Lightroom Classic

HiI imported a lot of photos from our Ruby Wedding anniversary holiday. I saw they were all in the Previous import folder and thought everything was OK, so I removed the card, put it back in the camera and reformatted it.Today, I opened LRC with the intention of looking at them and starting the edting process, but they are not where they should be - I import to year and day folders, with a copy to another location as a back up. The photos are not in the year and date folders, nor on the backup drive. When I click a photo in the Previous import folder and ask it to show me in Finder it says it can't find my camera card.So where did it import the photos to? I have searched my hard drive and the external drives I use and I can't find the photos anywhere.Can anyone offer any help? TIASteve

Its a brand new laptop i am confuguring, i do have plenty of space but the Lightroom downloader says i am not, what can I do?

I store all my images and catalogs on an external SSD drive. However, whenever I create a catalog a folder on RAW files is being added to my laptops hardrive. I'm not sure what these files are, or why they are automatically adding to my laptop, when everything else is on an external SSD. It's an issue as my laptop hardrive is full, and when I deleted on of these folders, the images in lighroom have an 'i' and say the original file cannot be located. Please help! I just want everything to be in one place on my external drive.  I use a Mac. 

After creating a grid of images in the Print module and selecting Zoom to fill, I slightly reposition each zoomed image within its cell to best show the image content for each photo.  However, once I "Print to file" and open the resulting JPG, the images are not in the positions that Lightroom Classic shows. Macbook Pro 16 in 2023OS Sonoma 14.1.1.Lightroom Classic 13.1

Hello. When I edit photos in the Develop module, in Loupe View, clicking the next photo in the film strip at the bottom of the screen does nothing. I have to click another photo - say, 2-3 photos to the right; then when I click the next photo it is displayed. Hoping this will be fixed. 

Bonjour,je veux exporter mes photos apres avoir réaliser toutes les modifications voulues mais lightroom m'exporte mes photos sans modifications.pouvez vous m'aidez ?Merci 

I primairly use LrC as it makes editing, and organizing far more robust and straightforward. I like to sync to my LR to edit on the go but I run into the major delimma of not being able to export full res images. But if I upload directly into LR then I don't have the abilitty to transfer them back to the classic catalog.  I just wish I could work more interchangebly. Upload on classic, sync to LR, edit on my mobile device, export, or sync back to classic and delete from the cloud.  

I am currently editing a group shot with distractions - other people in the background. The proposed solution doesn't work for my situation. There may be too many people in the entire photo -- the target group and the people in the background. At first attempt I got "no distractions found". Then, I opened a second image of the same group, but with a slight zoom out. The feature found part of the distraction — a few of the people in the background, but not all. There is a message that suggests, "to regenerate the result for an area, click on its pin." I was unable to find the PIN.  Help, please; I really want this to work.  

I added a new file to a folder that had previously been imported into LRC. I was careful to title the file so that it would be the last photo in the folder and wouldn't disrupt the sequence of images, some of which had alfready been edited. I imported the file into LRC but it does not appear there in its folder.It only appears under "previously Imported." Is there a way I can locate it within LRC? Why did this happen??? I have been using LRC since it first launched and have never seen anything like this.

I take a lot of photos, so many that it's long-winded to manually sort them. Is there a way to use Lightroom (or another Adobe software) to assist me in grouping these? Something similar to Google Photos' sort by subject feature. For example:Bird photographyRandom objectPeopleSkyCats

Prior to the latest update to LR 14.3.1 LR used teh built in lens correction and this was shown in the develop module under the Lens Corrections tab. It currently shows the Enable Lens Corrections is ticked and it sets to default. It does show the correct lens and claims ti use Camera Settings. However, it does not correct distortion as completely as it did in earlier versions of  LR. I am using the OM Systems OM-1 and the Olympus 14-150 Mark II lens.

After the update that came both in Lightroom and Photoshop (normal and beta) in June 20. 2025, I found out that in Lightroom classic the remove with generative ai is not working. Not only it takes ages to process, but in the end it gives an error. I mention that my internet connection is on and working properly.     [Moved from ‘Lightroom ecosystem Bugs’ to ‘Lightroom Classic Discussions’ by moderator, according to forum rules.]

Hi, I am currently (still) using LR4.4, but would like to try LR Classic perhaps for a few months to see whether or not it is worth a montly conscription fee. My question is: does downloading/installing Lightroom Classic delete/overwrite my LR4.4 install? Or can I go back to LR4.4 if I choose not to continue with LR Classic.  (I know that catalogues from Classic cannot be opened by LR4.4) - so this question is about the app/software, not about image/catalogue compatibility. Thanks in advanceErik Jan

Hi, I'd like to make it hard for me to delete certain photos in my library. For example, I'm a bird photographer, and sometimes I'll have two photos that are nearly identical, so I'd normally delete one of them, but sometimes the two photos show two different subtle features, so I want to keep both. However, if I'm later just looking for nearly-identical photos, I might delete one of them forgetting about the subtle feature. It'd be great if I could "lock" a photo and only be able to delete it once I unlock it to save me from myself. I can't any way to do this. I did think of adding a special keyword and then writing a Lua plugin that deletes photos which are rejected unless they have that special keyword. Before I did that, I wanted to see if there was an easier way. Thanks, Eric

