Feature Requests

Hi,   Hi have hundreds of bracketed shots to merge when I come back from work at night.   Sometimes more than 500, composed of 5 * 125Mo files. It takes a wile to proceed, so I launch everithing at night to be ready to be edited in the morning.   Sometimes, I come back in the morning and there is a prompt saying xxx pictures can not be merged (I've made an error while selecting some files). The issue is that the hole process of merging is halted until I dismiss the error message. This morning, for exemple, I came back with an error message for 3 pictures. Then dismissed the prompt.... there was 245 files waiting in the queue LR didn't proceed at night only 'cause it waited for me to dismiss the error message.   It is a huge waste of time. Please, simply implement a behavior for lightroom to process everything that it's OK and simply put the error message at the end.    Thanks a lot

It would be great if we could add more functionality and flexibility to "Create a Virtual Copy" (In the Develop & Library Modules) when right clicking the preview in the filmstrip or library   Instead of "Create a Virtual Copy" I would like to see it become it's own sub-menu titled: "Virtual Copies..."   Inside the sub-menu would be the following: Create Duplicate Copy Rename Copy Extension Create Copy Preset(s) B&W Sepia FT04 User Preset AI Denoise Cropped etc.   My current workflow is that I will: Edit a color photo the way I like it Modify into B&W* (if desired) Apply DeNoise* (if applicable) Edit outside of Lightroom* (if applicable) Crop* (sometimes for multiple uses, Social Media, Wallpaper, Web, Client etc.)   *Often means I make a virtual copy.   I make a lot of virtual copies and it gets a bit annoying when you have a bunch haha. It would be really awesome to have a designated "Create a Copy with X Preset" and the option to edit the

Currently when photo is rotated (an angle is changed) cropping out stops when a corner hits the image's edge.Could we have a feature that would allows us keep cropping out by sliding the whole croping area (allowing the corner at the image border sliding along it)?

Presently I will pre-color a set of photos to a specific color I avoid using for other category of label (ie Yellow). When the merge is complete the resulting merge photo will be yellow. I have two proposed ideas for this process.1. When photos are selected for merge and if successful Lightroom will automatically label them together with the resultant photo with a color not in the present set ... like orange, cyan or otherwise. This could be an option selected by the user  with an additional tick box selection.   2. The present process will add a suffix to the resultant photo. This presents a problem as when we batch rename photos in a folder/collection etc those suffix are gone. Suggest the resulting merged photo be populated with an appopriate keyword. I now manually add #hdr, #pano, #hdr#pano depending on which merge process I had used. Keywords do not get changed when one do a batch rename.Following is a mock up of the UI. If for any reason no new colors could be set

I really need a feature where lightroom classic can do both: downgrade photos that are stored as originals in the cloud to smart previews, and the reverse. It should keep all current settings such as face recognition. It would also need filters for sync status/type in order to find images.    Closer integration and control between LR classic and cloud eco system would mean I would pay more for cloud storage. As is stands, I don't use my cloud storage or import via LR CC because of the volume of my work (33tb) and the unavailability of controls to manage that storage.   Current workaround: As it stands, the only way to clear cloud storage is to unsync the collection in classic, then remove the images from all synced images, then resync the collection. However there's no indication in classic what images are stored as origionals so you have to use LR CC desktop to filter sync status images, and find what collections they are in as LR mobile doesn't have that option. T

Hi there, does anybody know if there is a possibility of auto-creating a smartpreview while autoimporting (it only allows 1:1 previews)? I already tried a plug-in called "folder watch" wich allows smart-previewss at autoimport but also auto-creates 1:1-previews (can't be adjusted) which makes the plugin usless for me because the rendering process in this case takes way to long 😞 any ideas?

