Lightroom Classic

I got a new laptop and I have Lightroom loaded.  I want to copy all of my presets over to the new laptop.  I don't really care if any of the photos come so that photo catalog isn't that important.    These are all the files under my lightroom folder.  I have no idea what to save to import onto the new laptop.  I use lightroom for basic editing but an not a full time photographer and instead do design work for my company so having access to those original files isn't necessary.  The edited files are there so that's good as long as I can get some of my old presets, etc. 

I have just finished digitizing thousands of older, extended-family “photos.”  I have also created a structure for all the photos using Collections within “numbered” Folders. Now what I need to do is go through all the photos and drag them into an already created or newly created collection, and then have them disappear from the view. I understand how to apply the Filter “Flagged,” but I can’t find one for “Unflagged.”  I have tried using the options for Smart Collections, but there doesn’t seem to be a way to created one for “Not in a collection.” The key is, as I work my way through the couple of thousand photos, each time a photo or group of pictures are dragged into a Collection, they would disappear from the working “not collected” Collection, and I would  only be seeing unassigned pictures in my grid – and eventually know when all my photos are assigned somewhere.How can I do that? GaryCD

In PhotoMechanic I am able to set a custom variable for the year in my copyright notice in my IPTC metadata fields. It pulls the year the photo was taken and sets that as the copyright year. Is there a way to do this in Lightroom Classic as well? I know the workaround to Smart Filter by year, then bulk apply. I want to do it on import though for future photos. Thanks!

How can I edit masked parts of a picture and only them in Lightroom Classic version 14.3.1? Whenever I try with the tonecurve, since the basic sliders are gone it affects the entire picture.

I purchased a preset bundle from Kelvin Designs.  I downloaded them per the instructions on their website.  The first 5 sets showed up with no problem.  the extension they said to use was lrtemplate.  There was also a file with .xmp.  I did accidentally download the .xmp files first, but I deleted them and resaved them in the lrtemplate format.  Now, the files I opened wrong first aren't showing up.  Do I just need to back everything out and start over?  I have an email in to the website I purchased from also.  I downloaded LRc today.  I'm running on a new computer with Windows 11.  Thanks.

Lightroom Classic (version 14.2) appears to launch correctly on macOS Sierra 15.3.2, but it freezes once it opens. However, version 14.1 of LR Classic does not freeze and opens fully. Are there any fixes I can apply? When Creative Cloud Diagnostics is launched, it finds no issues with my system.  

  I'm two weeks into learning Lightroom Classic (Version 9.3) and I've created a few custom watermark presets. It appears LRC doesn't "allow" you to delete these presets. I had to create a new one in place of the one I ended up not wanting. Anyhow, I looked up how to delete watermark presets that I've created and I cannot find a solution that works. The last info I found on this was from 2014. Can someone help! Thank you very much.   

I am clicking on "revert to original" and the new "original" does not have the same white balance as the original.  But if you look at the white balance section of the module, it shows "as shot".  But clearly looking at the original and the "revert to original" images side by side you can see that they are NOT the same color.

I am setting up a new PC with the operating system on one SSD drive. Then I have 2 additional SSD drives. So 3 total. I was contemplating using drive number 2  to install Lightroom Classic and drive number 3 for storage (photos, data, etc ). I was reading that installing Photoshop and Lightroom on a drive other than the operating system can complicate things and maybe cause problems. Has anyone had any experience with this? Thank you. 

I am new to Lightroom.  I'm trying to set an iCloud folder as an import destination in Lightroom Classic 9.3 on my Mac.  Lightroom won’t accept that folder.  Note that I don't want to import from an iCloud source folder.  I want the import to copy the files to an iCloud destination folder.  Do you have any guidance?

HiI am an infrequent user of LRC and still struggling to get to grips with it. I uploaded a bunch of photos in Dec 2024, did some preliminary edits on them and just came back to do some further adjustments. However, I was horrified to find that EVERY SINGLE edit on EVERY SINGLE photo in my LRC seems to have disappeared. There don't seem to be any issues with LRC finding each image so I don't understand where the edits have gone. Would appreciate some help! Thanks in advance!!

Some background:1.  My WINDOWS computer has two SDDs, A 2TB (drive C) and a 4TB (drive D).2.  My Lightroom Classic program is on Drive C:3.  My pictures and catalog back ups are on Drive 😧4.  My drive C: had a catastrophic crash and stopped reading or writing.5.  I had to replace drive C: and reload the operating system and all my program software.6.  Now when I try to reload my existing catalog from drive 😧 it says "fixing errors in castalog," and goes into the twilight zone.  The only way to get back to Lightroom, is to restart my computer.7.  In my back up section of data on Drive 😧 I have several backed up catalogs.  I'm using the one with the latest date.8.  In case that one was truly corrupted when the drive failed I even went back to a previous catalog, but still no-go. I have over 20 YEARS of processed pictures, I would hate to lose hundreds of hours of processing! Help! Eddie

Hi Adobe Team,Please bring back the option to show the import dialog before syncing a folder in Lightroom Classic. It used to let me review and select subfolders or specific images before importing — now it auto-imports everything without warning.This makes it harder to stay organized and slows down my workflow. It was a small feature, but incredibly useful. A toggle in the Sync Folder dialog would solve this.

