Feature Requests

An easy improvement for Lightroom 'Import' feature would be if it remembered images you had already imported and 'deleted from disc'.    Currently your rejected images from pervious imports are detected as 'new images' when you put the memory card back in.   It would be a simple matter to keep the exif data from deleted photos (e.g. file size, camera, lens, date and time taken) in an 'already rejected' table in the database, then when they come up again on a memory card, Lightroom knows this file WAS imported but 'deleted from disc'. 

As a photographer editing events, Voice Commands would be a dream to have in lightroom. It would make the process go so much faster.  To be able to say Increase Exposure .5 or Lower Temp100 degrees and Tint plus 4, next (to go to next photo), reject mage.  To be able to control all the sliders, labels etc in Lightroom with Voice Command would help to fly through editing images.  I am sure it is very easy to add since voice dictation is everywhere now.  

It is very tedious to inspect photos one at a time in Loupe View to see if all people in a photo were identified using the People button (O). I am finding that necessary because an alarming number of photos with people were not detected using this process.

Bonjour la communauté et Adobe,   Je fais ce petit sujet car je trouverai vraiment génial de pouvoir effectuer des retouches complètes (surtout pour les coulleurs) lors de l'application de masque, ce qui serait d'autant plus utile maintenant qu'il y a la selection de sujet et de ciel automatique.   Merci à tous et j'espère que, su vous êtes dans ce besoin, que le support apportera ces modifications.

LrDevelopController.getValue (key) returns nil for all the crop settings (CropLeft, CropRight, CropTop, CropBottom) immediately after a user clicks Select Subject or Sky.  To reproduce:   1. Save the following script in the Scripts folder.   2. Run the script, which starts a background task calling LrDevelopController.getValue().   3. Edit a photo in Develop, open the Masking tool, and click Select Sky.   4. Observe this message displayed:   Tested on LR 11.2 / Mac OS 11.6.2.       local LrTasks = import "LrTasks" local catalog = import "LrApplication".activeCatalog () local getCurrentModuleName = import "LrApplicationView".getCurrentModuleName local getValue = import "LrDevelopController".getValue local showBezel = import "LrDialogs".showBezel LrTasks.startAsyncTask (function () while true do local photo = catalog:getTargetPhoto () if photo ~= nil and getCurrentModuleName () == "develop" then local CropLef

MacOS Big Sur.   When I print from Lightroom Classic to roll paper (on an Epson SC-P7500), I know how wide I want the print to be (usually 610mm). I have to estimate the height, then choose a "paper size" to match that height. I have a large number of defined paper sizes and presets so I can usually pick the right one, but it's a tedious chore.   In QImage One for Mac, I can select a box marked "auto roll length", and QImage will handle that chore, presumably by calculating the height and communicating it to the Epson driver.   It would be awfully nice to have a similar check box, with similar functionality, in Lightroom.

Having the ability to increase the size of the slider handles would be very helpful.  I've always found them just a bit too small when trying to click on them.   Also, more font size options would be good.  On my 1440p screen, 'medium' is too small, but 'large' is too big.  If we could specify a percentage, that would be very useful.

  Re: Lightroom Classic Develope Presets, Update with Current Settings, no matter which "USER" preset I click I get the same checked boxes, by default Lightroom should show the settings that were originally saved with each preset, Interestingly when I use Adobe Camera Raw my lightroom presets are there and the checked boxes are all correct!! Thanks in anticipation. Ron Hills.  

I submit images and videos to Adobe Stock and the keyword ranking there is important. The most significant keywords that apply to the image have to go first. With Lightroom you can copy the keyword and the paste at the beginning. This is a very slow process. You have the commas in the way, the panel is small, etc.   There is a software (Stock submitter) specialized for sending content to many agencies and it has solved this with a clever trick. Every keyword or multiple keywords if they are separated with commas are transformed into blocks. You can quickly drag any block into the position you want. No need to care about commas, pasting in the wrong spot etc. It is 100x times faster as it is implemented in Lightroom now. hope to see it one day in LR

I'm in LR6 trying to import images from a subfolder at the bottom of a folder tree.  I'm able to get a vertical scrollbar that allows me to get to the level in the "main import source panel" where that subfolder is.  How do I get a horizontal scrollbar, to get to the subfolder?

Hello,   I've been working recently in both Adobe Lightroom along with Camera Bit's Photo Mechanic Plus. Working in PhotoMechanic has shown me a few places that Lightroom is really lagging behind and could use a push to catch up!   One weakness I'd like to see addressed is the customization of the "Expanded Cells" in Grid View. My chief complaint is that Expanded Cells are not very spatially optimized. While in Compact Cells the two metadata extras you chose to include show up tight against the image. When you switch to Compact Cells all the metadata moves outside of a massive buffer space, which means that despite doubling the size allocated to each image you barely have any additional space for metadata... if we're going to Expand the Cells lets get some space for more metadata! Otherwise there is no point...   I also really love how customizable the structure is in PhotoMechanic's app. For example, # of megapixels, ISO speed, exposure bias, and many other variables ta

Issue We need a rapid way to find images that have AI mask errors. These errors happen when copying/pasting or synchronizing an AI mask across multiple images.  The error is hidden and must be discovered by opening each image, opening masks, and looking through the list of applied masks, and selecting an AI mask to see the error. There is no current way I can find to locate images with errors.   Proposed solution Add a "Masks with error" filter to the filters in the Library module. Add an overlay icon or text panel indicator to photos with mask error conditions.    

