Lightroom Classic

Hi, I'd like to batch rearrange a whole photo library. My photos are in date folders as created by LR on import. Most are in collection folders corresponding to events (no photo is in multiple event collections). I'd like to rearrange photos on disk with folders corresponding to event collections, with unsorted photos in special "unsorted" folders. How can I do ? I guess I'll have to use one or multiple plugins. I'd be grateful to get a practical help, without comments such as "why would you do that" which I didin't develop here to keep my post as short as possible. Trust me, my request makes sense. 

Hallo!Ich habe auf meinem MacBook Air M2 meine Fotosammlung mit rund 30.000 Fotos erfolgreich von ACDSee auf LrC migriert. Mit einigen Stapelverarbeitungen in ACDSee konnte ich auch die Stichwörter in LrC übernehmen. Nun habe ich eine hierarchische Stichwörter-Struktur in LrC eingerichtet. Nach dem Muster:   Orte      Italien         Sardinien Die Erfassung der Stichwörter in den verschiedenen Optionen ist klar. Was ich jedoch noch nicht lösen konnte:Die Stichwörter können auch über die kleinen Kästchen links im hierarchischen Stichwort-Baum zugewiesen werden. Gibt es eine Möglichkeit, automatisch die übergeordneten Stichwörter zuzuweisen? z.B. durch Zuweisen von Sardinien werden automatisch auch die übergeordneten Ebenen Italien und Orte zugewiesen?Derzeit muss ich alle Ebenen manuell zuweisen. In ACDSee gab es hierfür eine eigene Option. Danke und Lg, Peter. 

Hi guysThank you for reading my post.I'm using LR Classic V: 14.0.1When I hit F on my keyboard to view an image in full screen view...I get a black screen. The metadata for the image appears breifly but nothing else just a black screen.If I close LR and re-open everything is normal ? But the black screen re appears again some time later.Is this a bug ? Or have I caught something in error ?Anyone else see this ? 

Last two versions if I process an image in Photoshop, save and close it, the Library view preview updates, but the Develop preview is the same. Have to exit and come back in to LRC for an update.   [Moved from ‘Bugs’ to ‘Discussions’ by moderator, according to forum rules.]

Hi, I'm trying to send a photo I have edited in LR (desktop Mac) and send it in email. I can only see (so far) that I can export to another drive / location or maybe send a link.(I don't want to do those. Too complicated for whoever I'm sending the photo to.)  But I just want to email the actual photo. (I know how to do this from LR Mobile). This should be easy, but it I'm not seeing how to do it nor have I found anything on Google showing how to do this. (Sending a photo via email.)..  Thank you!

Hey there, I have an inconsistent error when merging images into a panorama, sometimes the tool works fine and as expected but on occasion it will run the merge without giving me the option box first so it just fires out a new merged image often giving me a panorama that i am unhappy with. IE I have been unable to select the creation type (spherical, perspective etc) and adjust options like fill edges or the boundary warp etc. I find when this happens, no matter how often i try run the merge panorama tool it will just fire the image out without the options, then i will try again another day and it will work just fine. Has anyone else experienced this?     [Moved from ‘Bugs’ to ‘Discussions’ by moderator, according to forum rules.]

Hi folks, My system has been getting slower and slower over the past 3 weeks and just today my editing slowed to a crawl. I am masking using brush tool and have to wait 10-15 seconds for changes to show up on the screen. Additionally, the cursor gets hung on the brush tool so I can't move sliders until it has finished logging the brushstrokes. Laptop works fine for all other programs. I added a Wacom Cintiq to my system about a month ago but other than that have made no changes that I am aware of. What I have tried:optimize catalogue set to happen every time I quit LRcache size increased to 50GB"synch with LR" is pausedauto-write to XMP is offlaptop scanned for viruses and nothing else is running slowstarting and restarting both laptop and LR Thanks for any suggestions! System details: 2x32 GB Ram2x4TB SSD - operating system and program files on one, images stored on the other.NVidia (R) GeForce(R) RTX (TM) 4070 with 8GB GDDR6Lightroom Classic version: 13.

