Lightroom Classic

I need to do this since I have a project catalog I work in occasionally that needs to stay in sync with another computer that only works up to ver 14.0.1. ChatGPT says it should ask if I want to keep an old version when updating but it did not.  Adobe support says that's right no option is given and it will always remove an older version. My idea is to change the CC program file location, then re-install the old version I want, then change the location back.  Is that going to work or will Adobe still find a way to disable my current updated version?  Adobe support says they don't know if that will work. Windows 11.  

Upgraded to Windows 11 which knocked out LRC. The program is running now but folders with previews I delivered are gone. All pictures are on an external hard drive and fine but I really don't want to start them all over that I did previews. How do I locate? 

This post applies to Lightroom Classic and Lightroom Desktop.  Feedback for Camera Raw should be posted here.   Update February 2025:Adobe has introduced two Adaptive Profiles – Adaptive Color & Adaptive B&W.   Getting started with the Adaptive Profiles:  Access a profile inside the profile favorites menu.  In addition, there is a new section for Adaptive Profiles in the Profiles browser.  Enable the profile and adjust the ‘Amount’ slider as desired.  Use the rest of the Camera Raw tools just like you would otherwise.  Check out the Help Page for more detailed usage information. For more technical information on the underlying technology, please refer to this blog post.    Please try the profiles and share feedback in this community forum thread. It would help to include details like how you access Camera Raw (via Adobe Bridge or Photoshop), your computer system details, and as much information as possible about

Hi, I have a performance issue.  My workflow is that I add new images to LR via my iPad LR.  It uploads the images to the creative cloud just fine.  When back to my desktop, I open my (Win 11) LR classic, and it starts downloading images from creative cloud to my main catalog.  The issue is, this downloading now appears "throttled" to only 5 images every 30 seconds.  For 1000 images that's about 1h 40 minutes.  It used to be faster, mainly limited by actual network bandwith capacity. Thoughts on my current setup:my network connection is a 1 Gb connection, and every other program I use gets to benefit from its full speed, no problem.  And even LR downloads those 5 images like in one second as a burst.  Then it just waits, no network traffic (from LR anyway) until the 30 secs fill up and it downloads the next batch.  I have observed this visually with windows task manager showing network traffic.My disks are SSD, many Gbs per second,

Bonjour, Quelqu'un serait-il m'expliquer pourquoi dans lightroom classic un paramètre prédéfini s'intègre automatiquement dans l'historique ? Quand je bascule de la bibliothèque au module développement, le paramètre grain élevé s'applique automatiquement à mes photos ? Merci d'avance pour votre aideFabien

I Use Flickr for sharing and posting my photos, directly from lightroom. When I go to publish photos, I occasionally get photos which have been 'updated/modified' but I haven't toched them. Why is this? 

So I thinking of switching from PS to LR for making my panoramas, mostly due to the fact that LR is non-destructive to photos. For those who have been doing their panos in LR for some time, do you apply any settings to your individual photos before merging into a pano (eg. sharpening) or is merging into a pano the 1st step in your workflow?  cheers

Hi All, I've updated to the latest version of Adobe Lightroom Classic. When I swap to different tools (mask, crop, Develop), a box shows up at the bottom that I'm calling "Subtitles" because I have no idea what they are called. How do I turn it off?  Below is an image of what I'm talking about. 

Hi,   Since just now, I've been experiencing a weird bug / crash in Lightroom Classic (on a Mac), where ALL my photos suddenly are fully covered in artefacts in the Develop module.   (Screengrab from the Develop module in Lightroom Classic)   When I check the linked RAW + JPEG source files in Finder, they all seem ok (they don't look corrupted, nor show any artefacts here), meaning the issue is within Lightroom.   (Screengrab from the RAW source file in Finder)   When I export images out of Lightroom (with any setting, edited or even not edited), the artefacts are also present on the export files.   (Screengrab from the exported JPG image)   This problem started occuring soon after I applied the new AI noise reduction feature on just ONE (1) photo.    I already tried:   Closing and re-opening Lightroom Shutting down (fully), and restarting the computer after 1 minute Switching the GPU accelrator setting in Lightroom on/off MY

What in the heck is happenning with the new LR upgrade?  It crashes after I sync two to three images and I can't "unflag" a flagged image by using the u button?!!!  It just angrily beeps at me...Anyone else experiencing this?!

Hi!  I have a LR catalogue (saved on an external hard drive) that opens on my laptop but when opened in LR on my desktop says files cannot be found.  Both LR are up to date.  I have done this multiple times where I edit on both devides and this is the first time I've had this issue.  Not quite sure why it won't open on the desk top!  Any ideas?

Hi all- I am brand new to LR and have successfully downloaded all of my pictures to LR only to find that they are all blurry/pixelated when viewing in the main window of my library, which renders them useless to me.  Any suggestions on how to fix this or why this might be happening?  I have the latest version of LR CC and Windows 10.Thank you for any help you can offer!

In the print module of LR Classic ver 14.5.1, when I check the box "Identity Plate", nothing shows up in the viewer box below it and at the same time my rulers disapear from the top and left side of the editing area. I can right click in the Identity Plate viewer box and my edited plates list shows and I can choose any of them but nothing shows up. If I uncheck the "Identity Plate" option, the rulers come back.  Is this a new bug? I have used Lightroom since version 1 or 2. I'm on an updated PC running Windows 11. I have closed/ opened Lightroom, also updated, several times. I have rebooted the PC a few times.  This just happened for the first time today after the latest LrC update. Thanks everyone!

