Lightroom Classic

In LrC I click on the Mask icon ... when I click on the brush and go to paint everythings seems fine.  When I want to lighten/darken that area there is no eposure (etc) slider ... I know it's somewhere!  An easy fix for sure but I've tried all I know ... Thanks for your help!

I am nearly finished making a photobook, but now I need to add an extra picture. I import it to the library and it sits there, I can use Develop on it,  but I cannot get it to appear in the photobook - even if I designate it a cover page in the Library!Deleting is easy but how do I add an extra picture to a photobook in progress? There are hours of work involved already, so I don't want to just clear the book and start again as each page always needs a lot of manual adjustment and captioning!

I use a hierarchical style of managing keywords. Today I noticed I had two redundant keywords, Bird and birds. I selected all photos in the catalog, clicked the arrow next to the number by birds to select all photos containing that keyword. Next I clicked on the left side of Bird to add the Bird keyword to those images. Then I unchecked on the left next to birds. Now no images have the birds keyword. But wait. It shows a 1. I selected Metadata, Purge unused keywords, and that didn't fix it. Next I exited LR and deleted the Helper.lrdata file since I read that can fix cache issues. Opening LR Classic again (Mac version), the keyword is still there. Is there any other way to fix this?

In LR 11.0, MacOS 11.6.   I select several images in the grid view. Edit the location info in the Image section. The metadata is only set on the 'most" selected image. It used to correctly set the data on all selected images.   This is a real problem for me. If I go out and shoot a few hundred images, now I have to edit each one individually. Unacceptable.   I did not check to see if any other fields exhibit the same behavior. This was enough for me.   Is there another (reasonable) way to set the location os a set of images?

Bonjour,Depuis quelques semaines, il m'était impossible de copier/coller les paramètres d'une photo à une autre (ou une série d'autres). Je pensais que la dernière mise à jour allait permettre de résoudre ce problème. Raté. Il m'est toujours impossible de copier/coller les paramètres...Suis-je seul à vivre ce désagrément ? Quelle pourrait être la solution ?Merci de vos réponses,Olivier

RAW files I edited years ago with old heal and clone tools are considered as AI remove edits by the AI edit status tool. This behaviour, that I suppose being a bug, makes it unclear if AI has been used in the editing of a specific RAW file, while I think we should all be aware of what technologies we are using and when. Also, this is relevant because if we use Content Credentials, some photos will be marked as using AI while they are not. This behaviour is common to Camera Raw 17.5 and Lightroom Classic 14.5.1, I do not know about cloud-based Lightroom as I don't use it. I would like Adobe to state very clearly what technologies are being used in all the object-removing tools, and correct this AI edit status tool behaviour if it is a bug. Thanks in advance

It appears DNG photos taken on the recently released Pixel 10 mobile phone are being treated as JPEGs by Lightroom Classic in the Develop module.  In  the profile section, the full range of profiles are not available, ie Landscape, Portrait,  Adobe Colour, Standard, Vivid etc. What's available is Adaptive Colour, B&W and  Google Pixel Monochrome.Is this correct? The same thing happened on DNG photos taken on the Pixel 9, that was soon corrected, I'm not sure whether Adobe solved it or Google.  I have tried to attach a DNG photo, but the uploader says the DNG is not a supported file type!

After using Lightroom classic without significant problems for 15-20 years,today when I started the app, the Folder panel was empty. I am currently on a photography subscription and always keep my apps up to date. Apps are running on Mac mini M4 MacOS 15 Sequoia. LRC version 14.5.1. My pictures and catalog files are stored on an external ssd. All of the files and folders are findable using Mac Finder, and when I am in the Catalog panel, viewing All photographs, I can select any photograph and right-click and choose Show in Finder and there is no problem, the photos are present and in the correct folders and subfolders.However, if I right click on a photo and choose Go to Photo in Library, I get a message "No Photos in selected Folder".I also attempted to import some recent photos from my camera and got an error message:"An Internal error has occured.AgPathUtils.getStandardFilePath: can't create directory at: /Users/kenberean/Pictures. Error message = %@"Clearly, these two problems are

Curious is anyone else is having issue with Lightroom freezing since the last update. It currently happens when I select an image, make a right click and then it freezes. I am not able to change screens or apps. I have to CTRL+ALT+Delete to exit the program. Is there another option besides un-installing at this point? 

Hi all, after returing from a trip, I ran into an issue with the updated AI Denoise. In multiple of my images, the denoise tool will turn a dark area green, even though not green color is present in the raw file. This has not happened previously to me. I'm using Fujifilm GFX 100S II Raws. Has anyone else experienced this? Any workarounds?

