Feature Requests

I recently developed a Book in the Lightroom Book Module.  I accidently deleted the beginning end page which is not numbered directly after the cover sheet.  I was told that if deleted, I could not modify the page to reconstruct the end page.  This could be an issue when sending to Blurb to print.  I recommend that in future updates to Lightroom Classic the beginning and end page templates should be available in the event one accidently deletes these templates.

I just spent some time on chat with Adobe support and what I'm suggesting doesn't exist right now, so I'm creating this as a "future feature request" for Lightroom Classic - AI mask features.    USE CASE I'd like to create essentially a Library of custom AI masks and save them for future 1-click use like you would save custom Brush for use.    EXAMPLE OF A CUSTOM SAVED MASK (1-click use mask where AI selects the person's face and softens skin)  - create a new mask  - select persons - select face - use my custom "skin soften -light" brush (already saved for use)  - save all of the above as a custom "face skin soften mask"  - ceavat - since AI does person selection as part of the AI mask, there would need to be a right side panel pop up that shows the people in the photo so you can then select / deselect who you want the custom mask to apply to (ex. select the bride facing the camera, but not the person helping her put shoes on)    You co

So, good color grain simulation is pretty hard to find, and a while back I came up with my own as a PS action, which is pretty good. (Optional) To give a better "pushed grainy color reversal film" look, increase saturation (even till unrealistic ... go look at E1600 +2/+3) and smooth image (texture -50 or thereabouts)Desaturate photo "-50" to avoid gamut problemsConvert to CMYKFor each channel:a) Camera Raw Filter: Grain Amount 100, Grain Size whatever (e.g. 30), Grain Roughness 100b) gaussian blur (to match grain size above)Convert back to RGBTurn saturation back up "+50" Et, voila! Now, obviously there is no reason this can't be done in Lightroom itself, as basically all of this is built in (no explicit gaussian blur but it's used everywhere internally). Here's an example up close and magnified. This is a nice clean digital photo run through the above action:  For comparison, here is a scan of +2 pushed cross-processed expired E100-something:  

These are sort of two different requests but they overlap. First, for ballpark skin tone balancing, that CMYK value. RGB is useless as I think everyone knows. C/Y/M values are pretty good ballpark ways to assess whether a light-medium skin tone is realistic. For over a decade I've wondered why isn't there a CMYK option for the current RGB value displayed in the histogram area. Yes, I realize that CMYK conversion is not uniquely defined and there are color space mapping issues, but for the purpose of comparing relative values of C/Y/M, not a problem. I'm not asking for Lightroom to run in CMYK, just to do conversions one pixel or patch at a time to display a value. Then given that, the next possibility is using a skin tone to define a white balance. So the WB dropper gets a "skin tone" checkbox (maybe with light/medium/asian/dark toggles) and you could get a ballpark WB from a skin tone dropper without having to obsess over whether it's one of those days where you will edit ev

Object masks should be computed on the cropped image, not the original image.  Adobe went through a similar learning process with Auto Tone, finally acknowledging that it should be computed on the cropped image: https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-ideas/lightroom-auto-tone-analysis-should-apply-post-crop-scanned-photos-a-problem/idi-p/12249250   (But maybe this time it can be corrected in less than five years.)   Here's a use case (original image attached).  The original, auto-straightened and cropped image:   Dragging a rectangular Object-mask selection (faintly visible) around the original Polaroid image:   results in a bad mask:   Apparently, the AI algorithm gives more weight to the higher-contrast outer border edges in the cropped-out area of the photo than to the inner border edges within the crop.   Exporting the cropped photo and then making the same rectangular Object-mask selection gives perfect results:    

When I create my second mask it looks different compared too when I created my first mask. All choices are there but why cant it look the same. Regards Göran Säll Sweden gazellephoto@gmail.com

Occasionally I wind up with large numbers of duplicate images due to importing something multiple times over a period of months or years. Literally, importing the exact same images, but for whatever reason, import doesn't notice that they're duplicates. File name changed, date changed, I don't know. When I wind up with "-4" filenames for 5 copies of the same image, I feel like something isn't working right.   I really want to be able to find images that are certainly duplicates and that are almost certainly duplicates, and do something with them.   Certainly duplicates means the same bits in the image. Lightroom does not work this way however. I'm not sure exactly what way it works.   Almost certainly duplicates or just "very similar" means: Very strong likelihood JPEG/raw match (e.g. if same filename and feature-similar image, some metadata matches, etc etc) Same for TIF/PSD/JPEG/raw etc etc Same photo resized, reoriented Same photo cropped a little Same photo with wat

