Lightroom Classic

I love editing in HDR in Lightroom. I've done a bunch of experimentation with improved HDR image format support in MacOS Sonoma and iOS/iPadOS 18. I thought I'd share what I've found, as there are some solid improvements! It's definitely going to increase my use of HDR in Lightroom after the limitations of Sonoma/iOS 17. Obviously, this isn't official documentation, but I hope my experience is helpful. Overall, I tend to do any significant editing in Lightroom and then move images back into Apple Photos for "complete" library storage. I've been exporting HDR AVIF out of Lightroom until now. Looks great on my iPhone, but Apple software is pretty tetchy about sharing it. And, does a miserable job displaying it on non-XDR displays. I'm using a MBP 13" M1 (display is capable of 1 stop of HDR), Sequoia 15.0; an iPhone 12 w/XDR display (capable of 3 stops), iOS 18.0; and some on an iPad Pro 11" 2nd Gen (1 stop), iPadOS 18.0. Those with MBPs or the iPad Pros with XDR scree

Hi, My Lightroom has lost all the edit history. I had already the issue a month ago where all the edit history was lost and the pictures were reverted to the original state. I could see in real time how the previews were re-generating and losing all the edits. I managed to find an old catalog and restore from it, meaning I lost only 5 months of edits instead of 20 years. Yes, I started with Lightroom in 2004, and I almost had a heart attack when I thought 20 years of work were lost. Now it has happened again. This time the images retain the edits, I can export and see the edits. But the history is empty again. In the attached heavily edited image you can see that there are several masks but the edit history is empty.    I have also seen that the backup file has gone down in size. Originally was 1,6 GB, then it went down to 640 MB, then to 500MB and now it is 474MB. So, basically, the information is gone! I am going to go back to the catalog with the e

Hello everyone,After installing Xrite color checker & DNG profiler I was unable to locate the plugin so logged out of LR thinking it may need to restart to see said plugins. When relaunching LR I got: "lightroom does not have write permission to some standard user folders", see screen shots. So far I have done the following:Created another user login with admin permissions, LR works fine. None of the following has changed anything:Rebooted in safe modeRebooted in PRAM mode, not sure of correct terminology here 🙂 ... opt+command+P+RMoved Xrite Color Checker & DNG Profiler to the trash (they were actually apps, not plugins)Trashed BashScriptDebug.txt fileGiven LR & PS permissions in Security & Privacy. As you can see from the screenshot I have no option for files & folders in security & privacy.Same problem when opening old LR versionRipped my hair out & googled until my fingers bled. I found on this forum a thread where someone sai

Once I select Export (it doesn't matter which one) Lightroom takes several minutes to open the Export dialog panel.I'm at my wits end - I've tried: Restarting Lr Restarting computer (yes, turn it off and on again) Restart Lr with default preferences Use new empty Catalog file and import single image for export Removed Lr and installed fresh instance from Adobe site I've tried a few of these in combination with others. I've also done a whole Catalog Export to a new Catalog - in the past this has filtered out corruptions or peculiarities in the old catalog and given a better, faster, version. Not this time though. I'm on the latest version - "Lr Classic 14.1.1 / Camera Raw 17.1" according to Help/About If anyone has any further ideas, I'd be grateful. Thanks.

I like to create web galleries from Lightroom collections.  The process is simple and easy to create the galleries by making the Lightroom collection public.  The problem I have is that I don't know how to sort the galleries once they are on the web.  Changing the order of the Lightroom collection doesn't affect the order of the web gallery at all.  Does anyone know how to sort these web galleries.  Here's an example web gallery at https://lightroom.adobe.com/shares/0f4b5032f2834cfdbcabb1e7b31a2c16.  The picture below is a the same photos in the original Lightroom collection.

Is it possible to reset the "People" feature to start over?  With over 80k photos, I've somehow hopelessly messed it up.Any help appreciated. K

Hello,   For several months, I can no longer import my RAF+JPEG (FUJI) files with the RAF displayed alone in the library. The 2 files are separated and displayed. I specify that the check "process RAW+JPEG files separately" in the preferences is indeed off.   MacOs 12.7.6 and LrC 13.5.1   Thank you for your help   [Moved from ‘Bugs’ to ‘Discussions’ by moderator, according to forum rules.]

Hallo Forum,ich habe Lightroom 6.10.1 auf meinen Laptop unter Windows 10 installiert.Leider werden mir in den Exif Daten die GPS-Koordinaten, die die Kamera aufzeichnet, nicht angezeigt. Sie sind in der Datei vorhanden denn zl.B. in Irfanview werden sie angezeigt. Ich habe unter Katalogeinstellungen das Häckchen bei Änderungen automatisch in xmp speichern gesetzt.Wenn ich die Bilder auf meinen 2. Laptop ansehe, kann ich die GPS-Koordinaten sehen. Bei beiden Computern sind die Einstellungen für Lightroom gleich.Was mache ich falsch?Vorab schon mal dankeGrüße[Here is the list of all Adobe forums... https://forums.adobe.com/welcome][Moved from Comments forum to specific Program forum... Mod]

Mac Sequoia 15.1LR 14.1.1My LR Keyword Tags are not working.I cannot create new tags.The Tags icon in the lower right corner of each photo does not appear in phots that have keywords.HOWEVER, I can select a Keyword in the right panel and all of the photos with that tag do appear. So that is working properly.When importing new photos I cannot assign a keyword tag during the import process.I have recently moved from an old iMac to a new Mac Mini using Apple’s Migration assistant. Everything seems to be working properly in Lightroom except for the keyword issues I have described.When I turned on LR this morning it told me that it was creating a new catalog that would be compatible with my 14.1.1 LR.  I am on a new Mac so I don't know if the keywords were working prior to the new cataglog creation..Does anyone know of a solution?Thanks for any remedy you can offer.

