Feature Requests

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    

Request for change Now that LrC has the Content Aware Erase ability, and the Object Mask ability, please add a button in the Object Mask panel to erase the content within the mask using content aware erase. Similar to PS. The mask created would very likely be better than the selection made thru the current Content Aware Erase tool.   Button to add: Instead of: 

For those unfamiliar, Median Stacking it is a process where you stack multiple images of the same scene, then a Median filter averages them out to retain only details that exist on all images.   It's commonly used to to eliminate high ISO noise in nightime photography or astrophotography while retaining stars and other details. ISO noise is random and easily filtered out with this method. It's a much better approach to standard noise reduction which adversly affects the whole image.   It's also used to remove crowds of people from a scene – you do a timelapse of the scene and then Median Stack the images remove anything that doesn't exist on multiple photos. Very nice.   It currently has to be done in Photoshop, which is a one way trip (there's a nice overview of how it's done here with some nice examples https://iwillbeyourphotoguide.com/reduce-noise-median-averaging-photos )   Instead, it should be an option inside of Lightroom Classic. A

Absolutely love the new subject and sky selection tool in Lightroom! However this can be SOO much more!! As a portrait photographer I constantly have to mask peoples skin and teeth. I would love to have Lightroom automatically detect teeth and whiten them, or skin have the skin masked and smoothed out! Would make my job 100x easier! 

Please add the ability to select more than one user preset in the Presets Panel.  It takes far too long to do some things without this.  (I recently had some issues in importing presets when setting up Lightroom Classic version 11.1 on a new Windows laptop, and it was very laborious to have to delete them one by one after some issues with the importing process - which is a whole other story that I won't bore people with.)  Or if there's a way to do this already, please let me know.  

Looks as some members with dedicated graphics controllers and naturally integrated video controllers are receiving system compatibility reports about out of date drivers for the integrated video control, that on their systems are not used by Lightroom Classic. They are finding that unhelpful and annoying. See post: https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-discussions/lightroom-classic-11-5-incorrectly-reporting-outdated-graphics-driver-on-dell-latitude-laptop/td-p/13149081  hmm, I am clearly Adobe Community challenged, thought I posed as Bug, clearly I missed a step.Ahh, and now moved to Ideas. Ok. Treat as not a bug, apparently as designed, so treat as an Idea, a request for change. 

I frequently jump around in Library or Development mode to see other pictures, compare, see what I have done, copy their settings etc. It would be awesome if Lightroom kept an "image view/edit history" that I could navigate like one does in a browser: By clicking the forward/backward buttons most modern mice come with, or with the keyboard by pressing Alt+left/right.

My workflow would speed up if there would be a way to select a bunch of photos and have them all select the same subject in the photos and make a Content-Aware Fill / Spot Removal for all of them (a.k.a. Sync).   What I typically do for a corporate portrait session backgrounds is looking for a white wall — white as a plain and empty wall painted with light colors — as not requiring to carry and setup background stands and background canvases.   But, often times finding a wide enough clean wall is difficult as there's light switches, marks on the wall and such distractions just creeping in to the photo — especially if I'm trying to frame people loosely to have some empty background space for ready to use text-on-photo layouts (for quotes and such). And I'm shooting hand-held so the framing is slighty different in each photo and can't just do Select All and paint the same Spot Removal for all (and Spot Removal is not good if the distraction in the picture hits the borders of th

I'm a left-hander, and I find that using a Wacom tablet with Lightroom is incredibly cumbersome at times. This is due to the fact that all of the develop panels are on the right side of the screen, and accessing them with my pen means crossing my arm all the way across my body to the right so that the pen can access the sliders on the right panel. My idea is to add a "left-handed mode" that would simply swap the location of the left/right panels, making it easier to access the develop (and other currently-right-sided) panels when using a pen tablet.