I've scanned thousands of Instax, Polaroid (old and new), etc., and the most painful part of the process is taking the raw scan (which includes a significant border around the print) and cropping/rotating to select only the image, or alternately the outline of the physical print. There has to be a way to make this less painful. Here's a scenario of how it could work:New crooked scan of Instax photo with lots of border slopEnter rotate moduleProposed horizontal and vertical alignments, based on obvious straight features (edge of photo, edge of image) are discovered and displayed as dotted lines overlaid on imageClicking one line will rotate image to matchClicking more lines will define crop areaShould the in/out of the crop area be confused, clicking on the "other side" of the line, or something like that, will flip itA slight border is often desirable (to show the edge of the print for example) so a control to tweak the placement of crop relative to the found edge is needed;

A use case I have reasonably frequently is a scan of the entire surface of an Instax or Polaroid, including the edges beyond the image. Often I will want to make tweaks to the colors and curves etc of the image, apply a gradient, etc etc. That's all fine as long as the border stays reasonably and uniformly white, but if it takes on a cast, especially a varying cast, that's not so fine. What I'd like to be able to do is have a mask created for me that includes just the image area, so that I can adjust the image separately from the border area. It seems like this is a common enough use case that there could be an "image area" mask option that detects something that looks like an image surrounded by a relatively uniform color border. Then I could go to town overlaying gradients, brushes, etc., without having to worry about messing up the nice white border. Otherwise I have to use brushes and hope auto-mask works, which it doesn't when the image is white AND the border is wh

I've got hundreds of keywords that LR has saved in the keywording list. I've had a chat with your support and found out there is no button to clear the whole list in one click. I have to go through hundreds of keywords and delete them one by one.   Introducing a button that allows to clear up the whole list would be helpful.  

There are already features that create new images in LR, so why not add collage, and perhaps compositing. There are a whole bunch of ways in which such a UI could work, but ... here's something fairly easy to visualize in the case of collage. User has a panel from which to select collage layouts. Let's say for now they're all rectangular.User selects a layout, along with color/gradient/photo to use as background, etc., then selects photos to drop into it.With photos in the layout, drag to swap them, click and hit delete to remove, etcResize with scroll wheel, also the usual "fit/fill" etcMove borders by grabbing the border and draggingWiden/narrow borders by grabbing border edge and draggingDraw new slots with right click-drag rectangle, or whateverOverlapping slots should be fineDelete slots in one of the obvious ways, right-click context menu, click-select delete key, whateverBorder changes have optional snapping to make it easy to keep things aligned Ideally the colla

*DESPERATELY* needs layouts with gutter. Or at the least a much, much easier way to create asymmetric layouts. I've spent hours and hours just getting a small number of them right. You would think there would be an easy way to take a symmetrical margin layout and add gutter to the left or right, depending, but, nerp. So, so infuriating. It's confusing as h e double hockey sticks to work with books as though they were collections. Why aren't they just collections? Drag photos that you want in. Select another book. Drag photos that you want in. Go back to the first book. Drag more photos in, drag some out. WHY IS THIS HARD? Why am I glued to collections of photos that I didn't ask for? Why is this so counter-intuitive and broken? Idek what a "saved book" is. It's incredibly poorly defined. What does saving a book do for me and why should I? If ever there was a need for a verbose tooltip ....   The Book Module has been a pretty good way for me to create Blurb books and I'll very li

Would it be possible to display the thumbnails in grid view larger on 4K displays.Currently these are quite small on largest view. I don't think this would be too big of a development adjustment. Thanks,Dennis

Could Lightroom automatically store a has_been_printed boolean field, and maybe a printed_date field?    

Una vez seleccionada una máscara en LR debería ser posible aplicar ajustes prestablecidos a las máscaras.   

