Feature Requests

I would love to have the devs create an "Effective ISO" metric that reflects not just the ISO at which an image was shot, but also the ISO with the added Exposure adjustment (E.g. an image shot at 1000 ISO but with +1 Exposure would have an Effective ISO of 2000 and with a +2 Exposure would have an Effective ISO of 4000.) This would be particularly useful with adaptive presets. For instance, I create adaptive noise reduction presets for 1000, 4000, and 10000 ISO, but because I sometimes under-expose (due to running around at events), I have to adjust my Exposure a few stops to compensate. When I do that, I then have to guess what noise reduction preset to add. I can't help but think that it would be awesome to have an "Effective ISO" metric that the adaptive presets to calibrate to rather than the "ISO As Shot." I think it would also be useful just to kind of know more intuitively how ISO is changing as Exposure adjustments are added.(Granted, the Effective ISO obviously changes if you

I propose creating a tool (AI?) that would select or flag images that are blatantly undesirable.   One of my least liked aspect of my workflow it culling through thousands of images to find the gems.  It would be so helpful if Lightroom can select out those that I am highly unlikely to keep.  Blurred images.  Accidental shots of the ground or sky.  People who have heads cut off.  Etc.

I wish, I could rate my picture using my evaluation-stars and -colors directly during the import process and adding specific meta-tags maybe just to one photo (and not the entire import).For instance: I am shooting all day for 5 different projects - they all mix on one SD-card. Coming back, I have to go thru the import-process 5 times, looking thru all the pictures over and over again to sort out the pictures for these five projects.Why can ́t I do this straightaway during import? Am I over looking something already there in LR?I hope, you can understand my wish.

PROBLEM One very common issue users of LrC have are missing files and folders.  Well over 70% of my LrC Help clients come to me with some version of this problem.  The existing "Find Missing" tools in LrC work as designed, and many times re-linking one photo winds up re-linking hundreds of other nearby images at the same time.   However in many cases, depending on exactly how the images became missing,  one winds up having to manually re-link images one at a time which can be an impossible task if there are hundreds or thousands of such images (a client yesterday had over 11,000).    SUGGESTIED IDEA In the Import Dialog, add a new checkbox below the "Don't import suspected duplicates" box called "Relink Missing Photos".    If this box is checked and there is also a version of the photo in the catalog marked as missing, rather than importing the image and creating a new catalog entry for it, re-link the existing (missing)  photo to the locati

Please bring back the "Import to subfolder" in the import dialog.   Before this was removed, the default import folder was the previous one (e g "2024/08") and I could choose to put the new files in subfolder "03", and everything landed nicely in folder "2024/08/03".    That's one click and three keyboard presses.   Now the default value is my last import folder (e g "2024/08/02") and I have to click "Other destanation", get thrown out into Windows Explorer, go back up one level, press "New folder" and create the new folder.   That's just extra steps. Please bring back the previous workflow.

I am a wildlife photographer and I tend to end up with long series of the subject which I slightly different in pose of the main subject but the background is largerly the same. Well, no, not the same. Because, if those photos were made handheld, which they very frequently are, the whole backgrounds are shifted in directions.   What I do now - I manually edit one photo and crop it to fit the composition requirements, then sync it across the series, then >>> go and move the cropping window for other photos to match the original composition <<<. At this point I'll review the result and throw to the trash 90% of images. The rest 10% require more tuning. I may tend to apply fine tuning of the cropping again, for the serries to not look as obviously handheld [as it really was], matching original photo more.   The first round of crop matching is heavy because of many images. The second round of crop matching is heavy because of complicated fine tunings, which

I would like to be able to mouse click on the History State “Multiple Settings" to see what the settings applied are. A pop up screen could come up listing them  

Sometimes, I have to go back into people masks, or sometimes I just look through images, and every time the masking tab is still active, every image is scanned for people.   It would be great, if you could batch scan an entire folder and those people would be "available" later on, maybe even with an option to pre-mask teeth, cornea, whatever's in the list, but people alone would already be very helpful. On one of my devices, scanning takes quite long, so you get my point.

Hello, I write this post as an angry wedding and event photgrapher. The problem is every time I work inside Lightroom Classic I keep loosing the initial Custom Order i set while selecting images to deliver. Every time Lightroom (or me accidentally) changes the sort order inside Library from Custom to Capture Time. Sometimes I need to change image position again... and when I don't notice that the sort order option has changed (because I'm in the Develop module, and there's no way to see the sort order there), and drag a photo in the film-strip... Boom! The initial custom order is GONE FOREVER.So, to me, as a wedding and event photographer, that custom order is essential to create my story telling, and the basic Capture Time sort order can't solve the issue (considering there are often many photographers, camera bodies and many files with different names involved). So the hours passed ordering hundreds of photos is precious to me. Why I have to risk loosing it every time beacause of Lig

There are tons of threads requesting this feature, one thread has 217 upvotes since 2014. The contributor that submitted this idea, @johnrellis, wrote a plugin called Any Comment to do just this, but it is no longer compatible with LR Classic v13.3 or higher. Attached is a screenshot of how John's Any Comment plugin allowed me to write the likes and comments received from LR Web/Mobile to the metadata field of my choice in LR Classic. This allowed me to filter those comments for a specific word.Adobe, please consider adding this feature for those of us with workflows that involve team collaboration to review and comment on thousands of photos that are synced to Lightroom Mobile for review and commenting. Without this, I now have to manually add the comments from my team to the LR Classic Metadata, just so I can filter for them.

