Feature Requests

5 years ago, poster Sean Phillips first suggested this idea. Adobe has officially marked it as "implemented" - however, it is not implemented. Preset subfolders are scanned by LR, however, directory structure is not respected beyond the first level.This makes preset management kludgy and inefficient. Please correct this by simply allowing the LR preset hierarchy to reflect the subfolder structure in the LR develop preset folder tree.

Okay so a friend of mine posted this to show an app that lights a picture and I thought, "Adobe needs to do this on Photoshop..." Here are the links provided to show what I mean. https://twitter.com/Zinnikitty/status/1569083482336538624?s=20&t=vZLebG3TvWWzcQVjQ4LTIw ClipDrop - Relight I would LOVE to see Adobe do that for their following update for their 2024 version. It's something that I can imagine Photoshop having as one of their filter galleries. I don't think Lightroom does this, I never used it before, but that would be a time saver and a nice touch to a layered or merged image.

Dear all,   I haven't seen this discussed elsewhere in the forum, sorry in advance if I missed something.   When I use facial recognition, Lightroom create a "person" keyword, and adds it to the list of keywords. At export, the name of that person is exported in two fields: Keywords, and Person Shown (IPTC Ext:PersonInImage).   I would like to have the following option: Facial recognition could populate directly the IPTC field that Lightroom calls "Person Shown" (see attached file), rather than entering it in a keyword.   If facial recognition would do that, then that person would only be in that IPTC Ext:PersonInImage field, and not in Keywords after export (I tried manually, it works very well).   After exporting, I am insterting the JPG files in a Digital Asset Management, and it causes problems to have that person name in both keywords and IPTC Ext:PersonInImage (or Person Shown).   Thanks in advance for considering this. Cheers,Louis

The introduction of the new mask system also meant new mask overlay modes beyond the classic "color overlay": on black, on white, black on white and a couple more - so, now we have six of them. While we can cycle through them using Opt+O / Alt+O, it's not very convenient since I guess some of us only use a couple or three of these overlays, and having to cycle through all six of them every time is not necessary (it's not the end of the world either, but I guess it could be improved). So, maybe we could have some kind of pre-selected "cyclable" overlays, like we can do with the crop overlays (there's a small window where you can tick which overlays to display when cycling through them), to select just the ones we want to see - for example, if someone just wants to cycle from color overlay to black on white, it would be awesome to just switch back and forth from one to the other without having to see the other 4 overlays. Thanks for considering this idea.

I have been playing with the new mask feature in Lightroom 2021. However, if you utilize the Color Grading feature for editing purposes, it seems to affect the whole image not just the masked area. Is it possible in a future update to make this feature available for use with the mask feature?

Hi folks, the most time i use my iphone next to my fuji camera to take pictures. i tried some apps for gps logging in the past but most times you forget to start or stop it and you miss the locations or your akku drains empty. Is there maybe a chance to export the coordinates from the whole icloud library and import it to lightroom?  This would give me a chance to tag most of the pictures in Lightroom which was taken near the time of the iphone.    

I want to export almost all the Metadata but I do not want to export the LightRoom editing information! (Local adjustments and/or Global adjustments)(I have photos with up do 140.000 "crs:PaintBasedCorrections" lines in the EXIF data!!)Other users and/or used cases have different needs, so the Metadata export options should have a list of categories, to select from.

Hi All, This is request for improve LrC. Current, individual search box for folders and collections, It's easly scrolling out from left pane when open 'folder'/'collection set' tree(s), so hard to seek search box for scroll up for left pane for new query. For easy querying folders/collections, Please unify folders/collections search box in fixed position that do not scroll out of left pane. and query results appars each folders/collections.  

In the Export dialog, provide the option to add a border. Nothing fancy - any colour so long as it's black - and give control over its width in pixels. And of course, make sure too that it is added after any sharpening. People simply shouldn't need to rely on plug-ins for this, not after 3 versions of the program. John

Adobe give us please an option to disable the info pop ups when you select a tool. 

Sure, we can do this manually in two parts, but it would be a great help to those less technically savvy.

when selecting luminous range masks, it is not always possible to create a seamless transition, especially when selecting deep shadows at the end of the range slider. Having the option to blur the mask would allow  us to shorten the range sliders (so we don't affect outside areas) and still hide the transition. I think we used to be able to do this in previous versions. Thank you.

