Feature Requests

File > Auto Import > Auto Import Settings forgets the previous setting of Add To Collection and always displays it unchecked, even when it was previously checked. Tested on LR 12.1 / Mac OS 12.6.1.   To reproduce:   1.Do File > Auto Import > Auto Import Settings.   2. Check Enable Auto Import and Add To Collection, selecting an existing collection.   3. Verify Auto Import works by dragging a photo into the watched folder.   4. Do File > Auto Import > Auto Import Settings and observe that Add To Collection is unchecked (bug).   This bug has been around since time immemorial, but the original bug report appears to have gotten lost. See these threads for relatively recent reports of the issue: https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-discussions/problem-auto-import-to-a-collection/m-p/11575854 https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-discussions/auto-import-s-quot-add-to-collection/m-p/11642026 https://community.adobe.co

First, let me say I've used Lightroom since it was born, so I'm well versed in LR Classic. I have an iMac and MacBook Pro both running Big Sur with LR vs 12.1. I do not have this problem on the iMac, but on my MBP, I'm having a problem using the new content aware tool and the spot removal tool. In previous versions, the sample area and the fixed area were well defined, with the sample area having a slightly heavier line around it. Now, I can barely see an edge to what I'm selecting to be “fixed” with either tool. After using the spot removal tool, I can barely see either the fixed area or the sample area (yes, my cursor is over the icon), so I can't very easily move the sample area to improve what the tool did. I've zoomed in, but that's seems to be even worse. On both computers, I have the Tool Overlay set to Auto — I've tried each setting with no difference. Please, does anyone have a solution to get my edges back so I can see what I'm selecting?

Request for change   In the Object Masking panel, add a button to execute the mask creation as opposed to the mask creation occurring upon mouse release. This could allow for complex object selections without resorting to multiple Additions. This is not a request for the Done button coming back, this is a request for basically a start button being created.   Example workflow, currently   Image has, say three separate objects to be in the one mask, objects are not near one another. Create an object mask Using the mouse define the first object to be in the mask. Release mouse Now in the mask, select Add, and define next object Repeat....   Example of proposed workflow   Create an object mask Use mouse to define first object, release mouse Mask is not created yet Use mouse to define second object repeat Now click on the proposed Execute button, mask is created continue.     Example of a situation:   Would like the addition to the UI of an

These days with high bust rates used more often, culling has become quite a chore.  I notice that in OM WorkSpace, there is a facility that selects a number of the sharpest images in a burst series of like images.  If this can select say 5 of the shapest images in a burst of 20, that reduces the culling workload by 75%.  I would think this a very worthwhile feature.

The ability to search for similar photos and videos within our own Lightroom or Bridge folders. Our phones can do this, as well as countless other apps. Could you please finally implement this simple feature into Lightroom Classic? Even across all of your software, including adobe bridge? It will be very useful to everybody. Thank you so much! Not everyone managed to properly keyword tag their photos unfortunately.  

A very simple thing. If I am in Library module and I press "R" to resize a picture Lightroom goes directly to Dev module, perfect.I would like to see the same thing as I hit "Y" in Library to see an original image vs the developed one.    Thank you

W Panelu Kadrowanie i prostowanie przydały by sie ikony obracania takie jakie są w Lightroom i ACR

is there a way to hide the panel arrows. the arrows still take up spaces after the panel is hidden. it would nice to have a shortcut to hide the panel arrows if one is familiar with the shortcuts to hide the panels.

