Feature Requests

Please make the "invert" mask setting part of the presets and affected by the "reset sliders automatically" checkbox.In other words, the "invert" setting should be "remembered" if the "reset sliders automatically" checkbox is unchecked.    Previous versions of ACR behaved this way, in that the invert setting was "remembered" as part of the settings when using the brush, linear, or radial gradient tools (in fact, the invert setting was remembered specificlally to each tool. For example, my radial gradient tool *would* be inverted, but selecting the brush function, it would remember that I *didn't* have it inverted for that tool.)Basically, we need the settings for each of the brush, linear, or radial gradient tools to "remember" the invert and slider settings from their last use if the "reset sliders automatically" setting is unchecked.Look at how ACR 13.X handled this, and make it that way again please!

Using profiles has become an increasingly common part of my workflow. It would be very useful to be able to sort my images by profile, to see which are the most common in use, or find images with a particular profile.    A third party plugin called Any Filter can do this, but it is a little cumbersome in use. I can't see any reason this shouldn't be implemented natively in LR too.

I'm very happy that in LrC 11 it's finally possible to customize the metadata panel (without having to use a plugin). That said, it would be even better if we could save presets for different sets of metadata, as the fields that need to be edited may differ depending on the type of photography. Michael _____________ Michael Niessen - Photographer, photo-editor, educator ([moderator deleted the URL from the signature. Kindly note that URLs in the signature may be considered as spam])  

In Lightroom, I add info such as titles, captions and copyright info on many pictures, with a view of putting together exhibitions. For this, I need to print photos WITH text on. There is a good feature in the slideshow module that allows text to be edited and positioned around each photo, using metadata. It’s easy to process many different images with a formatted text. Although a problem there means that long text gets truncated, rather than being wrapped up… Anyway, I am totally amazed that this feature allowing text editing is not available in the Print module? The quality of the export is just not as good from slideshow, so I need to use the Print module… but cannot display a well presented text. It cannot be positioned, font cannot be changed…   There have been numerous comments online about this incomprehensible missing feature in Lightroom such as https://feedback-readonly.photoshop.com/conversations/lightroom-classic/lightroom-provide-ability-to-print-metadata/5f5f44ef4b56

I recommend a "hint" feature for the subject masking that allows the user to suggest to lightroom which subject the user wants to mask. When the system gets the masking demonstrably wrong it could help to move the edit pin to an area where the actual subject is as a starting point for the mask.    This is valuable to use the subject mask even when the system gets it wrong on the first try. 

When creating a Smart Collection, you can choose which keywords will be searched to pull into the collection. However, these keywords do not autofill. You are required to type them exactly as they are, and if you make a typo, God help you.   Please make these inputs autofill keywords as you type so one can just tab-complete the keyword when creating a Smart Collection in Lightroom Classic.   Note: I saw previous posts about keyword autofill, but they did not seem to be regarding Smart Collections.

This is something that would make me very happy as scrolling through 17K photos, even with smart previews created, it lags very badly. Even though I have vertical sync turned on, I can see screen tearing. This is valuable for me as both the macOS and the Windows version of LR Classic struggles with it. This doesn't seem to be much of a problem with LR (cloud-based) so, maybe, you could integrate the same scrooling technology into the classic version, and make it cusomizable, of course. In summary, I'd love to see smooth scrolling in action, but the culprit is the lag between scrolling on the mouse and watching the change happen 3 seconds later, which creates a very jarring experience on a 4K monitor. Thanks for listening,  Yours truly, Alessandro.

[You can now hide the built-in presets in LR 7.3 using a free plugin or manually with a multi-step recipe.  --John Ellis]It is now possible, though tedious, to delete the built-in presets in LR 7.3 and later. See this recipe: https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/delete_default_develop_presets?topic-reply-li... --John Ellis]I really would like to be able to delete the develop presets that ships with LR3. I don't use them as they are in the way of my own presets when using the Library Module.

There is currently no way to control the default Sorting behavior, which I think is somewhat limiting. I almost always would like to have my folders and collections sorted by Filename. Insttead, newly created folders and collections are almost always sorted by Capture Time, which is far less useful to me. I think it would be very helpful to have a setting for Default Sorting for New Folders and Collections, with options being the twelve option found in the Sort dropbown.    I often put a lot of time into organizing and sorting photos in the order I want to present them, and then renaming chronologically so they are named in order. When moving phots around between folders and collections, the sorting often get broken when the default sort by Capture Time is applied, and it is annoying to have to go through every folder or scene and have to set each to sort by filename.   In leui of a new Sorting mode setting, I think sorting by Filename by default would be more helpf

Add support for "Quick Crop" to quickly adjust a photo's crop from the Grid View in Library instead of having to switch to Develop, and then back.   Using LR since 1.0 professionally. Editing 1000s of wedding images, this would save a huge cumulative nickle-and-dime cost of editing. I can quickly changed exposure, white balance in Grid. Why can't I chnage crop in Grid view?

History really needs work. Why can't you set the number of stored history states like in Photoshop? Also, why is navigation and turning flag filtering on or off still part of history? That's crazy. It's a waste of the limited history states and a waste of time.You'd think file changes/moves would be the priority. Maybe there should be an edits/organization history plus a navigation history or at least a setting to turn off navigation history.

I want to do a layflat book via Blurb in LR Classic but the higher quality print paper available directly through the Blurb site are not available through LR Classic.  Is Adobe going to upgrade the Blurb site in the Book module to include the better paper options for layflat books?  If not, is there a workaround that an be used to submit directly to Blurb through LR Classic and get the higher quality paper options?