Beim Abmelden aus LRC sichere ich für gewöhnlich immer den Katalog. Nach dem neuesten Update auf LRC 14.5.1 erhalten ich nun plötzlich die Meldung, dass der Katalog nicht mehr gesichert werden kann. Folgender zusätzliche Hinweis erscheint "Überprüfe deine Ordnerberechtigungen und stelle sicher, dass du ausreichend Speicherplatz auf Deinem Datensicherungslaufwerk und im Laufwerk des Hauptkataloges hast." Ich habe keine Änderungen vorgenommen, d. h. keine Änderungen von Ordnerberechtigungen. Ich habe mal versucht, den Speicherort für die Sicherung zu ändern und auf eine externe Festplatte zu lagen die noch 3 TB freien Speicher hat. Aber leider, auch das klappt nicht, es kommt der selbe Fehler. Wer kann helfen? Danke!!!

Right-clicking a mask and doing Intersect Mask With causes the three-dot menus and eyeball icons to stop appearing when you hover over any mask or mask component. The bug recipe below faithfully replicates a common way of configuring the LR UI. With this config, it's very easy for the bug to occur, and, while it's a simple bug with a now-known trivial workaround, it is quite annoying (as it apparently was to Conrad).   To reproduce on a virgin LR 14.5.1 / Mac OS 15.6.1 (both freshly installed in a virtual machine):   1. Download and open this small catalog: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/okzrplm6igsst4an71xpm/intersect-bug.2025-09-05.zip?rlkey=xhxs6es9e56wfi83t3ol8qqob&dl=0   2. Click the window's green button to fill the screen with LR.   3. Take one of the photos into Develop and create a mask. If the Masks panel isn't docked in the main Develop column, dock it.   4. Click the three-dot men in the lower right corner of the Masks panel to ensure you h

Recently my LrC was frequently freezing for a few seconds because I haven't updated my previews and scrolling through them was a pain.After recreating standard previews for all my pictures, I realized that I haven't update the people's list for a while. I updated the proposed suggestions but when all proposed faces were confirmed, not all had a preview.So then I tried to "Find Faces Again", folder by folder (each folder contains pictures for 1 year). I worked quite well for all folder with less than 500 pictures. But now after finding faces again in a folder with 1200 pictures, once the fetching is completed, I go into the People's view and not all images show a preview but mostly LrC hangs / freezes and I can't complete the work. I'm running LrC 14.4 with Camera Raw 17.4 on a Windows 11 PC with 32 Gb RAM and an NVidia GeForce GTX 1660 GPU and a RYZEN 7 3800X CPU.  Please help, I'm getting desperate

Hey there, I'm wanting to know what settings people are currently using for 'image resize' when you're exporting for instagram. I'm wanting settings for portrai and landscape, not the square ratio. Many times when I've asked this question, people advise to crop the image. I'm not wanting to crop, I'm wnting to resize, as sometimes when i export and go to post my photos the don't fit, despite me following guidlines I've found online. The particular photo I'm trying to resize at the moment is a portrait shot, and each time I export playign with different settings i have the same issue- the image length is slightly too high and part of the image is cropped out. There must be something I'm doing wrong! Advice would be much appreciated. Thanks

So I shot my project in 16:9 as a guide, but I want the full frame in lightroom to work with.  Whenever i scrub through my shots, it automatically crops the image one by one to "as shot" - do I really need to INDIVIDUALLY reset this for EACH shot? Like holy moly, what an awful feature to begin with. Why wouldn't it do it as a batch when imported? Secondly how do i turn this off. This sort of thing is exactly why a 10 year old version of lightroom is better than the current days. 

I would like the ability to input a color temperature instead of depending on a slider that lets me go from -100 to +100. But under custom WB the only option is the sliders? Why it would be valuable is that all my meters give me data with a color temp number, not a slider value. 

Seit einigen Wochen kann ich keine Backups vom Lightroomkatalog machen.Hier der Ablauf:Dann wird dieser Ordner mit den Dateien angeleget:Dann wird die Katalogsicherung komprimiert und es erscheinen diese Dateien.Dann bricht die Komprimierung an dieser Stelle ab...und es erscheint folgende Fehlermeldung: Lightroom hat alle Berechtigungen, die für mich erreichbar sind.Ich habe verschiedene angeschlossene Datenträger probiert, die alle mehr als 1 TB Platz haben.An der Lightroomkonfiguration habe ich nichts verändert. Es hat immer funktioniert. MacBook Pro M3 mit 48 Gb RAM und mehreren SSD un HD.Ich arbeite seit vielen Jahren mit Adobe Produkten und kanne mich gut aus.Alle meine Programme von Adobe sind aktuell, haben alle Updates.Mein Katalog umfasst mehr als 100.000 Bilder. Es wäre eine Katastrophe, wenn der verloren ginge.Hat bitte jemand eine Idee? 