My LRC thumbnail often goes black when I begin to edit. Any ideas?   [moved from bugs to discussions according to the community rules - Mod.]

Hello, everytime I plug in my external hard drive to my laptop, Lightroom Classic starts up and want to import my photos. The curious thing is that I haven't set it up. So my question is: How can I disable the auto-start-up everytime I plug in a hard drive?   Maybe anyone has a solution. 🙂   {Thread title edited by moderator}

Hello, I'm trying to export IIQ S RAW files shot with a Phase One 180 db and getting a "There was an unknown error." when I try and export (to JPEG, DNG, whatever) . Files are imported and processed fine.  IIQ L files have always exported fine and still do (as have IIQ S in the past).  what's going on? Do I need to use Capture One to use IIQ S files??  i'm on a MBP M2 Max with Sonoma 14.4.1 LR Classic 14.1.1 

I find that with my older PC that it takes a long time to add a set of photos to a folder and catalog them, and convert to DNG during import. I suspect that using the Adobe DNG converter program against the files on the card and just creating the DNG files in a new folder will be considerably faster, then just do an Import Add. But.. are there significant differences between these two conversion methods? I don't do any presets during importing. Most concerned about quality loss of the images. Thanks.

I am up to date with the latest update for Windows 11 (24H2). I have an I7 13th gen, gtx 1060 6gb, 32gb of ram, etc. I meet all of the system requirements to download lightroom classic (and every other adobe product), but for some reason, the download button is blocked out and it says that I can't download it (or any product) because my current OS isn't supported.   [moved from bugs to discussions according to the community rules - Mod.]

When you press T in full screen mode, an overlay pop up at the bottom says "Press T to show the toolbar again".  And it literally nothing happens.  It doesn't do anything.

I am trying to change the color of a wall from a pinkish cream to brown, but I can't seem to get the sliders in the color panel to make it happen!  As close as I can get is orange. Do I have to do it in 2 or 3 masks (think mixing paint)?  Please advise! Attached is the original color of the wall that I want to turn to brown. 

Hey everyone, I recently had to remake my Lightroom catalog due to a hard drive failure. Luckily, I never formatted my SD Cards. But I am trying to figure out why the folders in my catalog appear under their file paths and not the actual folder names that they are in and I am wondering how I can switch that back if there is a way? Thanks in advance!

Hi! If anyone can help.. I reorganized my Lr mobile albums. I renamed some of them and added main folders with folders inside. The changes have synced to my other Lr mobile devices but not to Lr Classic. I've tried restarting Lr Classic and that didnt work. Lr Classic version 14.0.1 and Lr version 8.0. and using macbook pro. Thank you for any help or ideas!!

Jag vill avsluta Lightroom-plan med 1 TB och fortsätta med Lightroom Classic , men när jag försöker göra det så får jag upp att jag ska betala straff avgift . Någon som vet om jag kan kringgå detta . För jag vill trots allt fortsätta vara kund . 

Der dokumentierte Fehler "Der Export hängt aufgrund beschädigter Dateien auf unbestimmte Zeit, anstatt eine Fehlermeldung auszugeben" sollte seit 14.1 gelöst sein - ich habe soeben 14.1.1 installiert, ist bei mir aber immer noch nicht gelöst - was mache ich da falsch? Danke im Voraus,Manfred

I have the old LR6, Photoshop Elements 13, and 19 on a desktop. I'm getting a new computer. Trying to sign out of my applications to have the license for each to use on my new computer (I already have a 2nd computer using them as well). But when I sign out of one program it automatically signs me out of all Adobe programs on that computer even if they aren't currently open. Is that making my licenses available for those programs as well that it signed me out of? Or do I need to try to sign back in and back out of each program to keep my license for that program--and would that even work? These are old versions so you can't view what activations are currently in use on the Adobe account site. I've seen conflicting information, I know this is pretty specific and older software.  Thanks for any help! 

Can anyone help me or shed some light why Lightroom Classic is adding these weird blocks and artifacts to my pictures once run through Denoise. There were no edits applied prior to denoise. These are on other parts of the photo as well.Lightoom is upto date along with all drivers. My system shouldn't be the issue but here's the detailsDELL XPS 17NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPUDriver 531.7911th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-11800H @ 2.30GHz32 GB RAMPlenty of storage space I only have very basic knowledge of Lightroom so it might be an obvious setting somewhere, but if someone can help I'd be very grateful.Images are .arw files

Hello,I'm trying to figure out how to edit photos in Lightroom classic on my desktop, through another computer. My job has changed in scope recently and I am away from my editing area more often than not. How do I go about editing images saved in that desktop's catalog on my laptop when I am away from my editing office. thanks, Dan

 LR,  Wie und wo kann ich die Schrift vergrößern, ich finde hier nichts  LH Peter

Cada vez que exporto una foto (o un grupo de ellas), siempre selecciono indicar el lugar de la exportación más tarde. Hay veces que me muestra una misma carpeta siempre por defecto donde exportar y otras me indica la carpeta donde he realizado la última exportación. Esto último es lo que yo quiero que siempre aparezca, pero no sé dónde se indica