Feature Requests

Hi all,    I regularly shoot tethered to Lightroom with my Hasselblad. I shoot directly to a MacBook Pro with a 2nd monitor that faces away from me to allow clients/art directors to view the images as they are shot. When I want to overlay copy/text using the 'Loupe Overlay - Layout Image' tool this does not display on the second monitor but only on the MacBook (Main/1) display. Is it possible to do this? Or can I request it be added as a feature? This also applies to the other tool in the 'Loupe Overlay' namely the guides and grid options.   It's a shame no one else can see the image on a big screen with the text overlaid!   Thanks!

i very often need to create a copy of a photo and move it to another folder (when i create a folder structure within one project). it would be perfect when all iterations/copies of original photo will be synced (100% identical), virtual (not using disk space until export), movable to different folders of catalogue. "virtual copy" is not a solution because it's not movable to another folder. thanks. fv

When I have exported an image in LRC - I would like to add the name of the folder to which the image is exported. And not just export and date as there is today  

I have often found that it would be helpful to know which edits happened between different snapshots. For example: I make 10 changes to the original photo and create a timestamped Snapshot A. Then, I make 5 additional changes to various settings, and create timestamped snapshot B.   Currently, no "Snapshot [A/B] was created here" step shows up History pane. This means that I have no idea what changes I'm actually reversing if I go back to snapshot A from snapshot B at some point. I don't know what stage in the History I'm going back to.   It'd be helpful for snapshot creation to just show up automatically as a step in History—as it does already with an "Export" action.   A workaround (below, h/t @prbimages) basically involves creating a snapshot and then applying it immediately afterwards. Applying a snapshot does show up as a step in the History pane, which is why this works—but it'd be nice for snapshot creation to automatically show up!   Create a snapshot.

There's currently no way for a plugin to update the AI settings for a photo. For example, users of my Copy Settings plugin must do a manual Update AI Settings after copying masks.  If there were photo:updateAISettings(), then Copy Settings could save users that manual step.

Problem:   When I export more than 11 photos, my computer will be slowed down significantly. This might not be a problem, when I export just one folder, but in order to separate photos from an event of different people, I need to start several export processes and also have to wait for them to finish. Additionally, I cannot work on anything else. I usually have a lot of photos around 20.000 to 60.000 in one catalog. They are distributed/organized in several folder by date and by events. My usual process is to import all my photos, sort them, discard them, edit every photo, export those in different folders. An export of around 1000 photos (32MP) can take around 1/2 hour up to 1 hour easily. I want my computer to work on them, when I don't use it.   I have a decent computer (AMD Threadripper 24 cores, 64GB RAM, NVMe SSD 2T, NVIDIA Geforce RTX 2060 Super), which needs to work on 45MP Photos in RAW.   What I need and probably other users as well: I need to queue an export

It would be helpful if the filter settings set for a folder are maintained while importing and exporting to a catalog. I regularly batch export files to create HDR versions of an image. While doing this, I'll attempt to work in another folder while Lightroom Classic supposedly works in the background. When setting filters in the newer folder I'm now working on (while LR is exporting in the background) these filter settings do not hold. LR removes the filter settings every time it imports a new file from the background export. Please update LR to keep filter settings so I can be more productive. 

The left column in LrC (where catalog, folders, collections, etc live) has an artificial width restriction. It means that a lot of my collection names are cut off; I have to hover with the mouse cursor for a bit to have it show the collection name.   Is there any way to adjust this (e.g. allow for a wider column or wrap text)? I can't find anything in settings. Or do I just have to deal with it/adjust all of my collection naming schema to fit within the restriction?   Especially if some crucial info is towards the end of otherwise similar collection names, it really gets to be a pain. The usable space gets even shorter when dealing with multiple levels of nested collection sets.   I'm running a MBP 13" M1 2020; Sonoma 14.4.1; LrC v13.2. Issue presents with the same cutoff at 1680x1050 and 1440x900 resolution.   Note: I have this issue on LrD as well, but it is able to show a lot more of a collection name prior to cutting things off.

