Feature Requests

Hi,   I am using Lightroom Class version 11.4.1in my Mac Monterey. I am trying to see if we can change the anchor points of watermark for each of the photo while exporting multiple photos using the export button. Because if i export all the photos with the same anchor point in certain photo the watermark is placed over the face.   So wanted to check if there is a way to position the watermark for each of the photo while exporting multiple photos

When importing from LR classic into Portfolio the subtile may be shown in Portfolio, but in Béhance the subtitle has to be added manually for every picture. I see no add-in or else making it possible to have (sub)titles shown in Béhance pictures automatically with the imports from LR.  As a nature photographer I would at least have the name of a species shown with the photo. Adding these again one-by-one although these are already in Lightroom and Portfolio is a lot of work, but when these are absent the search engines will not find the pictures whilst Portfolio does not feed into the search engines, and Béhance does. Is it not an option to feed automatically (sub)titles and preferably also countries and dates into Béhance.  I understood Béhance is meant to feed search engines as a main purpose but that seems to be forgotten in a way.      Cheers, Louis 

Hello, As a regular Lightroom user, I greatly appreciate the flexibility and export options provided, especially in terms of color profile management. However, I would like to suggest an enhancement that could greatly benefit many users, particularly those working on black-and-white projects or requiring precise grayscale tone control.   Currently, Lightroom does not offer the option to directly export images in Gray Gamma 2.2, a widely used profile for precise monochrome work and better compatibility with certain professional workflows. Adding this functionality would be highly valuable for:   - Photographers specializing in black-and-white photography who aim for a faithful rendering of their vision.- Printing professionals who require the Gamma 2.2 profile for optimal results.- Digital artists or creators needing an accurate grayscale workflow.   Proposal:- Include Gray Gamma 2.2 as an option in the color profile menu during export.- Ensure a simple and intuitive impl

What: After making a selection by luminance range, allow the user to expand or contract the selection by (number of pixels).   Why: After AI Denoise of high-ISO files, deep shadow areas retain residual noise which limits the extent to which they can be adjusted.    Value: In dance photography, I'm often faced with pathological lighting conditions (e.g., some dancers in a bright spotlight while other dancers are in shadow.) Creating good-looking images from such exposures typically requires boosting the shadows significantly, which then necessitates doing extra noise reduction in the shadow areas.    My current solution involves applying extra NR via shape-based masking (e.g. AI people recognition, manual brush selection, etc.) This approach works but takes much more time than I'd like to spend.   I'd like to make this process go much faster by using luminance-range-based selection to grab only the shadow regions -- but as currently implemented in LR, this

May I search for help about LR tethering shoot on live view? When I use a manual focus lens like Canon TSE-90mm,it would be the screen as attached. Using auto focus lens but transfer to manual focus has the same situation as well. Turnning back to auto,it will disappear. What could I do to turn the focus point screen off? My camera is Canon 5D SR , almost using manual lenses such like TSE series. Thank you so much!     [Moved from ‘Bugs’ to ‘Discussions’ by moderator, according to forum rules.]

Would be good to have a feature where 'same as previous' was avaaialble on auto import to copy the settings from the previous capture. I use Fuji to have to use an auto import work around

When the user sets a limit to Preview Cache and spproaches that limit the app continues to nag the user to change that limit with the message "Preview Cache size has reached 90% of its limit. Would you like to increase its cache size?"   I can understand wanting to let the user know that the limit is being approached, but after the decision to change or not change the limit has been made  by the user, this message should go away and never return unless the user resets the cache limit in preferences. 

[I have rewrited this since the original post, since my original text was not as clear as it should be]   I think we all photographers refer to focal lengths in 35mm equivalent value (angle of view). But since there are a myriad of sensor sizes (and so, a myriad of crop factors), most of the time the Focal Length metadata (the "real" value) is not very useful, unless you only shoot full frame.   There is another metadata field called "Focal Length 35mm", but unfortunately, this field is only populated for some cameras (it never shows for any of my Canon cameras, for instance).   I understand this is not Lightroom Classic's fault, but some camera makers' (who, for some reason, are not filling in this field). But still, I reckon that some kind of fix is needed, since I think most of us think in terms of 35mm angle of view equivalent, and just seeing the "real" focal length is hardly informative. For instance, how many of us would like to base their lens-buying decisions on

