Feature Requests

Feature Idea: Option to Limit Face Detection to the Cropped Area   This would be a huge time-saver!  For example, I photograph sports. I often crop tightly on the main athlete, but face detection still identifies faces outside the crop (teammates, opponents, spectators, etc.) that are no longer visible in the final framed image.   Because of this, when I create smart albums based on a specific person, many photos are included where that athlete is detected in the original file but does not appear within the cropped frame. I then have to manually review and remove outside-crop face tags to keep the album accurate.  Having to manually review everything eats up all the time I just saved using tagging and smart albums.   Having a “detect faces within crop only” option would greatly improve workflow and make face recognition much more reliable for photographers who crop heavily.  I hope other photographers would find this useful too!

Merhaba, Lightroom kullanıcıları olarak uzun süredir Türkiye’de ve Türkçe konuşan pazarda bu ürünleri aktif olarak kullanıyoruz. Lightroom iPad ve iPhone uygulamalarında Türkçe arayüz desteğinin olması harika, ancak Lightroom Classic ve Lightroom Web masaüstü sürümlerinde Türkçe dil desteği olmaması, erişilebilirlik ve verimlilik açısından önemli bir eksiklik yaratıyor. Türkçe arayüz desteği olması şu açılardan çok değerli olur:• Profesyonel kullanıcılar için yerel dilde netlik ve hız: Özellikle katalog, koleksiyon, metadata, senkronizasyon gibi teknik terimlerin yerel dilde olması, Lightroom Classic kullanıcılarının iş akışlarını ciddi biçimde etkiler.• Erişilebilirlik ve öğrenme eğrisi: Türkçe dil desteği olmayan bir arayüz, ürünün öğrenilmesini ve verimli kullanılmasını zorlaştırıyor.• Eşit kullanıcı deneyimi: Mobilde Türkçe desteğin varken masaüstünde olmaması, kullanıcı deneyiminde tutarsızlık yaratıyor. Bu konuda bir Türkçe arayüz seçeneğinin eklenmesi, ürünün Türkiye ve Türkçe k

Objectives: Speed up LrC operation on files containing complex Masks with multiple selection types, ie prevent issues such as blurred images, failure to Show Overlay, endless beachballs, crashes. (See screen grabs). Reduce confusion and ease navigation when a single mask consists of numerous selections and selection types, or image requires a large number of Masks (eg family portraits / group shots).   Description: Allow various selections that constitute a single mask to be combined (merged) into a single selection, similar to merging Layers in Photoshop, eg: Cmd + click to pick what to combine > picks are highlighted > R-Click > Merge [either pick selection type from list or LrC to recognise what type has been picked] ie all Object selections become one Object, all Brushes / Linear / Radial selections become a single Brush / Linear / Radial etc. Include option for Combine ALL.  The app needs to prevent users combining 'add' with 'subtract' selections to retain

I work professionally with real estate and architectural photography, handling large volumes of bracketed exposures mixed with single images. My typical workflow is: Bracketed exposures are grouped into stacks in Lightroom Single images remain unstacked What is currently missing is a way to batch-send these images to Photoshop while preserving stack logic. Requested behavior: When selecting multiple images in Lightroom and choosing Edit as Layers in Photoshop: Each stack should open as a separate Photoshop document with its stack members as layers Each unstacked image should open as a separate single-layer document This would allow efficient HDR / exposure blending workflows without manual per-stack selection.

I often find myself wanting to crop an image for one of several frames I have. Or for different social media uses. But I don't always remember what aspect ratio should be used for this or that frame. Therefore, it would be very useful if it were possible to save cropping presets with a name, just like importing or editing presets.

I use virtual copies and collections exensively when I'm working with projects. I often to through images in several collections and folders looking for images in a new project. And I want to create new virtual copies of found images for the new project.   I start a new project by creating a collection and set it as the target collection. I then start looking for images for the project in different folders and collections and use the shortcut B to have them appear in the project collection. After the "hunt" I mark all images in the project collection and create virtual copies of all images (Shift-V). With alla virtual copies still marked in the Metadata pane I then give them a copy-name (usually the same as the name of the projectfolder). Then I go to Edit/Invert Selection and then I remove those from the collection. I now have a collection with virtual copies unique for this project. This way I don't risk to alter images that are used in other projects.   To make this p

Dear Adobe - maybe you would like to help us users and develop thwe way of archiving pictures in smaller size ?(Moved and renamed by MOD)

I like the "Auto" feature and I use it heavily.  Most of the time it gets me very close to a nice final result.  Sometimes it just goes haywire but then you can do Undo and tweak it by hand. It would be great if there was an Auto buttom when working with a mask.  Seems like that would be especially powerful when used within a preset.  

i have an idea for add feature for lock the preset lightroom, so when someone use the computer, he/she cannot steal the preset setting.   Ihope the feature can realize for the next update. Thankyou

Lightroom Classic’s Face Recognition currently attempts to detect all faces in an image, including very small, blurred, distant, or partially visible faces. In photos with many people, this leads to slower processing, unnecessary detections, and extra manual cleanup—especially in large archives. I propose adding user-controlled accuracy levels for face recognition, such as: An accuracy/clarity slider to set a minimum face quality threshold Options to detect: Only clear and prominent faces Moderately clear faces Full detection (current behavior) Automatic exclusion of low-quality faces based on the selected level Benefits: Faster processing in large archives Fewer false or low-value detections Better accuracy and user control More efficient workflows for institutional, journalistic, and humanitarian users This enhancement would make Face Recognition more scalable and practical for professional, high-volume archives.