Bonjour à tous,   Je me sert des collections et les synchronise avec lightroom afin de pouvoir les partager avec mes clients et qu'ils réalisent leur selection finale.   Il manque la possibilité de voir les photos "likées" en mode grille et oblige à passer en revue la collection en plein écran image par image.   Serait ce possible d'implémenter cette fonction ?   Si quelqu'un à une suggestion, je suis preneur.   Pour le moment j'ai du modifier mon workflow et passer par pixieset pour réaliser cette opération.   Merci

Right now when you export metadata you can include ALL metadata with the exported images or leave some things out but on a very basic level. It would be much more useful to select exactly which fields you want to stay and which don't of all the possible IPTC metadata . Just create an Export IPTC preference (caption, keywords, copyright and city for example) and ONLY this is exported while all other fields are left blank.   Right now this level of micro control is not possible and should be quite easy to implement and make the software much more useful in this regards and not have to resort to other programs that have this function.

It should be an easier way to add one or several photos to many collections in one operation:   Steps: Find your photo(s) that you want to add to several collections Right click to open the rightclick menu A new entry in menu "Add to collections" will appear in the list When selecting this entry, the collectionthree will appear User can expand/scrtoll the three, and tick of several collections that he want the photo(s) to appear in

It'd be great if you could set a custom range for the sliders in the Basic panel that are more akin to the ranges you'd be using specifically, and therefore allow finer adjustment with the mouse when dragging them.   For example, in the Tint slider, for all my photos I usually only drag the slider in the range of -15 to +40, however the range given is -150 to +150, and not only is so much of that never used, it makes it difficult to precisely hit certain numbers (and impossible in a lot of instances without typing it in), BUT if there was a smaller range to choose from, I could keep the slider size the same yet gain the accuracy that expanding the panel massively gives. This again applies to things like exposure where my generic range is -1 to +3, while never using anything outside of these values.   There may be some inbuilt thing here with how raw files work and that specific range is linked to raw parameters.. But still, to allow a custom range that you could say toggle a

*LR Classic - 11.5, up to date (build number cannot be copied/pasted from about screen). *PC, Windows 11, also up to date. I accidentally downloaded the photos from my Canon camera with the wrong sort setting resulting in the numbers being reversed (decreasing with increasing shooting date/time instead of increasing). I tried to fix this in LightRoom using the Rename Photo command - but this only made things worse (until I figured out the quirks below). #1. First, I found out the hard way that I accidentally left a filter on (flagged and unflagged) so the images flagged as rejected were not renamed. My bad ... But what is worse, photos in a STACK (below the top image) also were not renamed!! This does not make any sense to me... --> Feature request #1: Add some check boxes to the rename command for the different types of images that may be excluded to (a) make the user aware of the exclusions, and (b) provide an easy way to include those images. (Note: in this case I was working wit

In Lightroom Classic, the Quick Collection always had its own set of hotkeys for saving (Ctrl+Alt+B), clearing (Ctrl+Shift+B) and setting it as a target collection (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+B).    That's great, except I don't really use it all that much. Instead, what I do use most of the time is a Recent Picks collection where I add new images regularly. This collection is a mixed bag of images and its primary purpose is to be a catch all way of syncing new images to my phone and Apple Tv, when I don't really need or want to create dedicated collections for just one or two images.   Then, I have a couple other collections that I use regularly for adding new softproofing copies for prints, black and white images, and drone shots. Each of these collections is usually nested in appropriate folders/collection sets and whenever I need it, I have to go dig for it and right click to set it as target collection.   I think it would be much more convenient and much faster if we had as

This would be a very useful feature. If a collection set is created with multiple collections inside, it should be possible to print those collections to folders with the same name of each collection eg: collection set "Wedding"      collection "Bride"      collection "Groom"      collection "Guests" When printing all photos from the collection set, three folders should be created, each one with the contents of each collection

It would be useful to be able to select the destination folder for the enhanced files. I don't want to have both files in the same folder, but in another one. I know I can create a folder select the enhanced files and move them to that folder but these are all steps that slow down workflow. So this might be really a useful addition to Lightroom functionality.

