Feature Requests

Currently, LrC detects “Modified” edits and displays the Eyeball icon on the relevant panels, marking them as “Active”.We should have APIs that provide the same.The API could be: •For settingsphoto:getDevelopSettingsModified() so a variation of getDevelopSettings() and LrDevelopController.getValuesModified() a variation of getValue()These APIs would return a table of edits. •For Panels I think  we could have something like LrDevelopController.getPanelsState() that would return a table of panels and their state, one of “deactivated”, “modified” (the eyeball) or “default”.I post here to see if other plug-in authors would be interested in these API ​@johnrellis ​@drtonyb What do you say?EDITTitle should have been:SDK / Implement APIs to get the "Modified" settings and the "Active/Modified" panels.I can’t edit it, sorry.

I find myself keeping the info overlay on while editing to be able to see the lens and exposure settings I used, however I would rather not have it on all the time when I can just glance over at the histogram panel to see that info, yet usually when I do it’s showing me the RGB values of whatever pixel my cursor is hovering over. This is not really useful to me (at least not in Lightroom) and I would rather turn this off so the exposure and lens values are always present. This typically comes up when I click on the image to view at 100% to see if I have any motion blur and then glance over to see if what my shutter speed was… only to find the RGB value instead. 

I have a large catalog and my workflow is this:Import photos onto my local computer. Store pictures in the Pictures folder in a subfolder with year/year-month-day folder structure. Edit my photos Move my photos to my NAS storage by dragging the folder in Lightroom to the storge drive. I have photos on the NAS going back many years. Dragging in Lightroom is a complicated process:Expand the NAS drive letter Expand the year target folder Roll up any other year folders because the list is extremely long Grab the folder and drag it down. The target folder is off the screen. Drag close to the bottom and get the list to start scrolling. Scroll scroll scroll until I get to the target year, and then release.  In the middle of scrolling if I pause for even a moment, it will expand a year folder that is NOT the intended location. So I then have to scroll through all the photos in that year to move to the bottom of the list and get to the next year.All this maneuvering is done while holding the mo

I’d like to request a master catalog feature in Lightroom Classic that lets users browse thumbnails from multiple catalogs in one unified view without fully merging them.Why this mattersMany photographers organize work into separate catalogs for practical reasons such as client jobs, years, shoots, or business divisions. That structure is useful for performance and organization, but it creates a major drawback: there is no fast, visual way to search or compare images across catalogs. Right now, if I want to find a photo, locate similar shots, or review older work, I have to open catalogs one at a time, which is slow and inefficient.What I’m asking forA master catalog or global browser that can: Display thumbnails from multiple catalogs in one place. Search across catalogs by filename, keyword, rating, date, and other metadata. Let users filter by catalog, project, client, or folder source. Open the source catalog when a photo is selected for editing. Optionally sync or referenc

Request: Allow Queueing/Batching for Generative Remove to Prevent Workflow InterruptionThe Problem: Currently, using the Generative Remove tool requires a strict "one-by-one" workflow. After painting a mask, navigating away to another image before clicking "Generate" discards the mask. This means I am forced to click Generate and sit waiting for the AI to process before I can move on to the next image.Because the generation process takes time, my entire editing momentum is derailed. The majority of my editing time is now spent waiting on progress bars rather than actually editing.The Solution / Proposed Feature: I would like to request the ability to paint Generative Remove masks on an image and navigate away without losing them, allowing Lightroom to cache or "hold" the pending mask.This change would unlock two massive workflow improvements: Asynchronous Editing: I could paint a mask, move immediately to the next photo to keep editing, and let the background generation happen without

Brushing over an object to be removed is not always accurate.  The Rectangle Select for objects in masking works really well.  Would it be possible to add this means of selection to the Remove Tool?  Thanks

Hi, It's a simple request and an enigma, why it hasn't been done yet. When Syncing a settings of a photo, which has been automatically straightened, just recompute the angle for every synced picture. Make it selectable / deselectable in the sync menu.   Greeting Eckhard

When you select multiple photos and apply automatic angle/horizon correction in batch, Lightroom copies the same rotation value to all images. This doesn't make much sense, since each photo has its own horizon and its own tilt angle.When applying Auto Straighten to multiple photos, Lightroom should analyze each image independently and apply the specific correction value that corresponds to each one, not a generic value for all of them.In sessions with many photos and varying angles, doing it one by one is inefficient. This improvement would save a lot of time, especially for photographers who work with large volumes of images.

