Feature Requests

When sending a file to an external editor, if the option to edit a new version is selected, Lr will create a new file which inherits most but not all of the original file's metadata. One thing that it doesn't inherit is collection membership if you are not explicitly working within the collection (say for example you are in the Recent Import view).  Images can be assigned to only one collection at import, but they can be added to multiple collections afterwards.  I would like to see a tickbox on the Edit in External ... dialogue box that toggles the inheriting of collection membership for new files created in this way.  My workflow is usually to import files and then to head to the Develop pane to start editing them. At this point I am in the Recent Imports view and, even though I specified a collection for the files, new copies will not inherit this information. This means that when I later select the collection, I cannot see the externally edited versions and I need to

When/will Adobe going to update Lightroom 6 to take advantage of the MacBook pro touch bar?  It has been a few months since Photoshop was updated...

This 'feature' is completely useless to me as there is already a profile strength slider on the right hand side (the side where all the other sliders go). This slider simply takes up space for me without providing any extra functionality that I use, and because it isn't hideable it means I cannot see as many of my presets at once without having to scroll. Either get rid of it, give me the option to hide it, or move it to the right side of the screen where every other slider goes.  

The new batch masking for AI selections (sky and subject) is a nice addition. However, I find that there still needs to be an option to set the mask once (i.e., select the sky) and then apply that exact mask selection (including any further mask refinements) to all other photos in the batch. For my timelapses where the camera doesn’t move, the same pixels make up the sky in each photo. Having the AI sky masking ability is very helpful for that initial photo edit, however the sky mask does not need to be recomputed for each photo. Use the AI mask once, refine it, make the mask edits, and paste it to all my other photos. When syncing AI masks, LR should ask: (1) do I want to recompute the AI masks for all photos (helpful for moving timelapses), or (2) do I want to just sync the current mask selection as is?

The help article Lightroom Classic GPU FAQ should mention Export in the introductory summary paragraph, since that's likely to be one of the most-noticed uses of the GPU.  The article has plenty of details down below, but when looking for an article to refer to a forum user, I almost moved on since I didn't see Export mention in the introduction:   "When configured (Preferences > Performance), Lightroom Classic can use a compatible graphics processor (also called a graphics card, video card, or GPU) to speed up tasks of displaying and adjusting images in the Develop module, the Library module's Grid view, Loupe view, and Filmstrip. Features like Select Subject, Select Sky, and Enhance Details are also accelerated by the GPU. Using a compatible GPU can provide significant speed improvements on high-resolution displays, such as 4K and 5K monitors."

I have my Mac display random images from my Pictures directory as a screen saver.  I find it a useful way to randomly review my images for ones that catch my eye for further edit.   However, the screen saver does not display the images with Lightroom edits applied.  They look very different from my final form.   It would be great if LR can provide a screen saver so that I can see images with edits applied.  Maybe with metadata too.

Hi,   I was hoping for an update that optimises Lr gui for the latest mbp (it seems Macbook Air will also need this).  At this moment, still after seven months of Mbp release and three or four updates, Lightroom is not optimised to use the screen space of the macbook pro. It reqires a workaround that produces smaller visible/usable gui or a notch is covering upper menu. At this moment, in practice, new 16.6" and 14" mps's that offer more screen realestate, still use the same space as the old 15" mbp's.   I would like to report this as a bug, since the mbp camera covers parts of the lr menu in fullscreen mode.     thank you,   m.e.                

Very often we need to reduce the presets' intensity on some images. There are quite "complicated" presets not just with the basic sliders settings, but with custom curves in each RGB channel. When you start changing them manually, you can easily destroy the overall look (especially, if you are an amateur). I mean, changing the contrast and exposure leads to some color shift, etc. What about adding a special slider for changing the intensity of all the settings at once?   I've found this 3rd party solution, but haven't tried it. http://www.capturemonkey.com/thefader/   ADOBE, can't you just buy this plugin and build in the LR?

Description: Selecting subject in the new Lightroom release is great...but no automatic tool is perfect. After creating a subject selection mask, I often Add or Subtract with a brush to clean it up (There is currently no "Refine edge" function, which would be awesome, by the way).  My problem is this--Now that I have the Subject selected, I duplicate the mask so I can select the background. But the Add/Remove brushes don't work properly and must be converted. Proposed improvement: Instead of duplicating the mask and going to each element to invert, convert to add, convert to subtract, I would like to see an option on the mask itself to "Flip" it. The Flip at the top level would invert the select subject mask, and convert the Add to Subtract, and convert the Subtract to Add. Then the mask would be a perfect inversion in one step.  You would have to consider how it would behave with the other mask elements--I was only considering the select subject/Add/Subtract.

This may have flown under the radar for those of you in the Lightroom Classic world but Camera Raw subtly released a beta feature for feedback: The Preset Amount Slider.   If you dabble in Camera Raw you might want to drop by https://community.adobe.com/t5/camera-raw-discussions/p-beta-feature-in-camera-raw-14-0-releasing-at-max-2021-preset-amount-slider-feedback-thread/m-p/12471319#M15595 and give Adobe feedback!

