Feature Requests

Sometimes I have photos with people in the background that I would like to anonymise. You can do this in LR with the copy stamp, for example. But then the faces look very distorted and unnatural and therefore attract more attention from the viewer than necessary. Therefore, it would be perfect if there was a way to ensure the anonymity of the people in the photos by replacing the faces with artificial faces. I can imagine two methods for this: Faces that look deceptively real, as NVIDIA has already shown, or faces that look like real faces at first glance, but then have deformed facial features that are clearly recognisable as "not real" on closer inspection. In this way, people in the background could be made unrecognisable without it being distracting and negative.

Is it possible to add comments to an album or collection as a whole, rather than just to individual photos? The "Comments" area says "Comments not supported here."   I'm deciding whether to switch from iPhoto to LR 6. An important part of my photo organization schema is the comments I add to albums; for example, the weather at the time the photos were taken, or whether my identification of a species has been approved. I'm not sure if this is a dealbreaker or not, but it's pretty darn close if I can't figure out a work-around.

Dear Adobe Lightroom Support Team, I am an avid user of your Adobe Lightroom software. I am writing to suggest a potential improvement that, in my opinion, could significantly enhance the user experience. This is regarding the filename template editor within the export dialog. Currently, it seems there is no capability to change or import the filename using copy and paste. However, such a feature would be extremely beneficial, especially when users want to create multiple export presets with complex filenames. The ability to directly paste names via copy and paste would simplify the process and improve user-friendliness. In my workflow, I regularly encounter the issue of having to manually input desired, often complex, filenames, which is not only time-consuming but also prone to errors. Integrating a copy and paste functionality would make this process much more efficient and error-free. I hope you will consider this suggestion and look forward to a positive development in future upda

Two very useful productivity improvements: Implement these additions to the LrC Library contextual menu "Move to favorite folder" and also "Add to favorite collection" We can already designate favorite Folders and favorite Collections in Library. When selecting an image from the grid (or loupe) provide a right click that would open a drop-down menu with the additional options to ADD the image to an already designated Favorite Collection or MOVE the image to an already designated Favorite Folder. This would improve productivity immensely after importing a batch of images from, say, a smart phone and relegating them to the right folders and collections. It would also elininate the endless scrolling in the sub-panel, you have to do now, to navigate to the folder or collection you would like to use. jc

Does anyone know how I can fine-tune mouse scrolling speeds while using Lightroom Classic in Develop mode? I'm using a Logitech M350 mouse with settings set to scroll 1 line at a time. But within the Develop mode in Lightroom, scrolling the wheel becomes extremely sensitive. Scrolling the wheel slowly behaves as expected (1 line at a time), but it jumps dramatically to 20-30 lines if I scroll ever-so-slightly faster. I'm aware that I could just use the hand tool via spacebar, but there's a significant delay in tool switching and sometimes the tool doesn't switch at all depending on how laggy my system is while I'm processing. This behavior does not happen in any other program and Logitech does not supply/require special drivers/software to tweak the settings for this mouse (it's a pretty basic model).   I'm running Lightroom Classic (11.5 release) on Windows 10 with a Wacom Intuos also plugged in.   {Thread title updated by moderator}

I just have one catalog for all my personal photos, so I can make use of the face tagging. So it would be counter-productive to split it into multiple catalogs each with their own face DB. But as each year goes by, it gets bigger, and Lightroom gets slower. So why not have support for storing the catalog in an external SQL database like digiKam does? Could even one-up digiKam with an offline mode to cache the catalog locally to do work when off the network and then sync back when you return. Then I wouldn't need to overspec my personal computer just for my Lightroom catalog. Which I only really use for organizing, and not really at all for editing (and Bridge doesn't do tagging, and Lightroom CC doesn't support XMP face region metadata because Reasons).

If you copy the editing settings to another photo, the healing tool and the masking tool are also copied. However, they will be inserted in exactly the same place, even though the subject is in a slightly different place in the photo. Example: Use the masking tool to lighten the eye sockets slightly to conceal the dark circles. But if you transfer the settings from this photo to the next portrait, the masking tool may lighten the eyebrows or the forehead instead of the eye sockets. The same applies to the repair tool, which retouches away the rubbish bin in the background, but then does not recognise the slightly changed position of the rubbish bin in the next photo, but instead bluntly uses the same position. It would be perfect if the tool analysed the image and adjusted it accordingly so that it intelligently places the tool instead of transferring it 1:1 without context.   Example: Instead of tracking them and applying it at least to the right position. Adjusting the shape and