After I import my photos to LrC I rate the potentially good ones with one star and assing color labels to them based on what I want to do. Green is HDR merge, Blue is Compositing different images together, then when I have spent some time tweaking the image, but still think I can improve, I'll give it a Purple label. When I filter for a specific rating, or more often a color label, I sometimes find stacked images. HDRs, Panoramas, or images I stacked myself, virtual copies even. If I then change the rating or the color label on the main image on the stack, nothing will happen to the other images on the stack and vice-versa. If I have a filter so I only see a color label or a rating, I won't see the images on the stack which have a different label or rating to the main image on the stack. I have attached an image showing the behavior as of now.   I understand this behavior, and I agree this should be the default way. I have been working with it for a while now, but I believe i

I love the Library>People function which makes our lives a lot easier.   It does a great job most of the time but I often have to review or rename incorrect suggestions. It is a lot faster to drag and drop the image or a multi section of image to the correct person in the "named people" Pane vice retyping the name.   The biggest issue is that on a long list unnamed people (when scrolling is required), the Named People pane disappear making it difficult to rapidly drag and drop and also brakes the flow of the list.    Suggestion: In the People window, we should have the ability to pin the "named people" pane so it remain visible when the Unnamed People is scrolled down or up. This would afford the quick drag and drop capability from the unnamed people to the named people pane.

In Lightroom classic:    I beleive that you should be able to keep (or maintain) the exact window position within the "import" - after you add+label+ and clear the "Quick Collection" folder     

Hi, does anybody know a software, plugin, script or action to convert meta data presets from Lightroom Classic (.lrtemplate) to meta data presets for Bridge/Photoshop (.xmp).   I could do it manual with picture by picture, but I'm to lazy to convert 170 Lightroom presets. This way I also get the GPS data better into Bridge, which doesn’t works so wasy.   An allroud converter for any Digital Asset Management software would be great.

it would be great if the channel swap option was included in lightroom classic. this would eliminate the need to use photoshop and we could get out there faster to take pictures. 😉 that would certainly make all infrared photographers very happy. so please please dear adobe programmers make it possible.Best regards Marko

LR mobile sync is extremely slow. Giving me an option to sync locally would be excellent. And I'm sure very useful for professionals travelling in areas where internet is limited/non-existent or expensive and time consuming.Come on Adobe. If this is designed for professionals this slow sync and data usage issues on global data roaming....? It simply isn't practical. The product as is can't be recommended as is.(please also add keywords, ratings, labels to app functionality)Thanks!

Good morning.   I assume that I am not the first person to make this suggestion, but it would be very helpful if a user could select a set of images and then export the metada for those images (or selected metadata fields) to a list in Excel. This would greatly simplify the process of completing the list that must be submitted to the copyright office when registering photos for copyright.   I was actually surprised to find that this is not a feature in Lightroom. In my day job, I work with a cloud-based content management system in which we store Word docs, PDFs and Excel files. And in addition to being able to edit, download, copy and paste, etc. we can generate a list of records in a list view, which will contain only the fields of metadata that we choose and then export that list into Excel.   Thanks for your consideration.   Al

Support for this video format is needed.

I'd love to see the Premiere Pro Lumetri color adjustment possibilities in Lightroom and Photoshop. For example the curves: luminance vs saturation, saturation vs saturation and so on. This makes it so easy to desaturate the less saturated areas of an image for example. I just don't know any tool for this in Lightroom or Photoshop. Lumetri color is the perfect tool set for adjusting the colours. Please add this to Lightroom and Photoshop!

I'm a photographer who sometimes shoots video. I have DaVinci Resolve for editing full video projects, but I would like to be able to perform basic edits on individual clips in the way we can with photos. I know there are limited ways to do this right now using Capture Frame, but I want full Develop module support with the ability to adjust highlights & shadows, add noise reduction and sharpening, crop and transform (e.g. straightening vertical lines). Basically anything we can do with photos, we should be able to do with videos.

When using the background AI tool, it is also selecting foreground items.  Shooting high key on a white background, I use a mirrored floor for a reflection.  The background tool always selects this as well, making batch corrections impossible.  I am dealing with 100's of images at a time, and a tool that did this well would be AMAZING!  But as it is, it simply doesn't work.  See the original, and then the after using the background tool.  The reflection should remain!!!  