Let there be  Auto Sync Copies and Auto Sync Stack!   One of the most mission-critical features of Lightroom are virtual copies and the syncing of settings (copying/pasting from one photo to another). Everything works well until you actually expect for the copies to function as copies. I'll explain.   Currently, a virtual copy is an actual LR copy of  another image only at the moment of its creation. Once you make any changes to it, that "virtual copy" is no longer a copy, it's just a  virtual reference to the original image with whatever additional changes you made to it. It somehow reminds me of the Stamp Visible feature in Photoshop. You make a copy of the state of things at a point in time and then work it further. Whatever changes you make to the layers below will never be visible. Let's just call it a fork.   I propose that virtual copies get some kind of redemption to live up to their names of being a "copy", with a feature boost that enables Sync C

I am having great difficulty seeing the folder highlighter when moving images/folders because it is very pale grey and it is particularly difficult if there is some light in the room.  I understand that there are no settings in LR for changing the interface look, colour or contrast.  It would be extremely helpful if this could be changed so that I can use a different colour or just put a simple stroke border around the current highlighter so that I am confident that my images have gone to the correct location. Thank you.    Dave Hull

Idea: the new mask function is great, but I wish to get these masked parts fixed in the image where they are. Or does it exist already and I am not able to find it?   Observation: Using the brush several times and above or around very tiny parts (eyes f.i.), the mouse/cursor unconsciously grabs the already masked parts oftenly and move it away to different places in the image. The function of „showing tools“ is not helpful in those cases, as these massive amount of graphic icons hovering around do disturb the whole view or even hide these tiny parts which I was concentrated on. I usually work with disabled function to have a clear image. But when de-selected "showing icons", you are not aware about where these masked sections are placed exactly. Why not adding a simple option to fix/unfix every (first) mouse click with brush tool?  

  I often get multiple same keywords in the same photo, due to similarity or pictures on the wall, need to be able to Allow searching for multiple same keywords in same photos Thanks  

When photos are missing during publish & export, give the option to locate them, much more helpful than saying some are missing and would you like to use a low quality image / thumbnail or cancel... think this would help a lot

Allow the saving of metadata to files to not include parent keywords There is an inconsistency, when publishing or exporting, only the child keywords are written to the files, unless the radio tick box is selected in the parent keyword to export.....I don't want the metadata to file to insert the parent keywords, please provide an option to disable this thanks

I use the secondary display feature a lot, often in either Grid or Loupe mode. It's a great productivity tool. What I'd really like is to be able to view the panels associated with the mode of the secondary display. Let's say I'm in Map or Book mode on the primary display and I'm using the secondary display in Grid mode. I realise I need to fix the metadata. I have the Grid display on the secondary monitor but there are no panels. To fix the metadata I switch the primary display back to Grid and edit the metadata. What I want to do is just fix it in the metadata panel next to the Grid display on the Secondary window.

I'd like Adobe to add icons to easily rotate or flip an image in the Develop module. These icons exist in Camera Raw's crop tool. Can they be added to the LR crop tool? Or the rotate arrows could be made available in the Develop module toolbar.   Rotating an image, particularly an abstract, can be part of the "develop" workflow, not just to turn a picture right-side up when viewing thumbnails in the Library Grid view. Having a one-click option is more efficient than using the Photo menu choices or keyboard shortcuts.  

Presently one can filter images by:   "Rating is greater than or equal to" "Rating is less than or equal to" "Rating is equal to"   I am asking that a fourth one be added - "Rating is not equal to"   I cull my images hard and mostly keep images that hold potential as solid images for my website and possible printing.  But I will have photos that aren't great that I still want to keep for whatever reason (something unusual or funny for example) and do a quick "show" to the family.  I make those two star.  At this point, no other images have stars.  When I am about to start processing the images with potential, I don't want to see the two star images.  At present there is no way to filter them out.  A "Rating is not equal to" would fit this need perfectly.   I could see where people might also use this for one star images early in the culling process or for four or five star images near the end of the selection process, depending on how t

I saved the metadata to a rather large number of files, only to find nothing had been written, was all the face tagging I had done. I eventually discovered that it was my USB port, which wasn't making a good enough connection to allow the MD to be written. Something to consider, now it's ok as I am using an internal HDD.....think Lightroom should verify that metadata is written, with an error report generated......could make it optional but can't see why it's not included anyway, thanks

It would be very helpful to have the ability to NOT import keywords when importing images. For example, I was reworking my large LR catalogue with older images that I had keyworded before I really know how to do keywords and all the mistakes (all caps, no heirachy, etc) came into my LR keyword list and made my keyword list unusable. As mentioned in a previous post managing keywords in LR is an exercise in frustration and dealing with all these mistakes in a 100,000+ image Library is untenable.

Sure would be nice if LR Classic could automatically read metadata in XMP files created in ACR/Bridge like ACR/Bridge can read adjustment changes made in LR. It's a pain to have to force LR to read the XMP metadate for each individual file.

In lightroom, allow the option in export, to export to a destination but maintain the original folder hireachy. And allow overwriting to original file, with a warning that a full backup of these files must be made before exporting in this way, would save a lot of copying and pasting afterwards.....I assume changing metadata does not cause jpg quality loss thanks