Lightroom Classic

i can't find clear documentation about this, which baffles me, as i think this is important to anyone who has backups to big number of images, and maybe later wants to access them - e.g. every wedding photographer. if anyone knows where to read about it, please share!lightroom catalogs can use relative paths to the images. so far the only way i found is having the image files in a directory under the one where the catalog resides. so 2025/kathy-and-john would be the folder where the catalog file is, and 2025/kathy-and-john/images would be where the image files are. and then import the images into the catalog.  this works. now you can move the folder kathy-and-john to any other place, also to another drive, open the catalog there and it immediately knows that the images are in the subfolder. big question there: is there anyway to change this in an existing catalog? especially if i make a new catalog from a selection, can i place that new catalog into a directory that cont

I have made a bok of 58 pages in the bookmodul. When I try to save a pdf and a order to Blurb I got this error messages:

Bonjour, Depuis tout à l'heure, alors qu'habituellement mes exports en TIF se font en 300 ppp minimum, je ne peux plus appliquer de résolution supérieure à 23 ppp, ce qui est bien sûr insuffisant, un message indique :"Contrainte de taille incorrecte. La valeur doit être comprise entre 1 et 23. La valeur la plus proche sera utilisée." Copie d'écran : J'ai lancé la désinstallation/réinstallation de Lightroom Classic via Creative Cloud Desktop, mais rien n'y a fait, le problème subsiste. D'autres utilisateurs ont-ils eu ce problème ?S'agit-il d'un bogue, ou bien d'une mauvaise manip de ma part à l'une des étapes..?Merci par avance pour vos éclairages. Bien cordialement,Franck

Newb here.  I'm switching from Picassa to Lightroom Classic for my photo management.  I had it index my 16K+ pix and verified that it seemed to recognize a lot of faces (seemingly miraculously because I didn't tell it who any of them were; I assume it grabbed that info from metadata created by Picassa).  I haven't tested it extensively, but I noticed that it only returns a single picture of someone ("Buddy") who it correctly listed under Named People and for whom there are several pictures.  This happens when searching on the person's first name under Text, Any Searchable Field, and Contains All.  Plus, the picture it returns is different from the one it shows under Named People.  What's going on?

I recently got the new M4 Mac Mini and wanted to edit some of my DSLR film scans in Lightroom Classic. Ive done this before on my MacBook and had no issues but now when I try to import the photos into Lightroom on the Mac Mini, nothing happens. The photos are CR3 files and I've searched around and it doesn't seem like Lightroom has an issue with these files. When I try importing from the folder on my computer, Lightroom is stuck saying "Importing Files..." and in the top left, "Copy and import photos". Does anybody know what the issue could be? I've tried waiting for a while to let them upload, tried restarting both Lightroom and the Mac, and still nothing. Also, yes Lightroom has full access to my computers disk. This is really frustrating. 

I have created a photoalbum in the module book of Lightroom Classic (version14.1.1 - Licence creative cloud - windows 11). As usual I click at the bottom right below to send my book to Blurb. After 15 minutes of uploading I get the message that an error has occurred while creating the book. When I click  at the bottom left below or right on the top (selection PDF instead of book Blurb) I get the message that an error has occurred while creating the PDF (only the cover of the photobook was transferred).  My work is done, but now I can't manage to export my album! In the meantime I have created a new catalog, make the cache empty, had my laptop checked for performance and viruses. The album still can't get out.Can someone  who has had a simular problem give me some useful tips?

I have a small problem, thats quite easy to see on some darker photos in Lightroom classic. There is a grid of small squares, (appox 1cm) almost invisible. These dissapear when I zoom into the photo or full screen the photo.I will upload two photos, one with the squares and one zoomed in. Hopefully you can see the difference.  I asume this is either a simple resolution setting or I need a higher resoution monitor. Thanks in advance for and help.

Bonjour,   Est-ce normal que la fonction "Flou d'objectif" soir toujours aussi lente qu'en phase béta et quasi inutilisable?   Et c'est encore pire si le masquage de la profondeur de champ est actif. Il faut plusieurs minutes avant d'avoir le résultat et le moindre changement est pénible. Et en plus un fosi la fonction activée pour 1 photo, c'est tout lightroom qui devient quasi inutilisable sauf à le fermer et le relancer.   [Moved from ‘Bugs’ to ‘Discussions’ by moderator, according to forum rules.]

Lightroom Classic 14.1.1 is lagging severely. The reel at the bottom of the page lags, Denoise won't move beyond the first pop up, even closing the program requires using the task manager.  I am running Windows 11.  

Good day. I have an error in the program.When I click the "crop" function, Lightroom closes. What should I do in this situation?

LRC 13.3HP PC Windows 11 ProMy catalog is on my hard driveMy photos are on an external Lacie Drive. I recently ran Vice Versa Pro to back up my photos onto another Lacie Drive.  The entire process took about 8 hours.I opened Lightroom and all of my Photos have the (!) mark The message reads:LRC. There is an unknown error while writing metadata to this photo. Retry?Options: Import settings from DiskRetry Metadata Export exportCancel

HI,i7 PC, 32GB RAM, SSDRTX3060 12GBLatest Windows and LR updates and NVIDIA Creator Drivers.My PC usually uses above 16GB RAM when needed for intensive Apps and Games.If run HDR Merge Function on many DNGs it starts the create Preview process an gets to about 50% along the progress bar.  But it then slows down to a very slow pace.The CPU usuage drops to 5-14%, th GPU usage to zero, and RAM usuage hits a ceiling of about 15.9GB. It then sits their like this accessing the SSD at a very slow rate of 0.4 to 30Mbps and takes a very long time to complete the task, 10 of minmutes, if at all.Any ideas why its not using all the 32GB available?Is there a setting somewhere I am missing that caps RAM usage? 

