Feature Requests

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

Hi, I think it will be very useful to allow exportation of  book created with LR toward InDesign. Blurb, PDF ... InDesign file... should be very interesting ! Alain

Lightroom--I would love to see relative presets as opposed to only absolute presets. For example, I may want to add +10 of yellow in Temperature to what ever setting exists and not a static number. This would be great for white balancing where pleasing color is preferable over accurate color. I may want to white balance a set of pictures and add +10 of yellow to warm things up. I find a lot of presets aren’t useful in my workflow, but a relative color temp/tint would be. Thanks, Reid

They lack the most basic logic like "folder name is folder01 or folder 02 and type is not video" - sigh

Hello   LRC 14.1.1 W11 24H2   Before going to PS both number suffix (filename or original) are OK     After going back from PS Filename suffix is gone but original is ok. Why not      But if you use the denoise by AI  that create a DNG from the initial RAW. Both are gone. So Bug. The original should stay      Kind regards  

Please add ability to Sync LR Classic Collection Sets and LR CC Folders!

Feature Request: Add Open EXR support to lightroom classicCould we please add open exr support to lightroom classic as an export file format.This would be greatly appreciated in the visual effects industry, that require the .exr file format as the default image intermediate format.Example use caseWhen working with multi camera scan data, either from a lightstage rig or a photogrammetry scan, we are provided with thousands of raw images to process. The target output image is usually a 16bit zip compressed .exr file to use for texture reprojection, or in compositing software for further processing.To create the target .exr file requires multiple steps using Photoshop scripts (slow), 3rd party software, or custom compiled command line tools such as OpenImage IO. Whatever the process used, it takes valuable time away from doing the actual work its required for. It would be significantly more convenient to export a .exr file type directly from lightroom classic.   Thank you!

When you perform a Lr search against "All Searchable Metadata" it appears to only search within the IPTC Core fields. Is it possible to search within the IPTC Extension fields?

Hi,    There are many cases where allowing the user to edit the Camera or lens in EXIF make sens.  For example: The user wants to add the information to photos they scanned The user uses a DSLR with an adapter to use lens of another brand, and it is not recognised The user wants to add this information to videos shot with their DSLR (most cameras do not include the information in the exif for videos, like MP4, but the information is still important to have)   I know there are weird/complex solutions like ExifTool or Capture Time to Exif to edit the exif of a video or an image but I do not want an extra tool that I need to trust, to buy and to learn how to use, when I'm paying so much money to Adobe.   So my request: Let me edit the Camera and Lens.   Thank you

Hi! I included "Date Time Original" in the metadata panel (This because Frameo need that information to show the picture in the digital frame with correct date, not the date I export it from Lightroom), but didn't get that metadata information after export. "Customize", in the same panel, shows a lot of information under Basic information. But in Metadata preset there is only "Copy name", "rating", "Label" and "caption" under "Basic info".   Expand Basic info with everything that shows under Customized in the Metadata panel!What's the point of the Metadata panel if I can't  choose to include that customized information?When I click Export -> Metadata there is only "Copyright only", "All metadata" and so on, but not customized/chosen metadata. I think there should be that kind of choise.If there's already a solution to my problem there should be explaned with a step to step video on the website.   Thank you! 🙂  

Hi group, I need the possibility to organize my shootings by date AND time in a differnet way. For me this two features are very helpful: 1. Smart Collection by Date & Time (Business requirement) Example:As a user I want to collect all assets shooted in 2024-12-12 from 09:30 to 11:24 or all assets from 2024-12-12 9:30 to 2024-12-14 11:20. Now I'm able to sort images while shooting an event with a lot of different groups or acts - lika a carnival parade, a concert with a lot of different acts or other events with the possibility to add a time to a timeplan. In my case I have to organize - based on a timeplan - more than 100 different groups - based on time!    2. Smart Collection based on a day and month (for most private usecases) Example: Every 24. of december Every 10. of november start by 2021 Every 24. to 26. of december With this setting I am able to sort the images based on a frequently event like christmas or birthdays or other events.   Thanks Stefan

Regarding the labels that can appear above and below the full size images, while it is nice to be able to define the font color along with the background when making a gallery, the size that appears onscreen is very small - giving the ability to increase the size would be most appreciated

I use a custom panel end mark with a graphical legend for my stars and colors. It's handy to have as a reminder when in the library module. Here's an example: It would be helpful to have a different graphic end panel for the development panel group with my workflow reminders like optimal order of steps, finishing notes, etc.  Essentially like a develop sticky note. But there isn't currently a way to do this.So, my suggestion is to allow different end panel marks for the left and right panel groups.  

Simple Text Overlay function in LightRoom Classic (and LR too) will be a very welcome additionWe do a lot of social media posts now that requires some non-complex desighFunctions like Text Overlay and Image Overlay (including transparent PNGs) for adding some logo, stickers, emojis and texts within LrC in Edit module without touching Book module will be really helpful and will speed-up common contemporaty workflows.