Stacks should be handled uniformly, regardless of the source selected. As it stands, stacks are second-class citizens in Lightroom. * Currently, photos in different folders can’t be stacked. This restriction forces users to be aware of which folder a photo resides in, which goes against the mainstream digital-asset-management philosophy of hiding folder locations. I don’t know of any use-case justifying this restriction. * Stacking isn’t displayed when viewing collections and smart collections. This is especially annoying when viewing smart collections, since smart collections are the only way to do advanced searching. It would be better if stacks were viewable within collections just as they are within folders and with filtering – when more than one photo in a stack is part of a collection, then the stack could be collapsed or expanded, but only the photos in the collection will be shown. This is the way stacks work now with filtering, so extending this to collections would be consist

Please add the ability to write/save metadata (exif and xmp) directly into the HEIC files rather than using an XMP sidecar file. The xmp files clutter my file system and aren't as easily read into other systems.   Thanks!

Hello,I would like to forward a feature request.It would be extremely useful having a possibility to stretch Source column while choosing pictures to import. We can only stretch columns in library and develop module, but not in import window. Sometimes I cannot fully see folder path, because the column is simply too narrow. Please, see the screenshot - I used red rectangle to mark the area I mean.Another handy feature would be to paste the entire folder path, after copying it from file/folder explorer. I work on Windows 10, but I guess ot could also work this way on other systems. It could make accessing picture folders much faster, provided that we already have opened them in our system.Please, consider improving this aspect.

Be able to assign hotkeys (such as ctrl+c and ctrl+v) to copy and paste certain settings from one photo, and other hotkeys (maybe ctrl+6 and ctrl+7) to copy and paste different settings from a different photo.    This would make it so that when editing 600+ photos that include 2 or more cameras, you don't have to go back and forth between copying and pasting settings. I am aware that you can organize the photos by camera type and then just edit one camera at a time. However the reason this also isn't an ideal solution is because sometimes multiple cameras are capturing the same moment, and I don't necessarily know if I will for sure want to keep all the photos from that one moment, so I need to be able to see the photos from all cameras while editing. Anyways, thank you to anyone who read through all of this! =D

Can you require a double click to hide the thumbanil strip? I often click it by mistake and it takes about 5 - 10 seconds for the strip to hide and then reappear. It's annoying. Thanks!

Would be great to save the develop settings of the virtual copies as xmp files as well. Often we make color & BW versions or use different presets for the same image. Why not to save all the versions either in one xmp or as separate xmps? So that we could share it with a retoucher, for instance, without converting to several DNGs. Or in case we lose the catalogue file, we'd preserve not only 1 version of the processing.

why is Adobe incapable or unwilling to implement a more powerful Ken Burns effect feature set in Lightroom slideshows?It seems incredibly simple to do with the resources Adobe posesses,I firmly believe that the Ken Burns effect is one of the most powerful and evocative tools in a slide show presentation. The current implementation of this in LIghtroom feature is laughably limited.Common Adobe! you can do better - Apple's Aperture had a far superior Ken Burns capability some 10 years ago.

Let LR users enable auto-leveling of images using acceleromoter data in raw files.   I shoot a bunch of hand-held, and would absolutely enable this on EVERY import.    Bonus: After a non-symmetrical crop, adjust image auto-leveling to compensate. 

User backs up their photos AND their catalog with Google Drive Google Drive does not allow to specify file's extensions to exclude anymore. User can just choose folder to be backed up. Because of that user is forced to back up the whole "Lightroom catalog" folder and therefore Google Drive will backup lrdata files, which does not make sense. If we could have the catalog (*.lrcat file) being alone in a folder, that would make it easy, straightforward and simple. -------- Right now, each time I just open LRC, Google Drive will automatically save tens of useless Gibabites instead of just the catalog when it gets updated.   Thanks

Hi ! After removing/deleting a photo from a colection, I would like to go to the next photo from colection. Now, after clicking on "Delete from Disk", the message is "No photo selected" and I have to search again the collection to find the next picture. Thank you !

LRC 10.4 Mac 11.5.2I would LOVE to be able to add a third line of metadata to each thumbnail, so I could see the file size in KB/MB. Now, I come from Bridge, and I'm SUPER new to LRC (because Bridge doesn't run natively on my Mac Mini M1, Lightroom does, and M1 has been out for a year), and there may be a good reason for this, but if you can see the dimensions, maybe you can tell the file size. I can usually tell if the dimensions indicate an image that's big enough, but that's too much thinking. LOLAs a graphic designer and web designer (and photographer, somewhat), the image file size I need for a brochure is going to be exponentially higher than for an image going onto a website. To be able to quickly reference the file size would be invaluable.

There are two important things I miss in Lightroom: 1) With the selective tools like the brush I would like to have 6 buttons that I can assign individually with the functions I need to switch quickly between your individual presets.   2) When pasting copied settings (incl. local adjustments) it is very annoying that you first have to click on the brush in the new image to move it with a second click. It would be much faster for the workflow if I could click the button for the brush and drag it immediately.

It's another huge event and due to my short attention span I once again have managed to press escape instead of the tilde key and will have to go through a few hundred pictures once again. Would you please be kind and make the import window a little more difficult to close by accident? Or should I just find a better workflow to avoid these kind of things in the future? Many thanks, all the best