Feature Requests

Currently the Eyeball Icon can be used to hide a setting (only available in Color Grading for now) or a Mask/Component. Unlike "On/off Switches" with the Eyeball Icon we can hide temporarily the setting/mask/component as we click and hold it...this is to me a truly "game changing" ability.   I suggest to have: Click and Hold any Settings while using a modifier to hide settings without adding to history.   e.g. Ctr/Cmd + Click and Hold on the name of the setting  = setting is hidden, no step in history is added.   It would be wise also to replace the current "On/Off" switch in Panels with the Eyeball Icon: this way we would also have the "click & hold to hide" behavior for panels as well.

I have been redeveloping some old images, and thus the Metadata Date is updated. I would like to be able to search for all those images for which the metadata date is today but I'm seeing that it is not possible. In fact, being able to choose a range of time over which such a change occurred could helpful. I'd hope that adding such a feature to the metadata find choices would be fairly straightforward. Thanks. Thanks, especially, for such a wonderful program!   Perhaps generalizing things to allow the user to user to choose the metadata that they wish to search on would be the way to go.

Hello, I m playing around with some presets and it is tiresome to scroll through all of them to get to the one I want. They also remain open once you click on the triangle so the lists grows to huge sizes.   The simple solution that I would like to see is to be able to ALT click the triangle next to each preset category, and that would collapse/expand all of them, the same way you do with the Folders panel in the Library module. Thanks you so much!

I am trying to use a mask created in photoshop. This is an obvious task that should be easy. No surprise that Lightroom does not support it in any obvious way.    Several problems:  * Lightroom has neglected to allow masks from files * Copying and pasting a Luminance mask results in the mask being recomputed on the new image (making copy/paste perfectly useless, since this is what creating a new mask does).  * Copying and pasting an automask results in the automask being recomputed.   In both cases, the mask is created perfectly on the BW photoshop file. * In the case of the luminance mask, paste behavior is simply definitionally wrong (you are not pasting anything: BUG). * In the case of the automask, there should be an option to apply without recomputing (sometimes I can see recomputing being desired, but when this is not desired it interferes with proper behavior: BUG).    So how do I go about doing this obvious and basic task?   Until a solut

1) Allow starting with non-empty folder (give user the option to ignore / import current files) 2) Watch subfolders (give user the option) 3) Do not force user to move the imported files to different directory.

Sometimes I found that Lightroom Classic make bad name sugestions for facial recognition. The feature request/app improvement could be an option to see the sources photos or faces that provokes that recognition. I can undestand that maybe is not easy becase how facial metadata is saved maybe, but sometimes this happends when in the million faces of a person, 3 pictures are bad placed on wrong face. This function could help us find quicly which faces are wrong placed. Else i have to check millions of faces trying to find them. I hope this function could be added and be useful for others.

When I complete processing on a photo I want to print, I export the image to a special folder containing all my ready to print images. Since I work primarily in Collections, I would like to be able to add that image to a special collection as well. Perhaps this could be done be allowing Add to Collection as an option in the post processing section of the Export dialog. 

Hi, I use Lr as my go-to platform to manage my printing workflow and I would love to see ColorSpace added to the Metadata vewer. The data is readily available in the file and would help especially when images have been saved with a specific printer ICC profile as the ColorSpace. Would be a simple addition that I bet would help anyone using LR for printing!   Thank you!   Juan Carlos

A LR Classic feature request for Smart Collections: Improve Rules with a check in left margin to turn rule off/on, Ability to drag a Rules up or down.   These features would make editing Smart Collections easier. Now, we have to retype a Rule each time we change its position or turn it off/on.   Thanks,   Sonny Taylor

Work flow would be much more productive if the watermark was able to be freely positioned anywhere on the images, verse’s being limited to the 6 point grid Lightroom currently provides. I always have to reopen the image in photoshop to add the watermark which makes this process very frustrating.

Ich habe auf einem Geburtstag fotografiert und gefilmt. Für die Fotos habe ich in Lightroom Classic - für die schnellere Bearbeitung der vielen Fotos - ein Preset angelegt. Nun wollte ich den selben Look der bearbeiteten Fotos auf das Video in Premiere Pro bringen über Lumetri. Leider funktioniert Lumetri komplett anders als die Farbanpassung in Lightroom. Zunächst ist das Colorgrading in Premiere vollkommen unübersichtlich und die Funktionsweise von dem Panel "Farbmischer" (wie es in Lightroom heißt) hat sich mir in Premiere überhautp nicht erschlossen, da das Panel in Premiere mit Masken arbeitet, statt den Farbton zu verändern. Außerdem fehlt das Panel Kalibrierung und es gibt 10 Mal die Option über Farbräder Lichter und Schatten zu kalibrieren - was mir auch suspekt war, da ich Lightroom und Photoshop gewohnt bin.    Ich habe versucht durch ein Plug-In das Preset von Lightroom in ein LUT (.cube) zu exportieren und in Premiere einzufügen. Das hat zwar geklappt, aber mir fe

Would it be possible to add the "update preset" watermark button onto the Watermark Editor screen right next to the Save button? It wouldn't save a huge amount of time compared to the current method, but it would certainly add up after updating a watermark's location on almost every photo.       