Since updating to Lightroom 14.5 and 14.5.1, Lightroom no longer uses my GPU — neither my dedicated Nvidia GTX 1660 Ti nor my integrated GPU. The GPU selection options are completely grayed out, with no way to change or enable them. Because of this, Lightroom is now entirely relying on my CPU, which makes it extremely slow, especially when processing a large batch of photos or applying Denoise AI. I had no choice but to roll back to version 14.4, where everything works perfectly and both GPUs are properly recognized and utilized. Here are a few details about my setup:Dedicated GPU: Nvidia GTX 1660 Ti (latest driver)CPU and integrated GPU: Intel Core i7-9750H, Intel UHD Graphics 630OS: Windows 11My system fully supports DirectX 12 I have tried:Reinstalling the latest Nvidia driversRolling back to previous GPU driversRestarting Lightroom and my systemSwitching between Studio and Game Ready drivers Unfortunately, nothing has worked so far.Has anyone

I switched from MAC to a windows PC a fw days ago. I copied over the Lightroom classic catalog and its associated files. After sorting out differences in drive names all was working well untill today. LRC now gets in a loop on startup if I click Restart now. I do sync to Lightroom but not sure if this is the 'sync' its talking about. I have tried :-reinstalling Lightroom ClassicRunning the catalog from two days ago on an external drive.Seleting the X icon top right, quit and restartRestart reopens LRC as I expected but with the same errorQuit, Quits 🙂 but when you restart it still 'loops' to this message. All software uptodate as its been installed two days ago. Background info :-PC is runnning Windows 11;  i9 processor; 64gb ram; various plugins - NIK; DXORaw4; Topaz Photo Ai; qimage Any Help Appreciated.Barry

I have somehow ended up with 14 catalogs in my Lightroom folder on my computer along with the related lrcat and helper.Lrdata folders (Total of 50 folders). I didn't make these extra catalogs intentionally, but I see they are named like Catalog 2-v10 and catalog v12-2 as examples, so I'm thinking they might be resulting from various version updates?Anyway, I would like to combine them into one catalog, so I don't have my files scattered across multiple catalogs. Is there a command or a process that Lightroom can run to move all the photos to one catalog and eliminate duplicates at the same time? Will it be able to differentiate between a picture that is unedited in one catalog but edited in another and save only the edited one? Each catalog is between 8000 and 15000 images so I would prefer not to have to sort them manually.This is in preparation to get a new computer eventually as I'm currently running Windows 10 on an older HP Spectre. Running Lightroom classic 13.0.1 

Once a keyword has been converted to a person keyword is there a way to change it back to a regular keyword? I have a couple of keywords that I mistakenly clicked as a name in the people view making them person keywords and I'd like to change them back.

I am running LR Classic 14.5.1 on my 2024 iMac OS-X 15.6 and yesterday uploaded 3000 shots from a baseball championship tournament. I was culling oof shots, adjusting straightness, cropping to print etc and then LR statred locking up as in the spinning wheel of death. Now, In Library I can see the photos but if I go to Develop the photo is blank. If I go from Library to Print, the photo is missing. Back to Library, see the photos, press to go to Develop and it works until I select crop, etc. Photo disappears and I have to reboot my computer. I have 24gb RAM and 149GB of 500GB free space on the internal SSD. What should I be trying to get this resolved? Unistall LR Classic and reinstall? Use the percussion test?PS LR updates were done earlier today.

Suddenly when I import photos from my Canon G7 where I have two format in my camera; jpg and raw nowadays LR classic suddenly has started to make both jpg and raw-files to Dng-files when importing photos. I dont like that and I dont want that! I want my jpgs to stay jpg and my raw files to be dng. As it was earlier. Anyone knows why this is like this?  How to fix it. I have done nothing but maybe some bug or something?I have Macbook pro and latest version of LR classic.kind regards Jenny

Can anyone provide an insight why my Lightroom Classic lrcat-data folder has doubled in size following the updating of Lightroom Classic to v14.5.1.  I became aware of this when I realised it was taking longer to copy the Lightroom backup zip file created when closing Lightroom to an external USB drive.Using the contents of the zip files then:26th August 2025, immediately before the update, the lract-data folder in the backup contains 8 blob files, total size 622MB29th August 2025, after the update, the lract-data folder in the backup contains 10 blob files, total size 1.22 GBDuring this time no new photo's were added to the catalogue and no significant editing was done.The most recent backup taken today, 5th September 2025 contains 10 Blob files, total size 1.21GB