In October 2021, the IPTC announced new metadata properties to make images more accessible. One particularly interesting one is the AltText property, which is intended to hold the same kind of information that you'd see in the alt attribute of images on the web. Properly-written alt-text is usually a description of the image intended to let partially-sighted or blind users know what is shown in the image. AltText is different from the Title or Description of an image; it's a description of the appearance of an image, rather than a description of what the image represents. So, for example, if you took Robert Capa's famous 'Falling Soldier' image, the title might be "Falling Soldier" or "Loyalist Militiaman at the Moment of Death", the description might be "Photograph by Robert Capa allegedly showing a militiaman shot at the battle of Cerro Muriano, 1936", but the alt-text might be "A black-and-white photograph of a man in civilian clothes with a leather cartridge belt falling backwards,

I have found myself in need to copy and replace Local Point Color from a correction to another Correction.   Use case.   Correction 1 has these Masks.     I did Point Color in another Correction (at that time I didn't feel it had to be done in the first correction)       I then realized, 3 days later when I revisited the image, that I need the Point Color done in "Color Shift II" for "Ai Clothes Color"    At this point I have 3 choices:   1. Using Point Color I can attempt to sample the same Color using Point Color in "Ai Clothes Color"   PROBLEM IS I need to sample the exact same spot where I sampled it in correction "Color Shift II"  I found this to be impossible because I don't remember exactly where I sampled...too much time has passed. Point Color also doesn't tell us where we sampled NOR shows any RGB or HLS  values for the sample source color so we can't identify it.   This method

I am looking to select about 1,000 photos, all of which have edits, flags, ratings, and colors. I will be putting them into a new collection and I want to start over from scratch with these 1,000 photos. I have tried to select all of the photos in Develop Mode and "Clear History" but that doesn't do it.   How do I erase all of all of the edits made to each photo, and any flags, ratings, or colors to be removed?   I would prefer not to go one by one. Thank you!

I was trying to create a Smart Collection to search and identify all my photos ithat I have uploaded to Flickr.  Flicker photos are identifed as such in the 'History' section in the devlopment mode with the following: Publish - Flickr (16/8/2023 09:26:15).  A Smart collection, it seems, is unable to read this identification marker.    I suggest that a future edition of Lightroom could have this feature.     Thanks

We are shooting hundreds of product and model photos and the client wants all of the backgrounds to be a sepcific color that we have in our swatch library. We shoot all the images on a paper background that is almost that color; we have been exporting all the images to Photoshop to mask the background out and layer them over that exact swatch. We would like to do this in Lightroom and save a lot of steps, but the new background masking tool does not let us select that color swatch from our CC library. Is there way to do this? 

Salut!   I am a Apple enviroment user. I would like to use my Ipad insted of a loupedeck (external device). The Ipad is already synced with my macbook. I need all the controls available on Ipad.  I know it is more of a business decision because it will trash a few loupedeck devices but it would be very usefull for a lot of users.  I am 100% sure that if you dont do it , it will probably come on the market as an app.    Have a great day! Dan

I have lots of keywords, and I apply them by typing in the field under 'Keyboarding > Keyword Tags > Enter Keywords'.Because it is so easy to mistype a keyword and therefore inadvertently create a new keyword, the result is a mess that requires periodic maintenance - reassign the old keyword to files, and delete the new one.It would be great it a new keyword required confirmation before its creation. And since some users might find this annoying, it could be a feature that required opting in with a setting.

While Capture One Pro released an update on 30 Nov 2023, which allows users to save images on both computers and cards, will this function be added to Lightroom Classic in the future?    

While LR 13 (finally!) added keyword:setParent(), the methods getAttributes() and setAttributes() still don't support all the keyword attributes. In particular:   - keyword:getAttributes() should also return the fields "exportContainingKeywords" and"exportSynonyms".   - keyword:setAttributes () show allow the fields "exportContainingKeywords", "exportSynonyms", and "keywordType".    This is trivial to implement.  It would allow plugins to provide batch (bulk) editing of keywords using the SDK, without having to resort to using "sqlite3" to modify the catalog database (as my Any Tag plugin does).   Does Adobe really mean to encourage the use of unsupported modification of the catalog database simply to batch-edit the Person attribute?

