Feature Requests

It's great to finally see the "mask brush" for graduated/radial filters introduced in LR CC. But I'm having the same problem that I have in ACR since this feature was introduced in v8.5: - I draw a graduated filter - I erase part of it using the brush, over the transition area of the filter's "mask" - I realize I've erased too much of it, so I try to paint it back partially... but I can't paint back the original transition (the mask fading), I just paint the mask at 100% (or 0% if I erase). [Well, I can lower the flow, but it's near impossible to match the gradation of the original mask.] It would help a lot to have some kind of "restore" checkbox (or brush mode, same as A / B / Erase) that allows to recover selectively parts of the original mask. Or just a keyboard modifier to be held while painting (that would be great!). Otherwise this feature feels a little half-baked to me since you can't correct mistakes over the transition areas, just ctrl+z every time or start from scratch. May

I saw a post in 2009 about this, but nothing since. Lightroom NEEDS to support Unmaximized PSDs in some form or another. Right now they are invisible to Lightroom! A multilayered photo file can be 200MB Un-Maximized, yet it's only 89 MB Maximized. I'd even settle for saving a small composite image in the PSD that Lightroom can use. As the guy said in 2009 - It's PHOTOSHOP LIGHTROOM, how can Lightroom completely ignore files native to Photoshop?

Lightroom HDR merge should automatically stack with original photos and move the HDR dng file to top of the stack.At least, this should be an option on preferences.Additionally there should be the option to automatically HDR merge multiple stacks at the same time with the same settings.This will be very useful for architectural photographers.

Hi, The incremental import using "New photos" is a great concept, however I find that it doesn't work as well as it could for me. After an import my first work is to delete the photos that really are not worth keeping. However, on the next import from the same memory card the "New photos" feature happily selects the delete photos again for import. My workaround is to flag my bad photos as Rejected but keep them on disk (and in the catalog). However, I really do not want to keep these photos. I don't want them to take up disk space. They even get backed up. Alternatively, I have to selectively deselect the deleted photos from the import list every time I import incrementally from the same memory card. I realize that there should be a way to re-import deleted photos, in case you deleted one by accident. One can always show "All photos" and recover a deleted photo from there. The "New photos" feature should only import new photos, not old ones. Lightroom could easily keep track of the fac

I have numerous presets. It is a hassle to not be able to see the image options in the main viewing window but just the minature navigator window which is not realistic to use to see possible outcomes. If we could hoover our mouse over the preset and see them as we go on, it would increase productivity (ctrl z, preset, cnrll z), and be easy on our capacity for production.

Julieanne Kost suggested that I post this feature request for Lightroom here. Search for Folder names in Library Module. You can search for metadata, file names, keywords, etc. but there is no way to search for folders that contain a certain word (for example "NYC"). I have many folders with NYC in the title. Many are buried in subfolders. If I use the "workaround" that Julieanne and everyone else suggests - smart collections - that dumps hundreds (or thousands) of images, with no indication of which folder they come from, into one big folder. The only way that I know to find all the folders of would be to RIGHT-CLICK ON EACH INDIVIDUAL PHOTO and do "Go to folder in Library". It's faster to just manually go through my hundreds of folder and look. Thanks, Charlie

Can you please let me know how you can upload to a business page from Lightroom directly? I can use the Facebook Publish Services Tab for my personal but my business page is more important for me to upload my images to. Please let me know how you do it or post a video tutorial and please tag me on it. Thanks for your help!!!

Currently, keyword synonyms get exported as top-level keywords; if the exported image is reimported into the catalog, those synonyms end up getting added to the catalog as top-level keywords. Suggestion: If the export option Write Keywords As Lightroom Hierarchy is selected, then export the synonyms hierarchically, so that if they are reimported into the catalog, they get imported as synonyms under their existing parent keyword. For example, suppose there is the keyword Family > John with synonym Jack. These would get exported into the metadata field XMP:HierarchicalSubject as: Family|John Family|John|Jack When reimported, LR would recognize that Family|John|Jack is a synonym of Family|John in the catalog and not create a new keyword.

It would be great if the virtual copy can also be stored in an other side amp file like for instance DSC09009.xmp for the master and DSC09009-1.xmp for a virtual copy.This way one could share the different develop setting and also be able to sync a folder previously 'developed'/treated  with an other catalog.I now they are some workaround with developments versions but is not practical. Develop version are stored in the xmp but not the virtual copies

RAW images are not importing in the correct order in Lightroom CC. I use Lightroom to process images of digitized library material, and it is critical that the images are imported in the correct order so the pages remain in the correct order in the final group of images. I selected the sort by file name option during import, but it didn't seem to have any effect. The images are still being imported in a random order. I use the general file naming convention of "Itemname-Sequence#", so the file names typically are "Itemname-001, Itemname-002" etc. which would imply that if they are sorted by file name correctly during import, they should be imported in the correct order. This issue needs to be addressed, as it has a profoundly negative impact on my workflow.