It would be massively helpful if you could use "Clipboard Contents" as a naming convention when renaming images while shooting tethered. It's such a simple thing, but it would allow photographers who shoot tethered in LR to rename the files from a spreadsheet with the subjects name on it. When delivering files to a client, it is insanely useful to be able to give them the files renamed with the name of the person in the image.    Both Capture 1 and Tether Tools Smart Shooter offer this at the moment, but adding this simple feature to Lightroom would very much increase the usefulness of the tethering feature to photographers who shoot tethered often. Thanks!

I would really appreciate it if letters instead of numbers were offered for the file extension when exporting. Would help me a lot.

Lightroom 12.0.1   The new AI-powered masking features include the ability to detect faces in photos. This works much, much better than the face detection system that's used for organization. It would be amazing if the face detection system for organization was updated to use the new AI face detection system.   Very often, Lightroom Classic will fail to find faces in photos, even if they're pretty obvious, but particularly in profile view or when the lighting is odd. However, in most cases I've checked, the new masking feature has no touble finding the face.   I make extensive use of face-based organization of my photos, and I would _love_ to no longer have to manually tag all the photos that clearly Lightroom is capable of detecting faces in!

The way the Preset Amount slider currently works is that I select one of my presets and select amount of that preset to be applied. This changes the scalable values on the right side (Basic, Tone Curve and so on). However, when I make the changes to that preset (which happens a lot as I copy between images and I need to either adjust WB, hue or saturation of certain colors, etc.) the Preset Amount slider greyes out. I would have to save the adjusted preset as a new preset and apply the amount again which is time consuming when I need to edit hundreds of photos.   The idea here is that Preset Amount slider would not be disabled after changes are being made to preset. It should stay enabled all the time so scalable values can be adjusted on the fly or there should be new slider introduced for the right side edits only (something like Overal Adjustments Amount or something similar).

Lightroom currently has the possibility to search for missing photos, which is a very important function. Unfortunately this does not warn about the case where some photos are still present, but corrupted. Given the large amount of data stored on most computers, and the long storage time, this corruption is bound to happen sooner or later (such examples show up regularly on forums). The user therefore needs to be warned as early as possible so that corrective action can be taken (e.g. retrieve from backup) before it’s too late. Proposition: implement an automatic photo integrity check. One way of implementing this would be to calculate the checksum of photos on import for all file types (I understand this is already done for DNG s). The verification against checksum could be done either during the regular catalogue optimisation, or at the user’s demand in a way similar to the command ‘Library’>’Find Missing Photos’. This could be then saved into a temporary collection for review by

Please provide a way of creating a Lightroom Classic smart collection from Library Filter settings. I know I can manually create a smart collection that mimics my Library Filter settings, but I'd appreciate Lightroom creating the smart collection after I'm done fiddling with the filter settings.

Please add access to the Plug-in Extras menu via the right-click menu. It's inconvenient to have to remember that for some external apps, I have to remember to use the Library menu or File menu to access Plug-in Extras.

I have been using Sony PVM-A250 for my video feed for years. This is my secondary monitor and the feed is sent to it by using Blackmagic Design Intensity Pro 4K. This skips all the OS traps and gives me a perfect color reproduction.Now, when I use Lightroom, it would be great the app can utilize this card and send photo preview or what is called Secondary Monitor in LR while I keep using the UI interace on my main monitor. The critical color checking could be done through that card.Any chance by Adobe to start supporting it?  I know Premiere supports it so I don't see a reason this couldn't be ported to Lightroom and Photoshop.Thanks and cheers!!!

Adobe allows users to change the sky in LR classic. Now that we can select a background mask would you be able to develop a process to replace the background in the same way?

Hi,  I will describe the situation. Every year I have a lot of portrait photos of students. For one application I need square photos. For another application I need rectangular photos. I use the crop overlay for that. I am looking for a way to change the aspect ratio (in this case from 1x1 to custom 3.4x4.5) without having to manually resize and reposition the crop area. I imagine that once having a square crop, I can make virtual copies and change the aspect ratio in the copies. While choosing the new aspect ratio, I should be able to select also which direction (horizontal or vertical) should be kept. When selecting horizontal, only the vertical size of the crop area should be changed to meet the new aspect ratio. The left and right border remain in place. Again while choosing the new aspect ratio I should also be able to select the direction in which the change should be applied. In my example, I should be able to select top, bottom or both. A bit like resize canvas in Photosho