When applying tasks to a larger collection of images this might take a considerable amount of time and CPU capacity. In the meanwhile I can instruct LR to do some other taskes. This might impose a very high stress on CPU. Therefore I would like to know if one task has finished before I start another task. For instance.: I like to start with applying all my images with auto AI settings as a starting point and to do a denoise for all images with higher iso values. Both of them are CPU consuming tasks if there are a lot of images. I would like to know if one task has finished before starting the other. I would like to be able to see a task queue and the state (percentage) of the task.

[Mod's note: Changing title and moved to Ideas board]   To recreate this issue: Create a new catalog Import multiple images Mark several images as picks Mark several but not all of the picks as 1 or higher stars Activate filtering on "Picks" Change the filter type to "less-than or equal to"    My expected behavior from this would be some visual indication that the star filter is active, and for there be a way to have the star filter mode set to "less than or equal to" without it being active. The actual behavior is that the star filter remains active even if none of the stars nor the mode indicator are white. If following the steps above, only the images that are "picks" but have no star rating at all are displayed.   This  is objectively confusing and creates situations where it is unclear what filters are active at any given time. At best it is inconsistent UI design, as the implied convention is that when a filter element is displayed as white, that i

For 15 years I've made a book with my best pictures and pictures telling stories of main events of the year and send it to family and friends. The books are made with exactly the same design and exported as a pdf. Now I want to make a Blurb book with all the pages from the last ten years. But I can't find a way to move pages between books – to accumulate pages from those ten books to a new one to be printed with Blurb. I would appreciate a way to move pages between books. It's OK if I have to reformat, but texts and images should be preserved. 

I would like to see an option in LR Classic so I can select if I want to compress the backup or not.   The reason being is I backup my catalogue nearly every day to another drive seperate to the one where the catalogue is and if you have a reasonably large catalogue as I do, waiting for the compression to take place takes quite a while for something I don't need.   I have plenty of disk space on other drives and I choose to delete the previous days backup when I am doing a new one, so I only have one or two backups, and don't require the option of compression and would like to be able to choose if I want it or not.   Thank you Adobe for considering this as a good feature.   [Mod: Moved to the Idea section]  

PSB is an increasingly important file format for complex edits, large prints, 100 megapixel cameras, or other work where the file size may exceed the 4GB limit of TIFs. While likely do not need PSB for many edits, setting it as the default format is ideal so that your work never runs into the limit (which gets messy/complicated when you need to re-save/sync a new PSB and delete the old TIF).   When you have a PSB in LrC, it will not sync to the cloud - even if it is a rather small file (ie similar to TIFs which work great). And there is no error in LrC, it will just fail to sync your file without letting you know it failed.   Expected result: PSB sync support should be at least as good as TIF. If there are technical limits for certain images (ie file size or pixel dimensions), an error message should show in the "sync activity" summary in LrC prefs so that you understand the nature of the issue. Ideally, there should be a warning on the image in the grid view.  

In LRcc filters there is the option to search in text and/or metadata.   However, although there is an overlap in text or metadata filters (both contain key words as search parameter) I do miss the option to make a combined (search tree) for text in the titles or subtitles, like is possible in the metadata.   Example: As a biologist working with titles and subtitles I would like to find missing subtitles when checking for errors.  So I would e.g. like to search for Title is not empty, whilst the subtitle is empty.   This is not possible so far. It can be enabled by adding title and/or subtitle to the metadata search too, or adding a search line to text search (if you prefer to keep metadata strictly metadata, although key words are neither real metadata)       s

Description:When cropping images, changing aspect ratios currently requires opening the aspect ratio dropdown each time. For workflows that involve frequent switching between common ratios (for example As Shot, 5x7, 8x10, 4x5), this adds unnecessary friction. Suggestion:Provide a way to cycle through standard aspect ratios while the Crop tool is active, such as: A keyboard shortcut to step forward or backward through a user-defined list of ratios Or a “sticky” or “magnetic” behavior (possibly a modal key while resizing) where common ratios snap as the crop is adjusted This would allow photographers to evaluate multiple aspect ratios quickly without repeatedly opening the dropdown. Use case:High-volume editing and print-oriented workflows would benefit significantly from faster aspect ratio switching during cropping.

