Feature Requests

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."

I sugges to implmet the abilityto Copy and/or Paste Mask Settings form/to other Masks.   It would be simple enough to have two entries via Right Click as shown in the mock-up UI below.     .  

If you are dumping out a series of images, you may not do that in a block. You'll work in sections Exporting out with identical settings.    Why then does Export with Previous (on Mac) to Hard Disk keep asking for a folder and not actually remembering where you just saved the files 30 seconds ago? It defaults to a folder I saved to probably about 5 years ago.   I can understand Export... asking you for a different folder each time. But Export with Previous when it follows shortly after the last Export.  Previous implies the settings and the folder I just used....   12.3 macOS Monterery and Ventura.

Hi all. ACR allows to Copy and Preset only the Modifed Settings in our photos.   The same feauture should be implemted in LrC.      

The behavior in Loupe view is very confusing when multiple images are selected. Over the years there's been a steady stream of users posting their confusion. Despite myths to the contrary, there is no single unifying principle for this behavior. In a better world, Adobe would implement a simple, easy to remember rule for all commands. With many of the commands, the keyboard shortcuts and right-clicking on the Loupe image only affect that image (the most selected image). But right-clicking on a filmstrip thumbnail applies to all the selected images (even if you can't see them because they're scrolled off screen). Commands in this category include Paste Settings, Set Flag, Remove From Quick Collection, Remove From Collection, Remove Photo (from folder), Create Virtual Copy, Edit In > Edit In Photoshop, Edit In > Open As Smart Object. But Reset and Proof are exceptions -- they only apply to the most-selected image. Some commands operate on all selected photos regardless of

I posted this in the discussion forum to see if anyone knew of a way to make this happen... and I'm guessing it's just not possible, so I'm posting here as a request.  🙂 ----I'm totally loving the use of AI masks to select subject and "make it pop" ... so I now have a preset which changes the SUBJECT and also inverts/duplicates the mask and dims the BACKGROUND.Rather than do this for each image one at a time, I want to apply this AI effect, in bulk, to ALL my images at import time and get the previews generated while I'm away from the computer.    (it's faster/easier to remove or alter the mask than to add it!)   TODAY'S MISSING FEATURE:  it seems that my presets don't actually execute the AI analysis at import time.  All the images say "your AI masks need to be updated".  As a result, this is now a 3-step process where each step takes minutes:- import- select all, choose "Update AI Masks"- select all, choose "Make Previews"Would love for

Often when I've doing a shoot, I need to create a series of collections from that shoot to sync online. Lightroom Classic automatically opens that shoot, when really I just want to continue making more collections.  To help Lightroom Classic could have an 'Open Collection' option which is on by default, meaning behaviour is unchanged for the current user. Those that don't want it can uncheck it.    There is precedence for such an option already: The 'Select the Previous/Current collection during Import' checkbox in general preferences.    Steps: Create a new Collection   Expected behaviour: The user can choose if the collection opens.    Actual Behaviour: Lightroom Classic always opens the collection.    Workaround: Take much longer and go back to the folder, find where you were to start creating the next of the 10 collections you're trying to make. 

The Auto Import feature could be really useful but it does not allow users to handle files in the same way as the "standard" import routine within Lightroom, and this makes is problematic to use.For example:I use a Canon 7D which auto imports images into the "final destination" folder, then when I open Lr I can run the Standard import routine to apply metadata & presets etc. The cataloguing structure I use is a main folder named 2011, and each new batch of images goes into a separate folder named automatically by the date the image was shot, which makes things really easy.Auto Import does not appear to allow me to replicate this simple and effective workflow, and it would be really useful if it did.Any suggestions welcomethanks for your interest

Enhance the develop presets panel by allowing the user to right-click on a preset and select "Apply to New Virtual Copy." This will create a new virtual copy of the photo with the selected develop preset applied to it. This will save a lot of time since I am often applying several presets to the same base photo. Additionally, this same action should be accessible via middle-clicking on the desired preset. 

Why can I not import WAV files into Lightroom; used an Olympus OM EM1x with a Sony Tough card the files and WAV loaded onto the desktop fine but when trying with Lightroom it does not even show that the WAV file exists. Please someone help it is driving me mad!!!!

When shooting panos the spherical projection gives sometimes a to horizontally stretched image wheres the cylindrical projection is stretched to much vertically. It would be nice to have a slider to adjust the with of the image to stretch or squeeze it. At the same time it would be helpful to be able to adjust the horizon.