Please add an option to disable the on-screen Undo/Redo notifications that appear when using Undo (Cmd/Ctrl+Z) and Redo (Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+Z) in Lightroom Classic.This has been requested by many Lightroom users for years across Adobe forums and community discussions, yet there is still no way to disable these notifications.For many advanced users, Undo and Redo are not only used to correct mistakes but also as a very fast visual A/B comparison tool between two editing states. This allows us to evaluate subtle changes while keeping our eyes focused entirely on the image.Currently, every Undo or Redo action displays a large black notification overlay showing the name of the adjustment that was reverted or restored. This overlay partially covers the image and makes it difficult to accurately judge contrast, color, local adjustments, noise reduction, sharpening, masking, and other fine details.The issue becomes even more noticeable when working in Full Screen mode or with Lights Out enabled,

In the latest versuion, the cenral window indicating estimated time is gone, this is an important feature for busy profesionnal photographers, who need proper centralized task manager, now, the only indication left is that vague user unfriendly bar at the top. This doesn’t work, the estimated time allow us to plan work but also free time, if the estimated time is 30 min, we can go cook, take a shower, run to the post office whatsoever we need to do in between.. Thanks

In almost all cases when I use these tools I click Constrain to…  It would be a useful, simple addition to make this setting sticky so it would be set the same way as I last used it.  Thanks

Please Adobe - make such an option. To just completely disable this absolutely useless for most feature. I want LRC to never show these white areas, at all. I am an architectute photograph, i sometimes have a thousand pics a day to run through LRC and a lot of them Auto align with white parts all over. I know a can make a preset for this to be on, but so much simpler just to disable this. Thanks!

I find the sky selection mask one I use frequently but it fails to select accurately around complex areas such as foliage, especially where the sky is not one continuous body i.e. separate sections may appear through gaps.  There are complex work-rounds such as selecting everything but the sky and inverting but this seems a waste of time.   I am aware of the updates to ACR including Mask feathering and Edge Control which are a welcome help but these wont help in cases where the sky is divided.  Can the underlying AI model  be updated to improve the basic sky selection please.  Thanks

This would be very useful for underwater photographers who use Lightroom Classic as their main RAW workflow and want to remove backscatter without having to export every image to Photoshop. Backscatter removal is especially important in underwater macro and wide-angle photography, where particles in the water often appear as bright spots across many images from the same dive. Ideally, the tool should work non-destructively inside Lightroom Classic, preferably as a Develop module tool, masking-based tool, or plugin-compatible workflow. It would make the editing process much faster for photographers who need to clean up large batches of underwater images while keeping the full Lightroom Classic catalog, RAW, rating, and batch-editing workflow. A Lightroom Classic-compatible backscatter removal tool would be a major benefit for underwater photographers and would reduce the need to round-trip many images through Photoshop only for this specific correction.

We urge you to consider a transformative feature for Lightroom: an AI-powered batch editing tool, finely tuned to each photographer's unique style. Imagine a feature that learns from an individual's editing history, creating a personalized AI profile. This tool would not only expedite batch processing but also evolve with the user's artistic growth. An essential addition would be intelligent AI-assisted culling. This feature would automatically discern and prioritize images, streamlining the initial selection phase and focusing on quality and composition. Moreover, the introduction of adaptive 'SmartPresets' is crucial. These presets, unlike any currently available, would dynamically adjust to each image, informed by the user's historical editing patterns, ensuring consistency and quality across varied lighting and contextual scenarios. The integration of such advanced AI features would dramatically revolutionize the editing workflow, cutting down editing time and freeing photographers

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Preset Masking: Apply Presets Non-Destructively to Specific ParametersThe ProblemLightroom presets currently apply to the entire image and overwrite all settings — making it impossible to combine multiple presets selectively. This creates real friction in certain workflows.A concrete example from my own practice: when I want to apply my black-and-white preset to a color-graded image, I have to export a JPEG first, re-import it, and then apply the B&W preset — otherwise it wipes out all my color work. This roundabout workaround degrades image quality and breaks the non-destructive editing philosophy Lightroom is built on.The IdeaAllow presets to be applied as parameter masks — meaning a preset could be scoped to affect only a defined subset of parameters (e.g., tone curve, HSL, B&W mix) without touching the rest of the edit.How It Would HelpCombine presets freely: apply a color grade from one preset and a grain/vignette look from another, without either overwriting the other. B&

