Lightroom Classic

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!

I’ve had a lot of photos where when taken they are blurry from the micromovements when taking the photo. It would be very good if there was an option where it fixes the blurriness.

When I use the AI feature in Lightroom Mobile, I select an area for it to revise, and it does its job by fixing that area. However, I wish I could modify the edited area after the AI has finished its work by using an erase or draw tool.  For instance, in a rock garden edit, I might remove weeds or loose leaves, but the AI could select part of the model's foot in the process. While the rocks look perfect, the tip of her foot does not. If I like what the AI has generated and don’t want to lose that, I can’t fix the small flaw without losing the whole revision. I would like the ability to modify only the area I don’t want changed while keeping the parts I do like intact after AI generation. 

We need batch auto straighten / auto level.. or some kind of sync option that doesn't just copy the same angle to all of the images. We can sync transform adjustments- why not auto level? And no- for my purposes- I do not want to use upright or level transforms. The warp the image. I just want to rotated the image by the 0.39 degrees or whatever without my subject matter being turned into parallelograms. Thanks in advance!

A feature Lightroom desperately needs is scalable horizon alignment.Currently, the horizon straighten tool only rotates the image, forcing unnecessary crop loss. A much better workflow would be a “scale + straighten” adjustment, where Lightroom automatically scales the image slightly while correcting the horizon — similar to how video stabilization tools work.This would be extremely useful for wedding, event and fast-paced photography where framing consistency matters across large batches of images.Suggested improvements: Horizon straighten with automatic scale compensation Batch horizon matching between selected photos Reference-based alignment (using a previous image as reference) AI-assisted consistent framing for sequences This would save photographers a huge amount of time and preserve composition quality.

I love to mask and sharpen or darken lashes as well as other areas of the image and I often have a hard time doing this by hand on every image with a brush in LRC and often resort to photoshop. 

Please allow clients with no Adobe ID to comment, like and rate Lightroom Mobile Collections. The un-logged in client access needs to be limited to a small number of features to allow clients to interact with their photographer over progress of work and providing feedback. Only major missing feature from LR in my opinion.

Not a complex shape or sine wave, just a simple curving of the line by “pulling” on it.  It is not always easy to do with radial gradient. This would be a simple, fast option.  

I have started using tethering in Lightroom Classic rather than using a competitor like Capture One as I am very much embedded with the Adobe ecosystem. However, I am finding LRC clunky, unreliable and by no means a good alternative to Capture One, who seem to making big inroads into Adobe’s market. For example trying to tag an certain point on an image to check the RGB levels as you adjust strobe power is not possible and you have to guess where you previously checked the RGB levels. The question is, does Adobe have any plans to “take the action to the enemy” and put some serious development into Lightroom Classic’s tethering capabilities or are they going to continue to allow Capture One to take market share? 

I'd like to enable Masking in combination with Remove (Generative AI). Masking features save a lot of time. Unfortunately, I was unable to use the masking (people, objects) while switching to Remove. Masking results are gone when switching to other tools. Remove is a powerful tool that might take a few tries to reach the result. Their combination could multiply the value added by both.  Example use casesCorporate sector.I have been asked to edit the photo by keeping the executives and removing the other staff for a publication.I have been asked to remove a colleague who has moved to a different section from the team photo.Individual customer.My friend asked me to remove her former boyfriend from the group photo.

OK, I have 1000 headshots, shot al all different focal lengths. I edit it down to 100.   I crop one to the client's standards and would love to be able to auto-crop the others to a similar crop. Yes, this will require VERY SIMPLE AI. 

Please add a way to zoom in on the live preview image while in tethered shooting mode in order to really dial in focus. Both Capture One and the Canon Software (back when it used to work -- it stopped connecting to my camera a couple of years ago) have a way to double click the live view of a shot to get an extreme zoom of the shot, so you could really ensure your product is in focus. I would REALLY love Lightroom Classic to have this feature. The current auto-focus is not good enough when shooting products where you want a specific thing to be in focus while using manual focus. Since I am using flash and not continuous lighting, the preview can be a bit dark and tends to look blurry/out of focus even when full screen and even when it is in focus.PLEASE I am BEGGING you to add the ability to zoom in on the live preview!