Please provide the ability to save "Mobile Downloads.lrdata" file to another location. On a Mac, it is always saved in the boot drive regardless of where the catalog file is moved to.

Lightroom desperately needs additional filtering (and smart filtering) capabilities. Specifically I want to be able to find all images for which I haven't entered anything in certain metadata fields. It is important to ensure that every image has certain metadata fields completed before releasing those images into the wild, but it's not always easy to find those empty fields.... Only some fields in the Attribute filter or in Smart Collections currently have an available option to filter by "Is Empty" or "Isn't Empty". For example, I can search for Is or Isn't Empty in the "Caption" field, but not in the "Title" field.

I think that in the Publishing Manager for Facebook the setting Facebook Title should be Facebook Caption due the nature of Facebook Gallery. At least could you please put the IPTC Caption as option for that setting.

I work on a library of 7K+ images across 220 directories/folders. When I make changes to an image I want the option to write those to the original file, not just to the catalog/database. There are many reasons for this need but for some reason Lightroom seems to be uniquely defiant and righteous on this topic. Please don't be condescending and tell me to use the Export option because it's just to cumbersome, especially when working on large numbers of files. I just want Ctrl-S to write all changes to the file I'm working on, not a copy.

In Lightroom 4.0 (did not check the release candidates 1 or 2 for 4.1) auto-tone (apart from current issues) applies to the full image not post-crop. This is a problem with scanned photos (paper photos, not film) where the borders contribute significantly (and falsely) to the overall analysis for auto-tone. Large white borders (which you would hardly ever keep for a scanned photo) distract auto-tone function. With the potential of a great auto-tone available in 4.1, I would like to crop the thousand strong photos, then apply auto-tone to fix them up as best it can before manually reviewing/adjusting each one.

One problem I have when not using a tripod is that the place where I have used an adjustment brush has moved a little bit in each successive picture. It would be nice to be able to click the pin and simply move that point of adjustment. You can do it with the graduated filter, why not the adjustment brush?

It seems natural to see a splash screen with the version number shown. Please add the version number to the splash screen.

Lightroom: Please add Keyword pane to the right sidebar of the Map Module. Location and keywords are often related. It would be nice to enter keywords and locations without switching modules. And indeed it would be great to use multi selected images by location to add a certain keyword

I would like the Import process to be able to create two copies of my imported original files, with matching filenames/formats and folder structures, on two separate disks. Then in the case of disk failure, I could just rename the backup disk to the name of the primary, or point Lightroom to the backup instead of the primary, and I'd be up and running again in no time. I cannot use the Second Copy function at Import time because the second copy is not organized by date. I have to do this manually. For me, the current Second Copy functionality is not useful in any way. I am requesting new functionality, where the second copy happens after renaming, DNG conversion, and organization into folders, so that the second copy is identical to the main copy in every way except the path to the parent folder. I'm sure many will suggest that you need backup software anyway and so this shouldn't be Lightroom's job, but I disagree -- in my case, these date-organized folders of originals are truly read

Why doesn't pressing Shift+Q in Lightroom toggle between the clone and heal options?

To make Lightroom Mobile useful for Editing, Sequencing & Showcasing work - would like to see features such as - Custom Sort Order (User Order), Ratings and Keywords sync back and forth... Honestly more than the Basic Panel for Develop is not an essential for mobile, which is already available... Releasing more Library Module Tools will really make Lightroom Mobile a great Companion App... I hope these features are on the horizon?

Please see full thread here: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/854734... When adjusting images in LR I believe we all suffer from some degree of "color bias" or just plain "eyeball" inaccuracy! LR's single (1) pixel eyedropper white balance sampling tool provides very little assistance with "automating" white balance adjustments, since even normal camera “noise” causes readings to fluctuate widely. X-Rite's ColorChecker Passport plug-in samples a large area of each color patch in LR, and then uses the "average" of these pixel readings to calculate the 24 color patch values. The area sampled for my 5D MKII 21 Mpixel ColorChecker Passport images are approximately 100 x 400, or 40,000 pixels. This is a totally "automated" process, only requiring human intervention to establish the correct overall white balance with the new ColorChecker Passport camera profile. Unfortunately, LR's "limited" eyedropper tool makes this simple part of the process extremely cumbersome, inaccurate, and "unautomate

I would love the ability to geotag photos within lightroom directly using standard files -> KML or GPX. Please provide also the possibilty to geotag a photo by dropping it on a map or putting a needle on a map

Many people have pointed out that stacks would be more useful if you could have stacks across collections, and I hope Adobe is working to make that happen. But why stop there? I could envision stacks having even more useful features, such as stacks within stacks, the ability to put collections within stacks; stacks that search. I think there is a lot of untapped potential in stacks.

It would be really nice to have this. This is the next step in image geotagging A few geottagging software already have it (ex geosetter) Many of the new camera GPS equiped also have electronic compass to embedd the image direction. On top of that we could also have subject location, so that we can locate what we were photographying. (for example selecting a photo with that metadata will display the photo marker for the position of the camera and a target marker for the position of the subject. regards