Feature Requests

E.g. negating search parameters such as a certain person is NOT found in these pictures

When exporting a copy of a file from Lightroom (cloud-based, not classic) I'm only able to adjust the output with either "long-side pixel dimension" or the very ambiguous "quality %", but nearly every time I'm exporting anything other than 100% size and quality, it is because of a file size limitation on someone's upload portal or their required submission standards, so all I'm really intersted in when exporting in this way is file size in MP.   I would LOVE to be able to dial up or down the export file size (not dimension, but MP size), and just have the corresponding pixel dimensions go up or down accordingly (with fixed proportions of course), so that if a site requires a file that is under 5MP, and I want to get as close to that limit as I can while not exceeding it, I can just move the slider until the file us under that 5MP limit while the overall image size would just move up or down as a % of the original size.   In the current setup, the only option is a clumsy game

Are they ever going to make it possible to tether to an iPad? I connected my z6ii to my iPad Pro last night the images come up really fast on the import screen you need to zoom to full size individually. This seems like the ability to tether to an iPad in Lightroom mobile would be a pretty simple software update fir Adobe. And a really awesome feature for us 

As a professional photojournalist who needs to have speed in the field. The ability to edit full IPTC metadata and ftp from my phone would be game changing for photojournalists. I would be able to leave my laptop completely behind and work exclusively with my camera and lightroom mobile. If i had to pick one over the other i would pick iptc data over ftp. Thank you so much for your time and products! 

On Lightroom Mobile for Android, currently the “Share” to different applications exports the image with compression (not selected by the user). It would be great to see the photo be shared to the selected application without any compression (or have the option to have it compressed). This would have me avoid exporting the full-size image to a local folder then moving/sharing the image to my final destination.

used to use HDR editing and one day about 2 weeks ago it stopped working and says it's not compatible with my Pixel 10 Pro XL. I've tried all the troubleshooting steps.

I would like a feature that makes photo and video editing easier and more powerful. Users should be able to upload a photo or video and simply describe the changes they want, such as changing the background, removing unwanted people, improving photo quality, changing clothing, or placing the person in a new location.The feature should preserve the person’s face, body, clothing details, and overall appearance so the edited result still looks natural and recognizable. It would also be helpful to have several background options, previews before applying changes, and the ability to make additional edits without starting over.For example, I could upload a photo and say: “Remove the background and put me inside a luxury salon,” and the feature would automatically create a realistic result while keeping me looking like myself.

Currently, Adobe Lightroom on the web offers direct integrations such as "Send to Google Photos," yet it lacks native support for exporting files to Google Drive. For photographers and teams who rely on Google Drive or Google Workspace for client delivery and centralized cloud storage, users must first download rendered images to their local disk and subsequently upload them manually. This redundant multi-step process creates unnecessary friction, clutters local storage with duplicate files, and disrupts an otherwise seamless browser-based workflow.Also, let us select the JXL (JPEG-XL) format, lossless, when exporting to Google Drive.

Please add support for exporting and downloading images in the JPEG XL (.jxl) format directly from Lightroom for Web (lightroom.adobe.com).Current Limitations At present, the web interface only offers standard JPEG options for downloaded items. While Lightroom desktop and mobile have introduced broader modern format support, the web ecosystem remains constrained to legacy formats, limiting modern delivery workflows when accessing collections remotely.Key Benefits HDR and Wide Color Gamut Preservation: JPEG XL provides superior handling of high dynamic range (HDR) photography and wider color spaces without requiring lossy conversion or banding artifacts. Efficient File Sizes: JXL achieves significantly smaller file sizes than standard JPEG at equivalent or superior visual fidelity, saving bandwidth and cloud storage overhead. Workflow Consistency: Bringing JXL export options to Lightroom Online creates parity across the cloud ecosystem, allowing seamless handoffs regardless of wheth

Ensuring that each of my images has an accurate location is an important part of my workflow. I can page through a set one image at at a time but I would LOVE to be able to use filters for this. I can pull down Filter | Locations and it will show me a list of all locations in the current album, but none of them is “is blank”. This ability, to search for empty values, would be very much welcome (and has always been possible in Apple Photos!)Empty location is just one example - if this feature gets built, I hope the logic applies equally to all filters - I want to be able to quickly find images with missing titles, or with no keywords, etc. 

In Lightroom Classic you can see the rgb values of the pixels the mouse is hovering over. The values are displayed in percent beneath the histogram. Lightroom CC doesn't offer this feature – unfortunately.