Hello All, First time posting on this forum. I'm not sure when this happened, but lately (and most notably) since the AI Denoise was introduced, all of my images have excessive noise in them.  I shoot with a Nikon D850 and Nikon Z8 so the sensor is well adapted to not introduce noise.  I just finished a shoot at an outdoor event with plenty of sunshine and the shadows seem to have excessive noise.  Certainly I can run the AI Denoise feature (which works fantastic), but when selecting multiple images to run it, it becomes painfully slow.  Has anybody else noticed this and is there a fix when importing? 

Have had absolutely no success in fixing LRCv15. Since installing v15 one week ago LR is essentially unusable. Have incorporated all recommendations suggested in this forum other than reinstallation of v15 with no improvement. As with others in this forum, performance is slow that I can not use LR. My question now is could syncing be the problem? Just noticed that there are approximately 1,300 files waiting to be downloaded to my PC. I have no memory of ever setting up syncing.  Should I do somethinig specific regarding syncing?  Thanks for any information, getting deserprate here!

PROBLEM:   Let's say the catalog is in a folder called "Cat A".   Also in that same folder is a subfolder (we'll call "Images") that contain images known to LrC.     If the "Cat A" folder is hidden in the Folders panel and you rename the catalog (to say "Cat B"), including renaming the parent folder for the catalog, everything works as it should.  The parent folder for the catalog becomes "Cat B", the catalog files/folders are renamed "Cat B", and the "Images" folder is still linked.   However,  If the "Cat A" folder is exposed (show parent of "Images"), and you do the same catalog rename including the parent folder, the renaming of the catalog and its parent folder work fine but both the "Images" folder and its parent folder (still "Cat A" in the folders panel) go missing.   DESIRED: When you perform a catalog rename and include renaming the folder containing the catalog, it should fix the links of all images and subfolders in or desce

Since the beginning of LR I have been able to drag a folder on its dock icon and it prompts me to create a LRCAT and then opens the import dialogue box in one foul swoop.   Now it just freezes on the opening graphic before the import dialogue appears and I have to quit and import manually.   Any fixes out there?   Cheers Simon   Mac OS Tahoe 26.0.1 (25A362) Lightroom Classic 14.5.1  

Bonjour   Depuis l'installation de la dernière version 15 de lightroom, il est impossible d'utiliser le mode connecter avec mon canon R5   Lightroom détécte un appareil photo mais n'arrive pas à l'identifier.   Pouvez vous régler ce BUG?   Merci

I bought a new laptop 6 weeks a go, since getting this laptop I have had nothing but issues and they all seem to link to  LR classic. When editing photos, it would lock up/freeze 6, 7, 8 times a night and needed to be rebooted each time. This caused a lot of frustration. I tried everything I could think of, clean reinstall of windows (several times) upgrading all apps and drivers but nothing would fix it... Until I decided to turn off the GPU in LR preference window (which was set to Auto). All the issues stopped and no reduction in speed of processing.   Can someone please tell me why???      (Specs -   U7 Processor, 64 Gb ram, Nvidia RTX5060 GPU and Gen 5 M.2 drive. )

The installation was not interrupted and seemed to be successful.Please see attached screen capture. Three different folders with "!", each at a different level.The lowest level folder "Properties" was the one I was working on previous to the upgrade.When I r-click and select Update Folder Location and use "choose", LRC goes to the correct folder location. But nothing happens, and the exclamation points remain. This is true for trying to update location for all of the 3 folders.I have not renamed or moved any folders or photos. I have not used synchronize.The photos are on the Mac, not an external drive. I do not store photos on the Apple iCloud or Adobe Creative Cloud. In the LRC Backup folder, I do have a zipped file from 4 days ago. When prompted at closing, I have not saved any backups since I've had this problem.I tried signing out and signing in to LRC. No difference.I have not tried uninstalling and re-installing LRC.Is there something I should try with the 4 day old backup that

I have been using Lightroom Classic for a while now. Just recently I have noticed that when I attempt to create a mask of, say, a background in a photo to darken the exposure of the background, the entire photo gets adjusted, not just the background. In this photo, I don't want to adjust the exposure of the people, but when making a mask of the background and adjusting the exposure to darken it, these players get darkened too. I have checked that only the background is showing in the color overlay. I'm not sure if this is a me issue, or a bug in my program. Any suggestions is welcome.  Thank you!

I am so SAD!  I have bought a new Macbook M4 Max However, Lightroom CC lastest version, cant EXPORT slideshows as videos! the progress bar is stopped at nearly 10% position. No matter if I wait several hours it won't move any progress = I Cant export slideshow as Video   I always used this function, for a few years, day by days   I uninstalled the LR and tried reinstalling it, but it still failed. Does anybody have the same issue?I wonder if it is a problem related to M4 chips. Please kindly help and fix please!

Esta versão 15.0 não está disponivel em toda região? O meu lightroom não atualizou. 

My "set rating" is not working in Lightroom Classic. I am up to date, the catalog has been optimized.  I select some photos in the library, hit "2" to give the selected photos 2 stars. The "Set Rating" bar shows up in the upper left corner of the screen like it is showing me the progress, but it never moves. I click on it and it says "waiting".    Same for setting color...nothing happens.  If I just select 1 image, i can't set the rating either.    I don't sync my photos to the cloud, everything local.   Please help!    [moved from bugs to discussions according to the community rules - Mod.]