Lens corrections don't work with Photo Merge HDRs merged from DNGs. They do work correctly with DNGs not produced by Photo Merge.   Tested with LR 14.3.1 / Mac OS 15.5:   1. Download and open this catalog:  https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/vhm0r8s17csaatgs153pw/hdr-dng-lens-profile-bug.zip?rlkey=6i2o4jgomfzpfbj8gm4eizak8&dl=0    It contains raws from five cameras: Canon EOS R6m2, Fujifilm X-T5,  Nikon Z 7_2, ODS OM-1, Sony ILCE-7C. All the raws have Lens Corrections > Enable Profile Corrections checked.   2. Observe that for each camera, there are three stacks containing these stack tops:   - an HDR made from two copies of the original raw, e.g. DSC_0102-HDR.dng.   - an HDR made from full-resolution DNGs exported from two copies  of the raw with the options Image Format: DNG, Lossy Compression, e.g. DSC_0102-full.dng.   - an HDR made from reduced-resolution DNGs exported from two copies of the raw with the options Image F

Hello friendsMacOS and latest LRC I have just noticed that files imported on and after July 1, 2024, are not creating xmp files, even after editing. The raw file is there, and when opened in LRC, the edits are there, but there are no xmp's. Any idea why?John

In the Adobe Camera Raw supported cameras, the new Canon R5 MkII is listed as already supported.   But, altough the "Camera matching profile available" collumn is marked as "Yes", it has a 6 in-between brackets, something that looks like call to a note (the R8, the R50 and the R100 also show this).   However, I don't seem able to find any not, both at the end of the Canon cameras table, nor at the end of the full cameras list.   What dos that (6) mean?   Thank you in advance for any help.   AK

Before the installation of LRC 14.4 Release and Camera Raw 17.4, I tweaked photos by using the Smart Preview version of the photos. It is because I experienced significant lagging if using the original versions of the photos, with longest side of 8,192 or 6,000.  Further, I sometimes take my laptop out for meeting clients.As I have installed the said updates, LRC asked me to turn off editing by Smart Preview as the new AI process would be affected. I did so.  Then, I imported around 500 photos to LRC, and I experienced much lagging again.  When I applied a preset (without AI mask) across 10 photos, it took a few minutes to update the thumbnails.  (When I turned on Smart Preview, it was much smooth (but not rapid at all).) Can you advise when should I use Smart Preview and when should not? (It takes quite some time to generate Smart Preview indeed). 

Just lost all edits and cull in catalog after exiting and coming back into it 3 hours later. Reverted back to imported images with no edit history or my star ratings. What the heck happened and how do I fix it. It was 50% complete    [Moved from ‘Bugs’ to ‘Discussions’ by moderator, according to forum rules.]

Hello,I have the last iteration of the "perpetual license" Lightroom 6 with Camera Raw 9.When trying to import files by Canon 5D Mark IV the preview thumbnails appear grey with a message "Preview unavailable for this file" (screenshot).The files are the regular type, not dual-pixel and are in both sRGB and Adobe RGB colour spaces. My PC runs on Windows 10. I am aware that this issue has been around since around 2017 at least but I could not find a working solution so please help with advice. Thanks. Simeon

I had to downgrade to version 13.0 to get the tethering function to work again. See a lot of people have the same issue with several different cameras. With the new version of Lightroom standard, the link to edit in photoshop just hangs. Going back a version there too. Had no problems on previous versions. Using Windows 11 on a dell computer. PC custom buildt for handling video and graphics.

I was all excited for the new native tethering support in LR Classic for the Fuji GFX 100. I just got a new MacPro M4 Max. Installed LR 14.4 and tried to connect the Fuji GFX100. I would not connect. I tried all the settings in the camera for USB connect. No go. I tried installing the Fuji Tether plugin 1.31.03. With that I can connect to the GFX100, but not from within LR Classic.  I moved the camera over to anohter Macbook Pro M1 Max. I had just upgraded LR Classic to 14.4. It no longer works. I can no longer connect the camera. I downgraded to LR Classic 14.1.1 on that machine, and voila! Camera works again.  Me thinks there is an issue with the tethered support on LR Classic 14.4 and it breaks camera connectivity.  I've had to downgrade back to 14.1.1 on my machines as that works fine using the Fuji plugin. 

Dear All I set up LR classic to synch with LR CC and all worked fine. The computer crashed later on and now whenever I open up LR classic I get the sync error meessage (see below). I have tried uniinstalling restarting and reinstalling but to no avail. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Many thanks Paul 

Hola, Necesito poder automatizar el proceso de hacer "Update" en el módulo "Transform" del panel "Revelar" para hacer el proceso del click en el botón "Actualizar" de forma masiva (1000 fotos). Es decir, no sólo aplicar el modo "Automático" dentro del panel Transform - Upright, sino que el click posterior en el botón "actualizar" para que se aplique el cambio, también se pueda aplicar en lote. Si no se puede hacer una aplicación en lote del proceso "Transform" -> "Auto" -> "Update" que se pueda crear un shortcut para este proceso, ya que el botón "Actualizar" tarda en activarse al cambiar de una foto a otra. Hay que pasar por cada foto (en procesos de 1000 fotos), esperar a que se active el botón "Actualizar" y hacer click, es un click por cambio de foto y otro en el botón "Actualizar", ralentizando mucho el proceso de revelado. Por favor o que se añada la funcionalizar de aplicar en lote este click en el botón "Actualizar", o al menos que se pueda realizar a través de