Hi, I have been using LR for whille now and I'm running out of space, here is my work flow to better ilustrate my question, import images to LR (saved on a folder call local raw files) > edit images, discard the bad ones etc > export final images to a NAS as a  final destination. here is my question, should I get rid of all the pictures on the "local raw files" or keep them they are taking way too much space and I don't think I will ever need them, but I curious to hear from you guys and gals what should I do. I own a sony  @7R5 the files are humongous.  thanks.

I got a new SSD to replace an older HDD and moved a few thousands pictures from the HDD to the SSD. Performed the move from within LrC.  That was very slow but it seems to have worked properly. Went back to the LrC and it was no longer seeing/listing images in various places. I even tried to reimport pictures but LrC would not import because LrC could see that it already had them. But LrC would not show them. For example, a folder with 450 pictures (on file explorer), LrC would show only 12 pictures. Read forums, deleted the preview file and restarted LrC. No change. Re-read forum for another solution and created a new catalog file (!). And then imported from the old catalog file. LrC now showing all images in some folders that did not show previously. But there are still folders that don't show at all!! "Synchronize Folder" does not work. At least it does not see folders/images to be imported. Trying to use "Synchronize Folder" on an entire drive does not see folders/images to be

I just transferred to a new computer. Before the transfer I had found all missing photos and everything looked good. Since transferring to new computer many photos in Library are gray (not missing). Most of my photos are on an external drive. The photos that are on my hard drive transferred. I think this has to do with previews not being transferred, but not sure how to fix the problem.Any help would be much appreciated.

Bonjour à tous Je possède un pc incompatible avec la dernière version de Lrc et un abonnement mensuel à 11,99€. Après changement de HDD je n'arrive plus à télécharger la version précédente de Lrc. Adobe me propose une installatrion gratuite de 1 mois. Quelles solutions se présentent à moi pour récupérer la situation d'avant? Merci pour votre aide. Alain

I cannot sign into LRC in Cuba.  Apparently I am signed out because I am in Cuba.  How can I sign in to LRC?  Help

Při práci na sekundárním monitoru se mi místo fotografie (typicky při funkci lupa ap) objeví černá plocha. Mám Lght poslední verzi. Grafickou kartu Nvidia 4060, procesor i 5 13500, 32 gb ram.

He cambiado de PC y de disco duro,, logra de una manera sencilla cambiar las fotos y el catalogo correctamentePero los ajustes de revelado de ssas fotos no estan, como tengo que hacer para que el catalgo y las fotos recuperen los ajustes?

Fast forward to 2025. I want to REMOVE folders that do not belong in LR AT ALL. But once I allowed access to folders permission, LR put every single folder on my computer into LR. Um, no thanks there is no way to edit my taxes so they look good on the wall....... I tried the above method but given that things have changed since 2017, I am stuck with these options instead: Include subfolder (No thank you), Dock folder (No thank you) and Show in Finder, already got that..How to I simply remove the folders from LR while keeping them on the computer.    [Message moved to its own new thread by moderator. Please do not post to a 7 years old thread]

I’m using Lightroom Classic (Version 14.1.1) and am experiencing issues. I can’t open dialogs like Export and Denoise, and exporting with a defined profile doesn’t work either. What steps can I take to resolve these problems and get everything working again?

Lightroom 14.1.1 on macOS 15.3, MacBook Pro M4 Max Using a Canon R5MkII with a Canon RF 24mm F1.4 VCM lens which comes with forced profile correction in the RAW based on how the lens is built.  Bug: Currently if you load a RAW image, it does not load the Adobe Camera RAW profile for the lens:Model - Canon RF 24mm F1.4 L VCMProfile - Adobe (Canon RF 24mm F1.4 L VCM) but instead defaults to the built-in correction:Model - RF24mm F1.4 L VCMProfile - Camera Settings This profile is unable to be modified and saved with any new default changes, i.e. changing the Vignetting, then going to Save Lens Profile As Default, will NOT save the changes as designed. Optimal situation: Allow the user to save any lens profile corrections for lenses with embedded profiles for future use, or allow the user to select the Adobe Camera RAW version of the lens correction profile as the default for the lens. Steps:1. Edit a RAW file, change the Vingetting setting to 50, and click S

Does anyone have any suggestions?

I recently went from a $100 used LG monitor to a $1000+ Dell Ultrasharp U3223QE, pre-calibrated monitor. I was excited, until...  My photos now look way too saturated in the develop module.  I have spent hours reading other people's posts and understand that the color profile used in Library and Develop are different. But they are SO different that I don't know which is "correct" and I don't know which one I should edit to make look good. I wouldn't care so much, except that the issue doesn't go away when I export the jpgs.  They look like the less saturated version when I view them in Windows explorer, but revert to the more saturated version when I upload them to my website (and view them in Chrome).