I teach Lightroom & Photoshop. New users are frequently confused by the Lr Classic import screen. I suggest the the following UI changes.   At the top of the Source panel change the label to Import From. Move the Destination panel to the top of the right hand panel and label it Import To. Create an Advanced Option panel below the Import To panel. Move the following to the Advanced Options panel:     File Handling     File Renaming     Apply During Import     Import Presets     Copy as DNG, Copy, Move, Add   Copy should be the default. Copy as DNG, Copy, Move and Add should not be sticky unless an option is checked to make them sticky. The Advanced Options panel should be collapsed when the Import screen is opened.   This preserves all existing functionality and presents the new user with a simple discoverable UI.   Bill    

Currently, the Enhanced Image (NR) will NOT carry the Collection Information of the original image. I suggest that a check box in the Preference Form can be added like the Keyword (Automatically add keywords to Enhanced image), so that there is a way to automatically add Collection Information from original to enhanced images.

The new adaptive color profile offers a more subtle starting point compared to hitting "auto". However, what if you want to add a creative look using one of the provided color profiles?   I think Adobe should enable the possibility to pick more than one color profile (for example, "adaptive color profile" and "modern 09").    Maybe it would be more intuitive to add a button next to the current button "auto" called "adaptive auto" or something similar.   PS. A workaround is to export the image, reimport it and add a creative look on top of the basic edit. That is cumbersome, time-consuming and takes mor space on our HDDs. 

Problem:  The Keyword List has a number to the right of each keyword for the number of photos that have this keyword. To the right of the number there is an arrow that one can click, which results in displaying the catalog 'All Photographs' filtered for those photos that have this keyword. However, if photos are part of closed stacks, this method will not find the photos.   Therefore, the smoothest solution to this problem is to make the catalog 'All Photographs' always show all photos as unstacked.   The problem is slightly related to the discussion in https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-discussions/lightroom-classic-not-finding-photos-in-closed-stacks/m-p/14770539. There are workarounds, such as https://www.danhartfordphoto.com/blog/2022/4/lr014-lrc-tip01-all-photos-really, but none are as obvious and smooth as if it was possible to simply click on the arrow to the right of the keyword in the Keyword List, directly listing those photos.

If an image containing face regions has been cropped and/or rotated/mirrored, the face regions in the exported image are not adjusted accordingly.   Easy to reproduce. Take any image that has a face identified within it - to make this bug more obvious, have the face NOT in the center of the image (lets say it was on the right hard side of the pic at x~0.75). Crop the image so that the face is roughly centered (ie. x~0.5). Now export the image and look at the EXIF face region tags (RegionAreaX, RegionAreaY, etc). The values have not been adjusted for the crop. Ie. for my example, the RegionAreaX should be around 0.5 but will still be ~0.75. Similar issues occur for the y, width, and height values.   Mirror flipping the image horizontally or vertically, or rotating 90, 180, 270 also result in wrong face region values in the exported image.   I am using the latest Lightroom Classic 14.2 on Windows 10 x64 but the issue existed in previous versions as well. Lightroom Classic

I'm sure this has been discussed before but I was not able to find any previous posts.  Since the Fall of 2013 Lightroom no longer captures the subject distance into the Lightroom metadata.  I remember hearing that subject distance was not considered to be accurate data and that's why it was dropped.  I reviewed a bunch of my older images and subject distance seems reasonably accurate to me.  I'd like to know who and why the decision was made to drop this data.  And what it would take to once again start capturing it upon import.  If the camera records data, it should be captured by Lightroom during import.

Hi All.Currently LrC does not allow to select multiple Maks within a correction and neither it allows to select multiple Corrections.This means we can't work on multiple Masks or CorrectionsMy idea is to : Allow selecting and working on multiple Masks and CorrectionsI personally am already able to do it.Look at the videos.I can select Multiple masks and perform the same action on all of them: Delete, Hide, Convert, Rename, etc...I can also select multiple Correction as well and affect all of them.I can also move multiple Masks.I wanted to share this video as I hope it will encourage users to vote for the request, that is very doable.FWIW I have not even 1 year of coding experience with Lua (the language used by LrC) and I managed to do it...took me a couple of weeks though (I am still very bad)For sure the LrC team can do the same and actually can do even better than me since the SKD has many limits with the UIC.

