Feature Requests

I love lossy DNG.  Would love to skip a whole step of importing and then converting. 

The feature request is simple:   I suggest to be able to reverse our Linear Gradients without needing to use "Invert" it could doabl via: Right Click L-gradient  >  "Reverse Gradient"   The advantage of this is that the state of our Liner Gradient(s) won't change.   Current method     Suggested          Tis a small thing but I propose anyway.  

I’m writing about a problem I’ve encountered that seems to have a lot of people frustrated on the forums, but that Adobe apparently hasn’t done anything to address. This pertains to both LR Classic and PS 2002.   I use LR Classic CC and Photoshop 2022 on a new Macbook Pro (OS 12.1, M1 max chip), connected to an external monitor with a resolution of 2560 x 1440. The problem is that the fonts in the drop-down menus (and to a lesser extent, on the panel labels) are spidery and difficult to read, and there’s no way to adjust them or make them larger and clearer. From what I’ve read on the forums, this problem is even worse for those who have upgraded to 4K monitors.   The usual solution (and the only one offered by tech support) is to use the Mac’s system preferences to change the monitor display settings to a lower resolution. This isn’t a workable solution because external monitors don’t work well when they’re not at their optimal resolution. If you try to scale them to somethi

Copying Radial filter effect, between portrait format images in Ligthroom5, that were taken with opposite camera rotation (one rotated clokwise, other counterclockwise) results the effect appears on mirrored position. lightroom 5.7.1 Mac v

When a camera is disconnected during tethered shooting, the "Detecting camera" dialog box is intrusive and often worries my clients. Disconnecting a camera to change lenses, batteries, etc. is common in many shooting scenarios. While it is important to inform the user that tethering has been suspended, it would be nice to have the option for a less disruptive form of notification, especially since the computer is often relatively "client-facing" during many tethered workflows. The tether bar changing color or being greyed out might be sufficient. At the very least, the "Detecting" window shouldn't appear over the photo in the middle of the screen.

I just updated to Lightroom Classic 14.4 and although I do like the fact that I can Denoise without creating a DNG file, I still would like the option to select a series of images and menu: Photo>Enhance... to let it create dngs in the background which enables me to work on other images while it;s doing those. Currently, in 14.4 it takes a long time, especially if I have multiple images that I am denoising and I cannot do anything elese while it's doing that process. Is there still a way possible to do it the old previous way of creating a DNG Denoised file? Seems like an oversight when implementing this new way and slows down my whole workflow.

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.

When making collections, 'Inside a Collection Set' checkbox and droupdown is cleared every invocation please keep it as previous 'Create' operation.  

This is a change request that modifies the the image that's displayed when multiple images are selected in the grid or film strip. I often select multiple images to add a keyword or a title/caption. I usually click on the first image on the filmstrip and then select consecutive images with Shift-Right or by clicking on additional images.  The image shown in the loupe view or on the second monitor is always the first selected image. I would much prefer this to be the last image that I selected. This makes it much easier to find the end of a sequence of images, instead of squinting at the film strip. I don't see any reason to keep displaying the first selected image -- it's much more useful to display each additional image as it's selected.

The Edit Metadata Presets window is tiny. The field for the caption (description) information is a small one line window which makes it hard to see long captions. Compare the window to the IPTC editing window in PhotoMechanic where you can see almost all the fields at a glance and there's plenty of room to write a full caption. Also they have lightning bolts on each field which when clicked will call up previous entries which helps repetative typring.   Whilst we're at it, can we bring the Metadata template presets out of the Library folder? It makes it very awkward to share presets with other photographers.  

A new feature suggestion would be to use AI to match, as closely as possible,  a "soft proof" copy with the edited image.  This would safe tons of time when soft proofing an image for various paper types and would be an excellent use of Adobe's AI technology.

In using LRC.. and looking at metadata, is there a selection to display how a photo was captured.. IE I use Canon R62  and wondered if a photo was taken as Mechanical or 1st Curtain or Electronic?  Do folks think that would be a needed option?  looking thru my photos I took this weekend at a airshow. I thought it would be a good option to see what the selection was chosen? Would this take a update to camera firmware so software could pickup the metadata? 

So, I shot a wedding recently, and the bride is getting teeth whitening. I used people search to tag her in all the photos and create a collection. I'd love it if instead of person 1, person 2, etc. LR Classic was able to apply the edits to her specifically. She's in a different order in several pics, so it applies to other people who may not need it or they may, but then she's not edited. I think this would majorly improve workflow for many to be able to apply feature edits to a specific person in a folder / collection. 