I used the Mavic mini2 I borrowed from a friend recently and it's a very fun toy which has an automatic 360 panorama mode, Where are you Press the shutter, Wait 30 seconds and you have a perfect panorama from anywhere in space above you. its even RAW and not JPG. Amazing!   Import to Lightroom \ Photomerge \ Edit in Photoshop(Beta)  \ Filter-Distortion-Polar Coordinates- gets you a nice Stereographic Projection...   And here, you notice that the middle/bottom is messed up because light room doesn't stitch the bottom properly, though the shot of the bottom exists, it's just that the panorama Editor has never been updated and brought up to date for a real professional workflow. As it is with many other things, it's kind of been forgotten because it's good enough for most and the rest... well... {There does exist one other good panorama stitching tool I am aware of called PTgui / Hugin unfortunately that is based on open source and also hasn't been updated since the turn of

When exporting raw files to JPG all JPG files exported will have the date and time modified to the current date and time the file was actually exported. This can cause issues in programs that rely on the creation date and time instead of the date and time inherent to the exif files (like MacOS Photos!).   Therefore, I suggest Adobe to add a checkbox during JPG export, to retain the date and time according to the information alrady present in the exif files.   Silkypix is already capable of this as show in the attachment below.   Thank you.

There are some companies now offering AI editng, learning your editing style and white balance preferences based on numerous previous completed edits or anchor edits within the same file. Can this technology not be built into lightoom somehow? We already have auto settings and 'match total exposures' but if other companies have this technology, then it could potentially be easy for adobe to implement within the software? Happy to help with any beta testing.  thanks 

Is it possible to put the print Template Browser on the right side of Lightoom to not have to move the mouse accross the screen over and over? It is by far the most used item I would use in a higer volume workflow...

When perspective correction is selected in camera for the Leica Q3 (I have it set to On/Off on the Q3's option button #2), this does not appear to activate in LR Classic when converting the DNG, using the camera's image metadata. Only manual perspective correction appears to be available, which makes the camera feature rather pointless. I am using LR Classic (V 13.0.1) on an M2 MacBook Air with 16GB RAM and with Sonoma 14.0 Operating System. Profile corrections does not list the Leica Q3 but only the M, R and S models. 

It would be a really cool feature to be able to sync video films from Desktop Lightroom to Mobile Lightroom rather than just the other way round. We use Lightroom Mobile to present image media to clients but have to switch from Mobile Lightroom to another programme when we move the presentation from 'stills' to the 'motion'.

I would love to have a social profile/groups, through the apps, that we can do things such as asking for tips, creating a following, add our social media's onto our profile - kind of like a support community, and to help grow our businesses/personal hobbies and or other, and possibly sell our art, as well. #AdobeSocialCommunity   It would be good to have a platform seperate from the others, just to focus on the Adobe community, socially with above ideas infultraited. 

  I shoot sports... and it's super useful to RATE SHOTS IN THE CAMERA using the "rating" button on the back (a very small % of shots are keepers).   Photos work perfectly ... but when video comes into Lightroom the stars aren't preserved at all-- they are just dropped.  In the LR classic forum, JohnRellis investigated and found:   the sample video from EOS R6 and another from the Canon EOS R50 (released last year), both use the industry-standard metadata field Quicktime:Rating to store ratings, whereas LR reads ratings from EXIF:Rating and XMP:Rating.      REQUEST: please add support for import of Quicktime:Rating for all us Canon shooters taking video!   thx

It would be very helpful if LRC would automatically highlight, within the folder tab (especially in color!) the folder name/path of your most recent import. As an example of how this affects me, I very often create very similar or identical subfolders for sports shoots I do. When importing images that I may have in a folder labeled "RAW", I don't always import the master folders above it because I might not want other subfolders included in the import (like say a "video clips" folder).  The result of this is that I can have numerous folder in LRC that show as  "RAW" or "Cam A" with subfolder "RAW" below it, etc.  So, when I initially do my import and it finishes, the Library module appears with the new images, but the particular folder containing them over on my left sidebar is hidden amongst it's peers that look very similar, and it might not be initially visible due to a long list of folders (have to scroll up/down to find it). If I hover over that folder, the thumbnai

It would be great if LR Classic added a feature to convert brush presets to XMP format as well so they can be used in Camera RAW as well as LR Classic. Currently brush presets only work in  LR Classic and only in lrtemplate format unlike regular presets that get read and converted on the fly by LR Classic from lrtemplate to XMP format.