Setting up Lr on a new computer (v8.4.1) running Win10 Pro. Haven't had to set up Lr on a new computer for many years.    When I import photos, the Library only shows the folder the images are in. I can right-click and select Show Parent Folder. That's tedious. I know Lr can be set up to show parent folders by default. I just can't remember how to do it. Have done a search on here and the web and not finding anything. On my prior machine, running Win7 Pro, I had it set up that way.    Thanks.

I can currently apply existing profiles, such as Adobe Color, with AutoTone on importing images. For many of my volume images, such as in basketball arenas, this has given a good initial image that needs few adjustments to complete and quickly be able to deliver my images.   initial testing of the new Adaptive Color profile shows that it is providing superior results.  Unfortunately, the current implementation in 14.2 does not execute the profile.  This requires a separate, time consuming step to do an AI update.   please allow the Adaptive Profiles to be applied and execute during the import stem.

Background:   My workflow: Get a starting point for the edit Fine tune the settings to make a technically good and neutral version of the image Make a virtual copy Add a creative look   So far I have used the auto setting to get a starting point. Though, the newly introduced adaptive color profile offers a more subtle way to get started. But when I want to add a creative look using one of the color profiles, the adaptive profile is replaced. Currently there is no way to combined the adaptive profile with a creative color profile.    Idea:   Introduce the possibility to make a "virtual copy" that works just as if you had exported a 16 bit TIF and reimported the file into the catalogue. Then you can add a creative look on top of your basic edit with the adaptive profile.   Why not keep exporting TIFs? Well, it is timeconsuming and file size heavy as you have to make a copy/export of the file which eats HDD space.

In the latest version of LRC a list of backups has been introduced. On displaying this list (Edit>Catalog Settings>Backups ) LRC declares that the list of backups are displayed in date order. However, it is not stated if this is new to old or old to new order. Please add a suitable description or, even better, add a field in the list of when the backup was created. 

Topic - Local Color Filtering in B&W Images.   I would like to be able to apply color filters locally in black and white images and not just globally (using the Black and White Mix Panel).  This could be achieved by either:      1) Adding a Black and White Mix Panel option for masks in black and white images or      2) Even better would enabling the color picker panel in the masking options for black and white images such that when we select a "color" (not a gray scale level) and adjust the luminosity of that hue, it would would change the corresponding gray scale in the selected mask area of the image.   This wchange would make it possible to much more effectiely control gray scale tones using color information.

I use different presets for different projects. I have to change several settings depending on if I'm shooting Real Estate, architecture, or doing post-production for another photographer.    Justification: When I shoot real estate I just need quick edits and the quality is mid level and have specific presets for it. When shooting architecture, my raw settings are completely different. Add import presets like we have for exports. Then I can pick my import settings and not have to change multiple. For example, when I do post-production for others, it's easy to forget to change the metadata tab and I can end up adding my copyright to another photographers photos. It would be nice if you could even tie the import to a specific camera.   Please vote it up! 🙂

I would like that writing export data in history was optional. I´we got no use for export in my history. It is noise.

I would like the three color balance sliders that photoshop has put into Lightroom. I use the cyan/red slider a lot in PS but as a wedding photographer I do not want to edit them all in PS just to allow for this.  Adjusting the HSL sliders to compensate for this lack of a slider is time consuming.  Please consider adding this. 

Have develop preset settings viewable inside Lightroom after creation. I find it a bit cumbersome that I cannot see the parameters specified in a deveop preset after it has been created. I'd appreciate an entry in the context menu of a preset: "show definition of preset". This should display, like the criteria of a smart collection, how the preset was defined: which panels included, which slider settings or auto algorithms chosen. Currently it is guess from hovering/navigator panel or try&undo, or I have to view them in a text editor from OS storage location.

Description: I use one LR catalog as a "working" platform for sorting/editing/deleting imagery, then import "accepted imagery" to another catalog as a "final", clean library/repository (where they're organized).  During this process Virtual Copies of images do not import to the second catalog.   Request: Please enable Virtual Copies to be imported from one LR catalog to another. Value: Enable retention of all work, creative ideas and further organizing of content.   [Currently using LR Classic 14.0.1]