Hi, this is a post I put up on the Lightroom Queen forum - topic "Thumbnails not reflecting edits (and more!) - I am not able to add the link unfortunately.My issues haven't been resolved so I am posting here instead!  I have added a note to that effect on the Lightroom Queen post. ==Original postLightroom Version Number 13.5.1 Operating System Windows 11-Initially I thought there was a problem with Virtual Copies not showing edits, that is, the virtual copy looks exactly the same as the original in the thumbnails. Even looking at them in loupe view doesn't reflect the changes.But I have now realised that the thumbnails for all my earlier photos (years' worth) are not showing edits! (However, edits done in the last few days do show correctly in the thumbnails.) These earlier thumbnails are showing the photographs as imported. If I go to the History panel, no step is highlighted (the top step is highlighted for more recently edited photos). Also, the 'Photo has Develop ad

I am at my wit's end. I have been a LR user since Beta (2006), and have devoted tens of thousands of hours to creating and managing my catalog. But, in the last 4-6 months, performance (and stability) has reached unusable levels.   Here are my system stats (also attached)   Ryzen 9 79503D 192GB Ram 32TB NVME Raid0 (Catalog + Previews) (17 GB per second sequential read] 96TB Thunderbolt 4 attached RAID 6 (Original Photos) [1.6 GB per second sequential read] Radeon 7900XTX w/ 24GB V-Ram 4X 27 inch 4k displays Windows 10 Pro for Workstations 22H2 - 19045.4894   Here are my lightroom settings   Lightroom 13.5.1 Full GPU Acceleration No XMP Autowrite 6.06GB Catalog File Size Catalog Optimized at every close (daily) 3840/High Previews Never Discard 1:1 Previews Replace Embedded Previews during idle OFF Sync OFF 200GB Camera Raw Cache Generate Previews in Parallel ON Enable HDR in Library OFF   Here is what I have tried to fix performance   Create a bra

How can I determine the bit depth of a lossy compressed DNG made with the JPEG XL engine? I convert an adjusted RAW to a lossless DNG, then use Lightroom Classic or DNG Converter to generate from that a lossy compressed DNG. That lossy compressed DNG seems to have the same dynamic range and tonal malleability (5 stops!) as the original RAW file, so I have to assume it's more than 8 bits, as I'd expect a similarly abused JPEG to fall apart.

As we know, in a Night and Fog action Adobe introduced an incompatibility with millions of existing PC's and laptops. The recent Lightroom version demand for a processor with AVX2 instruction set (Advanced Vector Extensions V2).But Adobe does not provide any simple means to identify said processors!   Every user of Lightroom may now be facing the necessity of purchasing a new computer, and effectively retire and dump the old one to a land fill.  Of course, they will ignore any plea to reverse this action, but they MUST provide a clarity what to purchase now.How to identify the "correct" processor with AVX2?  Most main manufacturers (Dell, Lenovo, HP to name a few) do not provide such information with their devices.

Hello.I've just upgraded my Graphic card from 5080 to 5090.I had my graphic drivers delete and updated.and I have uninstalled Lightroom classic and re-installed it.and still it does not recognize my RTX 5090.In preference setting, Camera Raw graphic acceralation tab is disabled(it's grey and unable to select anything probably because it does not recognize my graphic card)I've tried deleting preference files and everything but I can't find how to make it work!I've used acceration just before upgrade when I used 5080.Does anyone know what's the issue is all about?

Publishing from lightroom Classic to Squarespace? As a travel photographer, currently publishing to SmugMug using theSmugmug  plugin, I now plan to publish on Squarespace and would require that all the country folders, city folders and galleries, together with the titles, captions and metadata are moved to Squarespace directly, or from SmugMug. Has anyone accomplished this effectively, and if so I would appreciate any pointers that you can share. Thanks, Adrian

I am using Lightroom Classic (latest v. 14.3.1) on Windows 11 machine.  I just purchased a Pixma Pro-200s to replace my older Pro-100.  I have installed the printer and I can use it with the Lightroom Print Module.  I am trying to use the Canon Professional Print & Layout Plugin.  I have downloaded and installed the latest software (v. 1.6) and it recognizes the plugin, but when I run it, it shows "Opening Professional Print & Layout" and then stops and doesn't load it.  It will recognize and run the plugin within Photoshop.  I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling both PPL and Lightroom without success.  Any thoughts on how to get it working?

Dear Adobe Team,I’ve been a loyal Lightroom Classic user for over a decade, and I have to say: the recent changes in version 13 and beyond are deeply disappointing.Core tools that were once intuitive—like Radial Gradients—are now buried under inconsistent interface logic, requiring obscure keyboard shortcuts just to behave as expected. Masking behavior is unpredictable, overlays frequently obscure adjustments, and persistent UI elements like unexplained red dots introduce needless distraction.These aren’t innovations. They’re regressions—frustrating, unnecessary, and disconnected from the realities of professional use.I’ve reverted to version 12.5, the last stable release fit for actual work. I strongly urge your team to reconsider its design priorities and return to building tools for working photographers, not for feature checklists. 

There are a lot of GPS tracking apps for the iPhone, and I'd like to get input on which one(s) to use from people who have used them to geotag in Lightroom 4.I've read reviews on some that output a GPX log that they don't include time stamps. Others track, but aren't clear if they output a GPX log. Also, I'd like to know for the ones that do output a GPX log, what method do you use to get it on the computer?Lastly, for those using Android, is My Tracks a viable solution?

Hey everyone,How do you usually handle culling large batches of RAWs before importing them into Lightroom Classic? I’m talking 2-5k images from a wedding or event. I used to do everything directly in LrC, but lately I’ve been experimenting with an iOS app called PhotoPicker that lets me go through photos directly from an external drive — no import needed. It supports flagging, star ratings, etc., and saves everything into XMPs that Lightroom picks up on import. Has anyone tried something similar? Curious if there are other tools or workflows people are using for faster pre-import sorting.

Porqué me aparece la opción de super resolución no activa en la mejora de ruido al utilizar un RAW3 DE CANON? en Lrc