Feature Requests

One thing I wish the LR Classic Develop module version of the white balance adjustment tool could do is draw a shape with the eyedropper and have that be the selection for the sample area of white balance. You can do this in ACR, but not the Develop module.

In Lightroom Classic (v 11.1) there is a bug if the mouse / pointer size has been changed in System Preferences > Accessibility.  The brush size when using masks shows correctly when the pointer is over the right hand side panel. When using the brush over the image part of the window it shows much larger (depending on the accessibility setting) but it's effect on the mask is that of the smaller size. If the mask overlay is not turned on, it is not apparent what is happening - it looks like the brush is simply not working. I used the accessibility setting as I use a very large, high-res screen and the pointer is so tiny it hard to see otherwise. I'm using a 2021 Macbook Pro M1-Max, 32GB, MacOs 12.1. The problem is persistent. The problem appears if I use and screen, including only the inbuilt screen. 

I have made a number of photo books using Lightroom's Book module, featuring mostly my own photographs. More recently, I am working on magazines and photobooks that showscase images made by different photographers, using different cameras and lenses.    To this effect, I use the Book module's photo text feature to pull metadata automatically from a given picture, to display, information like who took it, with which camera and lense, at what focal length, etc. For photos that span the entire width of the page, it looks good. However, for photos that are not full bleed, the photo text is flush the respective photo border.   To my eye, this doesn't look good and it's not really usable. I am aware that the vertical offset can be adjusted, but what about the horizontal offset for the photo text, to control the horizontal distance from the left or the right, depending on the text alignment?   I am attaching a screenshot to show the issue. In the main issue, notice the pho

Often a Preference File is suspected of being corrupt. This, when odd things happen. Request that a menu item be added to check the Preference File health. And while adding that, include a button to back up preferences, reset preferences (in a more obvious location and as opposed to keyboard sequence) , and to restore the settings we may have selected before the preference file got corrupted.   Option to accomplish this could in two locations.   The main one being a section in /Preferences/General, add buttons to:   Backup Preference Settings Check Preference Files Health Reset Preference File Restore from Backup       Obviously Warnings will be required, one being the health check would require closure of LrC (assumption). One being that preferences may be reset to defaults (hence the backup and restore button)   A second, bit probably more rudimentary location would be in the optional Select Catalog screen, that most do not use     &nb

I understand that when we work in Lightroom mobile we are working on smart previews that are 2560 x 2560, and that the changes sync back to Lightroom Classic so that we can export at whatever size we want. However, if you "edit in Photoshop" from Lightroom on the iPad, Photoshop is working on a file that's 2560 x 2560. And that's the size that saves back to Lightroom mobile as a TIF. So one could spend 2 hours cleaning up and editing a file in Photoshop, only to have the largest size the resulting image could be limited to 2560 x 2560. The Photoshop edits do not sync with your original raw file in Lightroom. This is a huge problem if you want to export your photos from Lightroom Classic at a larger size. Can Adobe address this in a future update?

Currently, there is no easy way to compare either two snapshots or to compare one snapshot with the current edit. Both would be very convenient when working with snapshots.   A possible workaround is dragging one edit step from the protocol into the "Before" pane of the Before-After view, but you never know if you picked the right edit step (making a snapshot leaves no trace in the protocol pane), and also you cannot compare two snapshots that way. See discussion in this thread: https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-discussions/snapshots-how-to-compare-them-side-by-side/m-p/12684416#M260647    

It would be very helpful if there was option to mask out parts which should not be seen in the end result of the stitched panorama of Lightroom classic cc.   I want to keep the flexibility to stitch raws, but exlude parts of the picture to be seen in the end result. If i would not care about raw I could use PS to do the job and mask out the parts by hand after the PS Pano stitching process.   In my case a needed puzzle of picture has a completely different building lightning. (Marina Bay and Sands Singapore) but I need the parts except the building which I do not have on other pictures. Thanks in advance for o comment on that. I am sure so many people out there could need such a option.