I want the filter to display keywords starting with two or three cxharacters I type. Currently the filter seems to change to displayed list to always limit the displayed list to the last typed character..

Please add a Zoom-in functionality in the 'Review for Import' process   Reasoning: When using the 'Review for Import' dialogue to import only selected photos all candidates for import are shown together in very small size with no option to zoom into the individual photos.  The decision whether to import a given photo is, however, oftentimes driven by the details of the photo that cannot be seen properly without zooming into the photo. Thus, a zoom-in option is needed to allow a meaningful review to import.

I hope adobe can add RGB values under the histogram like lightroom classic has. I dont know if anyone has any workarounds for this, but I would greatly appreciate it if anyone has a solution for this. The RGB values would be great for balancing the colours. It would also be nice if they could add some sort of pipette so you can add a point of where you want to check the RGB values. So that you can lock in where you want to adjust, and then adjust it from that point. Have seen a few of these requests… some from a few years ago!… so I am not really sure if they will ever add this, but one can hope…

Add color calibration to Lightroom mobile this is a crucial thing that can assist many with color grading on the go or for those who exclusively edit on mobile

I have no interest in the AI assistant or any AI features. Please consider adding a toggle to disable all of these from the interface (see Lightroom mobile). Apple do this with “apple intelligence”.  Many photographers are opposed to AI in photography because it’s taking away livelihoods. Please consider adding this toggle. 

Under “Distraction Removal,” the desktop version of Lightroom has automatic detection of dust spots (and other things, but that’s not why I’m writing in):This is an extremely useful time-saving feature.Unfortunately I do most of my editing on the go on an iPad Pro and these edits don’t transfer over to your photos when you view them on the iPad version of Lightroom. You’re invited to “update AI edits,” where the app tells you essentially that there’s a version mismatch between the canonical photo (w/ dust removed) and the one your iPad can load (because it doesn’t support dust removal), and tells you your only choice is to take away the dust removal:This is really bad for users and not how cloud software should work. My iPad has an M4 in it; it’s more powerful in performance terms than my desktop computer. At a minimum you should allow read-only loading of dust removal on the iPad. Please implement this on the iPad!

I switched my workstation from Windows to Linux and Adobe Lightroom is the only app I can't use now. It would be nice if Lightroom had native support including GPU acceleration on Linux. I would love to keep using it instead of migrating to something else. 

Many often times I find my Lightroom running slow or sluggish on network package sending and receiving… It appears stalled so then I noticed these other tabs involving other peoples work which I have no interest in seeing and you are forcing this into an application that is licensed primarily for professionals so do everyone a favor and remove this feature/horrible idea from the creative cloud ecosystem and just make another platform because it does not belong in side of light room

Current search at Adobe Exchange for LrC plugin is over loaded with thousands of presets packages which does not allow users to find other practical LrC plugins or functional extensions.Add filter for Adobe Exchange to hide all the preset/presets packages, so we can explore some real useful plugins. Current filter options, and categories are not possible to solve this, as there are presets listed in all the categories, swamping rest of the plugins. https://exchange.adobe.com/apps/browse/cc?listingType=plugins&page=1&product=LTRM&sort=RELEVANCE

Hi, I have an issue with Lightroom (installed from the adobe cloud).  Search is broken for me all the time when searching for words in file names. I can't get it to come back with any results for anything.  It says "Oh no! A blackhole"

Hi, I just have a quick question, i got the iphone 14 Pro today and i have noticed there is no way to take a 48 MP image from it within LRM, they are 12mp at the moment even in DNG, so i was wondering if the full resolution of 48PM from the main camera be possible in a future release??Thank you for your time.    Stephane

Please add the ability to save and recall custom white balance settings in the Lightroom Mobile camera, especially in Pro mode. For accurate and consistent color, I use a neutral gray card to set white balance before shooting.[Moved to Lightroom ecosystem (Cloud-based) by a moderator］

I create photo books with lots of text and photos. To align text and photos I most of the time have “Grid Snap” set to “Cells”. But sometimes there is a need to place something a bit beside an already existing frame and then one has to set “Grid Snap” to “Off” and when done set it back to “Cells”.What I would like to see is something like press “Shift” while using cursor to move the cell in question. The “Shift + “Cell move” set the “Grid Snap” temporarily to “Off”. When the move is done and “Shift” is released the “Grid Snap” is returned to “Cells".This functionality would improve the workflow a lot in the Book module.

Maybe a sync button, or a way to export the presets into a file and then import them to the desktop version