Feature Requests

When you create a graphic watermark, an lrtemplate is created for that watermark. Inside the lrtemplate there is an imagePathe parameter with a link to where the graphic file is.   When you move yor watermarks to another folder or disk, the imagePath should be automatically updated, to link to the new place the watermark is.

As photographers and creatives team up more and more, I would love to be able to share catalogs virtually similar to how Google docs/sheets work.   I have a team of photographers who share the editing workload in LRc and having to create smart previews and send back and forth catalogs is just another added task to our long list of to-dos as business owners.   If there were an online way (preferably password protected and between Mac and PC's alike) to access a catalog and continue editing it without needing the RAW files, and saving/sending things, but just being able to sign on and its there - that would be amazing!

The updated Auto Develop introduced in 2017 is a big improvement on the previous Auto results; except for one thing. To my eye it consistently oversaturates images. Would it be possible to set, in Preferences, what the Auto button does and does not adjust? Then I could de-select Vibrance and Saturation. Currently I use a pre-set to return Vibrance and Saturation to neutral but not touching them in the first place would be preferable. I believe there are regional variations around the world for how saturated people like their colours to be. Maybe you can guess where I live?

Hello!  I've been loving the adobe presets that have been intigrated into the program the last couple of updates.  At this point I have a few favorites and I would love the ability to be able to organize them.     Thank you.  

Hi,   I work a lot in lightroom, and often look to reproduce filmic vibes to my photos. When adding grain to a photo, it renders across the whole image and this is unrealstic. We would see less or no grain found in the highlights compared to the shadows. I would love to be able to add grain through a luminosity mask, where I could control the amount and make more realistic eidts.   

Would it be easier to do a final keyword review of a set of images if you could create a floating panel with adjustable transparency and adjustable content?     Imagine this: Full screen image second panel. Panel with adjustable transparency except the keywords. Panel would show existing keywords at top in a box.  Panel would have a lower section that could be populated with as many keywords as you like (similar to the current panels with 9) which when clicked would add keywords to list.  Why unlimited?  Well in the case of the vacation I just did reducing 5200 images to about 800, there is a variety, or at least more than 9 possible keywords.  Space shouldn't be an issue on second monitor.     The current method of hunting for the keywords in a list or a panel of 9 is limiting and time consuming.  Using the spray can helps but you are never sure you got them all without reviewing them.  This would allow really quick review rather than

Wouldn't your workflow be easier if you came home from a three week vacation and could just enter the start and end date and have a smart collection created for each date by catpure date?     I have 5,200 photos of Portugal from 4 photographers and 6 cameras in front of me.  To begin to get a grasp of the story I want to tell I make a smart collection by date, 23 of them.  Workflow would be so much easier if I could pick a start and end date and have these made automatically.     Thank you.  

Just about every photographer using a camera and Lightroom would understand what is meant by "portrait or landscape" to define a photograph's orientation - (long edge horizontal for Landscape and vertical for portrait.) Most photographers also know that "aspect ratio" refers to the ratio of one edge length to the other. 3:2 or 7:5 etc. So, why on earth do Adobe "smart collection" have a filter called "Aspect Ratio" which then lists "Portrait, Landscape or Square" as the three available options? So two orientations and a 1:1 aspect ratio are sort of mixed up.  Why do Adobe misuse "aspect ratio" for filters for smart collection to mean orientation? And no consistency, in the Crop in the Develop model they offer "Aspect Ratio" correctly to be, well, aspect ratio and not orientation. Mad? Or is there a reason? Why not use industry standard nomenclature?  Could we ask Adobe to call orientation, well, orientation?