In the Export panel, add an option to save a snapshot during the export. Include custom options to name the snapshot with the date or other custom string. This can be saved in an export preset.   As an example, I have an export preset that use used for a specific social media account. I can update that export preset to save a snapshot of the image. The snapshot is named after the social media account and date, such as "IG 2022-10-01" or "FB 2022-10-01". I make some changes to the image and use another preset export on the same image which uses different settings for printing the image, a snapshot is saved, named "Print Adobe RGB 2022-10-08". Later, I can view the snapshots to quickly see versions of the same image used for different social media networks, printing, or other uses. This also allows for a history of exports to be saved in snapshots.

Using local adjustments with presets like Dodge and Burn and other own presets requires two mouse clicks and constantly watching the preset list to click on the wanted preset.The first mouse click can be replaced by the usual shortcuts like M or Ctrl-M or K but the second - the selection of the wanted preset - needs the mouse (and my eyes).It would be a great enhancement if one could assign own or predefined presets a letter or number shortcut, like 1=Dodge, 2=Burn, 3=MyFancyNextFavoritePreset, and so on.I assume that those shortcuts could be stored in the preset xmp files - and that making them "active" only after activating a local adjustement tool like gradient or brush would not interfere with other user interface aspects.   [moved to ideas - mod.]

Increase the current limit of 25 images for displaying flags, colors, and star ratings in Survey view. 

Some ideas to improve the Face Detection workflow.   When manually updating the name of the suggested person, the text pop-up is too narrow. It could be double the width to minimise truncation of the whole name. The width should probably be based on some localisation settings or be content driven i.e. match the widest length.   Additionally, the text pop up could be enhanced with at least one thumbnail to help me identify the person. It could be optimised to help the photographer choose more powerfully with either text or image.   When in the Faces view and you are asked to confirm faces, it would be good to understand context and actual size of the person in the photo. People in the background who are slightly blurry are possible options. However, you want to make a decision about whether they are validly defined in the photo. It's hard to do from uniform rectangles, noise from low light and pixels from being far away aren't easily distiguished.   There are two sce

Hello, I have a feature request that would save a LOT of back and forth when selecting and processing images in LR.  Can you please add the search feature to the Develop module so that we don't have to keep switching back and forth between the Library module to search/select an image to edit and then click on the Develop module to actually begin editing.  By adding the search feature to the Develop module it would reduce the time/clicks to find/select and begin editing. Thanks,Randy   [Moved to Ideas by moderator]

Flipping image does't register in history in LR Classic.    This bug/issue is really annoying since I work as a medical photographer in Helsinki University Hospital and me and my colleaques shoot a lot images wiht mirrors that need to be flipped.   If the workfow gets interrupted for some reason its hard to remember which images have been flippedd and which not.   A fix to this would ber much appreciated, thank you.

Currently when you use Photo Merge utilities the merge action name is appended to the end of the file name.  Unfortunately this then renders the file name unusable if you wnat to export with the original file number. For example if the filename is IMG_0435 and you perform a Photo merge HDR action, the resulting file name is IMG_0435-HDR.  If you use the 'original file number' function in custom file naming you would get 0435 for the orginal file name and "" for the HDR file name. So either let the user decided how HDR and pano files are named during the operation or fix the orgianl file number function to work with HDR and Pano appended.

I make heavy use of keywords in my catalogs to find images. Because of that, I also rely on the auto-complete keyword feature to keep them consistent. I've been using only one catalog for all of my photos, over 215,000 so far. The catalogs aren't meant to hold so many photos but when I create a new catalog it doesn't save any of my keywords or any of my other catalog-specific settings. It would be really nice to have a higher-level settings area where LrC would remember keywords, publish services, import develop settings, import presets, metadata presets, export presets, develop presets, and more. Having to recreate all these things every time I create a new catalog makes me never want to create a new catalog.