Feature Requests

[This version of the post from the old feedback forum was updated 11/1/21.]   Lightroom has long incorrectly copied crops and local adjustments between photos with different orientations. This post provides consistent principles of how copying should behave, test results of the current broken behavior, and a guide to implementing correct behavior.   How Copying Crops and Adjustments Should Behave   Users almost always place crops and local adjustments relative to the photo's content. A Spot Removal is placed over a blemish on a face; an Adjustment Brush lightens the shadows under eyes; a crop is placed tightly around a face; a Graduated Filter darkens the sky.   So if a user copies a crop or local adjustment from a raw to a TIFF produced from that raw by Photoshop, the user expects the adjustment to appear in the exact same visual position and have the same effect. A Graduated Filter aligned with the horizon in the raw should also be aligned with the horizon in the

Good morning. I am a big fan of the Masking Tool featured in LR Classic. One issue however that is very problematic is the disabling of highlight and shadow clipping when the "show overlay" option is turned on. This occurs after your first marked area. I understand the need to turn off the clipping in the areas that have been masked, but the areas outside the mask should remain highlighted. I use green for overlay and red/blue is default for clipped areas that are too hot or too cold. The mask allows me to brush over certain areas of an image and then adjust highlights and exposure withing the mack giving me a great way to to "compress" the edges at both ranges of the specturm. (I equate this manual process to limiting dynamic range in audio using compressors) Alternatively a nice feature would be able to create a mask based on exposure, specifically clipping, one for shadow, one for highlight. Something similar to automatice detection of people where I can choose skin areas, etc.., bu

Is it possible to add the vertical aspect ration for the presentation? It can be interesting to create simple reels or instagram stories.   Now is possible to obtain it using a vertical monitor, but it's very uncomfortable.  

Hi All, This is a feature request, but it would be great to see the ability to change the filename that is being used for Edit in based on the application that is being used.   Currently, I have a fairly generic -Edit which is appended to the end of the file, but I would really love to be able to change this based on the application being used, so for example instead of being stuck with -Edit, if I was editing in something like Topaz Sharpen, I might add TSHP to the end instead of -Edit, if i was using Topaz DeNoise it might be TDNS or similar.   This would make it much easier to be able to identify what app the edit was made in! To clarify, I don't nessessarly mean that the software detects the app, I just mean having the ability to set the text to be appended specific to the Edit-In entry basically.

Face recognition - great - but it would be useful to have the pssibility to add notes to each person like "Uncle of  XY" or "Born in XY" like a contact-sheet.

AI assisted white balance, AI assisted exposure compensation and AI denoising at export.   will there be such features - because I guess it can help to find the right "true" whitebalance with AI. Also an exposure compensation can be supported by AI better then any dumb automatic mode.   i really miss a feature to export photos with AI denoise - maybe with a preview option - but it's really dumb to generate for every Photo a DNG and then export this dng to a jpg...  

Hello! It often happens that you make several dozen snapshots and it is very inconvenient to compare them by switching with the mouse. Because you have to be distracted to click accurately. Same thing with LUTs. I have more than 100 of them and it would be much more convenient to sort through them using the keyboard.   I'm surprised that this option hasn't been invented yet. And it's bad that snapshots are shown only on a small preview in the navigator.

Is there an option to add a keyword to the photo metadata when exporting? Apart from the keywords added during import, the ability to add specific keywords during export helps in identifying the image in other photo applications using the same. 

Just today, I have 8 new photos that I want to quickly run through the LrC and share with friends. But I'd like to be able to do this in a second Lightroom window, without distrubing the main larger project that I'm in the middle of. It would be much faster and easier if I could have a second window to run through the importing, editing, and sharing, and then close that new temporary project window, when I'm done. Note: this temporary second project capability could have just limited basic features if easier to implement.

Hello all! I'd love for the crop rotate to be able to be binded to the mouse wheel, so one can just scroll to get the right rotation/crop. Current implementation requires you to hover next to the crop frame, and visually see the cursor to change to rotate icon, and then click, hold, and rotate. Similar to brush size change with the mouse wheel.This isn't a big deal on a few images, but when you are doing hundreds or thousands of images, it would be super sweet to be able to just scroll the mouse after hitting the crop tool short cut, and focus the cursor only for repositioning/sizing of the crop. I know there's auto-level, but it misses the level more than I'd like.  

Portrait photographer here who has spent an ungodly number of hours manually brushing on adjustments to correct for those automatic darkening lenses in peoples' eyeglasses.   Now that we have all these amazing AI auto-masks, would that be able to be automated more now? I'd be happy with a mask that searches the face, identifies glasses, and masks out only the lenses for me. I don't believe it'd be possible just yet, but if someday you gave me something like "whiten teeth" where it also automatically applies a preset for exposure/shadows/temp/tint correction to match the surrounding skin, I'd think I'd died and gone to heaven.   For whatever reason, these lenses are incredibly popular in my area, particularly with men. While it's not a difficult task to do manually, it is incredibly tedious, and such a tool would save me so much time and effort that could be spent on other things.

This would be really helpful when viewing a set together, especially in grid view or for the impromptu slideshow. Otherwise, you have to manaully drag images around until they are random. I imagine this would be a quick feature to implement.    

