signs, or just signs in general, exit lights.. It would HUGE if these were added as additional AI options for distraction removal. Feels like it would be a fairly easy addition.    Posted a screenshot as an example.. AI generative fill defintely takes care of it no problem but would save time if we didn't need to manually select it. 

I find myself keeping the info overlay on while editing to be able to see the lens and exposure settings I used, however I would rather not have it on all the time when I can just glance over at the histogram panel to see that info, yet usually when I do it’s showing me the RGB values of whatever pixel my cursor is hovering over. This is not really useful to me (at least not in Lightroom) and I would rather turn this off so the exposure and lens values are always present. This typically comes up when I click on the image to view at 100% to see if I have any motion blur and then glance over to see if what my shutter speed was… only to find the RGB value instead.