Wenn man große Mengen Fotos hat, reicht ein Katalog nicht aus. Und je mehr Ordner es werden, desto länger werden die Pfade, am Laptop ist das kaum mehr übersichtlich. Irgendwie sind auch die Stichwort-Felder zu klein, Tag-Wolken wären viel intuitiver... Aber am meisten wünsche ich mir, dass man Sammlungen in den entsprechenden ordnern ablegen kann. Damit könnte man sie auch zwischen Katalogen hin- und her syncen, was ja leider nicht geht und mir den Spaß an Lightroom immer mehr verdirbt.Bleibt noch ein zeitgemäßes Druckmodul- und Buchmodul, mit dem man gescheit Schriften einbinden und freie Formate wählen kann. Dann wäre LR wieder zeitgemäß. So ist es eine alte Dame...

When using the Lightroom Classic SDK it would be great to be able to move photos in the catalog between folders programmatically.   A simple example would be for writing a plugin that moves selected photos between parent catalog folders, while maintainig folder structure (to move files between disks).   While it is possible to create folders and move disk files using `LrFileUtils`, any catalog photo moved that way ends up as 'missing' in the catalog because their disk location is changed by `LrFileUtils` but the photo `path` in the catalog is not updated.   It is possible to read a photo's path using `photo:getRawMetadata("path")`, provided by `LrPhoto`, but it is not possible to change a photo's path using `photo:setRawMetadata("path")` because `path` is not a valid key for writing back to the catalog photo.   So in summary, it is currently not possible to move a photo between catalog folders in a Lightroom Classic catalog using the SDK.  `LrFil

Hello Everyone!   A little context, I take photos regulary of vehicles in front of the same background but they just rotate for different shots, I usually apply the same settings to create the same style and look for the business on social media, to easily repeat this process I have a preset for my base image settings and presets for my masks I usually apply but I wish there was a better way to automate this workflow and styling of masking shown bellow.   Mask Creation Workflow: Create a mask of just the vehicle using Subject AI Detect, then refine the AI mask by using add and subtract brushes > Copy and Invert the mask to create a background mask > Apply gradient mask to bottom of the image > 2x Copy the inverted background mask and create a gradient subtract for each All Masks then have their adjustment presets applied with some fine tunning here and there.   When you create an inverted copy of a mask it simply carries over the data such as Subject AI and Brus

I'm hoping that the Adobe developers are monitoring this forum, because it would be a huge help to me, if there were a lasso tool (magnetic and polygonal) in Lightroom, to select areas for broad adjustments, such as those available with the adjustment brush.  Sometimes, it's just too tedious to use brush strokes, and a lasso would make selecting the area to be affected so much easier.

I would like to be able to copy text from a photo, as can be done in iOS Photos app on the iPhone since 2022. This would be a huge help in Lightroom Classic for finding photos that contain text, such as travel photos of information signs.

This is a request for Lightroom Classic, but would be useful across the Adobe ecosystem. I would appreciate it if I could search. If I opened a Lightroom catalog, or Bridge for example and did a search for "red", and only images with red would appear. This would help me with my catalog of jewelry photos. If I asked to show me images that contain the color "plumb", and only images that contain that would come up.    For extra points, had a limitation slider that would allow me to contract or expand what might be considered plumb.    For extra points: ask me if I'd like to tag each of those images with the tag "plumb" and then suggest others that are close to it.    Sounds like a good use for AI to keep it busy in the background, adding this metadata.

If you are tethering your camera on a shoot, very often your hands are away from your computer and moving the mouse cursor to click on the Live View button is a bit slow. So it would be super helpful to have keyboard shortcut to start/close Live Capture. Also to rotate the orientation. I'm used to the shortcuts with Nikon Capture and Fuji's Capture app, but using LR directly for tethering and live view is a lot easier, if basic in functionality, but it gets the job done. Please consider this, Adobe.

Lightroom Classic does not seem to allow making a develop preset for healing.  This would be HUGELY beneficial when dust spotting multiple images.  If there is a way and I've missed it, please let me know.  Otherwise, consider this a request for a very helpful improvement.

I really wish Lightroom Classic would not strip metadata when it makes a slide show (at least as an option). I often make slide shows just to visually label my pictures to show people but then all the metadata goes away which make them much less 

I routinely rename files on export to give a user friendly name to a file rather than DZ999999.NEF., and while I include the exported image in the catalogue the export process loses the 'Original FIlename'. This makes it impossible or at best very difficult to track back to the original RAW file from the exported JPG.   Could 'Original filename' be included as a Metadata export item?  

In the Develop > Lens Blur panel, could you please make the 'Use Device Depth' option status always visible. E.g.: "Device depth: on" or "Device depth: off" or "Device depth: not available"   Right now, users need to click the '...' in the corner, and all it reveals is whether the device depth is being used or not. Its an extra click for every photo edit.    Showing the status would take no more space in the panel than the '...' if you used icons for the 3 states. Thanks   (Lightroom Classic 14.1.1 Release)