Hi, I have perhaps 300 photo shoots per year, which I import with Lightroom to my laptop hard disk into date (year-month-day) specific folders. Each session could amount to 300-400 photos, out of which I edit perhaps 30 in Photoshop. From these edited photos (.PSD) I assemble some collections for different purposes across the days and months. Due to the nature of my edits the PSDs become very large, quite often between 1 and 2 GB in size. I therefore once in a while need to export edited images to JPG and delete original RAWs and PSDs. I store my edited JPGs in a different archive folder in the same catalog, parallell with the yearly top level folders, "Archive" and then sub folders for each year. The question is how I could "re-create" or mirror the collection structure for those images I export and archive? Ideally I would like to replace all images (PSDs) in a collection with their JPG counterparts when exporting the JPGs to the archive folder. After which I could pro

I updated LrC to 12.4 yesyerday. Since then a number of pixels in multiple colors appear appear quite often on the image, mostly in the areas of blacks/darks and when using Tone Curve commands. It's similar to the red/blue pixels which denoted clipping in the areas of blacks/whites, but they appear in very many different other colors. Sometimes they disappear, or decrease, after actioning the commands again, sometimes they do not. Is anybody else facing the same problem which I encounter now for the vey first time after many years of use of LrC? Thank you in advance for your advise.

Okay, so I'm using Lightroom Classic 10.3 on Windows. I've had ~16k images properly synced to the cloud. When I tried to add some new ones, they got stuck syncing forever and would never succeed. I tried what I've seen on various posts: - Delete the Sync.lrdata folder- Recover the Catalog from backup- Rebuild the Sync Data (Preferences, hold down alt)- Delete all images from the cloud via Lightroom CC (they're all gone, I'm at 0 images on the cloud)- Delete all synced collections from Lightroom Classic Essentially, I've resigned myself to start over with zero images on the cloud to then reupload everything. However, even with ZERO images on the cloud, I am still stuck with 80 images syncing and no sync activity in Lightroom Classic. How can I fix this? I just want to upload my photos again. For kicks I just tried to create a new collection and add a photo. The counter in the cloud menu recognizes this and increments the count from 80 to 81, but it also just sits the

Bonjour,Je rencontre un problème quand j'ouvre mon catalogue il n'affiche plus le nombre de photos devant le dossier ni les les couleurs si il y en avait.Les photos apparaissent pourtant dans le module bibliothèque mais quand je passe sur le module développement l'image n'apparaît pas.Je suis obligé d'attendre environ 30min à 1h pour que le nombre de photos apparaissent mais les photos ne s'affichent toujours pas dans le module bibliothèque.Que faire ?J'ai supprimé tout les fichiers pour garder que le lrcat et lrcat data, j'ai ensuite recréé touts les aperçus.Ca a fonctionné correctement 1 ou 2 jours et le problème est revenu. Je suis perdu que faire mon catalogue contient 47000 photos. 

LRc 14.0.1; Windows 11 23H2   loading AI mask in Develop Modul increases GPU VRAM use very fast until 100% which slows down LR   to reproduce crerate Smart Collection with AI mask flag swap to develop and scroll through this collection wait at every picture to load the entire picture and LR UI (1-2 annoying seconds) you will see GPU VRAM use increasing very fast; reaching 100% slows done LR       [Moved from ‘Bugs’ to ‘Discussions’ by moderator, according to forum rules.]

Is there any way to turn off "maximize compatibility" when using the SDK to render an image?  I created a plugin that renders image as part of generating panormas with PtGui, and since the latest update (14.0 or 14.0.1), TIFFs rendered through an LrExportSession created programmatically have changed to behave like "maximize compatibility" is turned on, which breaks (see my other post).  I have inspected the exportSettings of manual exports with and without "maximize compatibility" turned on, and I cannot find any property that changes. Is this a known issue? Anyone know of any potential workarounds?

The denoise function in LRC14 is way too slow. In fact useless to me. I have to use Topaz for fast and better results. 

Hi to all,Does lightoom works with EOS R + EF lenses attached with EF-EOS R adapter? if yes, does it recognize  lense (uses profile)?does tethering works properly? what it see? EOS R and EF lense? thanksMark n.