The written documentation for the People feature  needs improvement. In the chapter: https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/help/face-recognition.html there are only written instructions for tagging faces, not a word about how to use the names? Typically, I scan/read the text and ignore videos on these help pages because it's faster and the text covers the key issues. Not here, though! Eventually I watched the video and it finally explained that the names get added as keywords and how to use them to get a filtered list of photos. It would be nice to have some text about this. Version of the app:13.2Platform and OS version: Windows 11 Pro - 23H2 Thanks, Adriaan Sachtler

Description: In the Grid Loupe View, there is an icon that you can use to draw & name faces that have been missed by the automatic people scan ("Draw Face Region"). It gets tedious to draw these all by hand, esp. with photos containing multiple faces. Thus I would like to suggest adding a button that re-scans the currentimage automatically, including adding a suggested name. Benefit: speeds up assigning names to people. Version of the app:13.2Platform and OS version: Windows 11 Pro - 23H2 Thanks, Adriaan Sachtler

Description. The list of Unnamed People starts with people that have stacks of more than 1 image, sorted in descending order of number of images in stacks. In my case, in several cases the same name is showing up in multiple stacks that are not adjacent, thus it would be more efficient to be able sort the faces by Name. Also, once we are past the stacks, it would be LOT more efficient to be able to sort the faces by name, as that way one can click-shift-click multiple adjacent images with the same name and accept them at once. Why is this valuable to you? Speeds up assigning names. Since I currently have over 10,000 Unnamed People every little bit of efficiency helps. Version of the app:13.2Platform and OS version: Windows 11 Pro - 23H2 Thanks, Adriaan Sachtler

When I am working in the list of Unnamed People, there is an option to remove the suggested name (circle with diagonal bar, "No this is not...."). I would like to go a step further and be able to hide/unhide faces that have a "?". Benefit: I use the "?" for unidentified people that I don't want to remove entirely, but don't want to bother figuring out names for right now. Thus, I don't want to keep seeing them until later. For this an option to hide/unhide "?" would be very useful, as the Unnamed People panel is cluttered enough with -in my case- over 10,000 faces. Version of the app:13.2Platform and OS version: Windows 11 Pro - 23H2 Thanks, Adriaan Sachtler

I have been scanning a lot of family photos, so I thought it might be useful to try the People feature. At this time, I have 8727 photos scanned (not done yet!), 1935 Named people faces, and 11,759 Unnamed people faces. As you can see, a daunting task. I would like to give some feedback on this to improve, speed up the process. 1) Be able to select which face is shown in the Named People. I saw that someone already asked if this can be done and the answer was no, so would like to explicitly list this as a suggestion. My 46 year old son has his baby photo showing. Others have photos showing that would make the proverbial drivers license a glamor shot. Makes no sense. 2) I think this broke in the recent update from a day ago: when I double click on a Named Person, the individual faces have NO right-click menu. How do we fix mistakes? There should be an option to remove faces from a Named Person collection. 3) When I am working in the list of Unnamed People, there is an option to remove t

At smart collection rules, 'Collection' added by 13.2, More function I want that "is empty" and "isn't empty". "is empty" selects all photos NOT contained by any collections. "isn't empty" selects all photos contained by any collections.

Would like to see Sub-menu like the Develop. This will shorten the root menu.Possible examples of submenu grouping highlite in colors.Personally I seldom use camera settings in my filter presets nor Creator, copyright and job.Attached is the present where there's only sub-menu for Develop (which is good). Hopefully the development team will add one or two groupings .. or even have a Windows like Explorer Quick Access group users could add to for frequently used selection.

Develop Module does not allow for lens profile corrections of TIFF Files.

Add the 'Date Time Original' EXIF data value to the list of availabe sort selection criteria on the Library tab. This should be both the date and time value sorted as one field. 

Super specific, but a color calibrator for the colorblind, there's only 5 types and only 4 would require a shift. 

At today to apply the settings of an existing Correction to another existing one we must:(1) preset the settings in the source Correction(2) apply that newly made Local Adjustment Preset to the destination correction(3) delete that newly created preset (it was only meant to do the task at hand AND not meant to be kept forever) This workaround is complicated and long. I suggest to implement a "Copy/Paste Correction Settings" option in the Masking contextual right click menu and in the "Tools" menu   If no settings have been copied then the option to Paste Settings would not be usable.   I no correction is selected then obviously the options would be unusable in the "Tools" menu.   . 

