Lightroom Classic

In the detail panel LR Classic the default sharpening for my camera is set to 40. However the eye symbol (which indicates that the process has been applied??) is greyed out until I make a change to the amount of sharpening. Then the eye illuminates. Which makes me think the original 40 is not actually applied. Is this correct?Thanks for any advice as this has been puzzling me for years!

I needed to reprint (due to a text correction) a book designed in the Lightroom Book module and already printed successfully by Blurb (in jan. 2015).Unfortunately, I now get an error message related to text and police issue (see screen shot).I checked all texts in the book and only one police is used, Myriad Pro.How can I identify what’s wrong ?Now, I work with Lightroom v15.5 on a PC Windows 11 (up-to-date).Thanks for your helpBest regards, 

I want to uninstall my Lightroom on my desktop and install Lightroom Classic on my desktop under my current Lightroom Subscription

I was enjoying myself until two days ago when I upgraded LR Classic to 15.4.1 (which created a new catalogue). Since then it has been a world of pain.It works fine for a little while. After some time, I realise that none of the titles, captions and keywords I’ve been entering for 15 minutes is being registered. Seems fine while I’m typing them, keyword suggestions would come up, and no warning when I press Enter. But when I return to them, they are all blank. LR frequently freezes, requiring me to shut the program every half an hour or so. Shutting the program takes many minutes (spinning rainbow wheel). Often after shutting the program, I cannot open it again (icon bounces in the Dock for a bit, then nothing happens, not even a start screen). I need to restart my computer.Any suggested fixes? Or should I downgrade to the previous version of LR Classic (if that is even possible)?  My specs are:Lightroom Classic 15.4.1 MacBook Pro with M1  OS = Tahoe 26.5.2 16 GM memory 880 GB of disk s

Merge to HDR in LrC 15.3 is stalling (beach ball) or not responding.  I frequently merge HDR images for Real Estate photos and today, after updating to LrC 15.3 I had to Force Quit from LrC multiple times to regain control of LrC.  I stacked my bracketed shots and used CTRL+H to merge.  LrC did process a couple before stalling.  After multiple attempts resulting in Force Closing, I tried using the menu commands, no change.  I then uninstalled 15.3 and reinstalled a fresh copy of 15.3 and the HDR problem continued.  Finally I uninstalled 15.3 and downgraded to 15.2.1 and the Merge to HDR function worked as expected.  

My configuration:Processor    AMD Ryzen 7 5800XT 8-Core Processor (3.80 GHz)Installed RAM    32.0 GB (31.9 GB usable)Graphics card    NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 (8 GB): latest Studio Driver is activeStorage    459 GB of 1.82 TB usedSystem type    64-bit operating system, x64-based processor Lightroom is very slow despite everything that I have researched on the web. An additional problem is that when I open an window within Lightroom, for example, the preferences window, Windows goes bezerk. The screen keeps flashing showing all the apps that are open and the only way that I can stop this from happening is to open Task Manager and quit Lightroom. Pressing ESC or the CTRL, ALT keys altenatively, eventually (3 minutes after the event) works.  Why is this happening? How can I stop this madness? Thank you so much! Jaime   

Records of image’s design in some folders are lost after update .For example, I'm opening some folder from 2022, that included in past designed photos and I don’t see any designed of them.

라이트룸 클래식 사용 도중에 인물 보기에서 이름이 지정되지 않은 인물을 이름이 지정된 인물 쪽으로 드래그 앤 드롭하려고 하면 라이트룸이 응답없음 상태가 됩니다.조금 기다리면 종료되버리거나 강제로 종료 후 다시 실행해야 합니다. 윈도우 11을 새로 설치한지 1~2주 정도 되었습니다.모든 소프트웨어와 드라이버가 새로 설치된 상태입니다. AMD Ryzen 7 5700X96GB RAMNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB

Lightroom Classic 15.4.1 on Windows 11 desktop PC with HDR display enabled. In Develop mode, DNG image is adjusted using AI Sky Mask to adjust hue of sky. Develop renders correctly and the exported image renders correctly. However Library Loupe and Library Full Screen regenerate a preview with a green fringe or halo in the sky along the sky/land boundary. When switching to Library you can observe Library displaying the previous preview, then the correct Develop render, then replacing it with the incorrect regenerated preview. Reproducible on a fresh HDR merge and on separate DNG files. The bug appears to be related to the setting on the exposure slider in masking, appearing with higher exposures and disappearing with lower exposures.