This new feature permits the pictures selection in Smart Collection based on Event IPTC/xmp metadata. Event, like People, Location, Date, Copyright are very important information to manage picture. This helps to find back the picture of a wedding, an art-exhibition, anniversary,....   In the past, people used folders structure to do this. Later, they used keuwords. But now, with so many pictures, keywords lists are very, very long. So, we lost many time to find the right keyword. And computer can't understand keywords.   The Event information exists in IPTC extension but LRc don't use (yet ?) IPTC extension in the smart collection. So, uses it, please.   Today, metadata are very important because it's human/machine usable. So, as a photographer, user can exchange information between application (like LRc, Photoshop,..), user <-> media (like social media), user <--> Customer,....  

A tool to crop and rotate a collection of headshots so that eyes and lips are in the same place in the frame would expedite a workflow of mine.  Exporting those crops as virtual copies to a new collection would be helpful also.

I want to reduce the size of the navigator window so I can see more of the menus below it while working on my laptop. It's crazy that LR doesn't support this.

I wish that lightroom galleries had the ability to only show flagged(or only ones with a certain rating) photos on the public view.  This makes it easier to keep all my raw and unused files together in the same gallery but only show the ones I want to the clients.

At today it's possible to control the Luminance Range ONLY by using the sliders.   • We should be able to enter values for the Luminance Range just like we can enter values for other settings.Here I made a UI mock-up to illustrate   .

I suggest to implement two simple right click options for existing components.   Convert to Intersect Convert to Normal   First option would allow to convert an existing component directly into a Intersection. This would be simpler and faster than the steps we have to do now.   Second option would allow to return an existing intersected component to the normal, default "add" component. This as well is simpler and faster than what we have to do now to achieve the same.

A simple change to the policy of when Windows Lightroom Classic writes out its preferences file could avoid most “corruptions" of preferences that cause so much flaky behavior experienced by users.    The current policy is: The file gets written 30 seconds after the most recent assignment to a preferences key or 60 seconds after the first assignment to a key after the file was last written, whichever comes first. When LR exits, the preference file is written after all user-interface tasks have terminated.   The new policy should drop the 60-second rule: The file gets written 30 seconds after the most recent assignment to a preferences key. When LR exits, the preference file is written after all user-interface tasks have exited.   In addition, Adobe should verify that when LR shuts down, every task that stores preference values terminates properly before the preferences are written to disk.   Though these changes are simple, justifying them takes a lot of explan

Please add 'Missing Photo' Status to Grid Filter Bar and Smart Collections. Catalogs are now getting larger, as Lightroom matures and catalogs naturally expand. Also, cameras with fast frame rates are becoming the norm.   Finding Missing Photos can be an extremely useful feature, but only results in a single potentially large collection. There is no feature currently within Lr to export a list of filenames/paths of missing photos. I have tried using various Plug-Ins... but the plug-ins I use do not provide reliable lists. Also plugins were extremely slow and took up to 36 hours to generate lists based on a 700k catalog.   Please make it possible to be able to filter images based on their 'Missing Photo Status' and also create smart collections using a 'Missing Photo Status'.    Background Example. I have assisted a photographer with a catalog of 700k images.. spread over 3 x 12TB images. One of the drives failed, with a loss of 330k images. Backups were incomplete.

Blurb just announced that it will no longer support the creation of ebooks. Lightroom is already Offering output to Blurb Photo Books, PDF, or JPEG - So it will be nice to have an ebook option output from the Book module.

Adobe, please perfect hair selection in LR Classic especially if we don't have to next take the image into PS. Horse's manes, tails, forelocks are not well-selected. PLEASE work on your algorithm to enhance this capability. Thanks you!!

Request for Change   In the select Sky Mask panel, add a Refine slider.   Hoping to adjust areas that mask should have not included such as say Granite Monoliths under a pale blue sky, where mask intrudes into the blue gray rock (as an example)   For an example of a situation, See: https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-discussions/select-sky-accuracy/m-p/12484630#M247938  

LRC is not able to acces pictures from the PHOTO app on my MAC.  LRC does not recognize the Photo Library.photolibrary as a source for my pictures and therefore will not import them.  I am required to move them to another location (ie:desktop) to import the pictures.  I think that if LRC plug-ins recognizes the iPhoto library which hasnt been used by Apple for a while and doesnt recognize the Photo library, perhaps a new plug-in should be written. 

Olá, acredito que essa função seria muito útil para os usuarios, exibir se aquela imagem visualizada tem algum rotulo ou classificação nela, mas ficando entre a parte superior ou no meio da tela, já que na tela inferior por vezes são varias marcações o que causa uma confusão momentanea, já caso fique no canto superior direito ou esquerdo, eu não precisaria mover os olhos da parte central da tela, facilitando minha seleção. Torço que atendam e agradeço.

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Please, add the "same as previous" preset when using a watch folder with auto import. Same as previous is really useful, but it seem available only with standard Tethering, and not when using the watch folder feature. Thx