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stefpix
Known Participant
January 26, 2025

2025 and Lightroom CC still only has one line of text. 

I work for editorial publications, and I need to provide detailed captions who/what/where and my photo credit in the caption field. 
I use Lightroom Classic without issues, but Lightroom CC would be good for photos edited in the field, on my Macbook and sync them with the desktop. 
But this is one of the reasons I need to use Lightroom Classic to do all the editing/captioning/exporting, and Lightroom CC just to sync the files just edited on the Macbook .

 

I see there is now a box field "Extended Description" but it is separate from "Caption". The editors likely use Bridge and other software to edit the contributors' photos, so the CAPTIONS must be consistently in the place where they expect it in Bridge etc. 

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FeedbackCommunityMember
Inspiring
April 5, 2021

I would like to see Adobe have some consistency across LR Classic, LR CC and Bridge with the way they handle key metadata items, such as those many people refer to as "Title" and "Caption".  They should have the same field name across products, incorporate the most supported IPTC/XMP fields and be easy to view when also viewing a photo at full or near full screen size.  I have been disappointed that many photo viewing apps outside of Adobe do not support displaying "Title" easily.  I still have not figured out how to customize Bridge to display the Title and Caption above and below my photo when I am viewing them in near full screen mode (as Flickr does)  Isn't this something that should be better supported?  

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    FeedbackCommunityMember
    Inspiring
    February 20, 2021

    Come on Adobe... Is it so hard to introduce this change.... Been years waiting now.  This is my No.1 change request and you're letting us down.

    Whats the latest status on this Adobe? You can do it on the web version so why not the App? Please update us. 

    Thanks. 

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      FeedbackCommunityMember
      Inspiring
      November 4, 2019
      Hadn't noticed someone had already logged this so added ny vote. Adobe are so slow to bring out updates. This has been open for 2 years!  What are we paying monthly sub for?
        Darrall
        Darrall
        Known Participant
        August 5, 2019


        I have a major problem with LR CC Mobile. I have many historical family photos which have a lot of multi-line important information manually added in the CAPTION field, such as names of people, and date and location of the photos. This information shows up well in the multi-line box in Classic, and also shows up in MacOS LR CC by hovering the mouse over the field. However, in LR CC Mobile, only a single line can be shown in the COMMENT field, and attempts to scroll and read only bring up the keyboard. This is extremely dangerous since it becomes very easy to accidentally change or even completely delete the information, which will then sync and destroy forever the information back in LR Classic.

        All that is needed is to make the TITLE and COMMENT fields in LR Mobile (and MacOS LR CC), multi-line boxes as they are in LR Classic. All the information could then be seen at a glance while still allowing controlled input of text if required. Provision for the LABEL field would also be very useful.
        Darrall
        Darrall
        Known Participant
        July 27, 2019
        I absolutely agree. Single line captions in LRCC are very annoying since I write comprehensive captions in Classic and then have great difficulty seeing them in LRCC. Why is it so hard to provide the same multi-line box as in Classic?
          johnrellis
          johnrellis
          Legend
          June 3, 2019
          To clarify, everyone in this topic is talking about Lightroom CC, the "new" cloud-focused version, not Lightroom Classic (the "old" desktop-focused version).  There was some confusion this morning, and after conferring with the other moderator, I've changed the title of this post and the categories appropriately.
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          Nick_J
          Known Participant
          June 3, 2019
          Agreed. My personal view is the caption box should expand as required up to a maximum size (where it still will allow scrolling of course!).
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          NHPhoto4
          Known Participant
          June 2, 2019
          Is there any progress on this feature request? The tiny box provided in LR CC desktop makes writing and editing long captions difficult. The caption box such as the one provided in Lightroom Classic would be ideal.
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          williammporter
          Participant
          April 24, 2019
          I didn't paste that text into the field, I typed it. When I got to the end of the first line and started typing the next word, the miracle of word wrap occurred--and kept occurring as I got to the end of the second and subsequent lines. I just tested it again in Firefox Quantum 66.0.3 (64-bit) for Windows and it works fine. This time I even see the grab triangle in the lower right corner, which is nice to have.

          I've tested in a couple of browsers under Windows 10 and it seems to be working everywhere, including Edge Dev (the preview version of the new Microsoft Edge browser for Windows that's based on Chromium).
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