A few years ago I posted this request and was wondering if Adobe has looked into it. Competitors keep adding and improving Noise Reduction AI. It sure would make a big difference to not require 3rd party software. As I previouvly suggested keep the current method for speed and add NR Sensie for more troublesome, etc files.   I'm also curious about other members thoughts regarding such a feature.                             https://feedback-readonly.photoshop.com/conversations/lightroom-classic/lightroom-ecosystem-sensei-noise-reduction-feature-request/5f5f46144b561a3d427295daNpise 

Wouldn't keywording of locations be easier if upon import, there was a choice to automatically apply GPS fields for City, State, Country as a keyword.  If the item didn't exsit it could be automatically created starting with the Country, and then embedding state and city.   This would save a lot of time especially the state and city.  It's usually easy to add the country upon import, but not if you visited alot of them so even that is helpful.   This would save a lot of time in Keyword creation and application.   While I understand that I can find images with the Map Module, this has a bit different functionality when using the filtering approach in that if I want to have the images in grid view for a variety of reasons it is easier to manage with filtering.   Thanks, Michael

I have my Lightroom catalog configured to write metadata (including keywords) to XMP files.  Some keywords are used on thousands of files.  It's very easy to accidentally drag a keyword to a new parent in the keyword hierachy list.  When that happens, the system goes crazy applying the update to every file that uses that keyword.  As soon as the keyword lands under the new parent keyword, my CPU utilization goes through the roof.  When I hear the fan going full speed, I realize that I accidentally moved another keyword.   There is no way to abort this operation, the updates are proceed regardless of how long it takes.  Even if you quickly move the keyword back to it's proper location in the hierarchy it can take hours for Lightroom to complete all of the unwanted updates to XMP files.  If  you try to close Lightroom it doesn't help because Lightroom just resumes the update process the next time you start it up.  In addition to the

So you know when you’re trying to color grade moving the marker within the color grading circle and the marker (small circle) gets stuck and can only move diagonally? Well I wish there was a switch disabling this feature, cause it's suuuuper annoying.Or maybe there is one already that I've missed? 

I love face detection. However, it is common for my subjects to be in a crowd, such as and athlete in a sporting event. Face detection identifies many faces in the image which I have to reject/delete. When I crop the image, the face tag remains active even though it is not in the viewable range of the final image. I would like to have an option that, when activated, LR will ignore and delete the face tags that are outside the range of the crop. This would save me a boat load of time spent rejecting the large number of unwanted face to tag.   [Moved from non-technical Forum Lounge to specific Program forum... Mod] [Here is the list of all Adobe forums... https://forums.adobe.com/welcome]

Currently it is possible to toggle on/off the mask overlay with the shortcut O.Unfortunately it is not possible to toggle on/off the adjustments for a mask with a simple shortcut.Therefore I propose to add a shortcut to toggle on/off adjustments on current mask.

Dear Adobe, Can you please give the option to turn off pop-up notifications that appear over the image you are editing in lightroom classic in future realeases, or adjust the pop-up to not appear over the image you are editing. When a pop-up appears when hitting undo or redo for example, it takes you out of the editing process because you can no longer see your entire image, the image now has text covering a portion of it at the bottom. Although the notifciation text fades in and out, it is still incredibly destracting and frustrating. Thank you for your concideration of my suggestion..    

Since I'm using my iPhone more and more for photos, I am using a lot of different camera apps. It would be extremely helpful if LR Classic could show in the metadata which app was used to take a photo. That information is in the iOS Photos app but it does not import to LR Classic.

Adobe Lightroom counts as occurences of a keyword face detected, detected faces outside the final cropped image. I wish ther was an option to excvlude detected faces from outside the crop set in the develop module. If I go to my keywork people list for some rugby team, and I see "Eli Jones" as 48 instances, when I click the arrow beside 48 it brings up all the images that the detected face appears in. But annoyingly many of those images dont show the face of "Eli Jones" because that players is in the background somewhere and has been cropped out of the final image. I would like to be able to set lightroom to count only instances of a detected face withing the final crops. That way one could use it to find processed and cropped photos that actually have that face in the developed image. It is currently very frustrating to find images that someone actually apears in whilst instances external to the copped image are counted the same as those within the crop.