It would be great to have an option to disable duplicate same keywords. I had to create a compulsory alphabet hierarchy because too many keywords in the keyword list freezes Lightroom, so I was suggested to create a hierarchy "dummy" so that this bug does not appear.   But now when I import images that have been already keyworded many words appear duplicated, for example aerial view. I have an aerial view inside the A letter top hierarchy and the same word outside of it. So I have to select every time all the images with the one outside of A and include them to the keyword inside A and then delete the duplicate keyword outside the A group. And this with hundreds of words. Really really annoying.   Lightroom should not let duplicate keywords or at least give the option to disable this possibility. The best of course would be for me to not have to create any hierarchy in the first place. And have no limits if I create a plain list with 8000 keywords. So then no keyword repeat w

In Lightroom Classic, when I export a file as a jpg I choose where the jpg file gets saved. What I would like to be able to do is to have LrC import the new jpeg files into a single collection of my choice after it creates the jpegs.   Example of how this is useful: I have a collection of RAW files that reside in multiple different folders in the Library but in a single collection. I plan to export this collection of these RAW files into jpeg files. I will save the individual jpegs back into the original folders where their respective RAW files were stored. However, I want to add (import) the new, exported jpegs into a single new or existing collection together. This would be a function that parallels the import function that allows you to not only import files into the Library but also add them together into a Collection. If this ability could exist when exporting it would save considerable time since the new jpegs were added back into their original folders which will require se

When no mask is selected, all masks are represented by the same marker. Having different icons would help identifying quickly which on is what. The icons are already different when the mask is selected. Can this icon be the same when the mask in unselected?

This drives me crazy...When exporting a bunch of images including virtual copies, setting filename such as custom name + sequence, virtual copy sequence numbers are not incremented.Example: Original file exported as M.Mrs.Doe-008.jpg and then the matching virtual copy exported as M.Mrs.Doe-008-2.jpgRenaming the original files before exporting is useless as virtual copy filenames depend on the original filename.But why exporting photos + VC doesn't follow a real sequencing rule ?  

In October 2021 there was a drop down filter (Lower right of the screen) in LcR. The client could view the images as they were being shot and just press "P" to remove the undesired ones. Once the shoot was done the only images in view were the "picked ones". I've used the other filters but they are a bit more cumbersome. It was the quickest and easiest way to view and delete images live. How do we get that back in the software? Thanks!

I hope Adobe is reading this 🙂   Since the update the masking tool takes one action too many (it sounds minor, but it prolongs the editing process unnecessary in my opinion). Normally pressing M (or K or shift+M) would show all mask pins already used when hovering the photo with the cursor, just the way it still works using the spot remeval tool (Q). But now pressing M, it opens a new mask, without showing the old pins. Another 'action' is needed to see what masks are already on the photo. I hope this gets changed soon. Or am I missing something?

When editing, masking sometimes involves trial and error where I hide masks for various reasons; they might be superceded, or I'm otherwise not using them.   It would be very convenient to be able to create a virtual copy using only the active/visible/unhidden masks - as a cleanup measure of sorts.  This could easily be accomplished by dividing the mask section into hidden and non-hidden in the settings window so we could skip the process of copying masks not in use.   To keep it simple, only the top-level 'eyeball' of a mask should be the determinant of whether a mask is hidden/unhidden; i.e. status of sub-components should be ignored.

I edit in reference view a lot.  When you need to crop or straighten a photo, it takes you out of reference view.  I would like to be able to crop without it exiting the reference view.

The workflow is a client has given you a series of image numbers that they want adjusted. This might be across a range of different days so the photos will be in different folders based on when you imported.   So you need to perform a search based on looking for the numbers in the filename that was exported.   For some strange reason, the search field is cleared midway through the workflow.   LRC 11.1 macOS Big Sur 11.6.3   Typically you are already working in a folder, so you don't have the top level folder selected. So when you do the search, it is scoped to the current folder. So if you just hit command F in Library then you aren't going to immediately start searching in the right place.   So you realise that the folder selection needs to be changed. Given the number of years I've been using LRC, scrolling to the top takes seconds ... it isn't instant.   So you select the top level folder in the side bar. You could select the current year, however in so

It would be very useful if we could disable all together the Lightroom key shortcuts. They only slow my workflow so much when you hit them sometimes and are writing metadata.  Give users the control and don't force them to use assigned keywords if they don't want them. Thank you

It would be nice to have the Epson Print Layout app available in LRc as well as just in Photoshop - although you can export the image to Photoshop and print from there - just more steps. But EPL does have the limitation of no allowing a logo to be placed within the images white border area.   Just a thought...     aj

For those of use who use a lot of metadata presets and development effects presets, it would be really useful and save a lot of time we would go organise them into expandable groups.   For example, my metadata presets include lots of information, and keywords linked to the location, and they are labeled by location (Greece, Dodecanese, Samos, for example), but I have a LOT of places within Greece and many other countries and so my list is now endless and growing and I have to scroll through them all to find the one I want. It would be much easier if I could group them by Country, and when I first see my metadata list, I just see the country.. then when I click on the country, it can show me a folder of regions, and then from there the places within the region... Just like Finder on a Mac.   The same goes for the list of effects presets in the Develop Module... it would be good if we could have folders so  we could group our effects by need, eg, for portrait images like s

I recently switched plans from my $4.97 US/month lightroom plan to try out photoshop, but upon switching my plan back I found out that the cheapest lightroom plan is now $12.99US/month.   As someone who is just starting with photography and trying to learn on my own, I don't need 1 TB of storage or 8 "bonus apps." I just want access to lightroom and it's tutorials for an affordable price. I'm really disappointed that there isn't a more simple and affordable option. I am going to have to cancel my subscription. Please add some simpler featureless plans for people who want to start out and learn, but can't commit to $14.99/month on a hobby they don't earn income on.   I'm probably going to switch over to a free app, which I would rather not do. You're pricing yourself out of beginner customers, please consider making more affordable options.