Lightroom Classic

The Edit Metadata Presets window is tiny. The field for the caption (description) information is a small one line window which makes it hard to see long captions. Compare the window to the IPTC editing window in PhotoMechanic where you can see almost all the fields at a glance and there's plenty of room to write a full caption. Also they have lightning bolts on each field which when clicked will call up previous entries which helps repetative typring.   Whilst we're at it, can we bring the Metadata template presets out of the Library folder? It makes it very awkward to share presets with other photographers.  

A new feature suggestion would be to use AI to match, as closely as possible,  a "soft proof" copy with the edited image.  This would safe tons of time when soft proofing an image for various paper types and would be an excellent use of Adobe's AI technology.

In using LRC.. and looking at metadata, is there a selection to display how a photo was captured.. IE I use Canon R62  and wondered if a photo was taken as Mechanical or 1st Curtain or Electronic?  Do folks think that would be a needed option?  looking thru my photos I took this weekend at a airshow. I thought it would be a good option to see what the selection was chosen? Would this take a update to camera firmware so software could pickup the metadata? 

So, I shot a wedding recently, and the bride is getting teeth whitening. I used people search to tag her in all the photos and create a collection. I'd love it if instead of person 1, person 2, etc. LR Classic was able to apply the edits to her specifically. She's in a different order in several pics, so it applies to other people who may not need it or they may, but then she's not edited. I think this would majorly improve workflow for many to be able to apply feature edits to a specific person in a folder / collection. 

After installing the latest release of Lightroom Classic 7.4 I'm unable to unmark my favorite folders.  In other words, folders that were marked as favorites before the latest release can no longer be unmarked.  I can, however, select a folder that was not a favorite before release 7.4 and mark it and also unmark it as a favorite.  I use this feature a fair amount so I'm pretty sure this issue started after the latest release but I cannot be sure.  Thoughts?  Seems like one of those pesky software bugs to me. I'm an experienced user so I do not think this is some type of user error.  The catalog is my master catalog and has about 600,000 images.  I did not have any favorites marked in my sub catalogs before the release.  They work fine but, again, the problem seems limited to the folders that were marked as favorites before the release.[Update: All of the reports here except one can be explained by the confusing design of LR's "favorite groups".&

Sometimes the (great) "select subject" tool does not get the subject quite right, and I will need to refine the subject selection with other masking tools (brush, color range, etc).  I will give a name to this refined subject mask, such as "my custom subject". I wish I could subsequently refer to that mask, when doing substractions or intersections with other masking tools (as if that mask was a variable).   Here is an example scenario that I am going through ffrequently: 1/ I use select subject 2/ I refine the selection, and name it "my custom subject" 3/ I do the treatment I want on "my subject" (usually I increase the texture a bit). 4/ I want to correct hot-spots created by my flash on objects brighter then the subject: I will create a radial mask, with the intention to reduce highlights, but I don't want highlights reduced on my subject. Feature request: I wish I could substract "my custom subject" from the radial mask, the same way as I can click "substract" and then pi

Since version 14.4, when a user enables the “Use Smart Previews instead of Originals for image editing” option, and are editing an image where both the originals and Smart Previews are available, they may be shown the following message when they edit an image:   You have enabled "Use Smart Previews instead of Originals for image editing" in the preferences. When using the latest Al features, it is highly recommended that you always work on Originals. For best results disable this preference.   A better implementation for this is to automatically load the originals when needed, rather than telling the user to disable “Use Smart Previews instead of Originals”. For instance, if the user attempts to use an AI tool that works better with the originals, and the originals are available, Lightroom should automatically load the original and use that. The user should only be warned if the originals are not available, telling them that the tool might not work as well on a Smart Preview.

This would allow people to start filenames with date-time so alphabetical order is same as capture time order, and would create unique filenames (without yet another field) and properly order bursts.... Presently, exif metadata includes subsecond field, but Lr filenaming template stops at full seconds. So for unique filenames, one would have to tack on some kind of sequence number or something as well. So, as things stand, one can have: YYYY-MM-DD_HH-MM-SS_{seq-num}_{photog/camera...} but not (as I would prefer): YYYY-MM-DD_HH-MM-SS-MS_{photog/camera...} A side benefit is that filename indicates subseconds between shots in a burst, which is otherwise unavailable in Lightroom without a plugin. Although, I could argue for displaying that too in formatted metadata display, even if only upon mouse-over. --------------- I would like to use Lightroom import dialog box for importing, instead of the plugin I use now, but it stops just shy of what I need/want still. - this is one of the things.

Ability to browse the presets and see its effects with the up and down keys

Bridge recently updated so that more than one window of bridge can run at the same time which has been incredible. In the meantime, I can only open up one Lightroom catalog at a time. I want to be able to export one wedding and while that loads open up the next wedding catalog to start working on that. Instead I have to wait the 20-40 minutes to export all the images before I can close one catalog before I can open another catalog.