Im sure I'm not the only one who has experienced the frustration that comes from jumping between ACR and Lightroom and constantly hitting the wrong shortcut keys for things like resetting adjustments, or local masks. Can we get an option in Lightroom (or camera raw) to use a common set of shortcut keys for both apps?

I am wondering why Light Room Classic does not have a levels adjustment available. I think it would be really useful. There's a tone curve adjustment, but I find I have to switch to Photoshop for levels. Is it just me, or am I missing something?

Compared to the alternatives from Capture One and DXO the repair tools are much less flexible. Therefore I would love to see the following improvements: Add/Substract to/from existing pin to fine tune selection. Currently you have to get your selection right at first attempt or start over again if you didn't (like in Capture One) When cloning allow for scaling/rotation of the cloned area (like in DXO) Maybe incorporate the object selection tool into the repair tool (would be a bonus, the upper two point are the more important ones in my opinion These enhancements would greatly improve the usability of the repair tool and would make round trips to Photoshop less needed

DELETE within Lightroom Classic is currently close to a non-reversable command, Certainly even if recovery is possible, it is costly of time and effort   The software does not provide an in app staging and recovery area - making accidental deletes a major issue (and that is IF noticed in time) - before also emptying trash   Please consider providing a DELETED staging area (with an easy recovery option that will put images and edit history back into correct directory and database)   From the staging area Add a COMFIRM ALL option that will actually delete selected (or all deleted) files from the hard disc/storage location.

Hi, it would be great to have prerender or selective batch processing option available for AI masks. The way the feature works at the moment is that you can choose between replacing masks or adding AI masks from a sample file when batch processing. I would like to just UPDATE the adjustments of prerendered AI maks. This would save a lot of time when editing galleries. This way you could render AI masks in advance and then just copy and paste the settings/finetune the adjustments for each indiviual AI mask. I.e. prerender all background AI masks, then just copy and paste the settings. At the moment the AI mask always need to be recalculated when batch processing and it is not very efficient. Thank you for considering this.Chistina

Hi all,   I seem to be having difficulty here. My question lies at the intersection between Lightroom CC and Adobe Portfolio.   I am using Adobe Portfolio for the first time to replace a website I had on Sqaurespace. I like the feature of LR that allows me to manage albums in LR and have automatically uploaded to website with optimal settings. The collections are great like that.   Is there any way to get the images from collections to upload to Portfolio with a watermark attached?   Thanks

Hallo, ich habe eine Canon R3. Mit dieser Kamera ist es möglich, Sprach bzw. Audionotizen zum Bild hinzufügen. Bei einer gewissen Anzahl an Bildern ist es leider in der Rasteransicht nicht ersichtlich bei welchem Bild das Audiofile ist. Dies mit einem Audiosymbol zu Kennzeichnen oder zu Filtern wäre eine große Erleichtung. Das wäre ein Verbesserungsvorschlag für das nächste Update für Lightroom Classic! Schöne Grüße  

Ich fände es praktisch, wenn es im Entwicklungsmodul von LRclassic eine Voreinstellung gäbe, damit der Schnappschuß (Datum und Uhrzeit) auch gleichzeitig direkt ins Protokoll geschrieben wird.

Hi! So this is a little thing and maybe there is already a way to do this, but in my opinion, when using the select people tool,  I do not think the neck should be part of the body's skin, instead, I think it should be part of the facial selection. As a person who wears makeup, when I do my face, I do my neck too, with this in mind, I wonder if there is a way to include the neck when selecting the facial skin area, instead of it being part of the body skin? Thank you, great program, it's always getting better, such an incredible tool, thank you to everyone who helped make it possible.

Can we please enable selecting all snapshots at once and then one click export or one click create virtual copies. This will make snapshots so easy and more useful 

Selecting people is very good but sometimes i don't want to select clothing but i do every aspect of the 'head' and this can mean selecting 8 boxes which is very time consuming when working on dozens of images.  There is only an option for Entire Person or to individually select all the options.   Can a Select All option be added so that we could unselect one or two options or even have one option that selects every part of the head?  The option to unselect one or two areas, teeth or clothes for example would be very useful and speed up the editing process further.

Simple thing:   When Cropping the dimensions of the image/photo (in pixels) should be displayed in the UI. This would allow us to crop precisely.   This is a standard in the photographic  industry and LR doesn't have it. It's a must do.     P.S. (If this was alsed already I am sorry, I searched and nothing come up)    

I've always believed the sum of our experiences and knowledge makes us individuals, and each of us has different workflows in our practice.With this Adobe in Lightroom Classic v 12.x; added swap left and right panels across the UI or in the Develop module only.Believing this may have been designed for left-hand users.However, as a righty, I use it with my Wacom tablet, placing the on-screen radial menu on the right-hand side of the screen and having the develop panel on the left. My Wacom tablet is on the right side of my desk, being right-handed.Using this function Adobe allows switching the order of the panels around.For me what would be nice is the swapping of the words and icons around too, left and right justification as well.Then the titles and functions sliders will be aligned to the left and toggle on and off switches/preview icons being switched to the right.Any comments with be great, thank you in advance.