Lightroom Classic

Okay so I know this is a total newby move so please be kind.  whenever I would upload files to lightroom they were being saved to my computer.  After a photo session I went to upload 800 photos.  Halfway through import my lightroom would no longer upload because it was full.  I realized I needed to store all the old photos from my lightroom and put them on my external hard drive.  I wasn't sure how to do this properly at the time so I just deleted all the photos from that current session out of lightroom so I could reupload them all together once I cleared some space.  I even deleted them out of the Lightroom folder on my finder. (They are now all in that same folder again in finder because deleting them did nothing)When I went to reupload them once other lightroom files files were stored the correct way on my external hard drive it would not let me hit the check box to upload them (As if they were already in lightroom. attaching a photo of what I mean) Th

No idea if this post should go to discussion, or bugs - for me it's a bug and a serious one.Any advice is appriciated - as I'm loosing faith in LRC 😞First the tech specs of my hardware: Windows 11Ryzen 9 7950xRadeon RX 7900xt32GB RAM DDR5System drive NvME 256GB Kingston - where LRC and PS are installed. about 70GB free disk space (new firmware installed)Drive for RAW files, cache (20GB), and catalogue SSD 2TB.All options of performance tab using GPU checked for full support.LRC always at latest version - but the issue persists for several months already - so version doesn't change anything. Now the issue. It happens while editing in develop tab - usually when mooving sliders, or switching to next / previous photo. While doing any of theese actions, system drive gets 100% usage for about 1-2s and LRC freezes for that second or 2. Then LRC performs action (ex. changes the photo), and unfreezes. But when I change photo again, or move ex. exp slider / highlight or any oth

I have a rare issue which I cannot figure out.My company does real estate photography and we layer two images in photoshop - run an action and reimport back into lightroom. We select two images in Lightroom, then "Open as Layers in Photoshop".  Lightroom then automatically switches us over to Photoshop.  However one of our macbooks does NOT switch over to photoshop automatically which is extremely helpful because we can open multiple files and then switch over to photoshop once we have opened all the files we want to work with.  We want to figure out how to set our other macbooks to not autoswitch to photoshop.  Any ideas?  Thanks in advance.   

There has been many posts concerning Lr performance issues. But I think there is a performance crisis.What I'm experiencing:Lightroom Classic is generally laggy, and almost unable to import, export or do other basic operations. The Map Module is especially unresponsive, i.e. very slow to load marks, to switch between photos, etc.Lightroom Desktop is a little better, but import/export is often unresponsive. Concerning Lr Desktop export, I found, when I set the cache size from 50GB to Maximum, the export becomes normal, but after changing this setting for a while (weeks), it doesn't work. This may be a clue to the problem. My environment:M1 Macbook Air 16+512, OS always updated, 50GB free disk space.Lr Classic catalog: over 226000 photos, many collections and smart collections.Catalog file and all previews on an external ssd with more than 100GB free space. I contacted an 'agent' from Adobe and in the remote control session he looked around and he first talkd about RAM the

When I try to import from an external drive, some folders do not show up, even though they show up in Windows Explorer. I'm using LR Classic, ver. 14.1 under Windows 11. How can I import from files in  folders that do exist (showing up in Explorer) but do not appear in the folder list under LR Import?

I purchased Creative Cloud including LRC. I need to print my contact sheet to PDF, but don't see Adobe PDF as an option. Does anyone know if that was included, if I need to buy more products from Adobe, or how I can accomplish this? 

My lightroom is stuck on a folder and will not allow me to return to the home page.  Any suggestions?

I'm wondering what the current recommended order of edits is for a RAW image in LrC. I'm interested in the resulting image, not performance. A post on this thread about order of edits mirrors this page about performance optimization, which puts even an AI adaptive profile at #10. Another Adobe page (and my basic understanding) states that an adaptive profile should be applied first. Instinctively, I wonder myself why a lens profile isn't applied near the beginning—but that's just me trying to think it all through. So, just wondering what the current actual guidance is! Hoping I'm just missing a link.

I have been experiencing a bug? for some time when using library filtering in a Publish Collection and the resulting photo auto-advance if an item gets removed from view after metadata modification.To replicate it:Create a Publish collection (Hard drive, Flickr or Zenfolio etc.)Place 5 or more photos in this collection.Apply an identical rating, color label or keyword to at least of the 4 photosUse a library filter to display just the photos that match the above.So, then I have for example 4 photos A,B,C,D (each rated 2 stars) that are displayed in the filtered publish collection.If I change the rating of photo A to have a single star,Photo A gets removed from the display and selected photo in LR then auto-advances to photo C instead of the expected photo B.(It moves 2 positions forward instead of 1)I have repeated this in LIghtroom 4.4, 5.71 and CC2015.9 on my desktop (Win7) and also with LR C2015.8 on my laptop (Win10).The behavior does not change with the Auto-advance menu setting c