Lightroom Classic is an excellent tool for managing metadata and keywords; however, it still lacks some features that make handling large amounts of keywords challenging. 1) When dealing with thousands of keywords and synonyms in different languages (such as animal species in Dutch, English, and scientific names), locating the desired keyword can become arduous. It would be beneficial if the input field used for filtering existing keywords could incorporate a "contains" expression and include synonyms. Although John Ellis's AnyTag plugin offers a viable alternative, this type of functionality should ideally be an integral part of Lightroom itself. Enhancements to the keyword hierarchy filtering would greatly improve user experience.2a) Currently, entering multiple words functions as an OR expression so sometimes you get a lot of results. It would be advantageous to include an AND expression, possibly achieved by enclosing the input text in quotes.2b) The current filter encompasses the

I am using the current LrC 10.3 on Win10.  There seems to be no way to use the text search and make it case sensitive.  For example, if I want to search for BIG I don't want to get big, Big, biG, etc.  I just want BIG.   For years I have wanted a case sensitive search in Lightroom.  Here is a very quick and dirty mockup where I added the Ignore case option on the left side for text searches:   If you want case insensitive searches (what you get now) then check the option.  Adobe could even make it already checked by default:   I think this is a trivial thing for Adobe to do when they do their SQL queries on the catalog.  It is really surprising that they seem to not already have it since in almost all programs that do any text searching it is a standard option.

At today is impossible to directly duplicate a Mask with the SDK. Please implement: LrDevelopController.duplicateMask () and LrDevelopController.duplicateMaskTool () .

Suppose an item of any given color appears in two images.  I'd like to "load" a dropper with that item from one image and click on it in the other making the color match exactly and have the rest of the image adjusted with the same hue changes that were used to match the item in question.  I'd like it to work just like the white balancing tool, but be able to choose the source color rather than being locked into grey.

Lightroom ignores files that are below the photos on top of the stack when you select photos in a folder for rename when the stack are collapsed (default). This presents an extra uncessary step to remember to expand all stacks, batch rename and then collapse stack again.Most (ie not all) photos in a stack are in a sequence base on capture time anyway either in a series of bracketed shots or a defined time duration. So any renaming of the photos in any folder will include all the photos in a stack and renaming them in sequence would be a given.Stacks could be already created from the merge process and I would premise one would naturally want the premerge photos to be named sequentially from the merged photo.Propose a way to default this like in a Preferences setting to rename selected stacks with all photos inside the stacks to be renamed together without having to expand the stacks. Similar how Lightroom handles automatic adding of keyword to enhanced images in the preferences > fil

When the lens blur works well on masking off the background I found many instances the background isn't sufficiently blur even at max and using point focus. This often happens to photos with busy background like a street scene. Propose to add an extended blur or a second blur mask to further smoothen the distracting background color gradients. 

I shoot many high volume events and use a separate catalog for each. It would be very helpful if the location of the most recent export directory could be cached per catalog. Currently, Lightroom only stores the most recent export location regardless of which catalog you are using.   For example, I might have events A, B, C and D. When someone places an order from Event A, I want to export to the finals folder for event A. However, when I open the catalog for Event B, it still defaults to exporting to Event A's folder. This is a ton of extra clicks for me.   Premiere exports already work like this; the export location is stored for that individual project & sequence.

Hi,   I sometimes use live view with Lightroom Classic on my Windows 11 desktop but I noticed the secondary windows (camera command, interactive view) are linked to Lightroom Classic main window and can be displayed separately. Windows OS allows a secondary window is detached of the main window, I think it would be a great improvement to have Lightroom Classic allow user to have the little secondary windows available even when Lightroom main window is not displayed and keep the access to camera commands. This is a common feature in many phot / video softwares. What do you think of such an improvement ?   Regards,  Pascal