When using the Print Module to print a contact sheet, I would like to be able to include the Flag Status along with other information as the caption under each photo. Right now I'm looking for filename, rating and flag status   If I go into Photo Info -> Edit... and get the Text Template Editor where I can see the placeholders for Filename in Image Name and found Rating and Label in EXIF Data but I can't find flag status anywhere.   In the meantime I'm using a color label to indicate flag status but this really messes up my workflow because I use color labels for other things. My template is {Filename>>} -- {Rating>>} -- {Label>>} right now.   It would be really cool if there was an option to show stars instead of numbers for rating and if cell background could be the label color but if I could just get Flag status in the 

Just a little thing, but when selecting 8x10 (4x5) as a crop ratio, it would be great if it would default to vertical orientation as that ratio is predominantly used by most of us as a vertical. Again, a little thing, but it would be nice just the same.

Hello,   I've been using a RNI profile for a couple years now and these last couple months I've (re)edited a lot of my keepers using it. The problem is that the catalog size has easily doubled or tripled because of that. I guess it's the profile that's causing it: it has a custom color table inside and so when I save the external .XMP associated with a RAW file, it is around 240kb, compared to the 10kb or less of a Lr profile sidecar. That adds 1mb for each 4 images I edit, 1gb for each 4000 processed images.   I don't know how Lr works in the insides, but it looks like instead of linking the image file to a profile file, it embeds or write the profile for each image, every time, resulting in bigger and bigger catalog files.   Is there any workaround or do I just sit and watch my catalog grow? It currently is 7,5gb after deleting History.   Thanks!

It's a little something that I'd find helpful in keeping my workflow organized; when filtering my virtual copies, it would be helpful if the information under the histogram panel would tell me if my current photo is or isn't one. Currently, it always says "Original Photo" or "Original Photo + Smart Preview), even if the image is a virtual copy. It would be helpful to see "Virtual Copy" and/or "Virtual Copy + Smart Preview" (if the latter is the case).    Thank you

I may be missing something but I don't see how to add custom metadata from my plugin to the default metadata view (tagset...) using the new `customize` feature. I can only choose from the builtin Adobe metadata. Is there some modification to the sdk to enable this?

The overlay color is selectable, but always the same for all masks. I would like to have a separate color selection per mask.

I'd love to use at least Darken / lighten brush blending modes when using healing cloning tool they are so useful when healing /cloning . thank  you !    

1. Why no 'white balance' option in the metadata section when in the library module. I would think it's possible in the 'camera info' section. Up top in develop section all that is listed is 'as shot'. I change my white balance sometimes depending on lighting. I would like camera info to list, daylight, tungsten, auto, or whatever I shot in for each frame, even if it's a K choice and a number like 4500 k.   2. Wish Adobe would enhance the 'grain' section of LrC. Seems it could emulate 'film grain' in the develop tab a bit more. Like I hate how it adds grain to pure white areas. I kinda like how Capture 1 has options for film grains. Adobe hasn't changed this since it was first implemented. Seems like it could/should be improved.   ok. other than this, I'm pretty ok with LrC these days.

Like I suspect many other people, many of my photos are sorted into folders by date.  In the Grid View, it would be very helpful to have a Capture Time option available for the Compact Cell Extras and Expanded Cell Extras.  Currently there is a Capture Date/Time option.  But when you're looking at the grid view for a folder for a particular date, the date is superfluous information and it takes a little bit longer for the eye to pick out the time from the combo date/time.  

Hi,   Since Apple released Notebooks with "Retina" Displays that have a very high resolution and the size of UI Elements in Applications and the OS was not the typical size anymore I noticed a strange behavior in Lightroom. I use and 27" 4K Display and use typical 150 %or 125% Scaling in Mac OS so that I can read Icons an text. When I use 100% scaling everything is very small. Lightroom seems to act a little strange. When using OS scaling values between 100% and 200% Lightroom seems to render with 200% regardless of the actual value. You can see that when zooming into images in Lightroom. 200% and 100% zoom in images in Lightroom Classic are not real 100% and 200% anymore. Lightroom seems to expect that the actual resolution of the Display is always 200% of the Scaled version.  I give an Example: My 27" screen has 3840x2160 pixel. I use 150% Scaling in MacOS. So UI elements have the same size like an 27" screen with 2560x1440 pixels but it still is very sharp due to the good