Hi y’all! Having issues with generative AI (Clone stamping, denoise, and masking) across the board and have been having issues for the last week+. Whenever I add an edit, it doesn’t necessarily “stick” in that it’ll read with an error message and requires refreshing. I’ve resigned on getting the clone stamping tool to work and will just do what I need to do to get a gallery out in Photoshop, but I have a set of images that need the denoise tool and some custom masks. I’ve re-rendered multiple times and exported but the images will not export with the masks. Feeling incredibly frustrated and wondering if anyone has found a fix for this? I’ve tried restarting the app, my computer, logging out and in, editing in the proper order of operations, refreshing/updating the masks, and checking for updates. So far, nothing has worked. Has anyone experienced this and was able to fix? Additional details: Currently running on LRC 15.4.1 and do not have any additional available updates. Is it possibl

I have Lightroom classic 15.4.1 .  I used the find duplicates application to create stacks of  duplicate photos.  The stacks of duplicate photos were displayed.   I then selected the option to remove duplicate photos from the hard drive.   Now it would appear that the "duplicate application" has become unresponsive.  "No duplicates found " is shown on the main Lightroom screen. In addition the photo catalogue is no longer connected to Lightroom.  The thumbnail of the Picture file has a small black/grey exclamation mark by it.    My photos are still all on the computer’s hard drive.     HELP !   How to I return Lightroom to its usual state and reconnect it to the photo catalogue?

Lightroom Classic on a iMac 27" Intel running VERY slow

The default location for Lightroom Classic catalogs is the user's Pictures/Lightroom folder. Modern operating systems and users frequently sync the Pictures and Documents directories automatically using services like iCloud Drive and Dropbox.When Lightroom is open, these services constantly try to sync the .lrcat and .lrcat-data files in the background while they are actively being written to. This causes frequent write-conflcts, locked databases, and critical catalog corruption.Please update Lightroom Classic to default to a local, non-synced directory (such as a dedicated folder directly in the User Home directory) to protect user data from automated cloud-syncing mechanisms.I have my .lrcat and .lrcat-data files in Pictures and I was about to update to the new Apple File Provider for Dropbox and upon researching it I found Apple will no longer also Pictures to be backed up by Dropbox. I had a double backup, one to iCloud and one to Dropbox.  I didn’t realize it would be backing up c

Our mother (a great photographer documenting the lives of her 9 children / grandkids from 1948 to 2010) has left us over 30,000 negs, slides that are now all scanned.  About half are scanned/edited/curated by her, the rest we need to do the work.  We now have over 200 descendants we want to share this with most use iPhones. some iPad. / Mac and some other smart phones/tablets.  Looking for a great photo editing / organization and sharing solution to do this.   Is Lightroom good at this?Is it decent at batch tagging people (up to about 50 different people across the 30,000)?There is no metadata on vast majority but our mom was diligent in identifying each roll with year, month and event type / location when availableWhat happens if we share html links for finished albums with the 200+ direct family descent? Thanks for any insight you may have.   Frederic

Na de update van 7 aug 2026 krijg ik bij meer dan 10000 foto’s het teken om het Adaptief Profiel bij te werken. Ik heb willekeurig een aantal foto’s gekeken maar het lijkt erop dat dit bij foto’s gebeurd waarbij het Profiel is aangepast naar Aangepaste Kleur. Ik vermoed dat dit door de nieuwste versie van LC is gekomen. Echter ben ik ook op 2 juli overgestapt naar een iMac M4 en heb toen de nieuwste software van LC geinstalleerd. Hiervoor draaide ik op een iMac uit 2017 met OS 13.7.8 (22H730), Daar kon ik niet de laatste versie van LC op draaien. Kan mijn vermoeden kloppen? 