Lightroom 14.5.1Windows 11 Home 24H2 26100.4946Graphic Processor Intel Arc B580 (32.0.101.7028) - 12 GB Latest driver - Windows says that it is working fine.When I start Lightroom the Use Graphics Processor and Use GPU for Preview is set to AutoWhen I add a mask like 'Sky' nothing happens - no red markng in the sky and when checking Prefereces again  the Use Graphics Processor is Off and it tells me that Graphics Avvelerator is disabled due to an error.I have check the support note 'Troubleshoot graphics processor (GPU) and graphics driver issues | Lightroom Classic' and tried the solutions - but nothing seems to fix the problem.regardsMagnus 

I recently replaced an old PC running Windows 10 with a new PC that came loaded with Windows 11. I installed fresh copies of Lightroom Classic and Photoshop on the new PC using Creative Cloud Desktop. I've had no problems at all for the past month or so, until now. I just tried publishing one of my photos to my Flickr account, and ran into an issue. After dragging and dropping the image into the Flickr Collection (that worked fine), when I clicked on the "Publish" button, Lightroom threw up the following error message:  I did what I always do and Googled the error message. I found several forum posts (mostly on the Adobe site) that gave suggestions on resolving the issue. Most involved removing authorization and re-authorizing the plug-in. I tried that, several times, and it didn't help. I tried running Lightroom as an Administrator (another suggestion I read); still got the error message after trying to re-authorize with Flickr. I emptied the browser (Google Chrome) cac

Lightroom Classic issue after Mac OS Updates: Software: Lightroom ClassicOS: Mac OS Sequoia 15Issue: Catalog freezing; Sync would not progress; Upon import, could not locate/existing Collections not displaying; endless/frozen Optimize Catalog I've been having issues with LrClassic ever since the big Mac OS and Adobe updates in October 2024. Here are the issues I'm running into lately!  1 - Catalog Freezing: When I open LrClassic, it freezes for 2-3 minutes completely before I can do anything. Once it is unfrozen, if I want to import images to my catalog, I cannot add anything to existing collections (they do not display, the list is empty). 2 - Sync does not progress:Sync is just stuck spinning, nothing syncs.  3 - Optimize Catalog does not work:If I try to optimize the catalog, it sits infinitely and I have to force quit Lightroom.  I spent 4 hours on the phone with Adobe, and they got it working once we copied my catalog into a new catalog. And then Mac

I recently saw a blurb attributed to Adobe saying that if one elects to use the Denoise tool that it should be the first step in the editing process before anything else is done, and it made me wonder if there is a "best" or "preferred" order for applying other tools like Enhance Details, Super Resolution, or for that matter if there exists a general guideline of the order in which one should attack the editing process?  It seems to me that setting white balance should be done before adjusting saturation, for example, but I'm wondering what I may be overlooking in the order of other steps?    Thanks for any suggestions!

I'm comparing the results of converting ORF files type (Olympus RAW files) to JPG using Lightroom Classic and using OM Workspace. It looks like the algorytm used by OMW is much better than the one from Adobe, generating images much more clear, with less noise and better general quality. I understand that OM is the creator of the ORF files format and can manipulate  them better than a generalyst software like Adobe. My question is if there is a way to play with different configurations of the JPG conversion method (other than the few ones that appear in Lightroom when exporting files) to achieve better results.  Has anyone experienced this problem and find out a way to improve it? Thanks

Pues eso, que no me deja instalar LR Classic por no cumplir con los requisitos del sistema. Sé que antes te dejaba instalar versiones más antiguas para evitar este problema. ¿Es posible hacer eso ahora? Gracias

Hi, I cannot seem to find Capture Time in the metadata anymore.  Used to use it every shoot to correct 2nd shooter's (slightly off) camera times.  I thought it was in EXIF, but I can't find it anywhere.  And if it's gone how are you supposted to change the capture time now?  Thank you!

Most of my clients work in a team environment, where they like to make there own image selections for their specific usuage. In the past, they were able to see their teammates selections/comments as well as there own. That appears to no longer be the case. Is this a glitch or did something change? I can see all their individual choices on my side of the proofing gallery, but it's making it hard for my clients team to collaborate.  Thanks

New Denoise AI incompatibility with photo format....Why ? I've updated to the new LRC and wanted to try out the new Denoise Ai but in every image in my library, it says that it doesn't support the photo format. I shoot with a nikon D500 on a Sony XQD card in Jpeg......What is so radical about that format that it wouldn't be supported by the new denoise AI ?

My GPU is an RTX 470 with 12 GB of RAM. Adobe says that to use the new preview generation in LR Classic 14.5.1 it needs 16GB of RAM. So I tried it with my GPU. On AUTO (in Performance) it uses a little of the GPU, but I have to switch it to ON to force LR to use more of the GPU. Even then, it only uses a maximum of 30% of the 12GB available. Not sure whether it is any faster, but it does lower CPU use significantly and thus CPU temperature. So why does Adobe say it needs 16GB, when it doesn't even use more than about 4GB of my current GPU? Bob Frost