Feature Requests

On import I always use the 2nd copy feature.  With the high burst rates of new cameras, the 2nd copies folder gets real big real quick. Every so often I clean it out of old 2nd copies.  I also create 1:1 previews.  I love the feature that deletes 1:1 previews older than 30 days or whatever.  It makes life easier.  Couldn't we have a similar feature for 2nd copies to automatically clean them out after a set time?

I'm a wedding photographer and I usually end up with over a thousand pictures after my shootings.  I wish lightroom had an auto-export option for large sessions, I have a Sony 7R III and the file sizes are huge by the time I'm done editing all of my photos I have to wait for up to 30 - 40 minutes sometimes even more time to complete my all exports.    I propose an Auto-Export Sync check box under folders, Running in the background to export photos as they have been edited. also, a percentage bar showing how many photos have been completed, if I wish to re-edit a photo an override option to update the previous edit would be a plus.     The export options bar feels like is outdated, and it's annoying every time it pops to do an export, there is no file size presets for social media like Instagram, Facebook, Google map etc.    I feel like this feature can save us, photographers, a lot of time between exports.   Another big issue I run into is w

In the PRINT module in Lightroom, you can put metadata on the margin of the photo. Then you can physically print the photo with the metadata or save it to a PDF.   I'm looking to do the same except save it to JPEG. No luck so far. Any suggestions? Feature request to Adobe?   Tanya    

Sometimes I don't want to change the tint settings and just change the temperature when copy/paste settings from a photo to a photo. It would be awesome to leave one of them on "as shot" and only change the other one.

Hi, with the advent of M1-Chip in iPads, Adobe must consider introducing LrC for iPads along with Macbooks. It is far more versatile and effective than Lightroom CC for those, who are already familiar with professional grade image processing. LrC gives also complete control over file management. With the latest iPads one can process images directly form an external SSD without the need to transfer the images to the iPad. Photoshop functions in iPads offline. Therefore, if LrC comes to iPads I can process images in LrC and finish them in Photoshop on my iPad. Furthermore, the Apple pencil assists in finer selections and touches, when and where required.   I wonder, why Adobe has not yet brought in LrC for iPads. Adobe, gimme hope!

When entering invalid export image settings, no usefull error message is produced: 1. Settings (note the resolution which is not within the acceptable range): 2. Error message: This is extremely unfortunate, as i had unintentionally changed this setting and spent hours with the support team trying to find the issue. I think it would be very easy for the dev. team to implement an error message if invalid settings are set. We were on a wild goose chase, resetting lightroom, creating new profiles, using a different windows account, until the idea struck us that maybe it was just wrong settings all allong...    Easy fix that could save the Adobe Team huge amounts of time troubleshooting such issues!

The "auto advance" feature works in the develop module so it should appear in the "Photo" menu there as well.  It is annoying to have to go back to "Library" to disable/enable it.  I know there are keyboard shortcut but my brain does not have enough free space to remember them all.  

Whenever I use the B keyboard shortcut to add or remove a photo to my quick collection, I see the pop-up status message "Add to Quick Collection" or "Remove from Quick Collection." Since the pop-up reflects what I just *did* it should say "Added..." or "Removed..." The wording seems designed for a tooltip telling me what's going to happen, but that's not what's going on.  

Despite the 7 great mask-creation tools in Lightroom (I used iPad version), yesterday I needed to create a mask that they couldn't handle, so I had to send the photo to Photoshop, where the Magic Wand created my mask with ease. I've attached the photo in question so you can try for yourself. I wanted to mask everything except the sausage and bun.   This situation does not occur frequently for me, but often enough that I'm making this request. It would be SO awesome if you would add a Magic Wand mask tool to Lightroom. Thanks!     {Moved to correct board by Moderator} {Title edited by Moderator}

I have over 472K files in LRC (11.3.1) about 400K were not the current process version (less than 5). It took over a week of my time to upgrade the process versions.  The issue was that LR would be going along andhit a file that had something wrong with it from LR's perspective and quit the process version upgrade.  And all the ones that it had converted on the upgrade run stayed at their original process version. Additionally LRC did not indicate which was the bad file.  This require scrolling through in grid view thousands of photos slowly becase grid view had to open the file to discover that they were bad.  All in all a very cumbersome annoying process. Desired behavior would be like Synchronize, where it continues on when there is an error, and gives a report at the end of the files that it could not convert to the current process.    Windows 11, 24cores, 128GB mem,  Catalog on SSD LRC 11.3.1

I've recently moved from a 2018 i7 Mac Mini to and Mac Studio Ultra - suffice to say I've had a bit of a smile seeing how much faster some of the optimisation has made things.   One area that doesn't appear to be optimised is exporting catalogs (specifically, exporting folders as catalogs with smart previews).   This is an area where the Mac Mini was bouncing off the limiter - sounding like it was ready to take off, and you could cook an egg on it, CPU and RAM utilisation was that high.   With the Mac Studio, the export is still painfully slow, and on the last check, CPU utilisation was 8%, and RAM utilisation was circa 20% of what was available (suggesting there is lots of available resource LR isn't optimised to use).   For those of us who use this in their workflow, I'd guarantee it'd be the biggest needle shifter in workflow time compared to any other optimisation.

Problem Description: I would like to update existing metadata presets, after I have made changes, like I can with watermarks, etc Steps to Reproduce:1. Open Library, menu Metadata, Edit Metadata presets2. Chose a preset, and make changes3. Open the Preset dropdown menu in the top of the screen, and try to save the changes4. Actual Result:The only choise is to save settings as a new preset (or restore defaults) Expected Result:I would like to have a menu item; Update preset "preset name" Any Workarounds:Save as a new preset

As of now every time a new component is added,  intersected or subtracted  to an existing Mask it is placed above all existing components within that Mask.   Components order is relevant so putting new components above all existing is not the best choice.    I ask to have another main behaviour available to us:   "Always create new Component above currently selected"   Users should, in the settings or preferences, decide what behaviour to have when adding intersecting, subtracting a new component to the existing Mask.   As of now when we duplicate offset a component (via right click) it already works like this!   .  