How about some better support for keyword management. It's very basic now. I would like to do the following tasks:- Delete multiple keywords at once. Not all plugins do handle hierarchy keywords well and add all the keywords to the root level. It's a tedious task to delete them one by one.- Search for duplicates.- Merge keywords. With lots of tricks, it can be done, but it's so inefficient.- Import keywords from within any level in the keyword hierarchy. Now you can only import keywords to the root level.- And for now last but most important: Real external editing of the keyword list. Moving keywords around and doing real heavy reorganization is difficult in LR. I would like to have an editing option like exporting and when reimported all changes are reflected in LR.

Hi everyone, In the Library module, it would be absolutely fantastic to be able to vertically split the Left Column.   It would allow us to display at the same time specific Folders & the Collections in order to move easily a folder to a specific Sub Collection.   What is your feeling about my proposal ? Laurent

Bonjour Nos APN font de plus en plus de merveilles dans leur post-traitement, mais le résultat n'est visible qu'au travers du jpeg (heic) qu'il produisent. Je souhaiterais suggérer une évolution dans Lightroom (Classic) dans la gestion des photos  enregistrées en RAW+JPEG sur l'appareil. Situation actuelle : en cochant l'option "traiter séparement les fichirs combinés RAW+JPEG" , on est envahi par les vignettes et, en effet, la gestion est totalement séparée (marquage, notation, suppression, etc...). C'est assez infernal. MAIS, on peut comparer le rendu du post traitement de l'appareil . En la décochant, on est pas envahi, on gére le combiné (déplacement, suppression, ...) MAIS, on ne peut jamais comparer dans Lightroom la sortie jpg postraitée par l'apn et le resultat de son propre post-traitement LR.Ou alors, il faut bidouiller : exporter et comparer avec le visualisateur externe . Suggestion : Puisque le catalogue référence peu ou prou le fichier JPG comme "side car", avoir l

Unless Lightroom is fully maximized, clicking the little arrow under the filmstrip to either reveal or hide it usually results in me selecting something on my Windows taskbar instead. It's too small and should be repositioned above the film strip or elsewhere.    I know that F6 is a shortcut, but my keyboard is stupid (MX Master by Logitech) and has the F6 button mapped by default to keyboard backlighting, so I have to do FN-F6 to show or hide it which requires two hands and interrupts my flow.    A small feature, yes, but it would be great to see this revised. 

In Lightroom Classic, I will find the image set I'd like to work on in the Library and go to that folder in order to just view that session. When it's time to leave that project and search for another set of images, I need to scroll to the top of the folder list to the Catalog level and click All Photographs in order to search my entire catalog. A shortcut to that top level would speed things up.

When creating an IPTC template the caption field is one tiny line. Please can this be expanded to several lines so that I can see the whole caption as I write it.   Also, Apple's Aperture used to show you the detail of the IPTC template in the import window before importing images, this allowed you to make slight adjustments to the template just for that import session. This would be very useful in Lightroom.   I might be wrong but I don't see any "Find and Replace" option for IPTC metadata. If I have an error in a caption or IPTC field I have to manually find and change each image instead of using a global 'Find & replace' string and choosing which fields it should apply to.

I have two adobe accounts, one personal (photo plan for my stuff) and one for work (Enterprise account paid for by my employer, where I am not using it for photography). Occasionally I log into my enterprise account on my personal machine. When I do that, LR Classic wants to sync my photos to my work account, which I don't want, since the photos are mine and not work-related.   I know I should just try to remember to quit LRC when I switch accounts, but I was wondering if adobe app prefs are also specific to an account. So I could set it up to not sync when logged into the enterprise account. (I don't have LR installed at all on the work machine, since my job doesn't involve taking pictures.)   Thoughts? If this doesn't exist, it might be something to put out there if others would find useful. 

Working in multiple fields of photography, I have many local adjustment presets. It is time-consuming to scroll through the full list, as there is no mouse scroll capability. It would be great to organize the local adjustment presets into folders or collections (Real Estate, Retouching, Details, etc.)that can be displayed in the preset list as separate sections and can be collapsed. Similar to the Develop Presets. One essential part of this suggestion is to remove the default Lightroom local adjustment Presets on top of the list. I believe they are not beneficial to many people and can use the room up there.

In lightroom it's possible to ignore photos, that are already in the catalog. Thats fine.   However, sometimes there are situations where imported photos are already processed (e.g. rejected and deleted from the catalog) but without deleting the origin source of the photo, lightroom would re-import these again. Especially with SD-Cards that are not formatted right after the import, its often happening.   For me it would be helpful to have another status  "already processed" beside the existing "already in catalogue" and "new". On import i can decide on my own if i want to refuse the files or reimport this again.   Technically i could imagine to use some kind of unique hash which any image should have (?) and save this to a catalog database.