As you compare the grain effect beetwen Lightroom Classic and Silver Efex, you can see that SE is more natural, as the LR grain seems to be plastered on the entire image: the shadows and highlights are equaly recovered with grain while very bright zones shouldn't. It is very visible on B&W pictures.On a picture if I add film grain effect, I use a Luminance mask and reduce the grain slider to reduce grain impact on the Highlights. Not bad but not quite satisfying. I wish LR could implement a better film looking grain. Maybe a slider "preserve HL" could be added in the Grain panel, as it exists in the Vignette panel. Hope this idea helps.

Film emulation is a frequent deliverable in my professional work as a cinematographer and photographer. Clients regularly request a "film look," and right now that requires third-party plugins or manual workarounds that add complexity. Having robust, built-in film simulation tools would keep the workflow inside Lightroom, reduce dependency on external plugins, and give more precise creative control over the final aesthetic.Expand Lightroom's grain and effects panel with:More granular control over grain structure its already great but would be nice to have control over shape, clumping, response to luminance zones Film stock presets or profiles that replicate the tonal and grain characteristics of popular stocks (Portra, Tri-X, Ektar, etc.) A halation/glow effect slider that simulates light scatter around bright areas Diffusion and blur options Options for color grain vs. monochrome grain behaviorThe film look is always in demand and is a style that will never go out of fashion, these ad

Curves are one of the most powerful and most sensitive tools in any photo editor, but Lightroom's curve editor has limitations that hold back more precise color/tonal work. The curve panel is locked to a small, fixed size with no way to enlarge it, so fine-grained adjustments become a game of how small I can make my mouse movements. Enhance the curve editing experience with:A scalable or detachable curve panel that can be resized or popped out into a floating window for more room to work Snapping and precision controls for control points, including (enchanced) snap-to-grid, axis-lock (constrain movement to horizontal or vertical)A larger curve panel would make subtle adjustments practical rather than imprecise, especially for skin tone corrections, highlight rolloff, and shadow color balance. Snapping and axis-lock would prevent the accidental point drift that currently forces undo/redo cycles.

Clarity and Dehaze are powerful tools, but they operate as broad, single-axis adjustments. Clarity affects midtone contrast globally without allowing the user to control which frequency of detail is being enhanced. Dehaze can introduce color shifts and over-saturate certain tonal ranges. Neither tool provides fine-grained control over exactly how it interacts with different parts of the image. Other applications offer more nuanced micro-contrast controls. Add expanded controls beneath Clarity and Dehaze that allow users to:Adjust the frequency/scale of detail enhancement (fine detail vs. broad structure) Control the tonal range where the effect is applied (shadows, midtones, highlights independently)More accurate micro-contrast control would reduce the time spent masking and applying multiple local adjustments to achieve what should be a single global correction.   

Lightroom Classic should provide the ability to define different default presets depending on the origin of a file. Specifically, it would be very useful to set separate default settings for DNG files created by DxO PureRAW, without these settings being automatically applied to files coming from other external applications such as Photoshop, the Nik Collection, or other editing plugins.A more granular control based on file source or processing origin would significantly improve workflow management, reduce errors, and minimize the need for manual corrections.

Feature Request: Add Open EXR support to lightroom classicCould we please add open exr support to lightroom classic as an export file format.This would be greatly appreciated in the visual effects industry, that require the .exr file format as the default image intermediate format.Example use caseWhen working with multi camera scan data, either from a lightstage rig or a photogrammetry scan, we are provided with thousands of raw images to process. The target output image is usually a 16bit zip compressed .exr file to use for texture reprojection, or in compositing software for further processing.To create the target .exr file requires multiple steps using Photoshop scripts (slow), 3rd party software, or custom compiled command line tools such as OpenImage IO. Whatever the process used, it takes valuable time away from doing the actual work its required for. It would be significantly more convenient to export a .exr file type directly from lightroom classic.   Thank you!

Feather Masks - ability to universally feather a mask selection in LR like photoshop. With a feather slider. The AI selctions are great but often need to be feathered this would speed up workflow greatly.