After installing the latest release of Lightroom Classic 7.4 I'm unable to unmark my favorite folders.  In other words, folders that were marked as favorites before the latest release can no longer be unmarked.  I can, however, select a folder that was not a favorite before release 7.4 and mark it and also unmark it as a favorite.  I use this feature a fair amount so I'm pretty sure this issue started after the latest release but I cannot be sure.  Thoughts?  Seems like one of those pesky software bugs to me. I'm an experienced user so I do not think this is some type of user error.  The catalog is my master catalog and has about 600,000 images.  I did not have any favorites marked in my sub catalogs before the release.  They work fine but, again, the problem seems limited to the folders that were marked as favorites before the release.[Update: All of the reports here except one can be explained by the confusing design of LR's "favorite groups".&

Sometimes the (great) "select subject" tool does not get the subject quite right, and I will need to refine the subject selection with other masking tools (brush, color range, etc).  I will give a name to this refined subject mask, such as "my custom subject". I wish I could subsequently refer to that mask, when doing substractions or intersections with other masking tools (as if that mask was a variable).   Here is an example scenario that I am going through ffrequently: 1/ I use select subject 2/ I refine the selection, and name it "my custom subject" 3/ I do the treatment I want on "my subject" (usually I increase the texture a bit). 4/ I want to correct hot-spots created by my flash on objects brighter then the subject: I will create a radial mask, with the intention to reduce highlights, but I don't want highlights reduced on my subject. Feature request: I wish I could substract "my custom subject" from the radial mask, the same way as I can click "substract" and then pi

Since version 14.4, when a user enables the “Use Smart Previews instead of Originals for image editing” option, and are editing an image where both the originals and Smart Previews are available, they may be shown the following message when they edit an image:   You have enabled "Use Smart Previews instead of Originals for image editing" in the preferences. When using the latest Al features, it is highly recommended that you always work on Originals. For best results disable this preference.   A better implementation for this is to automatically load the originals when needed, rather than telling the user to disable “Use Smart Previews instead of Originals”. For instance, if the user attempts to use an AI tool that works better with the originals, and the originals are available, Lightroom should automatically load the original and use that. The user should only be warned if the originals are not available, telling them that the tool might not work as well on a Smart Preview.

This would allow people to start filenames with date-time so alphabetical order is same as capture time order, and would create unique filenames (without yet another field) and properly order bursts.... Presently, exif metadata includes subsecond field, but Lr filenaming template stops at full seconds. So for unique filenames, one would have to tack on some kind of sequence number or something as well. So, as things stand, one can have: YYYY-MM-DD_HH-MM-SS_{seq-num}_{photog/camera...} but not (as I would prefer): YYYY-MM-DD_HH-MM-SS-MS_{photog/camera...} A side benefit is that filename indicates subseconds between shots in a burst, which is otherwise unavailable in Lightroom without a plugin. Although, I could argue for displaying that too in formatted metadata display, even if only upon mouse-over. --------------- I would like to use Lightroom import dialog box for importing, instead of the plugin I use now, but it stops just shy of what I need/want still. - this is one of the things.

Ability to browse the presets and see its effects with the up and down keys

Bridge recently updated so that more than one window of bridge can run at the same time which has been incredible. In the meantime, I can only open up one Lightroom catalog at a time. I want to be able to export one wedding and while that loads open up the next wedding catalog to start working on that. Instead I have to wait the 20-40 minutes to export all the images before I can close one catalog before I can open another catalog.

It would be nice if LR had a crop guide overlay that can be toggled on or off without using the actual Crop tool. For instance, my camera shoots in 3:2 aspect but I would like for there to be a 4x5 / 8x10 cropping overlay that can be constantly on (or toggled off) so that I can edit for common crops that my clients might purchase such as for an 8x10.    If there's already a way to do this, please advise, but otherwise, it would be a VERY helpful feature. Thanks in advance!

You should add the ability to selects WB with a color picker in the masks. I often use color range masks to calibrate my images, but I have to select my WB using the slider, which is often less efficient. Your competitor does it well,  I'm sure you can do it to.

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?

Could we add an option to selectively sync RGB channel adjustments within the Tone Curve panel (e.g., sync only Red, only Green, or only Blue channels)?

Hello, before this update happened, I could be in crop overlay and hit "F" for full screen to see if I liked the crop and centering then "F" again and it would stay on the crop overlay.  Now it reverts back to the Edit after I exit full screen.  How do I get this back so I'm not hitting "R" every time after?   Thank you.

Can we please please please get a hotkey for selecting an object in a mask. Or allow us to keep selecting until we switch off of it. When editing in camera raw it works so much smoother. Annoying to have to click add select object over and over to keep adding.