Hi Adobe, I am not shure, if it is possible to add such a possibility of an adjustment to Lightroom Classic. My idea is to have the possibility to add an adjustment brush to the skin of a model on the photograph. Afterwards a KI scans the skin for acne (mainly red colored), pimpels (mainly red colored) and varicose veins (mainly green or blue colored), and repair these areas with skin tones of the close environment of the model. Moles shall not be removed (or can optional be removed, if a user likes sterile skin).   Warm regards, Markus

lightroom cloud has many presets not available in Lightroom Classic. share the wealth!

It would be great if the curves panel in Lightroom was physically bigger. The current panel is too small. While it's easy to make big adjustments, fine tuning is difficult and imprecise. I've attached two screenshots showing the curves panel for Lightroom (LR 4 beta) and Aperture (3.2.2) for the same image. In Lightroom, I've selected a medium contrast curve; in Aperture, I've used the "auto" curve option. Physically, the Lightroom curve panel itself measures 160 pixels per side. The Aperture one is 260 pixels per side, 60% bigger linearly, and three times the area! (67,500 pixels versus 25,600.)Aperture's bigger curves panel gives three big advantages:-- it's easier to see the changes, particularly in relation to the linear slope;-- it's easier to make changes, particularly precise ones; and-- it's easier to either select a current point or make a new one without accidentally doing the opposite.I'd also say a bigger panel encourages you to use it: just grab a point and yank it, withou

Offer color options for the crop and grid frame.  The default frame is difficult to see on light colored images.  Even a limited choice of simply white, black or red would be a vast improvement.

ConceptWhen editing, it’s easy to unintentionally push sliders into ranges that degrade image quality (e.g., overuse of clarity, dehaze, or contrast). I propose a user-configurable system where each slider includes two thresholds (warning and limit zones). As sliders approach these zones, visual feedback (color change) and optional resistance could guide users toward more natural results without removing creative control.Helps beginners avoid over-editing Reinforces good editing habits Improves consistency Still allows full manual override User presets for thresholds Toggle on/off Works with masks and global sliders

The Object select is a great addition to the masking tool. However, it is very frustrating not to be able to select multiple objects in order to apply the same fixes using the masking tool. I have a tricky photo in which I have had to tediously select each object, at least 20 of them, individually. It would be helpful to be able to Cmd-select for multiple objects.

Sometimes sveral masks in a photo need the same edit. It will be effective if I can edit more than one mask in the same photo in a Autosync or Sync workflow.

When I import photos from my Nikon D-750 and Z8, I choose the "Make a second copy to..." option to a directory on my Windows Home Server, where they are backed up into the cloud by a backup service and are also monitored by Amazon Photos for backups. I have hundreds of backup folders and they all have names like this: These names are utterly useless for finding an import backup that contains a specific date and the date created/modified is not helpful. Please allow me to specify a name for the folder, using a pattern. I'd prefer a name like YYYY-MM-DD Lightroom Import so I can find the folder containing photos taken on a specific day. I'm using Lightroom Classic 13.0.1 on Windows 11, with the backups over SMB to a Windows Server 2016 Essentials host.  

I would love to have a white Lightroom interface, just like Photoshop has.Please adobe, consider making it !!!

I am requesting a dedicated metadata field in Lightroom Classic that allows photographers to track the copyright registration status of each image. As more photographers register their work with the U.S. Copyright Office—especially using quarterly unpublished group registrations—there is currently no built‑in way to mark which images have been submitted, which batch they belong to, or whether they are safe to publish.Lightroom Classic is the central catalog and workflow hub for many working photographers. It already manages flags, ratings, keywords, EXIF/IPTC metadata, and custom workflow states, but it does not provide any field related to copyright registration. As a result, photographers are forced to use workarounds such as keywords, color labels, or collection names to track registration status. These methods are inconsistent, easy to break, and not scalable for large catalogs.A dedicated metadata field (or small group of fields) would solve this cleanly. Examples of useful fields

I use a couple of smart collections for every wedding client. One contains only flagged photos that are also virtual copies, these are using for sneaky peeks for the couple, social media, etc.The other is flagged photos that aren’t virtual copies, these are the final selections from culling that will be exported for delivery.Being able to use the same smart collection that simple looks at the currently active folder, rather than have hundreds of duplicates, would be ideal and no doubt far more efficient than each smart collection needing to constantly check for changes.I’m sure there are many other reasons why other users would also find this useful.