You've combined Generative AI with the old content aware brush, and they produce different results, and I try to go back and deselect the Generative AI I lose my brush strokes. If I painted with the Content Aware brush and have Generative AI selected by mistake then Lightroom takes me immediately into the Generative AI Mask Refinement menu. There's no way out of this menu to deselect Generative AI without losing my selection. If I click cancel the selection goes away. Sometimes the Generative AI sucks, so I want to deselect it but keep my brush strokes. But, no, I have to repaint my selection. This is very inefficient and annoying. Either allow us to deselect generative AI from the refine mask menu or separate generative AI from the content aware brush, and create a separate brush for generative AI.

I keyword all my bird photos.  If I am keywording for a bird that is already in my keyword list I have to type in the exact first letter for the drop down suggestions to come up.   ie if I am keywording Sulpher-crested Cockatoo I have to type Sulp.... for the bird name to show.  It would be really useful to be able to type the any of the words in the name ie if I type in 'crested' or 'cockatoo' Sulpher-crested Cockatoo shows in the drop down list.  Often I can't remember the exact name of the bird so being ably to type in any part of the word in the name would help. Thank you Belinda 

Upright mode for framed artworks, documents and other rectangular objects will be great addition to LRIn this Upright mode algorithm should prioritze outer frame of rectangular object and ignore content incide the frame. This will be extremely usefull for shooting artworks, books, documents etc.

I'm u Fujifilm user and I would like to use Enhance details functin during export process of JPG's. Why? Because making new DNG files that are usualy 3 times larger than original RAF is no option to store it for me.   So... Implement Enhance details in process of export would solve this issue. Of course it would be longer process of exporting file, but technically I do not see any issue why that wouldn't be possible to implement.   What do you think?

Lightroom is already performing JXL compression on linear DNGs created from Panorama merges and other linear operations, and it has resulted in amazing space savings. The DNG spec already allows for JPEG92 compression on bayer data and JXL compression could offer an additional ~20% space savings over that. This is especially helpful on very large image files which are becoming more common.  Lightroom already supports JXL compressed unmosaiced DNG files. Other tools can create them, and Lightroom supports those. Extending the "Create DNG" funtionality to use Lossless JXL would probably be a very user forward feature. 

while exporting pictures from lightroom can't  see remaining pictures nor remaining time...why

When the crop tool is active in Lightroom Classic, pressing the 'x' key switches the crop aspect ratio instead of rejecting the image. I request either 'x' always rejects the image, or the ability to redine the keyboard shortcuts, especially the 'x' key. I tried to use the translated strings file to redine the keystroke short cut, yet 'x' seems to be hard coded to switch the aspect ratio when the crop tool is active in the develop module regardless of what translation string I provide.

It would be extremely useful to have an option to filter images by export status. It would make my workflow much cleaner if I could "show photos that have NOT been exported yet."I am a wrestling photographer and often end up with tens of thousands of images from a tournament. I'll often need to quickly edit some matches from the resulting images and then come back to the album to finish, sometimes months and even years later.Because of this, I will often end up with different sections of an event in different stages of editing - some have been culled, some have been developed, some have been exported, and some haven't been reviewed at all. There are ways for me to separate out all of the different stages (flagged/unflagged, sort by edit time, etc) except for those that have been culled from those that have been developed and exported.I can make a workaround by labeling large groups with a color or a rating, but I use those structures for different things, and therefore it doesn't alway

I get that things can take a while like lens blur and generative fill but these features desperately need some visual feedback that they are "working" on things. Little spinning ball something. 

I have used for many years iView, and then Expression Media to catalog my files, and I must say that even today I did not find nothing better from this point of view (on Mac). As the actual one is very limited, it will be very nice to implant some more powerful search/find function in the LR Library module. Something that allow to make very precise researches like, for example: "Find all the tif or pdf files with a weight > 1 000 000 bytes, a resolution of 300 dpi, an Adobe RGB profile and 16 bits of depth..." Image is not available It will be very nice too to have the possibility to personalize more the info on the preview module (for example somebody could be interested to see the weight in MB of each file, of the embedded color profile, or the resolution, or the depth of the file): Image is not available

If you accidentally hit CMD/CTRL + A and select all photos and then do CMD/CTRL + SHIFT + R you reset all edits on all photos without any warning at all.If you are in an edit flurry and don't realize you just did that you have destroyed your library. I know, I did it without realizing it to 200,000 photos.   Please add a dialog to confirm resetting edits, especially if more than one file is selected.

It would save us all a lot of time if we could export our books created in Lightroom as spreads. Currently it exports as pages that even have to be re-pieced back together. Strangely though when one picture takes up two pages it always exports that one as a spread. So it should definitely be possible with a minor tweak in the settings. Thanks!

Since I posted this in 2021, and it still hasn't been implemented, I thought I'd post again.   Please allow to set the cell size, then check a box that says Protect Cell Size so I can move margins but have them stop from encroaching on the cell size.  I have to keep going back and forth, an finessing between Margins and Cell Size.  Hard to believe that Lightroom is around almost 20 years old and this is still annoying. So simple, it would look like this:     Gridlines, like in Photoshop,  for laying our greeting cards would be nice too.Reid 

At today we have the ability to move a Mask. While this is a welcome feature it is absolutely not enough!   • Case 1 Often two or multiple Masks on the photo are created in relation witch each other,  complementing each other, they are "linked" to each other so to speak. These Masks (although separated and with different effects) need to be moved at the same time, simultaneously! Now it's impossible to do so in a simple and efficient way.   • Case 2 In our work we might find ourselves in need to move simultaneously some but not all components within a Mask...at today this is impossible. We should be able to select which components to move simultaneously.     We need to be able to select and move simultaneously multiple Mask and Components. We are severely handicapped now without this basic feature.   .

Who thought it was a good idea to have the lightroom shared links defaults to some random sorting ?? How hard is to have the capture date sorting by default when sharing a gallery??