Feature Requests

It would be nice to be able to select which version of Photoshop is opened in Lightroom Classic when I select "Edit in Photoshop 2023..." or open as layers etc.. This is actually much needed when Beta or multiple versions are installed because LRC will auto select something and looks like the Beta is then preferred because it has higher version number. It can also actually become a problem with the beta version numbers as they may overlap, it came a problem for me when Lightroom didn't want to open anything else and when I uninstalled Beta, then LRC didn't see Photoshop anymore and the edit in photoshop selection was grayed out even I had the latest 24.0.0 installed and operational. and the only way to remedy from that situation was to install Beta back. Well, I later learned that this probably was the Beta that messed up the opening system because it looked like the Beta was not actually closing when exiting the application but it was still there in the process list in taskbar, so whe

Please consider adding an option to display dates next to photos in the Import Photos and Videos dialogue, either under the filename or in a list view.   Use case: I want to see at a glance which photos are from today or from the last few days, so I can import just those, and ignore older photos.   Known workarounds that aren't ideal: A. Mouse-over photos to find where the latest batch starts. I have to keep mousing over images to hunt, and that's much slower than being able to read dates at a glance. B. Wait for all thumbnails to load, then skim by thumbnail I mostly do this today, but it can be slow, especially for my Fuji RAW photos C. Just import everything and let Don't Import Suspected Duplicates sort it out I'm somewhat aggressive with culling/deleting photos, so some old photos still on my memory card may be treated as new again if I've deleted them from Lightroom   I can use A and B as workarounds (C isn't workable), but it would be really nice to add sk

I share this idea, through a post I found when I was looking for the same solution. "It would be nice it was possible to create a virtual copy when dragging a photo to an existing collection. What I would like to do: I have a collection "A" with photo X, I drag X to collection "B" and I want to hava VC of X in collection B. What I currently do: in collection "A" I select X, make a VC, drag the VC to B, delete the VC from A. So it would be an "addition" to the option that let us add virtual copies when creating a new collection. In my imagination this would happen when I drag and drop a photo and hold some modifier key." - It would be very useful for me to be able to add a virtual copy of photo A to existing collections.So I could have a collection for each type of crop format more quickly. - https://feedback-readonly.photoshop.com/conversations/lightroom-classic/lightroom-classic-add-option-to-create-a-virtual-copy-of-photo-when-adding-to-an-existing-collection/5f92d698c17a060f8ebe8e08

I have 2 monitors and generally have Lightroom Classic in one and a full-screen 'Loupe - Normal' view in the other. What would be really useful (for me, at least!) is the option to display the map showing all of the GPS-tagged photos in the second monitor. This could be included in the right-click list of options for the second window display contents in the bottom left of the screen, just above the filmstrip. Thanks for all the new features! Mo

Hi everyone, really enjoying the latest update to v12, however just one thing is bugging me. Anyone know of a keyboard shortcut to get back to the 'Edit' slider/main panel? Can't see one and can't find the answer playing around, or with a search. Not a major issue, but if I'm using the masks or the crop panels it would be good to have a quick press key to get back to the Edit panel. I know there's shortcuts for the Crop, Heal, and masking panels so it would be great to have one for 'Edit' too as the most used. Anything that helps speed up the workflow! Thanks!

I'd love to see a section in all areas of Presets in Lightroom for Recently Used Presets.   For example, I use a set of different Export presets that are stored based on the final upload destination.. like my own Instagram or for a club. There's often a few variations, so I'm often scrolling a lot to find them. I do use some more than others, so these would appear in a recently used list more frequently than others, meaning a shorter scroll.  For those with a lot of Develop Presets, it means accessing their more recent ones faster as well.

Hey Adobe! I recently discover this form for submit the idea/suggestion. First of all, the latest update are awesome! Especially the AI masks, suuuper!   I just need a little option and then Lightroom will be perfect for me. I need to import ONLY the LOCKED and/or STARRED photos directly from my card. I ask for this feature every time Lightroom asked me for a feedback but never come. Is it possible?   thanks and have a great day! Marco

 The Edit/No-Edit filter in Library is useful, however if you apply develop settings at import like Lens Corrections to all files (which I do), then all files are technically edited, but then if you'd want to search for files that you haven't for instance had their white balance or exposure edited (and therefore truly edited from baseline), you can't because all edits are lumped together. It would be nice if there was some way to filter which edits you'd like to filter for. Very niche request probably, but I would find it very helpful.

I would like to propose a substantial update to the spot healing/clone tool in LRC. It's BY far the number one reason to leave LRC and use other tools. It does not do any analysis of contrast and lines near or in the marked area to heal or clone.ESPECIALLY if you wish to remove something along the border of the image using healing it is useless. The repair proposed, always fades away from black outside the image in the first many pixels. The same happens inside an image if you mark something along a contrasty line. Please fix this so the tools understands lines and proposes heals with the same contrast/line as the surroundings.

When we import images into Lightroom Classic we can have the option to have the images backed up in another location. If we had the option to backup in two locations, then we would immediately have 2 backups instead of one. If we are on location and only have one backup, then we are not as secure as we once thought.  Having two locations for backups would give another level of comfort to those of us working professionally.