The new Target/Selection distinction for metadata introduced in LR 11 is documented in the "View Metadata for Target Photo" section here https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/help/metadata-basics-actions.html    The documentation falls a little short, because this also affects editing. So, for example, if you select all the images in a shoot, and edit the IPTC Sublocation in the metadata panel, the field will only be changed for one of the images if  "Target Photo" is active.   The solution is to switch to "Selected Photos" before making the edit. This is not really a problem once you know about the change, but "Target Photo" is the default for the new feature. That's a bad choice, because it changes the metadata editing behavior that has existed in LR pretty much forever.

Now that we have a new Masking panel that can be dragged to a new position it would be helpful if it opened where I last left it, e.g. on my second monitor screen. And if that can be done with the Mask panel could it be extended to other panels as in Photoshop, ideally with saved workspaces like Photoshop.It would be slightly different in Lightroom Classic due to the multiple modules but each could have its own saved workspace.

This would be visually helpful.  Back rename a Mask in the History eg. I generate a Mask then go on to other tasks. I return to that initial Mask and rename it, but it doesn't rename it in the actual History nor each change applied to that Mask in the History, but rather only adds that task of renaming, to the History.

Hopefully this is self explainatory but I will elaborate. (Mac OSX Catalina - LRC 11.0.1) During import, I occasionally get the 'destination drive is full...' and the only option is to press ok. At this point, I clear space from my drive, empty the trash and hit 'ok'. The import is nonetheless cancelled and the smart preview generation begins. I then have to go back into the import module to reimport the new photos, wait for the preview thumbnails to generate on a card or phone that can have hundreds of photos or just blindly hit import. This isn't ideal as I can no longer use the 'previous import' filter to apply a mix of metadata tagsor assign different collections on subsets of photos in one swoop.  It would be nice to just pause and resume when the drive space is resolved.

I would like to see the option to start tethered session added to the right click menu on a session folder to easily resume shooting to an existing project folder.   As a commercial shooter I often will shoot products over at least two separate sessions. When I start a tethered session for a new project a folder is created. To continue in the existing folder at a later time I currently have to right click a folder and select rename to copy the folder name then start a tethered session and paste it in as the session name to continue adding to that project folder.  Having the option to right click the folder and start a tethered session into an existing folder would be a huge time savings as well as reduce errors.

Hi people,01. I have a suggestion for Adobe team to insert luma curves in the LR and ACR. 02. For camera profiles to give us the option to choose Base Tone Curves contrast option. (A curve that is integrated into the camera profile).For example:When I choose a standard camera profil  (my camera profile not adobe, canon standar, or portrait etc.) I gets too much contrast, the shadows are too dark and saturated (I tested other cameras as well).So in the beginning, we lose the ability to make the most of the dynamic range of our cameras.So make it an option to choose between: Strong contrast, contrast, slight contrast and linear.By adding this option  sliders that already exist the contrast, highlight, shadows, whites, blacks will have a greater/better effect and maximize the dynamic range of our cameras. So, no confusion, I'm talking about the contrast already integrated into the camera profile by adobe engineer.  For now, I fix this deficiency by

My idea is for some sort of an addition to the software that would allow me to not have to keep updating the location of moved files in my library so that I can continually work on them seamlessly. Here is an example of my workflow and presumably that of others:   I am a photographer. For each photo shoot I do I have a directory with the models name and the date of that shoot. Within that director I have several other directories, RAW (to hold the raw files) JPEG (if I also shot in jpeg) EDITS (where the edited photos are stored) and VIDEO (should I have shot video, BTS, etc on this shoot). This never changes and keeps me organized.   When I shoot and begin the initial editing process I always work off of the high speed internal SSD or a high speed extrenal SSD should I have been shooting while travelling. The directory structure remains the same. Eventually I move these folders to larger and slower storage for archiving but frequently go back to do new edits etc. When doing

Hello,   I just found an issue on the latest LR version: if you select all parameters except the reframing when synching parameters to a virtual copy which is differently reframed, the brush is not copying to the right place 🙂   Didier