Hi, I shoot photos mainly with my full frame camera and also make snapshots with my phone. I have a disk for editing the photos (SSD F:) and an archive disk (NAS P:). On both drives I have a directory tree like \202x\2021\2021-01-01 (decennium\year\day). Several times a week I copy the photos of my CF-Express card to my F-drive, edit the photos and move them to my P-drive.   So far so good. About 3 times a year I copy the photos from my phone to the F-drive, edit the photos and want to move all the folders to my archive disk P:.   Here's the problem. Many folders already exist on the P-drive because of the full frame photos. For every existing folder I get a message saying: A folder named <foldername> already exists at this location and it won't copy the photos from the source although these photos don't exsist on the P-drive. Therefore, I have to copy the photos manually to the correct folder on the P-drive. That mostly is a hell of a job.   Idea. When moving

Whenever I edit a file name in Lightroom Classic Library view, I want to be able to double-click and drag to select one or more words to edit in the file name, without changing the file extension. This is how the Mac Finder works. In Lightroom, I have to tediously drag the cursor (in a tiny font) back and forth to select exactly the end of the last word without selecting ".tif" or ".dng" or whatever. A period should be a word break character in the text box.  

In the Map module, you can change the location of a map pin assigned one photo by dragging it to a new position.  But if the pin is assigned more than one photo, you can't drag it -- the map pans instead.  Surely not an intended behavior.   To reproduce:   1. Drag one photo to the map.     2. Click and drag its map pin and observe the pin changes location.   3. Drag two photos to the map.   4. Click the pin and try to drag it -- that pans the map rather than change the location of the pin.   Tested on LR 11.3.1 on Mac OS 12.31. and Windows 10.  

Bildverzeichnis in der Buchgestaltung. Picture directory in book design. The pictures should speak for themselves. But at the end of the book it should also be an automatically generated image index. That would be professional. With kind regards Lars Thomsen-Bad Segeberg-          

Now that I'm shooting 8K video and can get large still frames, I love the capture frame feature of Lightroom Classic. However, I find it difficult to scrub through the video (especially anything longer than a few seconds) because the slider to move through the video to find the frame is so short. Microscopic mouse movements jump the video a fair amount even on videos of 10 - 20 seconds. I'd love it if the slider was able to be quite a lot longer. Thanks!

I frequently use lightroom to edit architecture. One of the problems I have is when using the Guided Transform with two or more walls/ceiling that are the same colour, It is very hard/impossible to find the corner lines of the walls. If I temporarly swith to the spot remover and use the visualizw check box, I can see the corners of the room. This feature is not currently enabled under transform. 

Sample problem: You've used a daylight-balanced flash in an indoor tungsten environment. If you white balance for your foreground subject, the background color will be off, and vice-versa. Currently you can 1) select the subjet, 2) invert so that the background is selected, and then 3) "eyeball" proper white balance. But this is inexact.    Requested feature: Within the Masking module, have a "White Balance Background" selection option that automatically selects the background (steps 1 and 2 above) and presents an eydropper tool for white balance. Much faster!

There should be an option that allows me to exclude all keywords from a photos IPTC data when opening in an external editor. This would solve the problem of keywords that are stored hierachically in Classic from being reimported on save as a flat keyword structure. As it is now, if you want to maintain a clean keyword hierarchy, you must manually clean up the keyword list of imported synonyms, parents, etc., from the top-level of the hierarchy.

It seems on a Mac you can drag a RAW image from LR Grid View onto an other app. On my Win 10 system I can't do this, has anyone got it to work? 

In masking we should have a Negative/Positive Effect setting.   This Negative/Positive settings should be a checkbox and simply when enabled the area/pixels of the photo affected by the Mask would be turned into Negative or Positive (in case one is working on a film scan)   This simple setting would be very useful for those that work with film scans and as well for all creative uses.   I am perfectly aware that we can already turn a photo into Negative/Positive using a Point Curve but thanks to the Positive settings in Masking we would be able to do it also locally so only on a specific part of the image. The advantage of using a mask to turn complete/partially the image into a Negative/Positive is also that Point Curve would be kept linear not inverted and for most users it's easier to work like that.   .

In retouching there are many times when the highlights (or shadows) are contaminated by colours that should not be there. An example would be interior shots where different light sources were used (say daylight and tungsten), or where a wide angle lens has caused magenta/green shading on a white wall. It would be incredibly helpful to be able to select highlights/midtones/shadows and selectively adjust saturation. If, say, the split-toning slider could slide to the left to decrease saturation that would do the job!

The settings that are not currently selectable/available in the Copy/Sync Settings Menu should be added.   We should have the complete list, the checkboxes for all the existing settings and/or an efficient and simple way to copy/sync any settings.   • In detail.   With the exception of Basic Panel at today it is still not possible to select and/or copy/sync single specific setting from the other existing panels.    For instance the only way to copy one or more specific settings (e.g Red Saturation, Blue Hue, Black Parametric, Highlights Hue, Blending, Global Luminance, etc...) to other photos is to select multiple and then use Auto Sync in Develop module...but unfortunately that requires multiple steps and needlessly add steps to History as well.   I suggest to have the complete list of settings.  The following simple option in Develop module would help tremendously as well:  "Right Click on setting : copy/sync!"   This o