An option to select the Floor would be extremely useful especially for studio portrait work in the same way as the background select works. Thanks

I have pitched this in other forums.. I HAVE READ the How to Optimize Lightroom performance and acted on every item and then some I have figured out on my own as well as read elsewhere. Though through all of this one of the things I cannot still do to both better manage diskspace and performance is seperate my Previews.lrdata file from the Catalog.lrcat. My previews, images, program, and catalog themselves are stored off on separate drives.. but the previews file is still full of images and over 60 gigs at the particular moment and I regularly purge it off down to 0. I would like to be able to put all of these items in separate drive locations if I choose. Today I have items 1-4 in separate locations. 1) Program / OS 2) RAW Images 3) Catalog.lrcat 4) Previews 5) Previews.lrdata Christopher

Platform: LRC 12, Camera Raw 15, Windows 11 - all up to date. I am scanning family photo albums, thus one "image" will have multiple "photos". Sometimes one photo will be lighter/darker than other photos. What I need is to be able to select / mask a simple rectangle so I can apply separate adjustments. However, this does not appear to be possible! One of the masking tools (brush) has an option to start with a rectangle, but then LRC applies "smart" object selection which invariably excludes part of the photo and/or expands beyond it. Selecting a rectangle using a free-hand brush tool is too difficult. I can do this easily in PS, but then I end up having to create duplicate files and spending extra time. I like LRC for this project because I can quickly crop & (global-)adjust 100+ album pages. It should be very easy to have a rectangle and circle/oval selection that can be left alone by the AI, with just the ususal resize/rotate handles. Thanks, Adriaan

Currently the way we can "Move" or "Duplicate and Move" existing components are overcomplicated and even long to execute.   This is what I suggest to improve and perform "Move" and "Duplicate and Move" faster and more simply.   "Duplicate and Move" existing component to create a new Mask   1. Hold Option/Alt and drag and drop existing Component outside its current Mask to "Duplicate and Move".   Basically drag in-between two Masks rather than go all the way up to the + Icon...easier and faster imo.   2. Right click on an existing component > use "Duplicate and Move" option > new Mask is created with that duplicated component.    "Move" component to create new Mask.   1. Drag and drop an existing component outside its current Mask to create new Mask...again no need to drag it all the way up to the + icon.   2. Right click on existing Component > use "Move to new Mask" option.   These would allow us to "Move" or "Duplicate an

We should be able to select multiple Masks and/or Components simultaneously.   This would allow us to moving multiple Components to another Mask, deleting multiple Masks, etc...      

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When cleaning up a Subject mask I'm finding that I need two sub-masks 1) Add Brush 2) Subtract Brush.   What I'm running into is the need to figure out which of the 3 masks is contributing to the mask as they are all "red". Sure you can show/hide each mask but I want a quick way to see which mask I should be using to make the needed refinements.   You start to realise this when the brush changes you are making don't seem to be working.   A quick method to visually identify masks would help here. My first thought is a mode to quickly reveal different coloured mask layers and where they overlap.   For instance, I had an add and subtract overlapping a subject mask. The active mask wasn't the correct one to be editing, so the changes were not modifying the ruby lith mask. You then have to work through a show/hide process to figure out which one needs to be modified.    

Can we please have an option to disable the notification that comes up with every action made in DEVELOP mode? (see screenshot).  Often times this notification is placed directly over an area that I am working on.  Or if not able to disable it, can we have the option to reposition or resize it?  I think many users would be appreciative of this feature.  Thanks  

I often find myself leveraging 2-3 presets from my list as a base, then making slight adjustments here and there. As I'm going through my workflow, I'll edit one image in color, move to another and do it in b&w, and then find another image that I want to have the exact same settings from the first image, but have to click over to that image, copy, and then click back into the other image and paste.    My idea or suggestion is to have some type of "quick adjusted preset" buttons.    Here's what I think it could look like:   In the gray box where you can choose 'Soft Proofing'... put a set of buttons there (maybe make it customizeable to how many buttons). For example, 4 small squares that the icon is a thumbnail of an image you sent there because you liked it's look and knew it would be used later (this could be drag and drop of the photo from the film strip or a key-combo to send it to that button). Then, as you move through your images, if you find one tha

Wouldn't it be amazing if there were an option to have HSL values insted of RBG under the histogram, when doing a mouse over the image in Develop Mode?   As a red/green color blind photographer this would be a brilliant option to nail skintones, among other things.   It is a pretty time consuming to import photos to Photoshop every time to check the hue on peoples faces, when skintones are crucial.   Also it would be a fast way to check the luminance on specific areas.   Hope to hear from someone from Adobe 🙂   All the best Uffe

I would love the ability to enlarge the information being presented in the histogram. This is so useful for balancing skin tones, etc! 

If you are fixing sensor spots, the default round region for healing works fine.   However, if you are trying to remove something bigger you start filling out a larger region.   There is the chance, especically if using a mouse, that you make a mistake defining the region.   There is currently no editing mode that allows slight modification of the region and the correction updated.   A good example is Exit signs in darkened theatres. You think you have defined the region for removal but what you haven't seen is the subtle glow a little outside the region. So you end up having to define the region again - this time a little bigger. All I wanted to do is add to my healing selection region (or remove some).  this might suggest and expansion feature that maintains the overall shape by scales it up a little, post mouse up.   So Healing could benefit from the add/subtract feature found in the masking tools to make adjustments to the region selection.

Hello,I'm using Auto Import on Adobe Lightroom Classic.When a photo is imported, it is automatically selected. Even though I'm processing the previous photo, which cuts me off in my work on the photo. Is it possible to configure automatic import so that the treatment photo selection does not change automatically on the last imported photo? Thank you for your help   PS: I use Adobe Lightroom Classic 11.3.1 and macOS 12.3.1

Request for change   Add the capability to hold down the Option/Alt key when moving sliders in the mask editing panel, such as Whites, Blacks, Shadows.Highlights, etc , to see the selection masked, as is available in the Basic panel.   /update/ the word Visualization applies       (note, could not find existing Idea, I assume their is one)

The Edit icon above the Basic panel in Develop Module is seriously spoiling my day!!!! Anyone else finding they're constantly clicking on it instead of the crop tool? Haha!   MAKE IT GO AWAY!!!!   Love and peace   Phil x