Feature Requests

Lightroom allow the named face panel to be frozen / lockedwhen tagging a large number of photos, the unnamed panel gets rather large, and it's difficult to drag to the named panel as it moves up off screen. If the named face panel had the option to freeze it, that would make things a lot easier, similar to function in excel thanks

Hello everyone,   I think that LrC deserves an icon like in ACR or L(cc) for the before\after view option. I don't understand why LrC doesn't has it.   ACR   Lr(cc)

When moving a folder from one drive to another, if it is not being dropped into an existing folder, one cannot complete the move within LRC. In Windows, when performing the same move, one can drop the folder into an empty space at the same nesting level as the existing folders.  That works. Most other folder/file move operations are identical to Windows folder/file management.  This one should be too.

Similar to how match exposures works, is there a way to add a 'match white balance' that can bring images as close as possible to a similar white balance for situations like flourescent or recycling lighting? 

Sometimes I'll have shared an entire gallery of edited images and then at a later time I want to re-edit the entire gallery with a different look.  It would be great to have an easy way to save the original edited version all at once for all the images in the gallery (or those selected) instead of having to create a snapshot of each image one by one before applying the new edits.     Would love to be able to select multiple images I want to create snapshots for and then there would be a submenu available under the '+' sign next to Snapshots that gives the option to create snapshots for 'all selected images'

A few feature requests for Lightroom:   1. Auto exposure (not just auto tones) 2. Auto exposure (or tones) that prioritises skintones (so to expose for the subject, not the whole image) 3. a liquify tool 4. AI culling, similar to that in AfterShoot        

Description:I would love to see a feature in Lightroom Classic that allows users to view one photo in a grid layout with different presets applied. Additionally, users can save specific groupings of presets to view on one photo in grid mode. Here’s how I envision it working: Preset Grid View: The selected photo appears in multiple grid cells, each showcasing a different preset. Users can instantly compare how various presets look side-by-side. Custom Preset Groups: Users can create and save groups of presets to apply in the grid view. These preset groups can be customized for specific editing styles, workflows, or client preferences. Save and Export Grid: Users can save the grid view as a preset comparison for future edits Why It’s Useful:This feature significantly enhances the preset selection process for photographers and editors. The ability to save preset groups means users don’t need to search for specific presets repeatedly, improving speed and organization. It’s a perfect way

The new smart collection select for lens blur in the v13.2 is a much welcome addition.Thanks a bunch.Please do consider expanding the Aspect ratios to more than just Portrait, Landscape and Square. Except for square the other two doesn't provide much help when either one can mean more than just portrait or landscape.Propose that the grouping be consistent with the default in Lightroom Classic. See Attached. I understand there are an infinite number of aspect ratios however the ones listed are the most common and the rest could be group as custom. One way could be to use the aspect ratios such asSquare (1x1)Landscape (2x3)Landscape (8.5x11)etcPortrait (3x2)Portrail (11x8.5) Ignore the pixels dimensioning.

I've been trying out the Auto Stack feature to help with speeding up HDR batches. I'm finding a huge problem in that it seems when you use "Auto Stack by Capture Time" it automatically considers it for all the photos in your folder, not just the ones you selected. I mostly organize my photos by month/year so I want the ability to select a group of them to be analyzed for Auto Stack, not the entire folder. Thanks for any advice or workaround ideas! 

I don't know for how many years we're going to be without scrolling with the zoom, like in any application ever made for Windows/Mac.Just upvote my post so they maybe, eventually, sometime, in my lifetime, add a regular zoom in/out with scroll.

Right now, you can only change the time of an image. But this does not revise the timezone UTC metadata.   Lightroom needs the ability to change the time zone data, as there are many times where the time is correct but the time zone was offset.   exif:OffsetTimeOriginal/EXIF:OffsetTimeDigitized/EXIF:OffsetTime    Some apps, such as Apple Photos, uses the utc offset when organizing images. This means exports from Lightroom would be out of order - not great. 

There is a fundamental programming issue with Lightroom. Many long running tasks block the user from editing pictures.    Let me give a couple of examples: 1) Applying adaptive presets to a batch of photos blocks editing *any* pictures while it's being a applied 2) Importing a catalog prevents lightroom from being used for anything else 3) Using generative fill blocks any other work   As photographers we're often working on multiple projects/photos concurrently. Why is there an assumption by Lightroom engineering that the photographer can only work serially? If I'm applying an adaptive preset to 1000 photos why do I need to wait for that to finish before I can edit any other photos?    It should be an imperative that the UI not be blocked by any task that can be done in the background. If specific photos can't be edited because there are pending changes that's fine (lock them out) but don't block us from working completely.    Please let us fully util

Create a shortcut which moves the selected image(s) in Library to the top of the album. This would be quicker than manual drag and drop in large catalogs which requires scrolling through thousands of images.