It would be nice if LR had a crop guide overlay that can be toggled on or off without using the actual Crop tool. For instance, my camera shoots in 3:2 aspect but I would like for there to be a 4x5 / 8x10 cropping overlay that can be constantly on (or toggled off) so that I can edit for common crops that my clients might purchase such as for an 8x10.    If there's already a way to do this, please advise, but otherwise, it would be a VERY helpful feature. Thanks in advance!

You should add the ability to selects WB with a color picker in the masks. I often use color range masks to calibrate my images, but I have to select my WB using the slider, which is often less efficient. Your competitor does it well,  I'm sure you can do it to.

Could we add an option to selectively sync RGB channel adjustments within the Tone Curve panel (e.g., sync only Red, only Green, or only Blue channels)?

Hello, before this update happened, I could be in crop overlay and hit "F" for full screen to see if I liked the crop and centering then "F" again and it would stay on the crop overlay.  Now it reverts back to the Edit after I exit full screen.  How do I get this back so I'm not hitting "R" every time after?   Thank you.

Can we please please please get a hotkey for selecting an object in a mask. Or allow us to keep selecting until we switch off of it. When editing in camera raw it works so much smoother. Annoying to have to click add select object over and over to keep adding.

I would like to use Slideshow to display my HDR edited images on an HDR comptible monitor? Is that feature in the works? I'm getting a little frustrated with Adobe. Having developed the fanatastic HDR capability, and not having an effective way to disly multiple images in a slideshow.

Please show full path when I select path from "Catalog contents" I can't see it , there's no tooltip that shows the full name, which gives me trouble trying to figure it out through the images.

it would be great to add the ability to filter the photos in Culling mode by emotions on the face, or at least smiling, crying ...

Hello,   I'm just curious to know how many years we will wait, if that day will come, to see the option to cull (browse/zoom/compare) the photos before to import them in the library. If I'm thinking at how many years we waited to see the just the LABELS in Lr...   Please Adobe, also if you're earing much more money from the consumers take care for the professionals.

I'm so thankful that finally we can zoom while having the crop tool active. I have been asking for this for literally over a decade! Also being able to leave the crop active while switching photos helps my workflow a lot!   There is one thing that has mysteriously changed for the worse when cropping though...   Before V15, I used to be able press O until the grid overlay mode was active, then when holding alt/option I could use the scroll wheel to change the size of the grid (actively! every scroll click would immediately change the grid size while alt/option was down)   In V15, if I use the scroll wheel in the same setting when holding down alt/option, nothing happens until I let go of the alt/option key, only then does the grid change size! This adds a ton of unnecessary work having to tap and un-tap the alt key with every scroll wheel click just to see the grid change ... it was much, much more efficient before in 14.X! Hopefully this small bug can

Is there a way to search for images in LR Classic by original file name?   Thank you!   Message was edited by: Akash Sharma

Lightroom Classic would greatly benefit from a “Select Similar” feature in the Library module. For example, selecting one screenshot (PNG or specific resolution) would allow you to quickly highlight all similar images by metadata or visual similarity. This streamlines deleting screenshots, burst photos, or selecting a set of photos to add to a custom library, or find a particular type of shot. It would save time and reduce clutter when handling large mixed catalogs. I work on Windows, Lightroom Classic version 14.4, and auto-import from Android as well as working with my camera.

Hi Adobe team 👋 First of all, congratulations on bringing the new “Remove Dust” feature directly into Lightroom Classic. It works incredibly well — the AI mapping and automatic cleanup of lens dust is a huge time-saver and very accurate. I’d like to suggest extending this feature to cover another common issue: dead or burned pixels caused by sensor damage. In my case, my camera sensor was hit by a laser, and now I have a few fixed pixel spots that show up in every photo. With a fixed lens, the position is consistent and easier to correct, but with zoom lenses, the location shifts slightly, forcing me to manually fix each image one by one. It would be amazing if Lightroom Classic could include a “Remove Pixel Damage” option — detecting and correcting recurring pixel artifacts across a batch of images. I believe this could be implemented similarly to the dust removal logic and would help many photographers dealing with aging sensors or accidental damage. Thanks for considering th

I am shooting with Fujifilm but it seem the problem is related to several brands. How can i keep the original file name (the same recorded in the memory card) when tethering the camera?  I know that it' possible to set a  custom name/sequence, but i can't find a way to keep the original naming.   thanks    

Being a wedding photographer our utmost need is AI Culling ( selection of content with a given criteria ) after storage & proper correction Because it will take most of the time of us to share best images to cliant So Just for culling we have to move towards other application rest all can be manage by lightroom so i thing they should add this feature as soon as possible to help wedding photographers need thanks