Problem: I have a large-ish library with a complex collections structure. I miss a quick and efficient workflow to keep track (and act) on the collections that a photo or group of photos belong to.   Current solution: A right click on a photo and "Go To Collection" will show which collections it belongs to. However, this is neither fast, nor user friendly when the goal is to check the collections a photo belongs to. Also, it only works image-by-image. And it requires muti-step mouse movements, which is time-consuming, and interupts a keyboard-only workflow, etc. Once in the menu, there is also no quick way to change the collections the photo belongs to.    Idea / Proposed Solution: Add a panel to the right side of the "Library" context, called e.g. "Collecting (in reference to the "Keywording" panel). This panel should resemble the Keywording panel and work in a similar manner. It should contain: A list of collections that the selected photo or photos bel

I will often click on a gray card with the White Balance Selector to white balance an image. However, if I click on that same gray card multiple times I will get a slightly different result each time, as if it's giving me a reading on a single pixel on the gray card rather than an area. As a parallel in Photoshop, it's like using the "1x1 average" with the eye dropper. Perhaps it might be nice to give the option of a 3x3 or 5x5 average, or perhaps you could drag the eyedropper over a gray card and it would sample several times over that area. I figured that an averaged white balance would give a better result rather than a single pixel's white balance. -Bruce!

I recently purchased a Mac Studio M1 Ultra with 64GB RAM, 2TB internal drive, and plenty of very flast external TB4 drives. I'm using the latest version of LRC and Ventura. While I definitely appreciate the AI features, the performance in my day to day tasks is quite underwhelming: importing, exporting, and pasting develop settings across ranges of images.   I am working on 45 and 100MP RAW files so I know they are big, but I rarely see much multicore usage so it doesn't seem LRC is really using the processors and cores of my machine efficiently. While I'd love the speed of these tasks to be much faster, if that is especially hard to optimize for, perhaps there can be some way to partition LRC's usage of my CPUs so I can work more responsively in parallel. Right now, if I perform a batch export on a range of files, I can't even resume editing on other images while the export is taking place. The same for importing to a pre-existing catalog: I have to wait unil the import is finish

In the Book Module, would like to be able to place a frame around the Photo Description text box like can be done with the Photo.  This would help "frame off" the text and make it more presentable.  As it is, text looks like it's unorganized and looking for a home.  

I use a lot of masks as I'm editing my landscape and real estate photos. I'd love a way to instantly identify whether I'm looking at adjustments in the local mask or the global adjustments in Develop. The problem is that the adjustments look IDENTICAL from one to the other. As I'm moving back and forth, pasting settings from one photo to another, etc... Sometimes I pull up a tone curve, exposure, shadows, or something expecting it to change the Mask, but I am accidentally adjusting the levels on the Global adjustments.  My suggestion is to somehow differentiate between adjustments on a mask vs the global adjustments. Could it please be color coded? Hatched? Lighter or darker grey? It would be amazing to be able to see at a glance which adjustments your're working on. I looked around but I can't see any way to color label the adjustments panel yet. This would be a nice feature for me. Is there anyone else who would benefit from this? -Jason

A small suggestion.   Deleting images can't be "undone" in LrC and I think it would be practical if deletion could happen after a small countdown of few seconds (I suggest 5")   Select Photos > Delete > Countdown Bar appears in the "Status and Activity" > photos can be deselected AND are deleted when the countdown bar reaches the end.   As for any other "Status Bar" bar we could stop the process altogether by clicking X   It's a small thing but would be a good "safety net" to have.  

Dropping files on Develop mode is not allowed, only on Library module. My suggestion is when dropping files into lightroom -> switch to Library mode and open import window. A small change that can be useful. Thanks

This is a feature request for Lightroom Classic:   I'd like a metadata field for "photographer."   I have tens of thousands of photos in my catalog that I didn't take - by friends, families, coworkers, etc. and I'd like to be able to note that in a field that says "photographer." I'd imagine in a more professional setting, you might have different people in a studio editing and shooting and you might want to keep straight who shot which photo. Plug-ins can do this, but I just want it built in for simplicity.   Lightroom Classic has fields for creator, artist, copyright, image creator, and other similar ones, but no "photographer."