Hi everyone, I'm currently trying to migrate my entire Lightroom CC library (about 41,440 images) into a new, empty Lightroom Classic catalog. However, the sync in Lightroom Classic is extremely slow: after more than 20 hours, only about 3,200 images have been downloaded. For comparison:On the same system, I also ran the Lightroom Downloader app, which downloads all images in about 20 hours total – many times faster. The app maintains a stable download rate of 30–100 Mbit/s, with peaks up to 200 Mbit/s. But when I pause the Downloader and activate the LrC sync instead, the download rate drops to below 1 Mbit/s, with only occasional peaks and very long idle times. Sync activity in LrC barely progresses, and it seems to load only 1–2 images at a time, with frequent stalling. Both apps are:Running on the same systemUsing the same networkTalking to the same Adobe serversSo I can safely rule out any system or network bottlenecks. I've already tried:Resetting th

I would like to know which “AI” processes are counted and automatically tagged as such.Since I’m required now to mark images as “Made with AI” and I’m still not sure how that truly applies; I’d like to see how much of the LR features that made it worthwhile I can still use without having to have my clients put AI badges all over the place, or having to provide them with 10 different versions for Social media so the markings are “clearly recognizable” on an iphone 4s as well.Discussing the principle of “faking”, i.e. retouching vs. doing it with/without AI is futile in the face of EU lawmaking, but what processes would I have to circumvent so my work doesn’t get automatically flagged via creator cloud?As much as I love the AI mass masking features, I’ve done well without them for decades and I’d rather live without my work being inadvertently AI tainted. Imo, many automated processes are and have been using some sort of artificial intelligence, video games with “opponents” always did. T

I upload Iphone photos from my phone to the LR Cloud using the LR Phone App. I then go into LrC and let them sync back down to my desktop. No problem so far. Once the photo files are safely on my desktop I unsync from the cloud. I then assign keywords and other metatdata whilst in LrC. My next step is to sync the photos back to the Cloud as smart previews. I do this by dragging the photos to an already synced collection. However, they don't sync. They try for about 3 mins and then they remove themselves from the synced collection. However, they still appear under "All synced Photos" and the blue sync ball continues to spin. However, when I remove these photos from "All synced photos" the green tick immediately appears. To sync these photos I have to restart LrC and then again drag the photos the the synced collection. They then sync properly in seconds. I should add it makes no difference whether I delete smart previews, delete the deleted original files from the deleted folder, save t

Olá, estou tentando realizar uma captura vinculada e o Lightroom não está identificando a câmera. Estou utilizando uma Sony 7CM2, um Samsung Book 4, Windows 11… Já testei em um Dell e a câmera vincula corretamente, mas no Samsung não conecta. Alguém enfrentando o mesmo problema?

While working on a project doing a lot of parameters sync, all the pictures suddenly disappeared from the directory.There were 258 pictures in this directory.The directory on the disk is also empty.I have copied back the files from a backup and re-sync the directory in Lightroom.I had to do again the modifications I have done before.

LrC --> Library --> library Filter: when I set on filter type "raw" and I view date by date, with every change of date the file type filter switches to "all types", so it does not stick on type "raw".  Can I keep it fixed on a certain type?

Oftentimes, I cull my images in Lightroom and rate my selections from 1–5 stars. Once I’m finished, I want to filter the images to show anything rated one star or higher. However, Lightroom frequently defaults the filter back to “equal to”, so clicking one star only displays images rated exactly one star, causing me to miss images rated two stars or higher.I recommend adding an option to lock the star-rating filter setting to “greater than or equal to” so Lightroom remembers the user’s preference instead of continually reverting to “equal to.”Rating is equal to - This auto populates all the time and sometimes I dont notice. 

I installed the latest update a few days ago.  This is for Lightroom Classic 15. Ever since that time, when I try to read metadata from files, it never completes. I can highlight 5 images at a time and successfully get it to complete, but if over 6 images, it starts and never completes.  

Since recent Lightroom Desktop updates, rapidly culling imported photos has become noticeably slower.Steps to reproduce:1. Open a large series of imported photos in Detail view.2. Enable Caps Lock for automatic advance.3. Press and hold Z to flag photos as Pick, or X to flag them as Reject.4. Keep the key pressed to move continuously through the series.Expected result:Lightroom should advance through the photos quickly and smoothly while the key is held down. Previously, this worked almost like watching a high-FPS burst as a video.Actual result:The flow now repeatedly stutters and stalls. Lightroom pauses between photos before continuing, making this fast culling workflow much slower than before.System:Lightroom Desktop, cloud-based version 9.5macOS 26.6.1MacBook Pro with Apple M3 Max and 128 GB memoryAdditional information:I work with Sony α1 II cameras, producing RAW files of approximately 55 MB each. Lightroom previously handled rapid culling of these files smoothly.My MacBook Pro h