Short & sweet but would be a huge game changer - when you hit \ to see before & after in Lightroom, it would be great if the sliders also showed before & after, not just the after.  

I would love an AI based feature which analyzed an image and took in rule of thirds / golden ratio and created a board of 6 to 9 crop options for an image.    I often find myself moving the crop around a lot to figure out where exactly I would like to crop it. What I miss with this is being able to side by side compair a few options.    I would love to have it leverage AI to make several suggestions where I could pick my favorites, compare them and choose one. I would probably still tweak it a bit after words, but would love to have a board of options automatically to speed up my process. 

Most of us rename and renumber files.  In my case, I use a naming format that includes a project name and a sequence number.  I might shoot an event in multiple sessions and upload each session images into LRC as a separate batch, but I'd like to number all the images for a given project sequentially.  So when I go into Library Rename to rename/renumber another batch of images, I would like the first number of this new batch to take off from where my previous renumbering ended.  Currently, I have to look up the last number of my previous import, do my new import, then renumber the files by manually specifying the next number to use, e.g., "437" or whatever.  That is a pain.  It would be much easier if LRC can remember this number and offer the next number as "Start number" by default, so I can simply click OK and get on with it.

Copy is disabled for all AI mask components (Subject, Sky, Background, People, Objects). However, Duplicate is available, indicating this is just a simple UI bug, not an as-designed implementation restriction on AI mask components.  Tested on LR 14.0.1 / Mac OS 14.6.1 and Windows 11:    

Hello everyone, this is a bug I think:   View on a MacBook Air M1 with display resolution set on "Default" (1440 x 900).   View with display resolution set on "More Space" (1680 x 1050).   So, using a default resolution we will never know that after the color labels ther's another attribute called "Kind" with other three options.

Please add keyboard shortcuts for basic tone and color adjustments, either for Develop module sliders or Library module click buttons. Photographers who do any volume of work in Lightroom know that mousing around is a pain. Unfortunately, 3rd party keyboard add-ons suck or are very expensive. Keyboard shortcuts for basic tone and color adjustments would offer much greater efficiency. By "basic tone and color adjustments", I mean: temperature tint exposure highlight recovery fill light black clipping brightness contrast saturation vibrance

For as long as I used Lightroom, there was always one catalog file: lrcat. And it was good. All I needed to restore catalog was one file.    Since IDK when there is another catalog file: lrcat-data   I learned this hard way, when I decided to format my disk and restore everything from backup.   Why 2 files which both store photo metadata, are kept separate? This does not make sense to me. Obviously they could be stored together in one file, which would make life easier.   Idea here is to merge them into one file and restore simplicity of one file approach.

Hello, I have often to do a perspective correction. 1) For me it would make sense if the option 'Constrain Crop' at Transform (named 'Constrain to Image' at Crop) would be active per default.  2) A other and may be better solution, introduce it to the 'Copy Settings' dialog box, please see my picture below. Thank you! Michael  

J'aimerai que la fonction shoot connecté de lightroom (copie les photo en directe sur l'ordianteur (ça ok cela fonctionne) mais que celui-ci propose une fonction de copie également sur la carte SD de l'appareil photo pour avoir une sauvegarde sur l'APN comme le fait Capture one en mode connecté sur n'importe quel APN c'est une option du logiciel.

Hello I would to have the ability to paste all atributes in grid mode from one pic to another. Ctrl+Alt+v paste settings from one pic to another and would be nice if we could also paste the color label.   Also Would be nice to have this feature in the spary mode. A part of spray the label, also spray settings from previous.   Cheers and Thanks . Arthur

All of these new Portrait features, and yet it is nearly impossible to remove dust from headshots (fabric) without a trip to PS, as LR starts to slow down with dozens of clone tool stamps. D&S is also useful to remove long exposure hot pixels that are not automatically identified (night photography, etc.). This would simplify my workflow for several different things I do daily (including not having two 16-bit files residing on my hard drive), and I would think that many people would find it useful.

Provide a way to create new pages completely from scratch by laying out the position of the picture frames and text frames instead of using just the provided templates. I like to do my own layouts that match the text. Also can we have double page layouts where they are linked and cannot be broken apart.