Description:When using intermediate Lights Out mode (L key once) while cropping, the crop tool controls are dimmed along with the rest of the interface. This makes it difficult to see and use the aspect ratio dropdown (for example switching from As Shot to 5x7 or 8x10), especially on darker images. The primary benefit of Lights Out during cropping is isolating the image area. Fully dimming the crop tool interface provides little benefit and reduces usability. Suggestion:Allow crop tool controls to remain fully visible (or less dimmed) while Lights Out mode is active, similar to how the image area remains emphasized. Alternatively, provide an option to exclude active tool panels from Lights Out dimming. Use case:This would improve speed and accuracy when cropping large numbers of images, especially when frequently switching between standard print aspect ratios.

The lock/unlock icons are too small and not visually distinct enough.  Using an "unlock" icon with the lock shackle facing away from the lock rather than just a small gap would improve usabliity. Lightroom_BWeAocprvt.png   Lightroom_Nlv8L7xqyb.png   These icons are visually indistinguishable on high resolution screens. Lightroom_ykOmCc2kXf.png   Lightroom_NHn6JyC0zA.png   Something like this would be more clear: 39063_open_256x256.png  

It would be great if there was a way to search/filter images for those that need their AI edit status updated? I, often, use Adaptive Color, then, of selective images, decide I need AI Denoise.  Sometimes I forget to update the AI.  When dealing with a lot of images, it is difficult to go back and check that all the updates have been done.

Lightroom Classic opens a filename-edit.tif in Photo AI. Photo AI however returns the file as filename-edit.tiff.  That seems incorrect.  Note I have enabled Photo AI to overwrite existing files.  As a consequence the new file is not synched w/  LR.    Have I missed something?   Ah apparently, yes.. I might not be the only one.In the Photo AI preferences: Export->Save TIFFs as TIF IMHO - the program should recognize that the input file is a TIFF with a suffix "tif" and not by default swap it with "tiff". Using:Topaz Photo v1.0.2LR Classic v15.0.1Mac OS v15.6.1--Eric

What I’m trying to solve Lightroom Classic is amazing for clean, professional results—but when I want a vintage lens / cinematic aesthetic, I often need to add optical imperfections. Right now, I end up editing certain photos in DaVinci Resolve specifically because I can add artifacts like coma and chromatic aberration creatively. I’d strongly prefer to keep this inside Lightroom Classic so I can stay in a batch-edit workflow.   Requested improvement (one request):Add creative controls to intentionally introduce: Coma (especially visible toward frame edges/highlights) Chromatic Aberration (add, not just remove) Why this matters / workflow impactThis would let photographers emulate vintage lenses and build a cohesive look directly in Lightroom Classic without round-tripping to other software. It’s not about “fixing” optics—it’s about creative styling.   Where this helps most Night scenes / point light sources (coma look) Vintage lens emulation for portraits and lifes

I have the images taken in 2025 on my laptop and I have all my other images off on a NAS.  I've been updating and fixing such things as Country recently which involved changing the metadata value of many thousands of images at the same time.  It was going rather slow and I also noticed that my NAS was being accessed so I did a few quick experiments.  (For reference, this is LrC 15.0.1, macOS 26, M1 Max MBP).   With the remote NAS mounted, changing the state from Texas to TX of 48517 images took 3 hours.  With the NAS unmounted, changing the country from blank to Banana on 30101 images took about one minute.  The later is what I would expect.   I believe I've mentioned this before but perhaps not in this forum.  I can't recall.  But this is a serious error.  The whole point of LrC for me is the database and being able to quickly find and manipulate metadata associated with the images.  I don't know how to open a bug report but I def

I suggest that the bezel notifications "Add to Target Collection" and "Remove from Target Collection" be implemented for badge clicks as they are for the menu and keyboard shortcut.   I recently experienced an issue whereby I found that images were being either added to or removed from target collections, apparently randomly, which caused me much frustration. I worked out that this was occurring when I selected images in the filmstrip and that in the thumbnail images, there is a "badge" which when clicked will toggle the image in or out of the collection. This can easily be done inadvertantly, but no notification is given that this has occurred, such as the bezel message displayed when the menu or keyboard shortcut is used. Thanks to advice given, I have discovered that this behaviour can be turned off in Preferences>Interface>Filmstrip by either unchecking "Show Badges" or checking "Ignore Clicks on Badges", but for consistency of behaviour and safety the bezel notification

I’m running Windows 11 (10.0.26200 Build 26200) and frequently encounter drag‑and‑drop failures in Lightroom Classic. Restarting after optimizing the catalog temporarily restores functionality, but the issue quickly returns. I previously posted about this here: https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-discussions/drag-and-drop-in-15-0-1-stops-working-on-windows-11-system/m-p/15622248#M420757   After extensive testing and diagnostic traces, I believe the problem is linked to background catalog writes. The WAL file grows rapidly after each restart, from just a few kilobytes to hundreds of megabytes. In my workflow, I rely heavily on Smart Collections to refine photos into distinct groupings — particularly by dimensions based on long edge — which generates thousands of writes back to the catalog. This workaround is necessary because the Library Filter bar does not expose the same metadata fields available in Smart Collection rules. All of this metadata is clearly accessi