It would be great if the secondary screen support could be tweaked with an option to choose whether it shows the selected additional view in an additional floating window, as now, or whether it shows it in a subdivision of the main space in the primary window (between the sidebars). The divide could be placed in the centre by default, but be draggable to tweak the balance between, say, a Loupe view and a Grid view.   An additional enhancement to this would be to allow the additional/secondary view area to be positioned to the far left or far right, rather than in between the sidebars.   Rationale: more people are getting ultrawide monitors like a single 21:9 instead of two 16:10s. I just bough one, and while it's great to have so much room for lots of Grid view items, in other views it's mostly wasted -  unles you're working on a panorama! It's also usually more grid than you need, to be honest. And Lightroom already has its feature for making use of additional screen sp

Hola, Me gustaria recomendarles que pongan la opcion de exportar catalogos con compatibilidad en versiones anteriores, como lo tiene Illustrator, ya que los profesionales de la fotografia compartimos catalogos con otros colegas, y no todos tienen los programas actualizados, ya que las PC no son lo suficientemente pontentes como para soportar las ultimas versiones de Lightroom, es mas, desde que actualice mis programas a las ultimas versiones, fue de mal en peor su funcionamiento, hasta el punto tal de que hoy ni siquiera puedo editar, pero me encuentro con el problema de que no puedo volver a utilizar versiones anteriores ya que tengo decenas de catalogos hechos con la ultima version de Lightroom, y no se dan una idea del perjuicio que esto me ocasiona. Gracias!

While LrC workspace set up is more simple than Photoshop's, Photoshop has a an option to do set it to a chosen default: (Windows>workspace) This would come in handy with LrC when, as an example, you try entering keywords, not noticing you didn't quite connect with the keyword entry "box". When this happens a good number of keys that you hit are short cut keys and the screen flickers between various views. Sometimes it is easy to recover back to the normal workspace, but there are times it takes a while to sort it out. (Maybe just a magic way to undo all those unintended keystrokes😊)

I was surprised to get no real matches when I searched the LR Classic board for "check spelling while typing". Surely someone else has asked that this setting (Edit-Spelling-Check Spelling While Typing) remember its last value (on MacOS, it doesn't. I know about Windows). As it is, I have to re-enable it each time I restart LR, usually in the middle of captioning when I have to go back and check that previous captions were correctlty spelled.   Adobe, this must be the easiest of changes to make. Next release, please? 🙂   Thank you.   I am on LR Classic 12.1 and MacOS 13.1 (Apple M1)   Warm regards, Geoff

The crop tool has several overlays, such as the rule of thirds, golden ratio etc., which can be cycled in and out with the "O" keyboard shortcut while in crop mode.  This collection of overlays could become a much more advanced tool, if Adobe could provide one more overlay, the Harmonic Armature or 14-line grid, see below image. This would introduce a basic template for dynamic symmetry, a long lost art of image design that most famous visual artworks are based on. If the tool auto-resizes to the cropped canvas like the existing overlays do, the grid overlay would not need any variants, which are usually cycled with the SHIFT-O keyboard shortcut. The coloring below is just for illustration, this could be a simple white line overlay as the others.

     Background: I sometimes use Photo/Photo Merge/Panorama/Perspective to merge multiple photos of flat art or entire rolls of negatives (to make a contact sheet). Most of the time, this works perfectly, yielding images of fantastic resolution. However, sometimes when the art of negatives contain images of buidlings, the merge process goes wildly wrong, misinterpreting the image. An example is provided in the attached four images. 25, 26 and 27 are three partial shots of the same roll of film. 25-2-Pano is the panorama created using Photo Merge/Panorama?Perspective. You can see that it is wildly distorted by Lightroom's attempt to make a single image of the separate photos.      Suggestion: Please provide Lightroom photo merge with a fourth projection method that avoids this problem with flat art.      Possible method: I believe that Panorama/Perspective is often used to provide a single planar projection of multiple photos taken at substan