Feature Description: I am requesting an enhancement to the Auto White Balance feature in Lightroom Classic to make it more flexible and targeted, particularly when dealing with images containing people. Currently, the Auto White Balance adjustment applies uniformly across the entire image. I propose adding functionality to focus the Auto White Balance on specific subjects within the image, such as skin tones, or to selectively apply it through masking. Justification: In my professional workflow, starting edits with auto settings significantly speeds up my process. However, the current one-size-fits-all approach to Auto White Balance often does not suit images with people, as it does not adequately balance skin tones. This requires additional manual adjustments, reducing the efficiency of using the auto settings. Current Limitations: The existing Auto White Balance lacks precision when it comes to images with mixed lighting or diverse elements (like landscapes with people), often result

When re-linking a photo, the dialog box is an outdated type of window. It doesn't display the path, like literally every single other dialog box used in every other app.   It's like Lightroom is using an older version of Windows for this specific action.   I can't simply paste in the proper path to re-link the file.   Please update it to use a more modern dialog box.   See below for the different dialog box used to open a catalog, for example.      

Is there a method to better filter the files you want to import from a master folder? I'll post a screen grab of what I'm referring to to help explain, but here's my issue. If, when importing, I want to keep the master folder name as part of the import, some of my subfolders may have file types that I do NOT want to include, particularly video files.  The import dialog window shows a way to sort photos, but not a way to filter out file types.  And if I was to highlight the 60 video clips that it was ganging up with all my raw still image files, it doesn't allow me to just deselect those highlighted ones. All you can do is "check all" or "uncheck all".  The net effect of all this is that I end up doing imports on just subfolders only, which then do not show master foders above them. My use of similar subfolder naming therefore makes the folder panel of the Library module a confusing mess.

In my area all the Google map styles (including satellite data) are horrible and unuseable.It would be so easy to use the much better OpenStreetMap in LightroomBut everytime there is an update of the software, the file "Location.lrmodule" is overwritten. Please integrate OpenStreetMap in the Map Module as a map style.

Please add Plug-in metadata type for 'number' and Add smart collection search definition for 'gerater than' , 'less than' to Custon metadata.   I 'm Making Image evaluation app externallly by launching for LrTask, Returning results as Plug-in metadata. but 'string' and 'enum' type not have compare functionality. (only exists/not exist, empty/isn's empty)  

I often round up photos to work on using the library filter or a smart collection. Unfortunately, as soon as I start working on them, they often disappear - you know what I'm talking about, right? (criteria that was holding the photo(s) gets cleared). How about a lock button, such that the contents of the filtered list or smart collection won't change until unlocked. (at a minimum, add "Empty Collection" to context menu, since my present workaround is to copy from smart collection to dumb (temp/to-do) collection. But, I often want to clear the to-do collection for a new round, without selecting it and thus losing my present selection...) If you like this idea, please remember to click the '+1' button below.

When using "Auto" tone in LRC, it seems to always set Vibrance to exactly +15. This is a bad behavior. I think that when we hit the Auto button, the software should be looking at the image and making suggested adjustments, specifically for that image. The fact that Vibrance ALWAYS goes to +15 shows that this is just a random preset that is not necessarily based on the image. If you put an overly saturated image in to LRC and hit Auto, it will become even more saturated. That's terrible. When LRC looks at Exposure, for instance, it will brighten or darken as it sees fit, depending on the image. But Vibrance is NOT being evaluated and therefore should not be adjusted. Or it would be nice if we could set some sort of defaults when auto is used.