I am unable to open a photo from Lightroom Classic v14 into Photoshop 2025.  When I use Photo > Edit In (which is not greyed out), all the options are greyed out.  This happens even though the External Edit preference is set to Photoshop 2025. I have uninstalled both programs and then reinstalled with Photoshop installed first. No luck with that solution. Suggestions would be welcome. My setup:MacOS 14.6.1Lightroom Classic v 14.0Photoshop 2025, v 26.0.0

Nach dem Update auf LR Classic ist es nicht mehr möglich DNG Dateien, die von meiner DJI Mini2 stammen, zu importieren. Auch der Umweg über "Ordner syncronisieren" funktioniert nicht.OS: Win10 (aktuell)LR Classik 14.0.1Viele GrüßeJochen 

New bug in LRC 14.0 and 14.0.1  (Windows 11) 1. In the Develop module, click "Remove"  (Eraser mode; "Use generative AI" and "Detect Objects" are selected;  "Visualize Spots" NOT selected. 2.  Select area to be removed, which is highlighted in Red. 4. Click "Remove". 5. Dialog box pops up, when done, red highlight goes away and first variation is displayed.  Can cycle through the different variations.  (All good so far.) 6. On the same image, select another area to remove, which is now highlighted in Red. 7. Click "Remove". 8. Dialog box pops up, but when it is done, the red hightlight does NOT go away.  However, there is now three variations to choose from.  (Not good.) 9. If you click on the right arrow for Variation 2, the red highlight goes away and variation 2 is displayed.  You can rotate through the variations.   [moved from bugs to discussions according to the community rules - Mod.]  

II am using Lightroom Classic 13.5.1  to manage my photo collection . I have a problem witha couple of  thousand JPG photos I made a long time ago with my SONY RX100-I (~30% of the total amount ) when writing tags to them from lightroom  (it can read them) it gives error  "cannot write metadata - unknown file format"   . I have tried exiftool to repair the metadata , but that does not help. If I open and safe the JPG in photoshop, the error disappears. But that is an elaborate process with image loss. Please find attached a sample file with write issues . What is causing this ? Is it a lightroom bug or can I delete a specifi tag causing this? 

Hello everyoneI renamed some of the LR develop presets I created, and although they still appear in the Favourites, they are not listed in the User Presets section. If I need to worry about them being in the User Presets section, how do I get them back into there? My concern is not to lose them should I need to reinstall LR or MacOS. MacOS and latest LR Thanks!John

AI functions were still working today, I used features such as background blur, smooth skin, etc. Now, any function related to AI simply doesn’t work, it says that the settings couldn’t be updated for 1 photo. And it happens with any photo. I'm attaching a screenshot of the error, but it’s written in Russian, though it shows the same error I mentioned above

I just installed Lightroom Classic Version 8 and none of my photos appear and I see no option to open my catalogue.  What am I doing wrong?  Thanks.

First of all, I've resolved the problem by resetting the edits and starting over. However, I would like to know what I might have done wrong, so I might avoid this in the future. The DNG is 24 MB, from a Canon 6D Mark II. When it's open, LR generally lags when switching between modules, but it really boggs down when I open the masking panel. Toggling the overlay takes about 5 seconds. It takes 3-4 seconds to see the effect when clicking a mask's "eye" icon. There is several seconds delay between painting and seeing the stroke appear in the overlay, and as I move the brush the overlay appears in little blocks, instead of going down smoothly. It can take up to 10 seconds for the stroke to show in the history panel.  Here are the masks (2 gradients and 4 brushes):I optimized the catalog, deleted and re-created the 1:1 preview, and turned off  the graphics processor, but it didn't help. Is it possible for a specific file's database entry to get randomly corrupted?

Hello, my name is Javier.   I had this error for a long time, but i keep working because i did not want to remove all programs and install it again. But recently my Mac got a battery problem and when it return from apple service, the mac was formated, so I have to install all over again. To my surprise that the exit error 6 keep coming when using topaz photo ai. the error appears when I press the botton at topaz photo ai to send the photo back to lightroom again. The work is done most of the times, I have the photo back, but the error box appears and sometimes i have a crash on lightroom and I have to open the program again.   the programs where installed from scratch, not from a back up file.   Any help is welcome   rgds Javier   [Moved from 'Bugs' to 'Discussions' by moderator, according to forum rules. You cannot file a bug report about a third party utility.]

Recently, I have discovered a strange behaviour of Lightroom when entering metadata.I am in the library view/grid view and have selected several images. If I then write something in the metadata (e.g. caption), it is displayed briefly and then disappears again. Only when I manually trigger "Read metadata from file" is it displayed again."Selected photos" is ticked and the little eye symbol next to the metadata field.I didn't have this behaviour until a few weeks ago. What am I doing wrong? Windows 11, Lightroom Classic 13.