As many users of LR are photographers ,I think a way to calibrate a negative image of Color Checker will be a GAME CHANGER for MANY. Cheers! Nikolay

LrC version 11.3 includes a new feature to simplify the procedure to reset the Lightroom Preferences and this is great since Lightroom somehow tends to "corrupt" the preferences file which causes some strange issues. This process sets the Preferences file to the default settings so the user has to reselect any specific choices and it is a bit of a "pita" to address. One of the things that is reset to the default is where your backups of the Catalog file are saved. This has to be reset the next time you exit the application and create a backup file it cannot be done when you make selections in the LrC "Preferences". Provide an option to retain the user settings in the Preferences and Catalog settings.    

The new brush menu in Adobe Lightroom is extremely frustrating to be used. It's now taking us longer in order to access them in comparison to before when it's already laid out in the main tools. Now we have to do multiple steps in order to access functions such as "skin smooth or teeth whitening". I much more prefer the drop-down menu system from before. It's also frustrating to select the areas where we painted. Before it's laid out all at once and we can simply choose the ones we want now it's being laid out in layers which can be confusing to make our selection. This can be challenging since we have thousands of photos to edit. Adobe, please do us a favor and return the old menu system thank you.

Lightroom 11.2 on MacOS Catalina 10.15.7.   In the Library module, next to the File Name field is a hamburger menu for automated renaming. It lets you save your own presets. However, it doesn't have ways to update or delete a preset. It is inconvenient and nonobvious to have to find the .lrtemplate file in ~/Library through the operating system so you can delete it or delete and re-save it.  

Currently Lightroom remembers the last two zoom states that can be toggled between with the space bar or mouse clicks. This allows one to set up a Fit view and one Zoom view that can be quickly called from keaybard or a midi controller. Problem... If I am zooming around a photo I now need to use the mouse to pick on the little Fit/Fill tab in the Navigator to return to FIT.  As I, like many others, use a midi input device to control much of LR it would be great to have a keyboard shortcut available that returns us directly to FIT no matter how much zooming around one has done. This would allow someone using a midi controller to zoom in several levels and then hit one key to return to FIT.  A sort of Go Home button.. This would aid power users I am sure.

I like working with the lights dimmed using "L" but when I select another photo and press sync it takes me out of the dimming. Can you please put an option to lock it in dimmed mode?

Currently, when using Publishing Services in Lightroom Classic, there is no way to tell which Publishing Service contains unpublished images. For example, I have many collections within the Flickr publish service. If I want to make sure they are all up to date, I need to click on each one in the left column of the Library module and, then, look at the grid to see if there are new photos or modified photos to be published.It would be better if Lightroom Classic could  automatically show me which collections need to be updated. This could be accomplished by the software adding some kind of indicator graphic or a color label (red, maybe) to the collections containing unpublished photos.This way I can quickly see which ones need updating.

Photoshop has a neat option for Curves layer when you hold [ALT OPT] (in Mac) and click AUTO button, to correct individual curves automatically for colour correction. This is VERY handy tool and desperately needed in Lightroom Classic.

Title basically. it sucks working fullscreen and have two  giant spaces between my navigator and my development settings at the sides of my image. I cant find the setting to move the filmstrip as a window around.

I'm automating the import of my photos to Lightroom using Auto Import (e.g. `Choose File > Auto Import > Enable Auto Import`).   However, the settings dialog for Auto Import doesn't provide any way organize images during this process.   During Auto Import, I'd like to either: 1.) specify an import preset to be used, or 2.) have a setting to auto-organize into directories (e.g. `YYYY/YYYY-MM-DD`).   Without at least one of these, auto-import isn't useful for me unfortunately.

The Lightroom Classic GPU FAQ needs to be updated to include Select Subject and Select Sky as one of the ways that LR uses the GPU: https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/kb/lightroom-gpu-faq.html   It should also mention the error message that occurs when a user has a very old graphics driver on Windows and tries to do Select Subject and Select Sky.

I would like to suggest a mask feature that is related to the motion blur filter in photoshop. Many photographers need to blur faces or create a sense of movement on images where it was not practical to use a slow shutter spead.  It would be ideal if there was a blur option in masking...I imagine it would be mostly used with a brush to just place the blur on specific areas (faces, full body images of people walking, riding bikes, etc.)  Many Thanks for your consideration.   [Moved to ideas by moderator]

It would be time saving if the photos for each tutorial module could be downloaded as a group instead of individually as you do the module. This suggestion is for both Lightroom Classic and Photoshop and I use both a Mac and Windows computer.